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  1. I cant start IV's!

    Maybe through a medical supply company and it is IV drip/gravity tubing........but if you are getting ready for nursing school, just enjoy the time you have off before you start.......you'll get what ya need when the right time comes!!!:loveya:
  2. ER Nurses. Read This!

    4 am in the morning here...........found this posting on a short break......THANK YOU SO MUCH for reminding me why I am an ER nurse............posted this on our nurses station whiteboard and everyone loves it!!!!!!!!
  3. I cant start IV's!

    Just a technique that helped when I first got started......if you have access and your employer doesn't mind, use drip tubing, foam tape and betadine/water in a syringe.......tape the drip tube to a mayo stand covering tubing with foam tape.......giv...
  4. Nursing concentration: ER

    Hear, hear and AMEN to that!!!!
  5. Hourly Rounding in the ED

    We were just given the "word" at our ER that this mandatory hourly rounding was a big "STATE" issue and it would now be required. Well, the only thing I can say about all that is "sure, whatever you say". I work in a small rural ER with 2 RN's staf...
  6. Job for new Grad

    I graduated in May '08 too and found people throwing jobs at me.......I live 2 hours east of Dallas/Ft. Worth area and Texas nurses are a hot commodity in any specialty area you choose. Good Luck!
  7. Day/Night Rotation and Sleep!

    With the nursing shortage in such the state that it is, a job change might actually be a suggestion, barring that I do use sleep medication and it absolutely does not affect me negatively, however I also have diagnosed insomnia so it takes alot to pu...
  8. Help a nursing student

    1. pitocin commonly referred to as "Pit" is used for labor induction and cervical ripening 2. methergine used for refractory postpartum uterine bleeding 3. carboprost used for same as above 4. RhoGAM used in cases where mother is Rh negative and ba...
  9. Does anyone have any information about the new requirement for Texas nursing student graduates to take the Nurse Practice Act Test that is supposed to be required for students beginning Fall 2008? I have also heard a rumor that if you have not gradu...
  10. Full time work & Full time school??

    I spent this 2nd semester of my 1st year working 18 hours one week and 30 the next all semester long and I'm married with a 6 and 10 year old AND it's been since 1992 that I was in school the first time and I did it but it was HARD !!!! I had to sta...
  11. HELP PLEASE.....anyone !!!

    DayTonite you are awesome !!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you
  12. HELP PLEASE.....anyone !!!

    Thanks you guys...I really appreciate the help....found some of what I need !!
  13. HELP PLEASE.....anyone !!!

    Again Eric, I thank you !!! I did find what I needed.....and as usual you are one of the only responses for help I can get. I really, really appreciate YOU!!
  14. help...i think i'm failing clinical (kinda long)

    I guess it's sorta as I've been told all along ..........nursing school is one of the hardest, most rewarding endeavors that you'll ever pursue. It is truly an entirely new way of learning and cramming and learning some more. Go plead your case and...
  15. HELP PLEASE.....anyone !!!

    Great, thanks so much....I believe we do have access to Blackboard in our tutorial program from the library