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Nope its a myth; How to Pass a drug test, Pass a urine test - Pass Your Drug Test .com
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I use achohol pads to clean ports and hubs one time. Also, always remember to open the clamp before you scrub to make to port "pop" out slightly for better contact with the pad...I also sing Happy Birthday in my head while I scrub to ensure enough scrub time and wipe around the outside of the cap at the end too...I don't, however, scrub again after the flush...if you don't touch the end of a syringe when drawing up a medication, it is still sterile enough to connect to the port without a second scrubbing...
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"i'm not sure about this hospitals latest solution for short-staffing..."
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Two options for medical questions, if you don't know the answer say so; and explain that you are a grad nurse and still learning. Option two say," You know I'm not sure, but I will find out and get back to you!" That worked for me when I stared...and a year and 4 months after graduating there are still days I go to work with a few butterflies about what the day may hold, lol! But, confidence comes and I feel very sure of myself 99% of the time these days!
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The original poster of this message past away last year, but I checked the link and it gave me a failure URL so hopefully it won't work anymore!
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I agree with Brittany micah, just enjoy your Summer! I was in the class that started in 2007 and we didn't even get our books until right before we started, so there was no Summer reading list. They had us cover a couple of the chapters in our Basic Nursing book (for Fundamentals of Nursing class in first semester) just so we could be prepared to ask questions on the first day of class if we needed to. You will have Pharmacology in first semester too, and that is where you will learn the math for your 2nd semester test. ( you will also take math tests in Pharm, about 3 if I remember correctly) Btw, if anyone out there wants to buy books from me I have almost all of them from school still, just let me know the edition you are going to use so I can tell if mine will still work for you. My Med Surg book is debound and in a 3 ring notebook, but it is a HUGE book, so it really is better that way. I just took out the chapters we were covering in class that day and put them in a smaller notebook and carted around with me, lol! I also have several Careplan books and some supplemental books I bought on my own to help me with the math plus NCLEX books to practice questions before each test. Good Luck to all who will be entering the program this Fall, as scary as it could be at times it was some of the best fun of my life, honestly! Some days on the floor I really miss it!
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Tell them to take it up with the doctor that ordered it!
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As a prereq for my nursing program I had to take either College Algebra or Probability and Statistics, which was considered a higher level math...does your catalog lay out your nursing curriculum for you? Individual programs may differ on this, I did take P&S and I found it easier for me, but nursing math is based, I have found, on Ratio and Proportion or Dimensional analysis, which I believe is Algebra and Chemistry based math. I just followed my catalog all the way through and asked an advisor about anything general, like which Philosophy classes count toward that needed credit? Do you have an college advisor? Are they a nursing instructor? If not you can call the office and ask to speak to one that is in the nursing office about specific questions on prereqs for the nursing program...hope this helps!
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I see by the date on this you are just about to graduate, has last semester been fun for you? I loved my last semester, beginning to feel like a real nurse and doing a lot more hands on stuff so I hope it's been that way for you too! I am about to celebrate the end of my 1st year in nursing and it has also had ups and downs, triumphs and disappointments as well as very treasured moments! Good luck to all of you still waiting to begin, just ending the first year, or about to join the ranks of the graduated!:heartbeat:nurse::heartbeat
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We have a kit that includes a yellow paper gown like the ones we wear in an isolation patients room. We put that on the body and tag their toe, and their bag of belongings if no one takes them, then we put them in the body bag and tie the final tag to the zipper. If they have had a PICC line or chest tubes removed we place a thick pad of 4x4s over the wound with tape to keep the inside of the bag clean. We used to tie the chin with a strap and the hands and feet together with strings too, but the morticians said it left permanent marks on the bodies so we stopped. I believe treating patients with dignity extends to how the remains are treated. Plus a body in a gown moves easier against the inside of the body bag so you don't have to struggle getting them inside and closing it together to zip it. btw, we also did a bath and clean hospital gown when the person passed, either asking the family to step out for a bit or while they were on the way to the hospital, the families are always so grateful for this show of caring on our part that I believe they would approve of the gown being on for transport to the morgue as well.
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Hey I have that, I didn't know it had a name!
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You are welcome, it took me lots of practice and 5 math tests in nursing school to get the hang of this kind of math...I'm glad I finally got it as we have to take a math test at my job now every year as part of our computer-based learning classes!
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I've had patients treat me badly both "with it" and not, and I make sure they are safe and tell them I'm leaving until they cool down, but I will be back to check on them soon. Usually works, they cool off and apologize, or if they are altered in some way they have forgotten the whole thing by the time I return. I would do the same thing in any profession, leave so the person can "check" themselves and get their control back...I also tend to get angry back so it helps me keep control as well! Sorry it happened to you and I hope it doesn't happen again for a long time!
