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this happened to me on july 4th. the patient was admitted around 4pm, with hardly any orders for iv fluids or anything. doc comes around at 7:30pm and writes a page of orders for an insulin drip, picc line placement, iv fluids etc. of course since it...

i agree with rn/writer said. the earplugs came in very handy. my neighbor across the street has this annoying habit of cutting his grass, hedging the lawn or doing some other noisy yard work sometimes when i am sleeping. i don't expect him to know my...

i know what you mean about the "crossing eyes" bit. there's an older nurse that i work with on night shift that must be trying to desperatly trying to hold on to her youth. when she wears her scrubs she not only wears the top but the matching pants ...

i work at university hospital in augusta, ga. they have a great new grad program. in fact, you can be hired right into icu if you want. i was already working there during nursing school as a pca. during my last semester of school, i transferred to t...

thanks guys for all the advice. i graduate in 9 days, and have already been offered a job in a micu. i knew that this was where i wanted to be. my first two semesters in school i worked as a unit clerk in a micu and loved it, but no pca (patient care...

ouch and i thought that $240 an hour was rough! and i go to university of south carolina aiken. when i started two years ago, it was $159 a credit hour. when they hiked it up to the recent amount, i looked at my husband and said, " i am going to a st...

congratulations! what a great gift for the holidays! here's a few pieces of advice that i've learned from my two years of adn school: buy your books now if you can. you can use them as expenses on your taxes. that also applies to your stethoscope (bu...

hey animaniacs ! love your user name. they were my favorite when i was in college a while back. back to your post. do med surg for your externship. that's what i did and i loved it. you do get to see a lot and the fact that you're doing your externsh...

i have to have music playing in the background ( usually classical or something with no words, lyrics are too distracting). also, i like to study in our living room sitting in front of the couch with my books spread around me in a semicircle. you can...

i did the old college out of high school too. bs in biology. couldn't find a job with my degree (and this in a town with 4 hospitals !). worked temp for 3 years, got married, worked in dialysis 3 years, sports medicine 2 years, unit clerk in icu 1 ye...

hey i want to buy a jeep wrangler too! except mine would be silver hardtop with black interior. the car i have now is ok ( 99 nissan sentra) but it was all i could really afford when i bought it. i've already told my husband that i would buy him some...

hey i want to buy a jeep wrangler too! except mine would be silver hardtop with black interior. the car i have now is ok ( 99 nissan sentra) but it was all i could really afford when i bought it. i've already told my husband that i would buy him some...

i feel like my last semester is a little bit easier too. which is good, considering all the other stuff we have to worry about (nclex, graduating, finding a job, etc)! last semester seemed a little bit better too. i did great my first semester (all b...

i am on my last semeseter of an adn program. after having a long summer off (working mostly), for some reason i wasn't really looking forward to coming back to school. at first i was kind of worried since this is my last semester, you would think tha...

you find yourself writing letters to friends and relatives using medical abbreviations that only you understand. you've read more books by mosby than danielle steele you actually enjoy talking about feces, urine and throw up! you wake up next to your...

myhusband is very supportive as well. he keeps teasing me that he's going to quit his full time job and go work at best buy part time so he can get an employee discount and i be the bread winner. we're both big movie buffs so that would make his day....

i'm in a two year adn program.only pre req was physiology. all other courses from bs in biology transferred to my nursing school. my biology program did a&p in one semester whereas my nursing school did a semester of each. not too bad, though, i ...

here i was thinking i was being a real nerd in getting all my nursing books 3 weeks before school starts (august 19th.) i did this every semester but i'm especially excited since this is my last semester (whoo whoo!) i can't wait for december 16th ! ...

oops! my mistake! i forgot that they did have a fax number, i just don't like sending credit card info over the fax. i never did see a phone number though. good detective work! _______________________ walk in love, walk in service and you will walk...

congratulations! the next few years will be tough but they will be over before you know it. i know. i graduate in december and it seems just like yesterday that i was just starting nursing school! i have a biology degree and couldn't find a job with ...

I had problems with allheart as well. The only reason that I used them was because when I joines the National Student Nurses Association, I got a $10 gift certificate. There was an Incredibly Easy book that I ordered from them. My emails went unanswe...

university of south carolina-aiken! go pacers! adn program graduating december 16,2004! i'm the third from last class to graduate from the adn program as our adn program ends in december 2005. anybody else that has graduated or going to graduate fro...

I struggled with the same thing while in my third semester. My solution? I got a job working as a patient care aide/student nurse at a local hospital to help me. I now handle 12-18 patients and give bed baths, change beds, empty foleys, take vitals, ...

i have read all of her books several times over. my editions of critical care and intensive care are all about worn out from so many readings. they were two of the books that helped me in my decision to go to nursing school. did you know that she als...

I know how you feel. It's like you put your whole body and soul into studying for this test and then you feel like such an idiot! It took my brain two semesters to get rewired to absorb all this stuff. I did all B's my first semester then got a C in ...