Nursemelo

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1. chemotherapy certification

   Nursemelo replied to lmpotter's topic in Oncology

   At the facility I work at you do not have to be certified to give PO chemotherapy or monoclonal antibodies such as rituxan. For the rest...yes you must be certified.

2. pregnancy

   Nursemelo replied to cmoleary1's topic in New Nurse

   I would wait until after you get a job, for the paid maternity leave. But then again we wouldn't be able to pay the bills on just one income

3. Is This Standard Now With Pap Smears

   Nursemelo replied to payday's topic in General Nursing

   Now I have never had a breast exam accompany my pap smear. Although my Dr. did ask if i perform monthly ones myself, which i do. A breast exam has never been offered to me. hmm. I suppose i could have always requested one? My Dr. just retired, s...

4. OK seniors....where's YOUR last clinical????

   Nursemelo replied to andre's topic in General Students

   I'm doing my preceptorship for my BN on Oncology and I love it up there!!!! I really hope to get a job there after graduation! :) Only about 4 weeks left to go of clinical.

5. Roll Up The Rim Time

   Nursemelo replied to Fiona59's topic in International

   Last year someone at our hospital won a van and the year before someone won a bike. I can undertsnad why so many prizes get given out from the hospital tim's. I swear the line is a mile long at break and lunch times! I havn't one anything this year...

6. No She/he Did Not!!!

   Nursemelo replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

   No she did not....ask a patient what it was like for her to have cancer when she had a benign tumor. One of the girls in my class did this last semester...in 4th year and didn't know what benign meant!

7. A Man of Mischief

   Nursemelo replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Humor

   lol I used to work at Wal-Mart before nursing school and people have actually peed in our fitting rooms. One couple also managed to have sex in there. "i need my husband to come in and tell me which bikini he likes best", they won't fall for that on...

8. First day quizzes

   Nursemelo replied to MistyLou's topic in General Students

   We have a lab due on our first day back on disaster nursing. Our instructor was supposed to email it to us so we could do it on our break. The first day back is tommorrow, no one that i've talked to got an email....this should be fun. I can't wait...

9. Part-time job and nursing school???

   Nursemelo replied to MarcyRN3385's topic in General Students

   I'm graduating in May and i've worked through all 4 years of nursing school. I used to work at wal mart on friday nights saturdays and sundays, now i work at a special care home with people who Alzheimers and other varioud dementias, only work satur...

10. I need to vent...again

    Nursemelo replied to Luv2banurse2004's topic in General Students

    our pinning is in may we have 19 people left in our class that are graduating and it seems like we fight over every desicion. We take a class vote on everything and most of the time it ends up being 10 to 9, so no matter what there are 10 people unh...

11. I found a lump

    Nursemelo replied to Nursemelo's topic in Oncology

    Waiting times here in Canada suck! Our Prime Minister is looking at ways to help/fix but they can be really bad. And there definitly not enought doctors. Especially here in NB as we are a relativly small province. Doctors are retiring left and ri...

12. I found a lump

    Nursemelo replied to Nursemelo's topic in Oncology

    Well this is in NB Canada that alone should explain it all It takes forever to get in and see a speciallist we only have 3 ENT's for the whole city and surrounding areas and one of them is an idiot. I would get an apt quicker if i tracked my Dr. do...

13. I found a lump

    Nursemelo replied to Nursemelo's topic in Oncology

    Thanks for your reply. My Oncologist won't see me until we rule out the "other stuff" So I have an apt with my GP this afternoon, once i hear what he has to say i'm gonna try to track down my ENT, he is very good to me I run into him often at the hos...

14. I found a lump

    Nursemelo posted a topic in Oncology

    I'm in my 4th year of nursing school, i'm going to graduate in about 5 months. A little over 5 years ago I was Dx with CA. Nasopharyngeal carsinoma with mets to cervical nodes. My 5 year anniversary of remission will be in May. I'm in the middle ...

15. Please Help

    Nursemelo replied to Nursemelo's topic in General Nursing

    I got to go down and see it. All whent well. The dr. said today that he couldn't see any damage to the heart from the test. It almost looks like she didn't have an MI but her CK and troponin levels where very much elevated so he said most likely it...