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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 and worked 2 8-hour shifts so far. What a mad house,...

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

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 the floor so I'm usually sure of who to get ahold of...

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 I'll have to include it. Thanks!

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 the major and minor defining characteristics. When ...

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. :)

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 some externs and she picked two of us for the unit...

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 doubt it though), then go straight to the Dean of th...

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. If I lived in the apartments that I'm looking at no...

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 it will appear that you are actually concerned abou...

Post CVA quadriplegia would be correct.

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 pints of blood. They couldn't say it was the drug...

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 being an idiot. I approached him nicely about it,...

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? That was motivation enough for me.

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 + water or cotton swabs being much cheaper. Perhaps in t...

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 out I was right. If I was not so sure I might have ...

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. That's nothing I can cite a source from though, I'd lo...

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 is expensive.:chuckle Anyone have anything bad to ...

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 NSAID is most effective for osteoarthritis?" The c...

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 complained.

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 pain, impaired physical mobility). This is usually ...

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

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

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 that many hours. Sure the prestige and pay are nice...

It's the first exam, take a chill pill and sit back for a moment. If it's fundamentals you may be able to get through the exam just studying notes, at least that's how our class is. If you've paid attention in lecture reading the book is almost a was...