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I will be interviewing this Monday and I am nervous. I will be graduating in May, and this will be my first RN job. I already work at this hospital PRN as an aide but none of the supervisors really know me because I only work the min 16 hrs per mon...

I am a student nurse and I have a question about dobutamine. I had a patient today who was on dobutamine 10mcg/kg/min. Now the MAR said "titrate". I didn't really think about it until I got home. I know what dobutamine is for. inotrope, increase...

I am trying to gather information that has to do with informed consent in Pennsylvania for a paper I am writing. I found an act that mentions it...act 13 of 2003 section 504, but it says nothing about the role of the nurse, it only talks about the p...

I am practicing Nclex questions. I have been whipping through these chapters. I read Suzanne's post about doing each chapter and if I score higher than 75, moving on to the next chapter. But I am really moving though these fast.... with scores in ...

Hi everyone! I just graduated from an ADN program 2 months ago. Wow was that tough! I did well (3.5 gpa), but it was just exhausting. I decided somewhere around 3rd semester that I wanted to become an NP. I will be starting an accererated RN to...

Just curious how many practice questions you did on your own time before you took the NCLEX. And how much time elapsed between the time you finished school and took boards? and did you pass? Just curious....

I have read in all of my nursing books 7-10 days. I got on the internet and see up to 8weeks. I ask because my boyfriend's brother's 7 week old baby still has her cord. I am good friends with his wife and she told me about the doctor mentioning th...

5 years ago when I was 19 I was arrested for a DUI. This arrest made me take a good hard look at my life and made me think about what i wanted to do with it. At the time I was bartending and waitressing. I felt like a loser and decided to start clas...

I just posted this thread not 20 minutes ago...... I went to check the state website (as I do 20 to 30 times a day) to see if anything was posted yet. Guess who's name was listed?????!!!!! Mine!! lol! Now I just have to wait for my auth to test. ...

For me learning is part of my growing as a person. I just graduated from Nursing school 3 weeks ago and I feel as though this is the begining of a new chapter in my life. I am not the same person I was at the begining of college. I am looking forwar...

:rotfl: For the longest time i thought my boyfriend coined that term! I have never heard it used before I met him. lmao.

freaken gross

I just recently graduated from nursing school and will be starting a GN position at the end of the month. I am still currently working as a tech in the hospital until I start the position. Last week I worked midnight shift and was placed in the ER f...

YES! I thought about that too! The larger doses of drugs. I just really didn't like what I saw. She was last on the nurses list to be seen or have any of her concerns addressed. I thought pain is one of a nurse's top priorities.

I worked in a hospital while I went to school, it did benifit me- I think it just made me more comfortable in the hospital environment. If you don't want to though, don't. I don't think you will be 'lost' after u grad, after all you will have had ...

7 weeks left of nursing school and I stuck myself with a used insulin needle. I was terrified. I cried. I left clinical and went to the ER to be tested for HIV and Hep C. The woman's daughter was contacted to get consent to have the woman tested ...

I recently accepted a GN position. I'm excited about starting the real learning. But I have been thinking... the only thing that kinda makes me feel uneasy is dealing with the doctors. I haven't had much experience with it in school or clinicals. ...

yes u r right, it is a hard profession. I used to be a waitress, it was hard physically and mentally.....remembering what people ordered, who needed refills etc. (I can somewhat compare the two professions) Now that I am a nurse, I realize I can't ...

I think a&p is far too important in nursing to just take the online class. Take the classroom class and get all u can get out of it! you will be thankful u did once u r in nursing school!

My pinning is tomorrow. Our ceremony is different from others in that we choose a person (friend or family) to pin us. I chose my significant other. He will meet me on the stage and the director hands him the pin and he pins me..... oo000oOoo I ge...

Hey you mommyjskns! Congratulations! I can remember getting my acceptance letter in march 2005. Tomorrow is my pinning. I can't believe I made it! It will seem like an eternity making it through, but you will and it'll go fast. Have Fun!

Last summer I was working midnight shift and there was a man who was in my assignment who had some kind of bowel obstruction and was just getting over it. he was on strict bed rest and was not allowed to get up. he had to move his bowels so I put h...

Thanks for the input. It was somewhat embarrassing to ever write this thread, but I kinda wanted to hear from others on the topic. Thanks for letting my know I'm not alone in feeling this way RN28MD. And thanks for the advice abundantjoy07. I hav...

I would love to find the slideshow to that. Any idea if it's online somewhere? I am in my "long term" rotation at school, we have only 2 more weeks before we graduate. I would LOVE to share this poem and possibly the slideshow with my classmates; ...

Thinning hair / bald O.U. Did I do that right?