Julie_Bean

you just use air to check patency

Start applying NOW!!!

You could also address the issue of non hands on health care workers wearing scrubs. Its discussed in another thread in here.

Wow Glad I read this thread! I'm sure I'll have to deal with this sort of thing sooner or later. I'll be a little more prepared for now!

It bothers me some as well. I'd rather see the office personel or secretarys in business casual dress and have the techs/cna/ma in a designated color as well. Where I work even house keeping gets to wear scrubs. WHen I first started there they had a...

last week at the hospital I work at because my doc is there. I was volume depleted from food poisoning and needed IV fluids. Anyway I was so embarressed going in there because I looked like total crap. that food poisoning REALLY whooped my behind. Ri...

Thanks all of you! I feel much better!

this is today breakfast: yogurt smooth drink & granola bar Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and granola bar dinner: lunchable and one reeses peanut butter cup that is a crappy example of my normal routine. I usually eat better (just a li...

I agree its too much if you can still smell it after they left or you can smell any further out from them than 1-2 feet but I love it! Its a pleasant surprise after wiping stinky butts all day and dealing with the other gross smells.

ok I got 75 questions. find out if I pass tomorrow woot!

my school had a fake hospital day where we wore shorts and tank tops or short sleeves to practice baths but we only did the extremities. We also had to feed one another and brush each others teeth. We had a lot of fun with it though. I can't imagine ...

At my hospital only ICU has done this (thats where I work) I know of one other hospital that I had clinicals at where RNs were one color, techs another and housekeeping another. I liked it alot.

There is a gym available at my hospital from 7p to 7a. during the day it is used for cardiac rehab and other PT and rehab stuff BUT of all the people that are employed at my hospital hardly anyone takes advantage of this and there is plenty of room...

I originally wanted to be an accountant when I started college after H.S. I worked part time at a sears call center for delivery while pursuing accounting and realized I didn't want to be stuck at a desk all day helping people get rich or low ball cu...

I was 22 when I started in the nursing program, 24 when I graduated.

found a good thread on the air thing https://allnurses.com/forums/f27/help-iv-not-properly-flushed-69692.html?highlight=bubble

lol ^ at leat they are learning delegation ...... j/k

ask for feedback, if you are doing ok overall etc. and the bubble thing.... we were taught that too but before getting out of clinicals nurses were teaching me ways to trouble shoot air in the IV line. I don't know for myself but apparently tiny bubb...

11 any free time you have, use it to study because chances are something else will come up that will require your attention and you don't want to be stuck cramming or missing info for a test.

I took out private studen loans for my adn because I just couldn't live at home anymore. I am about 36k( for 3 semesters) in debt from it all and don't have my monthly payments yet as I don't have to start paying it back until 6 months after I gradua...

I take it the 22nd but everyone in that graduated with me that has already taken it passed after 75 questions!

Is it really super detailed? I wouldn't imagine that it would be. I didn't have to take the Hesi to get at the time I was applying, just that net test thing. Did have to take Hesi as an exit exam though.

O MY GOSH!!!!! WOW I'm stunned! That is so wrong to push your religion on some one else on so many different levels and especially in a nurse patient relationship! EEEKKK!!! I would be outraged and ask for another nurse if I had that issue with a n...

Thank you! I graduated from El Centro, which has a really good rep around here. Lots of my classmates went to parkland ER and L&D and other top ER s in the area. Only thing I heard personally in regards to competition with other schools was from...

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