CrazyScrubNurse BSN, RN

ER/ OR/ PACU and now Occupational Health

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    Advice from the vets please

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    And please keep in mind that there are ALWAYS going to be people who like to moan and complain no matter what you do! You sound awesome to me just don't get
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    Is it FATE???

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to LUVtxNursing's topic in Operating Room

    YES and once you get over the shock of how much you will have to learn you will LOVE IT!!!!! Plus, OR experience will help you if you eventually decide to go back to OB which I don't think you will...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I need some drug facts...... anyone up for that? here is a quick one.... Dantrium (dantroline) common drug kept in the OR for us with Malignant Hyperthermia. No birth control pills with antiseizure...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    AAGGGHHHH Crapola!!! I TOTALLY forgot to add the 30 cc's. Dang I'm glad I went through all of that to catch that mistake or I might have done that on NCLEX Monday. OOOHHHH THANK
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    HOW MUCH KCL TO PUT IN THE BAG: do this like your standard problem. I ALWAYS use the same formula even if it is pills: want (order) ------ X available form have (available) so...... 60 mEq -------- x...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    This was the last question on our HESI. As I remeber it, with pancreatitis you should give Demerol if you don't know the cause of the pancreatitis because it is MORPHINE that will cause the Sphincter...
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    If you have taken HESI and NCLEX>>>>

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    OK I am getting a little worried here. Acutally a little more than worried... I did not study for HESI and pulled an 986 and thought I had failed it the entire way through. I did not and have never...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    3 point crutch walking is the one used for non-weight bearing (why does that word look like it is misspelled) AGGGHHHH ADHD getting to me....look theres a cat, ohhhh I love that pen that I wrote OB...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm gonna have to look this one up because I would go with the sputum culture for the confirmation. and I am only saying that because of the order of how they do things for us in the hospital as...
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    Woke up and cried!!!!!!

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to Rnwannabe63's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    AWESOME!!!! I knew you were freakin out over
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    In an infant of a diabetic mom, hypoglycemia 30-90 min after birth...then look for them to also have hypocalcemia after 24 hours Non Stress Test on a preggo....should be REACTIVE (rise of 15 bpm above...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    OK I say it again...Y'all are AWSOME. There are so many things in my mind that have been refreshed. I LOVE this!!!! Keep it coming! I'm gonna work on a few more n a few.... Oh wait I remeber one...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Yes I am aware that nursing school is FULL of high level content....just finished it. The first year of nursing school is NO comparison to what NCLEX is and what you will infact learn next year. The...
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    Anyone worried about throwing up or passing out?

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to c18436572's topic in General Students

    HaHA y'all are so funny! I love it! I have to admit after working in the OR for 8 years not much gets to me EXCEPT.......when anesthesia has to suction out the stomach for an emergency case and...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    OH and by the way....that Mag toxicity tidbit has to do with OB nursing and PIH in which the mother is getting Mag and the treatment IS Calcium Guconate 10ml of 10% solution given SLOW IV push...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Methylene DUDE!!!! We are just trying to scratch the surface here not take the MCAT!!!! AAGGGHHHH info overload! Thanks for the corrections but, we are concentrating on the NCLEX...ya know, what ANY...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    PMI for heart sounds on an adult= Left 5th ICS lateral to the Left nipple. If you get the diagram don't put the X on a rib. Angle of Louis- manubrial-sternal junction at the 2nd inter costal space....
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    Woke up and cried!!!!!!

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to Rnwannabe63's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Babe, three of my classmates took it this week and felt THE SAME WAY!!! It is the common reaction to NCLEX. Actually our instructors told us that if you are calm and not freakin out THEN you need to...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    OK I am working on some more random facts but while I do that..... CAN ANYONE THROW OUT WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT: Mumps Rubella Measles *like maybe precautions or isolation or just anything And any other...
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    Hesi

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to oct3d's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    yeah it caused a BIG MESS at our school and we graduated with 22 less students than we expected. I HATE that test. I passed on the 1st try with a 986 and we consider 850 passing at our school but,...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    A few more.... and forgive the spelling it is way late and my brain is turning to MUSH. Avoid herbal supps like ginsing, ginger, ginko, garlic (all the G's) if on any clotting drugs/products...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    oh ohhh here is one... MAP= diastolic x 2 + systolic ___________________ divided by 3 For some reason my mind went blank on that for a critical care
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Suzanne4 the facts are not word for word out of the books I just threw them in as an example so people would know that the info was not just stuff I threw out of my head. The info can be found in any...
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    Dreaming of the OR?

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to brewerpaul's topic in Operating Room

    HAHAH YES I have OR dreams!!! I had a weird dream that one of the surgeons I work with all of the time let us use his house on the lake and it caught fire and he came in and saved us all and then...
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    OR Music

    CrazyScrubNurse replied to NiteRocker's topic in Operating Room

    Kaycee that is funny that you made that observation because another nurse and I were just talking about the same things the other day. I think you nailed it! Hahahah usually the plastics guys have...