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I have seen all the posts on wet-dry dressing changes, but nothing that addresses this specifically. You open your sterile kit and there's no compartment with gauze alone that you can pour your sterile saline into. You've got to put on your separate pair of sterile gloves to get your sterile drape and supplies out of the kit to free up a compartment. Then how are you supposed to pour the sterile saline now that you've got your sterile gloves on! And our lab has no separate sterile bowls or sterile gauze trays ("boats") to use. The lab tech at my college said, "Well, you'd get someone else to pour the saline for you." In real life, you'll never find another nurse or aide when you need one. And the instructor (who's nowhere to be found right now) sure won't pour it for you during checkoffs! :chuckle Any thoughts?

Oh my God, I think Stephanie's in my clinical too!! :)

--How did you get to be an instructor when you can't even speak proper English? --Why in the h**l do you test us on things from totally different books/sources instead of what's covered? --Why haven't I been able to give a freaking injection yet? --Why HESI? (Whining) Whyyyyyy? --When did you get out of the (mental) hospital? (These are all things I would ask a specific instructor, the rest of them are great) :)

HESI is from Mars, NCLEX is from Venus. :) Yep, I've heard from nurses in the field, instructors and recent grads they're 2 different animals. My advisor's advice was to study the material from this year, plus HESI case studies at the Evolve Apply Web site and the Evolve HESI comprehensive review book, which I got online. We have to get 900 too. I feel overwhelmed ... and this is just our practice HESI run!!

Thanks, everyone. And dragonsage, Kate is my daughter's name too. How cool! Good luck with the birth and the sleepless nights after, LOL. :) But it's worth it. Take care, Nita Mc. Big (8 lb., 9.5 oz.) baby girl born 11/9/04 :)

https://www.scribd.com/doc/19829/Medical-Mnemonics?query2=kidney+mnemonic has med-surg mneumonics to die for (poor choice of words there!) at the link above, including pharm ones. Good stuff! ~Nita Mc.

Hi all ... Question here ... I have fall and spring of next year to go in ADN school -- peds and OBGYN clinicals in the fall and ICU/preceptorship in the spring. My husband and I were thinking of trying to conceive a second child starting in late fall, but I'm concerned about exposure to "bugs" they don't immunize for, and that that might harm the fetus. Any thoughts about risks vs. benefits? Thanx, Nita

Mneumonic device for remembering questions to ask emergency room admits: Car? (circumstances of event) Please (precipitating events) Listen (location of event) To This: (Time of event) Watch (when symptoms appeared) Underage (unconsciousness after injury?) Alcoholics (arrival time in ER) Heading (hospital admits previously?) Home (previous history/health status) And (allergies) Maybe (medications) Flattening (fears for safety) My (meal, time of last) Poodle (period, time of last menstrual) Dog (primary doctor, name and location of) Tonight (tetorifice, date of last immunization) Everyone knows to make the ABCD (airway breathing circulation and neurologic disability) assessment first. Then as soon as possible, further assessment/intervention is done, which includes: His (health history) Head (head to toe assessment) Is (insert monitoring devices -- caths, ECG, arterial lines) So (splints for fractures) Wide (wound care) Olivia (other interventions) No, there's nothing else to do in Natchez, Miss., than make up silly crap!

That's so frustrating! What I had to do is sign up through my local community college for an online course -- in that case, A&P, but chemistry was also available. Hope this helps!

Can anyone who took the exit exam at Alcorn School of Nursing this semester tell me their impressions of what went wrong? Is it that they don't teach what's on the exam? Instructors don't teach well? Turnover? Just asking -- I'm scheduled to start at Alcorn SON this fall.