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  1. Information literacy

    Cobweb replied to Cobweb's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Thanks, all. I'm just gonna work a couple extra days and pay for it, I reckon, I just resent it, hehe. I hate paying more for a crappy one hour bogus class than an RN

  2. Paralyzed by emotion when children are the patient?

    Cobweb replied to missjennmb's topic in General Nursing

    Many moons ago I was a big, bad CNA who enrolled in nursing school. My classmate had a patient who died and she was terrified to go to the morgue. Being all female macho (I'd been a CNA for over a...

  3. Do I have what it takes to be a nurse?

    Cobweb replied to kaya767's topic in General Nursing

    Work as a CNA for a year or so. I got that advice when I was thinking of going into nursing and it's the best advice I ever got in my

  4. Darvocet vs Percocet

    Cobweb replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    Another consideration are the major side effects--you may want one for a patient with bad kidneys, a different one for a patient with low respirations,

  5. How do you manage to get to work in snow storms ?

    Cobweb replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a night shift nurse and I often get stuck working when people can't make it in to work. I'd rather work a double than have somebody crash their car, although, unfortunately, the people who call...

  6. losing motivation and confidence :(

    Cobweb replied to Kelseyj79's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I had a bit of a rough patch like that and what I had to do was narrow myself down. Just do One Thing At A Time. Don't think about CPNE. Don't think about any tests ahead of you. Don't even think...

  7. I might be jammed up at the CPNE

    Cobweb posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

    I just read this description under the accommodations for the CPNE for disabled people. I don't recall seeing this before--when I applied to Excelsior they did not mention this, even though I was...

  8. Nonlinear thinking

    Cobweb posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, that's what my son calls it. My coworkers call it, "What the hell is she doing now?" Anyway, I see a lot of new young or soon-to-be nurses on here. In the old days we had to invent a lot of the...

  9. It's sometimes hard being a nurse of color isn't it?

    Cobweb replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of people bash the South, but while racism here is more overt, I actually found the insidious Northern version to be a lot harder to overcome. That's just my experience. The most virulent...

  10. TeleRNer and other interested parties

    Cobweb posted a topic in General Nursing

    you wrote, " recently purchased a copy of the doctor's test prep usmle just to see if i could grasp how a doctor thinks and why such and such labs are ordered. " i would like to recommend to you a...

  11. TeleRNer and other interested parties

    Cobweb replied to Cobweb's topic in General Nursing

    I just learned last night they are actually teaching parts of this book in the pre-med program here

  12. Lets do this differently for a change.

    Cobweb replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    "what should I do or not do that will make you WANT to and ENJOY teaching me. I WANT to learning everything possible from my preceptor and I want him/her to enjoy showing me." Bring me cash. Oh...

  13. What is the nicest thing a patient has ever said to you?

    Cobweb replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    If God ever gave me a gift, it's getting the plugs out of trachs. I had an older gentleman come into the VA hospital in the middle of the night and he could hardly breathe at all. A few people had...

  14. incapable, helpless, unmotivated, unteachable pts who are unable to cope with life

    Cobweb replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    TrudyRN said, "What I find hurtful and discouraging is when I offer kindness to someone and they reject it/do not acknowledge it. But oh, well. Life goes on." I have a hard time with that as well....

  15. Are LPN's really nurses in the eyes of RN's

    Cobweb replied to LUVyourCNA's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes it's the other way around too. In my facility a large number of the RNs and LPNs do not regard the BSNs as "real nurses" because they have no floor experience and only do

  16. incapable, helpless, unmotivated, unteachable pts who are unable to cope with life

    Cobweb replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I suspect you did the best job you could under the circumstances, and just think, you may have been the only kind voice she's really heard for a while. She's fat, sick, older, poor, and a...

  17. What does an increased Cortisol level mean...Help!

    Cobweb replied to sharona97's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Here is a good site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003693.htm and here is a related thread: https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/elevated-cortisol-level-what-does-mean-87944.html Hope...

  18. Professional courtesy from police at traffic stops

    Cobweb replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was in the ER one night when an older cop (Missouri redneck like myself) came in with his trainee. The older cop said to the younger one, "Now you see these nurses, boy? You be nice to these gals....

  19. single parents and 12 hour shifts.

    Cobweb replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    I found someone who wanted to come in an hour late and we worked opposite each other all the time. She picked the kids up (hers and mine) and we transferred them in the parking lot ;p We picked up...

  20. Newbie LPN- need drug help!

    Cobweb replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    Bowel meds ;p Did you know that if your patient is taking 5 meds, they have a 50 percent chance of a drug interaction, and if they are taking 8 meds, they have a 100 percent chance? Many of the...

  21. Nursing Student HATES Nursing Assistant Job

    Cobweb replied to PeachyERNurse's topic in General Students

    I think being a CNA is invaluable for a nurse, and even more so if you have worked as a CNA on a bad floor like this. You will know exactly what your CNAs can and can't do, and you'll appreciate the...

  22. Sputum specimen from demented patient

    Cobweb posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any good tricks for getting one of these? It's not my area of expertise and the poor old guy is really sweet, just very..very..very..not on this planet. I'd sure appreciate any

  23. As/aas

    Cobweb posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any particular difference in these degrees? I'm clueless,

  24. As/aas

    Cobweb replied to Cobweb's topic in General Nursing

    Excelsior offers the nursing degree in AS, Associate in Science, or AAS, Associate in Applied Science. I can't figure out what the difference is. I asked them but they don't seem to know either ;p...

  25. Newbie LPN- need drug help!

    Cobweb replied to gt4everpn's topic in General Nursing

    We memorized lots of drugs in school but one thing that was never made clear to me was that drugs are divided into classes, and if you know the classes and what class your drug is in, you know a whole...