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  1. Nursing Habits: Sleeping Pills

    queenjean replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    My experience is completely opposite, particularly in the population over 60. Give a perfectly a/o 70 year old fellow ambien, and you know you are going to end up with a confused little guy who pulls...

  2. Do you wear rings on your fingers to work?

    queenjean replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    From the second article tait posted: "The nurses wearing rings had more Gram-positive, Gram-negative and total bacterial colonization on their hands than the nurses without rings despite using an...

  3. RN to BSN Program

    queenjean replied to Aneroo's topic in General Students

    I'm in an RN-BSN program as well, through FHSU. It is somewhat self-paced; each class is a semester long, but you can enroll in one class or several per semester. I'm just taking 1-2 classes at a...

  4. Nursing Habits: Sleeping Pills

    queenjean replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Our official protocol is 2am. If the pt has one ordered, I try to remember to tell them they can have it up until about 2. We usually use ambien. I hate it. It makes so many people goofy. I'd...

  5. Do you wear rings on your fingers to work?

    queenjean replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    So, since everyone else is doing so bad, we don't need to worry about improving ourselves? Because stethoscopes also appear to harbor bacteria, we don't have to worry about rings? I agree that at...

  6. Do you wear rings on your fingers to work?

    queenjean replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    I was scratched by a nurse's ring when I was a patient. It wasn't even that big of a rock, and she felt terrible "I've never had that happen before!" but it happened. It was a pretty good scratch,...

  7. HELP! I got dismissed from my nursing school

    queenjean replied to basid786's topic in General Students

    You can attempt to rationalize this any way you want, but the fact of the matter is, you fell asleep at clinicals. I know, you say you didn't, but that appears to be what the preceptor observed. You...

  8. LPN/RN bridge... where are they....

    queenjean replied to nogabjojo's topic in General Nursing

    You might try the Georgia forum. This is the Kansas

  9. HELP! I got dismissed from my nursing school

    queenjean replied to basid786's topic in General Students

    You told your preceptor you were too tired to take pts, so you would just observe--on your last day of clinicals? Talk about phoning it in. I would have failed you, too. As well as any classmates...

  10. But I LIKE My Colleagues

    queenjean replied to Medic09's topic in General Nursing

    I really enjoy my coworkers as well. For 2 1/2 years we had a real grump on our shift--we all hated working with her, she really brought us all down. She finally got fired (one too many pt...

  11. Online Lecture/Onsite Clinicals

    queenjean replied to CrusadersFan's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Pratt Community College in Pratt, Kansas does

  12. Rejection letter

    queenjean replied to shan007's topic in General Students

    Take a CNA class and work at a hospital, if possible. The experience will help you exponentially when you go to nursing

  13. Lovenox injection sites

    queenjean replied to iwanna's topic in General Nursing

    I assume the pt education literature states to put it in the abdomen because a lot of them are giving it themselves, and for many people it would be difficult to give themselves an injection in the...

  14. To renew an LPN license or not, once an RN?

    queenjean replied to S.N. Visit's topic in General Nursing

    I personally see no benefit of keeping my LPN license. I'm not keeping it for the very few jobs out there (and I suspect they are VERY few and far between) that I may want that would only hire an...

  15. Rejection letter

    queenjean replied to shan007's topic in General Students

    Get a job in a nursing related field (if you don't have one already) to gain experience and earn some money while you are waiting. Apply to several different schools. When I applied, I got accepted...

  16. RN to bsn online

    queenjean replied to idahogirl99's topic in General Students

    I can't imagine why getting your BSN online would make you clueless on the floor. You have to be an RN to enter the RN-BSN programs; and the RN-BSN programs are more about management, leadership,...

  17. Bipolar does not mean "druggie"

    queenjean replied to aslaten08's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, Kara, but in my experience, psych history--particularly one that has resulted in multiple hospitalizations--*does* have something to do with certain diagnoses and problems. Not everyone with a...

  18. Acls

    queenjean replied to His_girl's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'd recommend waiting for a while. In my institution, anyhow, once you are ACLS certified, there are certain expectations. If a code is called on my floor, all ACLS certified nurses on that floor...

  19. What do you say to brokenhearted parents?

    queenjean replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Students

    "Would you like to speak to the hospital chaplain?" "Would you like me to sit with you for a while?"--and then *listen* don't talk. Basically you want to provide them the opportunity to talk--they...

  20. kaw tech, lpn program???

    queenjean replied to butterfly135's topic in General Nursing

    They say it can be done in a year (including a summer semester) if you go full time; I'm not sure I see how that is possible. It'll probably take me three years taking 1-2 classes a semester (some...

  21. need info please! did you use caveduers in ns?

    queenjean replied to butterfly135's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think Kstate has a nursing program. But you don't take anatomy through the nursing school anyway, it's in the prereqs; so if you were doing your prereqs at KSU, then I guess you'd have the...

  22. YIKE! Help with care plan for snake bite

    queenjean replied to phoenixfire's topic in General Students

    Just FYI, we often give CroFab to our copperhead, cottonmouth and rattlesnack bite victims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CroFab I'm in NE Kansas, we get several a year in our small community hospital....

  23. Survey on Alcohol Withdrawal

    queenjean replied to travelingman's topic in General Nursing

    Like Jailhouse nurse said, keep it short and sweet. When I get them, usually they aren't in the DTs yet, and I usually explain our CIWA protocol to them. I tell them I don't want them to go into the...

  24. Scripting

    queenjean replied to deannawilliam's topic in General Nursing

    I *love* hearing other people "scripts"! Sometimes I find something that totally works for me. A couple of my "scripts" (AKA phrases I use frequently) are: "Is there anything else I can do for you?...

  25. Im being blackballed!..experienced nurses please reply

    queenjean replied to 1styearsucks's topic in First Year After Licensure

    We have a hospital policy that you cannot transfer until you have been off of orientation for 6 months, though our managers make it clear that the preference is a year. No one would take a transfer...