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Hey Buster, I'm an EKU-BSN grad looking to apply to the EKU FNP program in Feb or March. I was planning on taking the MAT as well. What are your feelings about the EKU program? I have been wanting to talk to someone that is in the program. Please lend me any information you can. Feel free to send my a private message. Hope to talk to you soon. Thanks.

fellow er nurses, first, let me start off by tooting my own horn a little. i just passed my boards with 75 questions!!!!! yay! congrats to everyone that has also accomplished this. i am a brand new grad in the er. i live in a fairly rural area with a 22 bed er. this was my second day in the er and was the most unbelievable experience i will ever have. my patient comes in via ems. the report was that a 62 year old man was found be some friends down and hurt. there was no time given for the length of his immobility. when the pt. arrived there was an automatic, destinctive stench in the air. being the curious new graduate, i was determined to get in to the room with the patient. i was followed by 2 other rn's. as we began to cut the man's jeans off we discover the most hideous site i have ever witnessed. this gentelman had a wound on his leg from his knee to his foot that was covered, and i mean covered with (no exageration here) thousands of maggots!!!!!!! show business can't even make something this bad. i thought for sure i had crapped right down my leg. as we proceeded to cut off his jeans mounds of maggots were spilling on to the bed and on to the floor and crawling all over the room! finally, as we reached the waist line of this pants we peeled them away to find more maggots all over his scrotum, perineum and member. not to mention that this man was alert and oriented x 3! we decided to roll him over to inspect his back and further did we find his orifice and rectum infested with the sick creatures. it was absolutely unbelievable! no body had ever seen anything to this magnitude. sure it's common to have patients with bugs on them in the er. this man hand so many maggots on him that we couldn't even get them all off. nothing worked. we tried tongue blades, wash cloths, bedadine, hibacleanse, and finally peroxide. i have never felt so bad in my life. i came home and cried myself to sleep because i couldn't comprehend just how someone had let this happen to this man. it was by far the saddest thing i have ever seen. i felt so bad for this man, he had no one. labratory values came back and he at a co2 level of 9 and a na of 112. how was he even alert????? thankfully god blessed me with the heart and ability to do everything in my power for this man. i will never for get it for as long as i live. never.

adamsmom, i am graduating with my bsn in may and just passed my hesi, first time. our instructers suggest that we do atleast 300 questions a week from nclex 3500. it has higher level questions compared to saunders. we are required to complete 100 ?'s a week, that has to be turned into our preceptor. nclex 3500 is a cd-rom, and is really easy, and cheap to find on the internet. i found mine on amazon.com, and i think half.com has it as well. a good score on that is 65% or higher. there is also a really great hesi book that just came out in january. our instructors really pushed for us to buy this book and study it. it has these little "hesi hints," that i found to be very helpful. i know you are probably burnt out on shelling out money for this stuff, but look at it this way, you didn't come all this way to fail now, so do what you have to do to graduate. here is a link for the hesi book on amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/evolve-comprehensive-review-nclex-rn%c2%ae-examination/dp/1416047751/ref=sr_1_5?ie=utf8&s=books&qid=1205456601&sr=1-5 good luck to you, i really hope everything works out for you. if you have any other questions feel free to ask.

eku doesn't require this for their bsn program. i'm not sure about the adn program. i agree, i think this requirement is silly, and is a waste of you hard earned money. go to eku, their bsn program has a 100% passing rate on boards, and i'm sure their adn program probably has that as well. good luck to you in what ever you choose to do!

i know eku has a cma program, and i'm pretty sure it has a good reputation. good luck with your dreams. i hope everything works out for you!

Okay, don't get too stressed here! This is an easy one. If you learn anything from nursing school, please let it be airway breathing circulation!!!!!! I can't emphasize that enough. This applies to everything you do, assessment, care plans, prioritizing care, prioritizing which pt. To see first, test questions, and even your interventions. You're on the right track, you just have to trust your intuition here. By what you have here I would go in this direction..... #1 ineffective airway clearance (remember airway!:nmbrn:) r/t unable to remove secrections effectively #2 impaired gas exchange r/t the secretitions #3 imblanced nutrition: less than body requirements #4 what about an infection diagnosis? The pt. Does have an elevated wbc, what about his temp? Was it high as well??? Go with the infection diagnosis here. #5 chronic pain r/t disease processes I also noticed that your pt. Is on 12 liters of o2 per nasal canula. That is way too much. It sounds like to me that he needs to be on a non-rebreather mask. His sat's should be much higher than that, with that much oxygen. You really have to be careful with administering oxygen, you can cause oxygen intoxication in some pts., especially ones with copd. What about his abg's, did he have any? That will tell you if this pt. Is compensating for his defecit. Also, a slightly high fasting glucose is normal in someone that has an infection. It is the body's natural way to react to an insult. I hope this helps, if you have any other questions please feel free to message me. I try to answer messages as soon as I can. Stay with it, it will come to you, just takes some practice.

When doing your care plans, always the priority one's should be addressing the pt's. physiological needs, then address their psychosoical needs (EX. knowledge defecit, anxiety, and so on). Also when doing your outcomes, always make sure they are measurable. -Pt. will maintain adequate oxygention throughout shift as evidence by: skin warm and pink, Oxygen saturation > 90%, PaO2 between 80-100, no shortness of breath, no cyanosis, etc......... Hope this helps, I know when I was just starting nursing school, care plans were an entire new language. Feel free to message me if you have any further questions.

okay guy's, when i was faced with this question i knew i could come here and get my answer. i am a new grad, and i'm applying for a job online at some local hospitals, and i need a resume. so, what kind of resume do i need to make? should it have all of my previous job experiences even if it's not nursing? should it have all of my clinical experiences? do i need to formulate a skills list of things i have done and practiced in clinical? please help me! i know i can always count on y'all.

greetings, my fellow eku nurses. i am graduating from the bsn program in may, and i am so excited. yes, eku is still the toughest nursing school in the state, and it is the best. how many schools can say that their passing rate on boards is 100%? not many! good luck to all of you deciding to go into nursing at eku, and those that are continuing your education. if you want to go into nursing, eku is the way to go. they are tough for a reason, and they have a good reputation to keep. keep up the good work!