Leomom

Depending on where you work, hospital pay averages about $21 base, plus shift differentials. There are hospitals that start at a little more & a little less, but $21 is about mid-ground. COngrats on finishing your BSN!

Yes it is entirely possible to fail MedSurg & still graduate. I failed MedSurg 2 by about 2 pts. No matter how hard I tried, it seemd the harder I tried the worse my test scores got. However, I took the time to meet with my instructors, go over the tests, & I retook the class the following semester & passed with a solid B. I graduated May 2011, took boards in June & passed with 75 questions. I am proud to say that I am now working as a Transplant RN. As to whether this is for you or not, that is something that you must answer for yourself. Remember anything worth having is worth working for. Good luck.

I have lost weight since starting work as an RN, about 7 pounds so far but I am also trying. As others have said pack your lunch, I do, I don't even take my bank card or $$$ in with me I drink hot tea in the AM when I get to work & after that 1 cup it's ice water when I get the chance for a sip. I have worn my pedometer to work for a week or 3 now & consistently hit around 15,000 steps. Good luck in your endeavors.

I don't know about anyone else, but I just graduated form the program May 6, 2011. I did fail one class but re-took it & passed without a problem. Good luck with finding a program it;s hard work but worth it in the end.

I'm going into my last semester so I will give you my thoughts on this. My first suggestion is to write out your nsg dx, depending on what its r/t & aeb will help to guide you towards your interventions. Decreased CO can be r/t so many things. So an intervention for one cause might not apply for another cause of the same problem. Start there & see what you come up with, you might surprise yourself. Good luck & let us know what you come up with

Definitely take some time to rest & relax, then catch up on whatever housework has fallen behind. I take my last finl this afternoon for adult health 2 & then I'm done till January but I know I have 14 chapters to cover over break for one class. I am definitely takeing a break & catching up on laundry before sitting down with more books. Congrats on your grades & keep uo the hard work!

Nsg Diagnosis: Acute pain r/t CABG incision & tunneling of surgical incision aeb pt stating “I need a pain pill I hurt here” while drawing a line with her finger over her incision, pt. stating “pain is 8 out of 10”, pt states “I have a really bad headache”, facial grimacing, & intermittent sharp intakes of breath with some movements, increased HR & BP

Pt info: Pt is a 52yo female, 1mo post-op CABG, wound dehisence wound is now infected w/ 6cm of tunneling & about 1in in depth. Admitted w/ pneumonia & pain at incision site. on 2L NC, IV antibiotic, scheduled & PRN pain meds. Hx of GERD, CAD, COPD, HTN, high cholesterol, hystorectoy, hernia repair. Pt. c/o pain at incision site. Here are my 2 careplans:

Ok, I will try not to be too long winded here & just give the needed info. Written careplans have been a challenge for me in the past, so this semester I really want to "nail" them. This was my first week of clinicals this semester & we have to do 3 priority careplans & a discharge careplan. I have my 2 priority careplans done & would really appreciate it if I could get some feedback ont hem before they are due. I feel like I am missing something really obvious, or maybe I'm just paranoid because I have a tough clinical instructor. I am open to suggestions & critisism. Thanls in advance.

I am working on getting this posted so please bear with me, I'm having some technical difficulties.

Well it's official as it gets until grades come out. It's not possible for me to pass this class even if I get a 100 on the final. No matter how I figure it there is no way to pass this class, just freaking great. what a wonderful way to end the semester & start the summer.

From everything I could tell looing over my tests I wasn't paying 110% attention to the questions/answers. So I took extra time & red all the questions 2 or 3 times, underlined what was specifically being asked for & did the same with the answers. There are no tutors available at my school past the first semester, it's all peer tutoring so nothing for our senior year. All that is left is the comprehensive final that is a combination of this class adult health 2 & adult health 1 from last spring. I am 4 points short on my average to be passing & te only way I see passing is basically getting a 100 on the ATI, not realistic in my eyes. I'm just feeling really crappy & it's not getting any better when I keep failing tests that I study like crazy for. I'm just trying to keep it together emotionally for now even though all I want to do is cry until I fall asleep. I know I can be hard on myself but when I see grades like I've been getting I find it hard not to be hard on myself.

