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It is sometimes the same in mother/baby, believe it or not. If a mom has a restraining order against the FOB for abuse (or worse), no information can be divulged. We ask callers to "contact a family member for information, please". [i am often tempte...

OP, You don't say how long you have been in the program. Are you less or more than half way through the curriculum? Someone earlier posted that you should look up your school's NCLEX rate and that is good advice, but there is something you should kno...

Thanks. . .appreciate the response. . .

What does this have to do with our discussion about C/S???

Oh, my, such neanderthals. The risk of severe respiratory complications after C/S are 5 times higher for the newborn, and elective primary C/S is known to increase the risk of placenta acreta necessitating a C/S-hysterectomy (rate is 1:1000). These t...

Keylimesqeez. . .the circumstances for your birth were totally different. Malposition. . .you couldn't have foreseen or controlled. I am so sorry that you didn't have the birth you anticipated. This information is directed at caregivers who elective...

Finally. . .no more support for admissions and induction for "Tired of Being Pregnant" with a dubious due date because there was no menstrual history upon which to base the EDD and the ultrasound was performed after 24 weeks.

I was a fresh GN (we used that term then, not RNA) and was working on a small peds unit in the hospital where I trained (and I can tell you it was "training" back then). A person from admitting brought up a child and the mother and left the admission...

It has been removed. There is another site now at: http://nursinglink.monster.com/content/nclex-study-center that can be used for NCLEX Prep. Good luck.

I have been concerned about something that is increasingly common and that is health care providers wearing their scrubs while shopping, exercising or any variety of activities. I know I am old school (when I graduated we wore white and did not shop ...

Prayers are coming your way because "seek and you shall find, ask and you shall receive, knock and it shall be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7) "in his time"

OK, some of you who are so blase' about uniforms need to read this from the Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137245971962641.html It doesn't matter if they are on their way to work. I wouldn't want someone caring for me who had...

The NCLEX is not a test of knowledge. It IS test to find if the test taker can make a safe decision for care based upon the information presented in the question. It is not a test of memorized content, but IS a test of how the content learned in nurs...

That's interesting! I was an Air Force Reservist and was activated for Desert Storm to back-fill (replace state-side folks who were immediately activited to go to the "front"). We were ordered to wear camoflage to show solidarity with those of our br...

You will get your first nursing "job" based upon your nursing education, not your MBA, although it might be useful after you have some experience because the MBA skills would be helpful as a manager, supervisor or CNO (chief nursing officer).

i did not say it was aprn preparation, what i said was it was an advanced practice level of education. copied from the aacn website: the cnl is an advanced generalist clinician with education at the master's degree level. graduate education is necess...

No, the CNL actually is an advanced practice area of specialization similar to the clinical nurse specialist. The nurse is prepared to provide direct patient care and promote evidence based practice. For more information on what a CNL is and does, go...

Back in my day, there weren't a lot of choices of color for underwear. Besides dress codes often required cotton underwear in OB and OR because anesthetic gases were explosive and the anesthesia machines exhausted into room air. She wore her watch tu...

First, you really need to take a time out from this stress, because it can and may lead you to making mistakes in other parts of your life. Not all nurses are "cut out" to work in an acute care setting. However, "working" is not the same as the shor...

This reminds me of when I was a new graduate working on a pediatric unit. The mother and admission clerk brought the child up to the unit and handed me the admission sheet, I took it and looked at it, with a puzzled look on my face, but put the the b...

Not receiving your cap until you completed a period of probabion, then there was a capping ceremony. Insulin therapy in psychiatry (the patient was given insulin then when you began seeing signs of shock, they were given glucose) Electroshock therapy...

The candling was done for agar plates of vaginal smears to test for gonorrhea. The gonorrhea only grows in an anerobic environment. We placed the agar plates immediately into the gallon pickle jar, the set a lighted candle (like a votive candle) on t...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, ignore the comment about pregnant client's taking sodium bicarbonate for heart burn. THEY SHOULD NOT under any circumstances used sodium bicarb, but should use calcium bicarbonate (TUMs or Rolaids).

On another note, you mentioned "pregnancy brain" which is a well documented (among nurse midwives) phenomonon. I don't know that it's written about, but all the hormone changes during pregnancy and the immediate drop in hormones after birth do affect...

Boy, I wish I had thought of that as a reply when I was birthing babies. . .it answers the question, but doesn't seem derogatory or rude; and, it lightens the tension for everybody.