Jedi of Zen

Jedi of Zen

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  1. Calhoun LPN Reading?

    Jedi of Zen replied to Hanekins's topic in Alabama Nursing

    I wouldn't freak out about trying to bring ALL your books to class every day. There's simply no need to bring them all. If in doubt, during the first semester, I would bring Fundamentals of Nursing by...

  2. Calhoun Community College LPN Program

    Jedi of Zen replied to Hanekins's topic in Alabama Nursing

    Hey Hanekins, First of all, congrats on getting in! Like Jamie2887, I'm also in the 2nd year of the Calhoun ADN program, and I too remember quite well how nervous I felt this time last year. I'm not...

  3. any of you do any weightlifting/powerlifting/bodybuilding?

    Jedi of Zen replied to tronix304's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I'm good just to get out of bed in the

  4. Need some fast help. (Nursing Dx)

    Jedi of Zen replied to Me, SN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I frequently use "(relevant body system) disease process" as my R/T criteria, and I've never had an instructor tell me that it was wrong or inappropriate. So for your patient - just on the face of it...

  5. Question - having significant doubts about my VS assessment skills

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hello all, I am a student, with a question for all the new nurses out there. I have just finished the third semester of a five-semester associate degree program. I feel that by now, my vital-sign...

  6. Question - having significant doubts about my VS assessment skills

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've found in clinicals, every semester, that my instructor is usually far too busy to be bothered with something that sounds so simple and trivial. Seriously, to ask about something like that would...

  7. Question - having significant doubts about my VS assessment skills

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I actually have no problem at all finding my own radial pulse. Although I find that I actually have to use a little bit of pressure to really get it. It's only on other people that I have problems,...

  8. Losing your skills in psych?

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Student here - I have heard it said that nurses who work in psych tend to lose some of their nursing skills (due to not having to use them as much). Have any psych nurses out there found this to be...

  9. No scrubs allowed in psych?

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I have noticed that among the staff at the psych unit of the hospital that I work at, at least from what little exposure I've had, they almost never seem to wear scrubs. Instead, they always wear...

  10. Yet another newbie here, wanting to move to AK...any advice welcome.

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, I can see that a lot of the questions on this board seem to be more or less along the lines of what I'm about to ask. Basically, to make a long story short, I am 28 years old, and I currently...

  11. Dear Daytonite....

    Jedi of Zen replied to chiquiraveloski's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    delete

  12. Questions about composing a teaching plan for pts on Lovenox

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hello all, I am doing my summer clinical on an orthopedic unit. I am supposed to construct a teaching plan for a topic (ie, out of a list that we have been given) related to ortho issues/concerns....

  13. Age Factor

    Jedi of Zen replied to rpc19's topic in Male Nursing Students

    There are a few men and women alike in my class who are quite gray-haired and probably well past their early 50s. The older students (I'm 29 myself) generally seem to take the work more seriously, in...

  14. Male Nurses attending to female patients (morals vrs ethics)

    Jedi of Zen replied to nkmorale's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I'm a student and an EKG tech (which requires chest exposure), and in my experience, I think most generally most patients understand that the interactions that you are having with them are of a...

  15. Losing your skills in psych?

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Psychiatric

    Just wanted to say thanks to all who have responded to this thread. Everyone's comments here have definitely given me some good food for thought. My first psych clinical is in about a month, so maybe...

  16. IV push

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When you're pushing an IV med into an existing line, should you only flush if you know for a fact that a medication incompatibility will occur with your existing IV fluid? Or, is it okay and/or good...

  17. IV push

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hey guys - I have another question that I'm a little confused on here too. When you're doing a bolus push, do you always need to stop the existing infusion before you do the push? My book says to just...

  18. What to do?? I failed!

    Jedi of Zen replied to RNFinally12's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You probably know your situation better than anyone else. I guess what I will say is this: I can definitely empathize with your frustration over whether or not to go by the book vs. what your...

  19. IV push

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Okay. That does help. Thanks to both of you!! If anyone else has any other comments, please feel free. Thanks

  20. Question for the females about working with a male in neonatal

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Have any of you ever worked with a male nurse in neonatal? If so, how did you feel working with him? May sound like a frivolous question, but I'm asking as a male nursing student: I'm in my 2nd...

  21. Cleft lip/palate and breastfeeding?

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Is cleft lip/palate contraindicated for breastfeeding? I have two conflicting sources on this - one says that it is, the other says (basically) that it is not. What do you

  22. Cleft lip/palate and breastfeeding?

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm open to any assistance as well.

  23. RhoGAM given before Contraction Stress Test?

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Is RhoGAM given prior to a CST? I thought I'd read somewhere that RhoGAM was given to Rh neg mothers prior to all invasive procedures. Is that true? And/or does that include CST?

  24. Losing your skills in psych?

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Psychiatric

    What? lol. No, not at all! I have heard two instructors say that "you tend to lose a lot of your basic skills" when working in psych. I didn't get a chance to ask them personally what they meant, as...

  25. Umbilical Hernia vs. Omphalocele

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    (moved to student assistance