I just don't get it. The harder I try the worse I do & this was supposed to be the easy test. Now I have to basically reapply to take the class. If I fail anything else before I graduate then I'm out of the program with no hope of going anywhere else because the school I go to wont write a letter of reccomendation to any school if you have failed any of their classes. I don't know whether to cry or puke right now. I've busted my butt for 2 years now for this just to be failing so close to the end. I think the light I saw at the end of the tunnel was really a train barreling down the tracks at me.

I met with one of my instructors last week to try & figure out where I'm going wrong with my tests. Well I thought I had it figured out, studied hard for my test I had today & did worse on it than any other test this semester. If I didn't get an 85 on today's test then I don't pass the class. Well that didn't happen. I missed more on this test than any of the others.

I would love the help. I took a class before this semester on cardiac rhythms but I still don't have them down. With the end of the semester basically here it would definitely help to have the summer to go back over stuff. Plus I fully believe that the more different ways you hear/learn something the more likely that some small piece will stick with you that will help you remember it forever.

How about adding the Glasgow Coma Scale to it if you want it to be used in later semesters.

This was something I had to figure out to. Our uniforms are all white (evil in my mind) & I tend to be really heavy for about 3 days of my period. I wear a pair of leggings under my scrub pants for 2 reasons, white is see through it no matter how you cut it & it's an extra layer of protection. I also keep an extra pair of leggings, underwear, & scrub pants with me during those days & get to the bathroom anytime I have "that" feeling. Good luck with styaing ahead of this problem & kudos to you for thinking about it. It's a valid point to ask & good question.

i wanted to say coffeematecna that i have emailed one of the instructors about setting up a meeting to figure out where i am going wrong. like you said even if it can't help me this semester to pass it will help me next semester so i am waiting to hear back on a meeting time. crossing my fingers now. thanx.

Actually for the last test I went through around 200 NCLEX questions from my Saunders book & actually felt really good about the test but I wound up getting a 73 on it. I feel like I'm taking advantage of every little thing I can put my hands on. If someone from class suggests it I try it, thinking something has got to click for me.

I am working on getting up the nerve to speak with one of my instructors. It's been a trying semester & I am turly not comfortable speaking with my instructors. I feel like the first part of the semester I spent getting a bulls eye off my back & this just means putting it back on me, but if I'm going to fail there's not much they can do to me this semster. I know the instructors have a job to do but I feel like I've been discouraged more than encouraged. I know this sounds bad on my part but I have been trying to work on myself in this aspect.

The previous 2 posts are the original post that wouldn't go thru, it would only work in 2 parts. That's a more in depth idea of what I'm looking at.

I have had alot going on this semester outside of school with family & I know that didn't help things at all. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with studying! I spend hours going over the notes that are posted, reading the chapter, & taking notes form the chapter & adding to my printed notes along with the ones I take in class. I don't miss class & I've only been late to class once at the begining of the semester. I guess I'm just lost as to what to do now. I know that I have to apply to retake this class if I fail it but how do I change the outcome if I retake it? I'm just getting really down about all of this & it seems like everytime I find a glimmer of hope something else new comes up that puts out that glimmer. Thanks for listening to me rant about....everything.

A little background I guess is in order I am in my first senior semester. I have 2 tests left counting the ATI final for Adult Health II. I am really struggling with this class. I did fairly good on the first test, the second test I admit I bombed I basically didn't find the time to study for this test, the next 2 tests I studied my butt off for & didn't pass either one of them. I really felt that I had a good grasp on the material when it came time for the test but apparently I didn't. I am at the point that I don't think I can pass this class unless I ace the last 2 tests which I don't see as being a realistic outcome.

I will make this short since longer posts aren't posting. It doesn't look like i'm going to pass my Adult Health 2 class. I just dont get where I'm going wrong i stidy my butt off & yet I've only passed 1 test. If I can get my longer post to take I will post it. I just don't know what else to do. The thought of failing this class hurts, but I don't know what else to do.

I have an ethics paper to write on the ethical dilemma r/t organ transplants in pts with a hx of alcohol/drug abuse. I have searched through the databases available to me thru school but I havent had any luck finding anything other than absolute contrainidcations for certain transplants. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can look for articles or does anyone know of any articles related to this topic. I have to have a minimum of 5 peer reviewed article & I just don't feel that I have had any luck in finding articles that I can use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.