gt4everpn BSN, RN

angela,one piece of advice for you, never, never base what you want to do off of the opinions of others...yes lpn's are a level below rn's but that only titles. i live in ny and lpn's can work in hospitals, start iv's, we work in almost all areas of ...

Yes it is very common, depending on what region of the country your in. Some hospitals even have new-grad programs for new grads and nurses with limited experience, but like I said it really all depends upon where you live. Everyone has to start some...

Having 1 yr of experience under your belt can get your foot in the door, employers don't compare the status of a position to work experience, meaning that whether the job is full time, part-time, on-call, or per-diem they will want someone with a cer...

I just finished learning this and according to my assessment text book, you can assess bowel activity by listening for bowel sounds in all four abdominal quadrants RLQ, RUQ, LLQ, LUQ. Listen for bowel sounds for at least 1 min in each quadrant and yo...

hey all, i was reading an article from advance for nurses and they had an interesting article entitled '' at their side'', about allowing family members into the ed while loved one's were being resuscitated. sorry i couldn't provide a link to the art...

The only one's I've seen are clear, didn't the doc give him the name of the med to add to the neb machine?

so true, i think once you've been a nurse for a number of years you just want to write the orders yourself and have the docs just sign off on it. when you and the docs , and the other rns and nm have good rapport going it's a really great thing. make...

it's something people hate to admit, but it's good to be honest, although patients stress me out, staff members stress me out, nm stress me out, administrations stresses me out, i still enjoy nursing because its what i wanted to and what other choice...

Well when I was in school for my PN licensure, we had to take ATI after every course we took, IMO, ATI is very accurate, it should give you your score and then convert that score into an NCLEX predictability rate, I'm 3 yrs out of nursing school, but...

it also possible that nm can play favorites with certain staff members... i've seen this before too!

Very true soon to be, I'm also not scared of blood etc.. but I know I'd be hysterical seeing my family member in a certain state, I just can't see how someone could watch their loved one in that state, but like someone said before its about culture, ...

I think this is a very personal issue and that can make it difficult to accept,I'm just wondering if someone was in a MVA and was badly injured would it benefit a person to see the loved one in that state versus allowing the medical team to stabilize...

Ok I got it its 978-14160-4775-9

There is a HESI book that you can use... I forget the ISBN#, but it has a blue cover and my friends say it's real good, let me find out for you, I'll be back

It really depends on how good you are in science, If your just good with science you can do it, but it'll take work. I remember my last semester before nursing school I was taking two sciences (bio & Chem) plus statistics and two english classes,...

Always call back, HR offices can be real slow or real busy sometimes.. Chare, I may have to disagree with you, lol, One time when I was inquiring about a med-surg position I had to almost badger the Nurse recruiter every day until she knew my name wh...

No I don't think there is, my school has HESI A2, I didnt have to take it, I've heard that it isn't a difficult test and I didn't hear anything about physics on the test, mainly because my school didnt require physics as a pre-req, but maybe your sc...

sorry hun, they recently changed the rules, RN students can no longer apply or take the LPN boards, here's the link to what the NYS office of professions enacted... http://www.op.nysed.gov/nurse2EQelim.htm

clinicals are spread out over manhattan, brooklyn, and like 1 clinical site in queens, I wish you could choose where you go, but you can't really unless you want to rearrange your entire schedule just to go to a specific clinical site, you can't mix ...

you tell em scrubby... ah, i remember the days when i was just a baby faced new grad... still baby faced, and running the unit too!! if nurses can't eat their young, they sure find a way to taunt em, what's up with that??!

Cardiac arrest= no blood supply to medulla region in brain which controls breathing which can lead to respiratory arrest due to starvation of oxygen to medulla, as well as lung cells.

its, tough being new to a unit, especially when you work with less than competent nurses or when someone forgets something and you pick up the shift on a bad start. orientation never teaches you everthing, there's plenty i never learned on my orienta...

not even the worst enemy??? damn...:stone i see where you're coming from though, my fellow liuer.

hey everyone, good to be back!i'm almost done with my first year of nursing school and i know alot of people consider nursing schools based on their nclex passing rates, but i'm starting to think that those numbers can be misleading. instead i think ...

i understand where you are coming from gillytook, but i think statistics can be misleading and alot of people may weigh their decision in picking a school heavily upon passing rate, and nothing more, this is from my experience listening to why prospe...