Leng27RN,BSN

Hi everyone, I am a new grad and has anyone experience of being called from work saying that your shift is cancel because of low patient census? That is kind of sad you know, because you want to learn and work, and as a less senior nurse you get to e...

On our facility cancellation do not have rotation, if you are the less senior you are the 1st one to be cancelled and floated.......which I do not like at all, and seems to be unfair. Does not matter if you are full time or part time, if the part tim...

However, most of the nurses said that it usually gets low on summer and it picks up too. Our floor is so unpredictable it gets low today and later we would be full again like in a day the floor woule be full. There are times when our ER, ICU, and Tel...

Yeah, they experienced the same thing here on this hospital and on other hospital they worked for.

I think they already raised that during the union meeting but no change, i feel so sad about that... I just have to accept that fact i guess...and the longer i stay the higher my seniority becomes.

Thank you so much for all the replies. I am really okay with floating rather than be cancelled. I guess that comes with work and as my other co workers said they have experienced the same thing when they were new and as their seniority went up, they ...

I just took the nclex-rn last week and found out that i passed with 75 questions 2 days after. I walked out of the testing center thinking that I did not pass because it was a very hard test, nothing I have ever seen before. When I looked up my name ...

Is chronic renal insufficiency the same as chronic kidney disease? I was kind of confused. Thank you.

Thank you so much for giving your opinion, i'll try to look it up some more, it was just for my mini care plan, and i was just wondering about it just in case i encounter the same thing on my "real big" care plan. Thanks again.

Hi, i need help with this case my instructor gave use. A patient who has spinal cord injury has not voided for 6-8 hours, it is a medical injury, what do you call that medical injury and what would you do? When doing my research i came across spinal ...

Hi, does anyone of you guys know good resources like a website i could go to find information about urosepsis. I looked at pubmed, emedicine online, cinahl,etc and also i've search google and still did not find a good source and some of the articles ...

Hi, i already searched the database and found a lot of info about sepsis, and i just needed the right keywords :chuckle. Augigi, I emailed you some info you are asking. Again thanks for all your help. I just needed enough info to gather so its easier...

Hi, this is for my careplan and i am tying to look for treatment, and also the drugs used and anything that would help me with the careplan. I found a website "emedicine" it talked about sepsis, bacterial. It seems that its hard to find info about ju...

I went to that website and it mentioned severe sepsis. I am confused if urosepsis is severe sepsis already or just sepsis and does not have any organ dysfunction? I know that there are classifications such as sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. ...

Hi, we have a homework for our clinicals, and our instructor gave us this scenario and asked us to answer several questions: If there is a trauma patient who has not voided for almost 6-8 hours what would you do? What kind of medical emergency is thi...

I have no more information other than a spinal cord injury patient who has not voided for 6-8 hrs, which is a medical emergency, and my instructor is asking what kind of medical emergency is that? and what to do with the patient. AD is a complication...

There is one more thing, my classmates are thinking it is autonomic dysreflexia, because our intsructor is asking about a medical emergency that needs to be treated immediately? What do you guys think? Thanks.

Hi guys, the injury is spinal injury. Anyways, here is the answer I found. Please let me know if it is okay.When a person has spinal cord injury or trauma, the first response of the nervous system is spinal shock . During Spinal shock the person exp...

Hi, I know what you guys are talking about. sorry if i posted those questions as if i want all of you to answer the question for me. I am doing some research already last week and i just want to know what your opinions are and know that i am going th...

Hi, I would like to ask if anyone has any tips how to get a high grade in medsurg class. I got in to nursing school with a high gpa but now its starting to go down, i want to maintain a high grade so i do not just throw away all my hard work before b...

Thank you guys for giving me these wonderful tips i really appreciate it.

Hi, it's my first day of clinicals tomorrow. We are going to be placed at MedSurg. My clinical instructor said that she wants us to see running all day tomorrow, what does she meant? Anyways, any advise for those who had their first clinicals already...

Regarding the care plan blook, my teacher for process took out one book that is about care plans i do not know why. I do not have other care plan books for clinicals or my other classes. I am not sure how to pick the right care plan book , i've been ...

Hi i am in a Accelerated BSN, we start summer of 06 and graduate Dec 2007. Our semesters run like: summer, fall, spring, winter, summer then fall. I am now on semester 4 which is the second semester for our program. It is a very busy life, basically ...

Hi, just had my first day of clinicals done, you guys are all right, there are more things to learn in that one day. I get to experience a lot and met a lot of patients, and did stuff that we have not done in skills yet. Now I am all worry about doin...