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dano

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  1. Daily Cheat Sheet?

    dano posted a topic in General Nursing

    I started working for a well known local hospital as a nurse extern I (some places call them nurse tech's, I've found it's not very uniform across the country). I've been in orientation for 2 weeks...

  2. Daily Cheat Sheet?

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    Modified 10,000 times over, I think I finally have one that works for

  3. Daily Cheat Sheet?

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, forget a clipboard. I quit carrying my extern manual around today because I got tired of losing it 50x every shift. Week to week we have the same doctors for our patients in different pods on...

  4. Daily Cheat Sheet?

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    Allergies, d'oh! I could change age to DOB. Date I could just write at the very top, no biggie. As for IV's, I'm not allowed to touch them as an extern I so I left it off. When I'm a II we can, then...

  5. Care Plans Help Please! (with the R\T and AEB)

    dano replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

    Look at all the subjective and objective data and focus on the area that seems to have the greatest number of issues. If you have two separate diagnosis' picked out, pick whichever one meets more of...

  6. Finally entering the nursing workforce!

    dano posted a topic in General Nursing

    I got an externship at one of the largest and most respected hospitals in the Detroit area! The charge nurse of the unit I did my first clinical on (internal medicine) told us she was looking to hire...

  7. Finally entering the nursing workforce!

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, I'll be at the main Henry Ford Hospital downtown. I do have a friend that got an externship at Oakwood though, and I believe my psych clinical will be there in fall. I was born there too.

  8. Please help...How can I handle my professor?

    dano replied to toriphile23's topic in General Nursing

    I almost forgot about that. In probably any one of your course syllabi, there is a ladder of command for you to follow when addressing concerns about instructors. If your school doesn't have one (I...

  9. Finally entering the nursing workforce!

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    I live with my mother, 87 year old grandmother, 20 year old bipolar sister and my 10 month old nephew. This place is chaos. I need to move out. On top of that, I drive 1/2 hour every day to school....

  10. Please help...How can I handle my professor?

    dano replied to toriphile23's topic in General Nursing

    Regardless of what procedure you have to follow, the way she handled repremanding you is unfounded. Do not just "suck it up" and finish out the semester. The longer you wait to tell someone the less...

  11. HI GUYS!!!!!!! is me. AGAIN! i have a question about a patient...

    dano replied to futgirl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Post CVA quadriplegia would be

  12. First time in my clinical "advocating" for my patient

    dano posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm in my second semester of my BSN program and in my third week of clinical. I had a patient that had come in with epistaxis. He was on some trial drug for hypertension and he ended up needing 4 or 5...

  13. First time in my clinical "advocating" for my patient

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't really say that! If he was prescribed something he was allergic to and his record clearly stated the allergy, I wouldn't have a problem calling the doctor an idiot because that's just...well...

  14. First time in my clinical "advocating" for my patient

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    Well someone failed them in their education. All I could think about was the what-if's. What if I said nothing and he ended up right back on our floor shortly after discharge for the same problem?...

  15. Effectiveness of alcohol??

    dano replied to Lady_in_red's topic in General Nursing

    So if supposedly the wipes don't do anything besides clean the skin, what's more cost-effective to clean the skin with? I see boxes of wipes all over the place. I can't imagine using gauze pads +...

  16. First time in my clinical "advocating" for my patient

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    If there's one thing I've learned from listening to my instructors, it's that you have to really have a gut feeling that the order is not right before you say anything and I had that feeling. Turned...

  17. Effectiveness of alcohol??

    dano replied to Lady_in_red's topic in General Nursing

    I've always been under the impression that all we're really doing is pushing away dead skin cells from the injection site for a more proper penetration of the needle, not really to kill bacteria....

  18. What's your Littmann stethescope of choice?

    dano posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I'm eyeballing the Classic II S.E. because it looks like it'll get the job done without being too costly. I want something under $150 because I know I'm going to lose it, I lose everything I buy that...

  19. Need professional opinions on a pharm test question

    dano replied to dano's topic in General Nursing

    I sent my professor an e-mail last night and she told me she has decided to throw out that question. I guess I wasn't the only one who

  20. Need professional opinions on a pharm test question

    dano posted a topic in General Nursing

    If this is considered medical advice, by all means lock it or delete it mods. It's not intended to be, I just wanted some opinions. Anyways, one of my test questions in pharmacology today was: "Which...

  21. nursing diagnoses

    dano replied to Galenne's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You can't really entirely fabricate your own. NANDA has a list of nursing diagnoses that you can pick from which are approved nursing diagnoses. Pick a diagnosis you think you are seeing (i.e. acute...

  22. Help Me Please !!!!

    dano replied to dinkysam's topic in General Nursing

    Men and nursing. It's a hot topic, and does have some psychological aspect to it (social stigma of only females being nurses,

  23. Microbiology at Rio Salado

    dano replied to nursingstudentstill's topic in General Nursing

    I do believe you're not allowed to use staff or teacher names here, might want to edit that

  24. Why are you REALLY going into nursing? Honest answers please.

    dano replied to Sheri257's topic in General Students

    All through high school I wanted to be an ER doc. After getting some field experience and talking with doctors, nurses and the like, I decided I didn't want to go to school for that long and to work...

  25. Pa?

    dano replied to mistiffy's topic in General Nursing

    Funny you should ask. I have a mentor who is a doctor and I was actually e-mailing him back and forth about becoming a PA. I think it's what I plan on doing for a post-grad degree. Here's what he sent...