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What professional organization do you belong to and how does it benefit you? By this, I mean how does it really benefit other than looking good on a resume? I am befuddled by the lack of conservative professional organizations for nurses. While I ...

Question: Pt. seizes for many minutes and yet needs to be straight cathed 10 minutes following status epilectic state....750cc out.....shouldn't pt have been incontinent of urine in seizure state of great length? What am I missing? Conscious pt on...

You're going to find HIPPA violations everywhere you work, for example admitting a patient to a room that already has a patient in it....all that patient's business is out there for the other person to hear and we think pulling a curtain will keep it...

When in doubt I always consult our pharmacist and in some cases phone the physician to ask for clarification (as with the above mentioned Kaposi Sarcoma pt.) I document that I've done that as well!

Quick question.....had to float to another unit...found a sundowner on the floor next to his bed...'bout killed my back getting his dead weight up to the bed with two other nurses assisting.....anyone have an easier way without a lift available? Coul...

It's illegal to work off the clock as you wouldn't be covered by your employer's malpractice insurance if something were to happen.

Similarly we can pick our shift, are the first one's on call or low censused or to float where I'm at, but I find we are also the first one's to get OT because of our flexibility. Crazy since paying me OT actually costs more as my base pay is higher...

Anyone else experience this? Shift is 7p-7a. I get a low census phone call this evening "till 11p". So how is that not on call status? I can't have a margarita with dinner! I still have to have a phone on me so they can determine my status beyond...

Do you guys have all this in writing? I've gone to the beloved handbook and there's nothing in there about being available when on low census. On call states very clearly that you have to be sober and available and arrive to the hospital within set...

I tested last Thursday and tried the pearsonvue trick. It kept me occuppied and hopeful over the weekend if nothing else. By checking repeatedly, I found that my results were available earlier than expected as well. Turned out the trick worked and...

Thanks for expressing the craziness that all of us waiting to test are feeling! I test on Thurs. morning. My scores on practice questions don't seem high enough and all of the information is running together like mud! Just thinking about it makes me...

I wouldn't take a position just to have a position. It looks terribly unprofessional to leave a position as quickly as you take it for a better one if you find yourself unhappy with your decision. It doesn't leave you great references in the wake b...

Our school made us aware that there were funds available about two weeks into my last semester. I applied and didn't receive anything for over six weeks or longer if I remember correctly. I actually received my funds two days before I graduated and...

Not endorsing this as ethical, but have seen students that have done it this way. Take all your prereqs but one at one school and then transfer to another community college for your last prereq. Get a 4.0 in the last prereq and you have a 4.0 GPA. Al...

Hey, I got into this field for flexibility. What I didn't know going in was that the education to get into it is NOT flexible. I have small children at home and found nursing school was very time consuming with a very taxing schedule. I found that...

Just an observation...depends on where you work. In floating I can honestly say that different parts of our hospital don't even feel like part of the same building. Some staffs gel and some have a bad apple that taints the whole bushel. You have the...

morphine sulfate

Pet peeve...flushing the line into a trash can. Do you want someone sticking something into you that you just ran into a trash can? Prefer to run it into the sterile iv tubing bag that you just opened. Pumps can't run a big enough bubble into some...

Have you considered a Kaplan review course that nursing students take to pass their boards? They are pretty comprehensive.

google ackley and ladwig careplan constructor

Hey, go to google and search for "ackley and ladwig careplan constructor". go to the sight and go under "start a new plan" and go to the alphabet "P-Z" and you get a screen with an option "tissue perfusion, decreased". Then take the dx below it to ...

We had a group of students at our school that had a bad clinical experience due to a poor instructor. They went together to the head of the program, discussed it, and asked for their money back, no grade and a class retake over the summer with a dif...

I was a 4.0 student. My gpa is still very good, but it did decline when I entered the actual nursing classes. I attribute that to the alteration in the grading scale that we follow. In our program, the scale has been altered to make 78% the bottom. A...

Standard dosing for zithromax/azithromycin is usually 3-5 days decreasing from 500mg to 250mg/day. Why would a doctor prescribe 10days of 500mg zithromax for URI/strep. Client returned to doctor 2 days later complaining of tinnitus/hearing loss. Do...

Thanks, I checked those websites and really not much on ototoxicity or dosing beyond 5 days there or on any other website I've seen. I'm going to call the pharmacist next.