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Neon8

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  1. PIE Charting

    I have the concept down of PIE charting: You state the problem, you do an intervention, and then evaluate. I bought a book on documentation even. Here's my problem: I need EXAMPLES of how things are...
  2. Hello everyone. Can anyone in California direct me to where on the Internet I can view a list of who has pased the NCLEX?
  3. Here's a link to the major nursing theories:
  4. Any tips on reading EKG's?

    Here's a few more sites" http://www.embbs.com/ekg/fileroom.html http://www.nurse-beat.com/stripshow/strip_index.htm http://rnbob.tripod.com/arrhythmiarecognition.htm...
  5. First Couple Weeks

    "Just keep your lip buttoned, don't give anyone any ammo to use against you and pretty soon you'll sift out a few co-workers who won't stab you in the back the first chance they get." This is...
  6. Not Good Enough For Medicine - Be A Nurse!

    You have ignored what I have said. I said the people I know hold RNs in high esteem. I did not say that nursing has been a positive experience for
  7. nurse patient ratio on nites

    On the telemetry unit where I work, we RNs get 7 patients with either a CNA or an LVN on the team. Beginning in January, it will be only five patients, but there is talk that it will be either primary...
  8. Not Good Enough For Medicine - Be A Nurse!

    Keep in mind that BB's are used for venting. So they are not an accurate pertrayal of how nursing really is. Sure, nursing is not a bed of roses, its a hard job, but I was talking about how RNs...
  9. Report sheets

    I mentally divide my worksheet into three's - Past, Present, and Future. On the left is basic pt. info:- Name, age, Adm. Dx, Doctor, Pertinent History, and other things that have already happened like...
  10. Not Good Enough For Medicine - Be A Nurse!

    Everyone I know hold RNs in high esteem. To be a RN was a long-time goal of mine. Now, I am proud to be one. My family is proud of me also. I have not seen this so-called prevailing negative attitude...
  11. Telemetry Nurses

    A Telemetry nurse does much of the same things you would do on a Med/Surg floor. But since all the patients are connected to cardiac monitors, the heart rhythms must be moniotred and documented. This...
  12. My Nocturnal Lifestyle

    I work nights - 12 hr. shifts - but I only have to work 3 days/wk to be full time. My schedule for the first week is 4 days on and five days off, and for the second week, it's two days on, three days...
  13. ? for schooling

    I origionally planned to take the ADN program and took Beginning Algebra, English I, Psychology, Anthropology, Communications, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology. When I couldn't get...
  14. Air in IV lines

    Another little trick is when spiking a new bag (assuming the line hasn't run dry) is to crink the line with the hand you are going to spike with, spike the upside-down bag, turn the bag upright,...
  15. Is it too late to become a nurse?

    I was 50 when I graduated with a BSN. I've been a nurse for a year now, and I'm doing alright (except for my poor feet). Go back to school now for your nursing degree. Take it from me: that nagging...
  16. noc shift...............more confusion

    I like nocs too. I find that if I eat before going to bed, that it helps me sleep. I usually find some left-overs in the fridge - nothing big. My "big" meal is before work. I work 12 hour shifts: 7 to...
  17. How do Nurses feel about CMAs?

    I worked as a medical assistant for 10 years. Now I am a registered nurse. Being a medical assistant first was, in no way, a stepping stone to becoming a nurse. None of the classes were transferrable,...
  18. In my BSN program, I found out during the last quarter that the teachers at that state university were not required to have teaching credentials, just a master's degree. Don't get me wrong, there were...
  19. are doctors more valued then nurses?

    Of course Physicians are more valued than nurses. Without the docs there would be no nurses. It is a fact of life that the more education you have, the more $$$ and less "work" you have to do. I don't...
  20. NCLEX Pass List in California

    Ok that one works. You have to type in the person's name you are inquiring about, though. Works for me!
  21. NCLEX Pass List in California

    Thanks but I have tried that site many times and whenever I click "California RN", it takes me to a page that says "the page cannot be opened" or words to that
  22. What Freaks You Out?

    I remember when I was assisting a doc with a pelvic exam years ago. the woman had a very foul smelling dischage. The doc saw something jammed up in there and used the long forceps to get at it. He...
  23. What Freaks You Out?

    Tunneling decubitus ulcers on the sacrum. This fellow was paralyzed from about T6 and could not feel as the doc dug around in there with the other end of the Q tip. This caused my preceptor to wince....