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1. Where to go from here: advice needed! (please) [long]

   Wave replied to Wave's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Thanks for the support. I felt a little silly when, after posting, all kinds of similar threads just "appeared". Still, I guess that it was still kind of cathartic. I have been trying to keep my...

2. Where to go from here: advice needed! (please) [long]

   Wave posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   Hello everyone Need some serious advice/ guidance, please! Little background first: I graduated from ASN program end of May, took and passed NCLEX in July and became a licensed RN the same month....

3. new grad w/ precepting problems _what to do now?

   Wave replied to Wave's topic in Nursing Career

   It's not "no contact with in-pts" so much as it's no bed-side nursing. I don't know what management plans to offer and I would like to have some input. There is a clinic next door w/ doctor's...

4. new grad w/ precepting problems _what to do now?

   Wave replied to Wave's topic in Nursing Career

   Anybody?

5. new grad w/ precepting problems _what to do now?

   Wave posted a topic in Nursing Career

   Hello everyone, In need of some good advice and some consolation. A little background: In June, graduated, took the boards and started on what I thought would be my dream job on a tele/ cardiothoracic...

6. Help with stoma adhesive

   Wave replied to Wave's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the reply, Oldiebutgoodie, We tried nystatin cream covered with Balmex for a week. It was a tug of war. Really and truly, the best ting has been just having his lil' butt open to air, but...

7. Help with stoma adhesive

   Wave posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'll try to be short and to the point. Our one month old has a bad case of diaper rash. Probably combo of fungal and something else. Usual stuff doesn't seem to work for more than a day. So the...

8. Advice re corneal ulcer

   Wave replied to greatshakes's topic in Emergency

   I wasn't familiar with this eye gtt, so I looked it up. Here's a link for those interested (as well as a good resource on the web): http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/chloramphenicolopung.htm

9. Advice re corneal ulcer

   Wave replied to greatshakes's topic in Emergency

   I agree with the previous post about not flushing. If the pt has been seen by a MD (any), hopefully the situation has been correctly assessed. What caused the ulcer in the first place? Do you know...

10. symbols

    Wave replied to bettyboop45's topic in General Nursing

    Hope that helps, or at least points you in the right, I mean, correct direction :chuckle. Wave Oops! didn't mean to reply

11. symbols

    Wave replied to bettyboop45's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the others, not quite sure what you're after here. Are you passing meds right now? If you're trying to understand what the directions are, the doctor wrote: "ointment to left knee at...

12. Good to be back!

    Wave replied to Wave's topic in First Year After Licensure

    To be truthful, I'm not positive but I believe that you have to buy the book(s) and the rest is "free". I was looking at the situation as whether or not it would be advantageous to take now, before I...

13. Good to be back!

    Wave posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Looks like I'm moving up! After a short hiatus (due to school/ family life) I'm finally able to find time to hang out here. School got pretty rough, although this is no big surprise to any of you....

14. technical cardiac question on HR

    Wave posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Can anybody explain why/ how , say, a healthy runner in top shape can have a HR below 60 and the sinus-atrial node is functioning normally (or is it?)? If SA node is 60-100, AV node is 40-60 (even...

15. New Job, New Foot & Knee Prob

    Wave posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Well, after 20 years working with eyes and eyeglasses in one way or another, I have left the safe harbor of Ophthalmology for parts unknown. Anticipating my graduating from my AD RN program in May...