bigwavedave

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1. Starting IV's...

   bigwavedave replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

   from my experience the big blue veins you can see are always easier. and it does make you feel better when you try unsuccessfully to start an iv and then the one with more iv experience cannot start it either. it's hard to describe exactly what vei...

2. cleaning poop

   bigwavedave replied to tprashad's topic in General Nursing

   my wife is a nicu (neonatal) nurse, of course they do their share of cleaning poo. the upside is that it is contained to a diaper and in much less quantity than an adult patient. it also only takes a couple of wipes to clean it. the smells may not...

3. Frustrated at Lack of Professionalism

   bigwavedave replied to cnolan's topic in General Nursing

   I am fed up with the lack of professionalism that I am seeing popping up in my unit. I am tired of seeing staff (nursing and otherwise) wearing earbuds from their Ipod while at work. I did bring it up with one of my nurses one night and he was very...

4. stethoscopes??

   bigwavedave replied to lifeLONGstudent's topic in CRNA

   When I read the original post re: good stethoscopes, I had to let out a good laugh. I went through nursing school w/ a dual head "Prestige" brand stethoscope... about $20 when I bought it new. There were others in school who had dropped the $75 to ...

5. Pregnant and Nursing School??

   bigwavedave replied to Katydidit34's topic in General Nursing

   First of all, congrats and good luck (with the pregnancy and getting into nursing school)! Although I was never pregnant during nursing school, there were quite a few in my class that were at some stage of pregnancy throughout my 2 years in the nurs...

6. Suggestions for Night Shift Survival

   bigwavedave posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am set to graduate in 6 months and have already gotten a job/internship position at my first choice! I am so excited to be getting school behind me and joining the world of the gainfully employed! I have a question though...I am going to be start...

7. What to do when you want to quit???

   bigwavedave replied to javamom's topic in General Students

   one question- how do you want nursing schools to be run these days? just curious. anyways- what has helped with me was last semester which was my 2nd of four semesters i was feeling the same way. i was bummed my grades were not what they should/co...

8. Good Hospitals in DFW area

   bigwavedave replied to blanco7415's topic in CRNA

   i know that there are some who post here who are in/have been in the wesleyan program here in ft worth so they may be able to shed more light than i can. i do know though that some who have gone/will be going to crna school have been at baylor all s...

9. The Guys Club: Guy Students Come on In!

   bigwavedave replied to agent's topic in Male Students

   this is great to see such a response by guys! i have been on here for about two years now or so and i don't think i have ever seen anything like this before. unfortunately i don't always have time to post comments, but i always look to see what's n...

10. Teacher not really Teaching...

    bigwavedave replied to Born2BAnurse's topic in General Students

    if this is a problem that the whole class is having w/Nursing 101 instructor- it might be a good idea to go up the chain of command and get the problem fixed. it may not necessarily immediately resolve any problems you are having now but it may chan...

11. The Guys Club: Guy Students Come on In!

    bigwavedave replied to agent's topic in Male Students

    here's another. senior at university of tx @ arlington!! i know what you mean agent- when we started last fall out of ~100 there were 10 guys, now due to some of them failing classes we are down to like 5 or 6 now.

12. What is the hardest class you've taken so far??

    bigwavedave replied to Future_RN3385's topic in General Students

    for me personally, i think that pharmacology has been my toughest class so far (1 year of nursing courses completed, one to go). first of all it was at 0800 on monday morning, on top of that, nothing but drug names, method of action, dosage, side ef...

13. Interview

    bigwavedave replied to Jayne LPN's topic in General Students

    jayne- good luck and best wishes for your interview. when i had my interview, of course being a male my choice of clothing was different from what you would wear, but "sunday dress" was appropriate for our school. something appropriate for the weat...

14. act test

    bigwavedave replied to bob007cat's topic in General Students

    as far as i know my act score was not looked at during my application process. maybe it was, i don't know. i know that it was looked at and useful for getting me accepted to college in the first place. but i think they looked most at pre-req's com...

15. Anyone taken Online A&P Course?

    bigwavedave replied to RN2007's topic in General Students

    online a&p...that's interesting. sorry though- mine was in class. i had never heard of a&p offered online. how are labs handled? i could see the lecture portion being available via distance learning or something of the sort, but honestly,...