Nursemelo

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

  2. pregnancy

    Nursemelo replied to cmoleary1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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

  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...

  4. Roll Up The Rim Time

    Nursemelo replied to Fiona59's topic in International Nursing

    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...

  5. 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...

  6. A Man of Mischief

    Nursemelo replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Nursing 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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....

  10. 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...

  11. Please Help

    Nursemelo posted a topic in General Nursing

    In clinical tommorrow I have a cardiac pt. who is going down for a "dipymyoview". I have to know what this test is yet i cannot find it in my textbook, my tabers or in a medline search. maybe it's...

  12. 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...

  13. Please Help

    Nursemelo replied to Nursemelo's topic in General Nursing

    oh thank you so much!!!! yes i think i am going to be able to go down with my pt. tommorrow...so it should be interesting. This poor person came in to have a knee replacement and a few days after...

  14. Please Help

    Nursemelo replied to Nursemelo's topic in General Nursing

    well there is a 2 line blurb about dipyridamole so i guess that could be it...i don't know how i got "dipymyoview" though....that what it appeared to say on the kardex but i swear some nurses write...

  15. BSN students, how much writing are you doing?

    Nursemelo replied to epg_pei's topic in International Nursing

    Last semester i had a term paper for each of my 4 classes and a paper for clinical because i was in community all semester, which was ontop of smaller written assignments for all thoses classes....

  16. Clinical Abscences

    Nursemelo replied to colleen10's topic in General Students

    We are allowed to miss 2, 8 hour days of clinical. Last year my best friend missed 4 days due to having to fly to another province for her grandmas funeral and ended up having to pay 1600$ to make up...

  17. Student nurse Jack MacFarland... Discuss

    Nursemelo replied to PlanetCaroline's topic in General Students

    We where contemplating using Karen's tactics on one of our nursing instructors.

  18. Ways to Have an Extra-Specially Fun Time At WalMart!

    Nursemelo replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I work at wal mart as my part time student job....are these things that arn't supposed to happen on a frequent basis. :) seriously about half of these have happened in my store at some point. We've...

  19. Prozac friends?

    Nursemelo replied to CarolineRn's topic in General Nursing

    My 16 year old little sister was started on zoloft about 2 month ago, they started her on 20 mg and kept increasing it until she got to 100mg. It was not working for her. They took her off it last...

  20. Well Elder Assignment

    Nursemelo replied to TCW's topic in General Students

    we had this assignment as well for our fist year in clinical (i'm in a 4 year bachelor's program) we had to take their vitals, ask what meds they were on, elimination patterns, their interst in their...

  21. How old are you?

    Nursemelo replied to Rhona's topic in General Students

    i just completed my first year of the BSN program i'm 20, if i graduate on time in 2005 i will be 23 turning 24 shortly after graduation. in my class the majority was 18 year old's fresh out of high...