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I love the Uniball Jetstream RT. I LOVE a bold tip as I tend to write fairly large and quickly.. They come in red and blue, write like a gel, but are ballpoint. Pure perfection.

Congrats!

Yay! I just passed to, same grade too. I am now on to A&P!

My question , which the process has changed Im sure since this thread was started in 2005, I am currently doing my general ed classes, only need 2 more. I see some people are saying that I should save one for the end or something like that while I am waiting for the CPNE process. Does that mean I should just focus on say Ethics and NC1? Also which direction did yall take as far as doing all the nursing concepts, and registering while waiting to do the CPNE? I dont have anyone else in my area, or workplace doing this as aggressively as I am.

I fell into this situation today. Not refusing an assignment, but refusing to travel to another hospital that I was not on call for. I was told I was not going to be needed after I was finished running a dialysis treatment on a patient, because I would be needed all day the following day. Once a new patient was admitted at that facility I was all of a sudden needed and called. I repeat I was not scheduled to be on call and because I refused, I was suspended for the weekend and told that I would have to report to the office @ 8am on Monday. I am now thinking that I will be losing my job... I dont know what to do... It is unfair that I would be told to go even though there was another nurse capable of going. Now what do I do if I fired? Can they do this?

I have the Lifespan Test at the end of this month and Anatomy next month. I am so tired here lately & am not in the mood to study. However I am glad that you are able to shine some light as to what is on the test. I am having a hard time staying interested and on topic with this subject.

Once again I am so envious of yall! I am having some serious motivational issues with this. I have already enrolled and am already signed up for my tests, I just cant seem to focus. What were yall studying strategies?

My concern is that you dont have experience and perhaps the hospital only hires nurses with experience. That is the problem that many of the nurses I know are running into. Fresenius in my area, who I also work for, is basically the only company that offers paid training. Many nurses start here, then go off to the places that only hire with experience. Not always fun for those that stick around and make significantly less to train these nurses.

When I did work in the dialysis units we would rinse the patient back and stop the clock... While it does defeat the purpose when you have to increase the goal because you are in fact giving them an additional 500cc of fluid, if you have to go what can you do? Now that I am working for the acutes program, we offer the bedpan or urinal because patients are much more critical and sicker I suppose. Not to mention recirculators are not as readily available as they were in the clinics..

I agree wholeheartedly.. I am an Acute HD Nurse is an area where the diabetic community is very high, not to mention the ESRD patients. I myself have worked as much as 85 hours over 4 days and was told repeatedly that there was no help. I mean I am working with acute failures, new starts, waaaaaay critical patients, hello patient neglect. What makes that ok.. I recently worked 21 days straight, while taking call for all those days, by that last day I was so work out I couldnt even sleep. I kept waking up thinking that I was falling asleep at work monitoring patients (fully sitting up in bed at home). How is that ok? It seems that society thinks that we are "supposed" to do that.. We are caregivers and like someone earlier in the thread said, its just one person at a time, not 100+ in some tragic crash.

Ok so I scheduled my exams today. Lifespan is in January, (more than enough time since I am over half through) and A&P is in February. There is no turning back now.

Especially when I am working full time too. I have a good friend that is doing the program with me, we try to motivate each other. Still tough at times though... Guess I needed a lil rant

I have started working on the Excelsior Program in September, I got about halfway through some of the materials for A&P & Lifespan Development Psychology. Now I am having an extremely hard time regaining motivation to finish the material and take the test. Any ideas to keep my mind on the material?? Help me pwease!!

To the family of a non-US Resident: We have done everything for your son, there is not a BETTER medicine. He is dying, DIC, failed pancreas, liver, kidneys, ARDS, all because he drank liquor heavily. Had you cared enough before, and told him drinking that much, we wouldnt have to have him hooked up to 10 IV pumps, intubated and running on CRRT, for 3weeks straight. Not to mention his bill is well over half a mil. Now that you know he is suffering, when are you coming to visit? Oh you cant afford it, so why are we torturing him? To the IV cocaine/heroine user: When you use your graft/fistula as a way to shoot up, things are going to go very badly... And it wont be pretty.. And why do you need something to "numb" the area before I start your HD? How many times a day did you stab any possible vein BEFORE and tolerate that pain?

If you can use the call light and drink straight from the pitcher of water (to a dialysis patient), there isn't ANY reason you cant feed yourself and put pills in your own mouth. That means your significant other can feed himself instead of being at your beck and call. You are not that sick... And to the same patient: Wiping your rear with paper towels is probably the reason you keeping crapping blood, we have toilet paper and wipes too if those are too harsh... (she had SEVERE hemorrhoids)