justme1972

I would disagree with your instructor on the rationale that while true, not all heathcare workers are vaccinated for Hep B, Hep B is also transmitted the same way HIV infections are...through body fluids...and no one has a vaccination against HIV.

I would say Hep A is the right anwer b/c it's transmitted via oral-fecal. Not all nurses are as methodic about handwashing as they could be and you don't necessarily have to change a bedpan to get this.

True, and too many people think that if you sign a contract you have 3 days to get out of it. Many states do have such laws, however, they apply to door-to-door salesmen where they usually come to your home and similar situations.

A patient, even though they have signed a consent form, can later RETRACT the consent at any point and time as long as they can make an informed decision (not under drugs, etc...same as when they gave consent). They absolutely have the right to resci...

I think stethescope wraps are nasty, nasty, nasty. It's not like you can stop mid-shift and wash them. All of the hospitals around here have a policy against artificial nails, but not a single one of them enforces it. I am also very, very cautious a...

Depends on where you live. That's pay for a new-grad RN around here.

Is that a link or something that you can post? I'm always looking for ones in the mid-Atlantic region.

I believe that conception is the start of life. I am pro-choice..however, my support is very limited. To me, if a decision cannot be reached in 3 months gestation time, then the fetus, should have at minimum, a court's protection...this is regardless...

Personal enlightenment, like love, is very, very nice to have around, but I have yet to find a mortgage company, a bank or a utility company that will accept it for payment. $17 is good...but that all depends on where you live as to whether or not th...

I have a sister that we couldn't talk out of majoring in Sociology. She "loved learning about people and cultures". She was dead and determined, so my father paid for every penny of tuition, and she wanted to go to a high-priced private school...he...

I wished a lot more would follow suit. Wake Forest dropped their SAT requirement for high school students because a 10 year study showed that it was a horrible predictor. I too, am looking at schools that do not require the GRE...maybe that's an ide...

These threads come up over and over again, and here is a question I would like to stand up and present to the students... For your graduation to obtain your degree, did you purchase a robe and mortarboard from the bookstore to put your tassel on so y...

Buy salt...keep it in your bag...work up a paste with a little water. Gets raw fish odor off..should work for stool.

I actually agree with Sue on this one. A nurse with 40 years of experience with a clean record...to me, you would have to just short of kill someone to fire them for something like this. If she is that experienced, chances are she is on the higher ...

I am too detail oriented....for my own good. When I become an NP it will help, but at this level, it is a liability. I was spending too much time focusing on what didn't matter...especially this semester. It really is that simple. Keyword is NURS...

At my school, if you read every page, you'll be lucky to finish the reading by the time you have to take another test. The books contain tons of information that is not necessary for nurses to know that will be taught when you get into Masters level ...

Landau...what I have discovered is if you go through a large uniform shop and see the whites together, what I do is wear a dark shirt and hold it inside the pant-leg or the shirt...that way you can see how thin the fabric will be. I have very fair sk...

I personally would find taking statistics very, very difficult online because Math books, in general tend to be very poorly constructed. However, if you are good at Math to start with, then I'm sure it won't be a problem.

I will give a "high five" to whoever came up with computerized Charting. The hopsitals around here have recently implemented them across all departments and the nurses love it. What they like the most is two things: 1. Virtually every conceivable ch...

It doesn't become dingy if you know how to take care of it. When nurses used to wear all white, the material that the uniforms were made of were virtually wrinkle free and required little to no ironing...they were made of material very similiar to t...

Honestly? That's probably overkill. Look at it this way...if bacteria will wash off your hands, they will wash off your clothes. Hot water, regular detergent, a single rinse, that is all that is needed....remember that it's also a prolonged washin...

Don't think anyone is being mean...you'll have to learn how to do these calculations very quickly and it takes practice, practice, practice. At my school, we have an entire class, 3x per week, for a whole semester....just on these types of calcuation...

I have a cousin that was a 'certified bra fitter' for Nordstroms and they actually put them through quite a bit of training to know how to fit someone with the proper undergarment. She has always said that most women come in, pull a size off the shel...

Daytonite rocks when it comes to giving our resources. She is the walking-nursing-encyclopedia.

You would probably be very hard pressed to find one, if one exists at all. Being a lactation consultant is a very intimate thing..you have to actually work with a woman's breast to guide it into the mouth of an infant, etc. What a male lactation con...