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  1. How does it work in your school when you have to miss clinical?

    jrsmrs replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

    At my school, they take each case individually. If you are doing well in your clinicals, they really dont care much if you miss a day or two. And of course they dont want you coming in if you are...

  2. Renin Angiotensin System?

    jrsmrs replied to jellybean_22's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    There's a pretty good basic explanation of the RAAS here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renin-angiotensin_system

  3. HIV Positive Nurses

    jrsmrs replied to JeepDudeRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think if this hypothetical nurse is using the proper precautions, there should be no issue as there would be no mode of transmission from nurse to patient. My first thought was the risk to the nurse...

  4. Your most valuable book

    jrsmrs replied to OldMareLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I am in school right now, and Black & Hawks is the one we use:...

  5. Ethical issues regarding medications!!!! Need help

    jrsmrs replied to FutureLPN2010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    What are your thoughts on these

  6. Old Wives Tale or Nursing Intervention?

    jrsmrs replied to mappers's topic in General Nursing

    In school we have been taught to run water nearby to help someone pee. But also that the old practice of pop to unclog a feeding tube actually causes more trouble in the long run... the sticky sugar...

  7. Foley Catheter as a Gastrostomy Tube?

    jrsmrs replied to Student4Now's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Wow, this is interesting. One of my patients in one of my clinical rotations had a long-term PEG (several strokes and subdural hematomas of the frontal region... she also had a trach) which was simply...

  8. Need help with fetal monitoring

    jrsmrs replied to bebahloo's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Beat to beat variability refers to just what it says- the heart rate from one beat to another. For example, my heart doesn't beat precisely every 0.8 seconds to get to 75 beats/min. There is a...

  9. RN babysiting gig gone south

    jrsmrs replied to RNnbakes's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, there are just so many things about this that disturb me. First off, it sounds like your cousin is not very well-acquainted with this family. Hell would freeze over before I would be running off...

  10. nursing fiction/nonfiction

    jrsmrs replied to GeauxNursing's topic in General Nursing

    While not nursing-related per se, I read and loved a book called The Birth House by Ami McKay a year or two ago. Historical fiction about a young woman who learns to be a midwife from an older local...

  11. APICAL PULSE! please help!

    jrsmrs replied to Agi0000's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Off the top of my head, age will have something to do with the location- newborn babes have the apical impulse at about the 4th ICS rather than the 5th in older children and adults. An abnormal...

  12. Nursing as a Career in Canada (Calgary, AB)

    jrsmrs posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hi all! I'm new to the site and have so many questions! I am fairly certain that I have decided on nursing as a career, and will be applying to U of C shortly, to attend this coming September. I've...

  13. Any nurses in Thunder Bay?

    jrsmrs posted a topic in International Nursing

    We lived there a few years back and looks like we will be headed back out that way sometime in the next few months. I'll be applying to Lakehead for the coming fall and am interested in hearing about...

  14. Any nurses in Thunder Bay?

    jrsmrs replied to jrsmrs's topic in International Nursing

    I know, don't remind me! Like I said, we lived there up until about 3 1/2 year ago, and have been in Calgary since. We love it here, but unfortunately my husband just lost his job and can't find...

  15. The Circumcision Discussion

    jrsmrs replied to jmspeach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I get what you're saying, but under that logic, it would be ok to do anything at all to a baby under the premise that it doesn't matter because they won't remember it- burn them with cigarettes, hit...

  16. The Circumcision Discussion

    jrsmrs replied to jmspeach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Absolutely, but that wasn't my question. My question is (and I remember reading a few years back that this actually happened) that if a family comes from a country where they traditionally circumcise...

  17. The Circumcision Discussion

    jrsmrs replied to jmspeach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree. We are not performing these numerous studies on circumcised females (and rightly so, they have been violated by having pieces of themselves forcibly removed without cause, so IMO any...

  18. driving after birth

    jrsmrs replied to paintedbison's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Interesting! This isn't something I'd ever heard of. When I had my last child 6 yrs ago, via c/s, they never mentioned anything about driving. At about 5 days pp, I drove myself to Walmart one night...

  19. Do you really hate your job?!?

    jrsmrs posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am leaving an (unsuccessful) career in real estate to pursue my BN this fall. It has been an interest of mine since I had my kids, and I have had the idea in the back of my head that I would be very...

  20. ob interview-but here's my problem

    jrsmrs replied to hippiemama's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I will be starting nursing school in September with the long-term plan of finding my place in L&D, but I face this dilemma as well. Like you, I am vehemently opposed to having this procedure done...

  21. High school transcripts (RANT!)

    jrsmrs replied to JeanettePNP's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Try calling your local school board or governmental education department and find out if they have them yet. I've been out of HS for years and this is the only way for me to get a hold of a...

  22. Adoption option?

    jrsmrs replied to lannisz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I didn't mean that they WOULD lie or deceive me, just that they could and I would be none the wiser. That was kind of my point, that I was uneducated as to the reality of adoption and wish that...

  23. Adoption option?

    jrsmrs replied to lannisz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I just have to agree with everything said here. I was a young mother myself- had my daughter when I was 15. I can only speak to my own experience, but adoption was never really discussed in any way...

  24. Nursing as a Career in Canada (Calgary, AB)

    jrsmrs replied to jrsmrs's topic in International Nursing

    Oh my gosh, thank you so much for taking the time to type that all out for me! You are a god-send- so helpful! You really answered all my questions. I feel a lot better about things, I think! Thanks...

  25. Nursing as a Career in Canada (Calgary, AB)

    jrsmrs replied to jrsmrs's topic in International Nursing

    Thank you so much, that was extremely helpful! I definitely do want to know the 'knitty gritty'. I don't plan on going into this only to be blind-sided in the end! I'd like to know that the education...