beth66335 BSN, RN

I had a teacher back when I got my CNA certification that called a B/P cuff a syphgnomamometer, lol

Nope its a myth; How to Pass a drug test, Pass a urine test - Pass Your Drug Test .com

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 sc...

"i'm not sure about this hospitals latest solution for short-staffing..."

Jevity! I have looked like that when a feeding tube/machine malfunctioned....and I wasn't smiling!:barf01:

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...

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!

I just joined this site in May, after I got my letter for NS. I was just wondering how many people out there are attending Roane State's Nursing Program?

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 ...

Tell them to take it up with the doctor that ordered it!

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...

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 ce...

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 t...

Hey I have that, I didn't know it had a name!

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!

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 som...

the order is established in the question as 100mcg every 12 hours iv already, so the person that wrote the question is letting you know that they have calculated the dose based on the child's wt and age. the question has just done some of the work fo...

I just graduated from RSCC nursing program this last May and I can tell you they did take 160 applicants the year I started in 2007. I was dropped at the beginning of the 2008 year for not passing the semester math taest that they give every semester...

Congrats! I have graduated since my post and I actually took an extra year to do so because I failed the 3rd semester math exam by 2 points, but I persevered and I now work on a Cardiopulmonary floor! It is very hard...and I love it!:yeah:Good Luck t...

i had a really short orientation and the floor i work on is very hard...but i love it!!

I was going to say what mb said...always dissect your problem and use the useful info and toss out the rest. If the problem is on paper cross out the extraneous stuff (or the stuff they put in to confuse you) and then you will see the "meat" of the p...

250,000units: 1mL :: 600,000 units : XmL 250,000 X = 600,000 X= 2.4mL

There IS a nursing shortage but also in this economy there is NO money to hire like they need to...so yes, the jobs will come back when the economy does and we will always need nurses in any economy. It just takes longer to find a job when things are...

I passed mine too! I took it on the 24th and then did the quick results option on PearsonVue's website on the 26th. I had 75 questions, and I took Kaplan, but I didn't finish all the question trainers before I got to test day...I still did just fine ...

I don't know what post on this thread is my original, but I just graduated May 8th! I am now in the throws of "anxiety related to preparation for NCLEX AEB moments of wondering if I really learned enough in school to do this!" LOL, no I will be fine ...