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    How many are left?

    rotteluvr31 replied to smartin13's topic in General Students

    It is hard to tell exactly with our ADN program because so many people go p/t - or they need to repeat a class before they can move on. Our Health Alterations class - which is med/surg - started with...
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    best drug cards for clinical?

    rotteluvr31 replied to queenjane's topic in General Students

    I use a palm pilot too - but I also have a little index card size 2 ring binder. All the drugs I have had to look up are on index cards - and then they go into the binder. I kept that with me until...
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    Best Way to Learn Skills for Check off

    rotteluvr31 replied to wishNhopeNdreamN's topic in General Students

    On some skills - once we opened a package, say for trach care or foley insertion - the package became ours. I took the package home to - as the mantra goes - practice practice practice. That way,...
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    Any ideas?

    rotteluvr31 replied to cardiac~lover's topic in General Students

    I used to live in Ohio, and attended Kent State about a million years ago - or so it seems anyway :chuckle Now I am in WI, and many of the hospitals here offer year round externships - some I know of...
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    Any ideas?

    rotteluvr31 replied to cardiac~lover's topic in General Students

    I am not sure where you are located, but I don't understand why an externship is out of the question. Our 2 yr. ADN program is a bridge where you can get your LPN after the first year, then continue...
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    First LPN School Clinical... woot!!! (not)

    rotteluvr31 replied to chordringer's topic in General Students

    They don't always continue on, although sometimes they get far enough along that it does get a little scary. We had one classmate get passed thru our first clinical because the instructor was new and...
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    Does anyone ever feel this way?

    rotteluvr31 replied to hTx87's topic in General Students

    Good for you! We all need a little boost once in awhile, and it sounds like you received a well-deserved
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    Does anyone ever feel this way?

    rotteluvr31 replied to hTx87's topic in General Students

    I don't feel that way at clinicals -as much as I used too. But at work, well it is very different. Every day I see something that I don't know how to react to or how to do. This past weekend, my...
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    Carrying all that stuff to clinicals . . .

    rotteluvr31 replied to intensity_too's topic in General Students

    Last Christmas I received one of those nursing pocket organizers. It has a little pocket for cash, and then velcro straps for hemostats and bandage scissors (I haven't lost a pair, and everyone who...
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    Initial assessment

    rotteluvr31 replied to Aiming4Altruism's topic in General Students

    If by "cookie cutter" you mean that all assessments are the same, head-to-toe, then you are right... and wrong. If you go into a patients room and that patient is in respiratory distress, then that is...
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    Help: I need skills websites!

    rotteluvr31 replied to whiteoleander5's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When we were learning to do physical assessments our instructor found clips on Youtube for us to watch. We watched them in class and then at home to review. Just try doing a search for what you...
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    What is this?

    rotteluvr31 replied to txoldiebutgoodie's topic in General Students

    it is a peripherally inserted central catheter. Used like an IV - but requires specialized training to insert. In our hospital only the MD's insert them. They have multiple lumens that you can run...
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    Sitter questions

    rotteluvr31 replied to xoloveinautumn's topic in General Students

    Sometimes, especially with elderly confused women, you can distract them by giving them washcloths to fold. All the previous ideas of distracting and redirecting are excellent
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    ati RN comprehensive predictor 3.0

    rotteluvr31 replied to mark3274's topic in General Students

    I have been taking the ATI PN predictor - I have a year before I need to worry about the RN predictor. Maybe by that time any bugs will be worked out... I do agree that it is very unfair for ATI's...
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    ati RN comprehensive predictor 3.0

    rotteluvr31 replied to mark3274's topic in General Students

    Thanks for posting that info - where/how did you find it? I have been trying to figure out how to correlate one to the
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    Student Nurse Externships/Internships

    rotteluvr31 replied to CCURN87's topic in General Students

    Which one(s) are you interested in and why? The local hospital in town does offer internships - some on Med/Surg, one in ER (that I am aware of) and 1 or 2 a year in the ICU. Which one(s) have you...
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    Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    rotteluvr31 replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    So far, I have been pretty fortunate, but there are a couple of things... The teacher doesn't treat me different because I am an older student, she treats me different because I come to class on...
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    Interview for summer internship

    rotteluvr31 replied to ilovematt48's topic in General Students

    Also maybe questions regarding confidentiality, or how to work with difficutl co-workers, and most importantly - what do you expect to get out of the experience? Good luck on your interview - mine is...
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    Underwear and white scrubs?

    rotteluvr31 replied to LaLaEm4's topic in General Students

    Our program is all white, but in the fall we change to white top maroon bottoms. Our handbook talks about appropriate underwear. I don't recall the exact language, and only white tops under the scrub...
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    CNA vs. nursing fundamentals

    rotteluvr31 replied to CNAinNeb's topic in General Students

    I'm in the second semester of a 2 yr ADN program. Our first clinical last semester brought together people with all types of experience. Many folks had been a CNA for several years (a pre-req for...
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    Commonplace to starve someone to death?

    rotteluvr31 replied to HM7380's topic in General Nursing

    I talk to my hospice patients all the time - especially the unresponsive ones - and tell them all the steps of what I am doing,"I am getting the washcloth, now I am wiping your right eye, here I come...
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    I need an appropriate nursing diagnosis!

    rotteluvr31 replied to ashd's topic in General Students

    how about something r/t impaired circulation? or knowledge
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    I saw my first patient that died today...

    rotteluvr31 replied to heartlover07's topic in General Nursing

    I think of life as a continuum. Some of us are called to help bring life into the world, other RN's care children and adults, both young and old. At the other end of the continuum is death. It is a...