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Me & my husband had each others names tattooed on our ring fingers. I also have a plain, smooth band that is not a part of my wedding ring set, but I usually wear it to work and slide it out of the way when I wash my hands.

Yeah, I have used alcohol wipes with success if really sticky and on sensitive, delicate skin. I was changing the dressing on a PICC line and the pt's skin was coming off with it, so used the alcohol wipe in that case with much luck (more comfortable for the pt too).

This is also something I think about. I clean my stethoscope A LOT - after every patient, before & after I work a shift, ect. because I figure it is like hand washing, it's going with me from patient to patient. I came across a site that has disposable stethoscope covers. I ordered a sample and they look like they would be very convenient. Just like gloves and probe covers for thermometers, it fits over the scope then tears off to be thrown away after using on a patient. The thing I'm wondering is if it affects hearing through the scope at all or not. Anyone try these before? I'm wondering if these will catch on in the hospitals. Here is the link if anyone is interested http://www.mystethoclean.com/

The easiest way is to start at an edge and pull and stretch the tegaderm horizontal, not straight up as you would with tape. Continue doing this all the way around the IV site until you are ready to remove it.

This is what I was wondering about. I know that when I was doing my preceptorship I was practicing under my preceptor's license. Any mistakes/errors I would have made (and not that you did) would have been on her license since I was a student at the time. I don't understand why this preceptor would blame this on you when it is something that will be her responsibility in the end anyways. I hope this all works out for you, and good luck to you in finishing school

Hello! I am finally taking the NCLEX-RN on April 7th (I graduated 12/07). I have been using the review CDs from Lippincott, Mosby, Saunders, along with Saunders NCLEX-RN review book plus ATI review books/CDs I have from nursing school. ATI also has a bunch of online practice tests that have been helpful. The areas I am weakest in are OB and psych. Good luck to all

I just graduated this month and my school used the ATI tests. We took them on different subjects each semester and the graduate predictor near the end of the program. We had to take all of them in order to graduate, but they did not have any impact on our grades. It was more or less our responsibility to take the information from the tests, and to see what areas we were weak in to study for NCLEX. I don't think that changing the passing rate ten percent is fair to your class. And being out of the program for good after two failures - wow! I thought my school was bad with two failures you had to wait two years, then reapply. Well, the best of luck to you and to to your classmates!