Jedi of Zen

Jedi of Zen

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

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Right on! I agree with you in particular on the smoking/drinking thing. Not that I have any problem whatsoever with adults that have problems due to smoking for 40 years, or what have you. But it's...

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

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    *nods* Certainly, I can see that. But are the parents even allowed in the NICUs like that? At the facility I was at, it seemed to be a very restricted, tight-security sort of area. Thanks for your...

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

    Jedi of Zen replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    LOL... Well, thanks to all for the feedback so far. I do appreciate it. Any other comments are welcome. Thanks

  4. CCU vs. CVICU

    Jedi of Zen replied to NsgTiger's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Probably a dumb question, but what does CABG stand

  5. From massage to nursing?

    Jedi of Zen replied to happybody's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    I went to massage school back in 2003. I was living in TN at the time. I had a really awesome A&P teacher, and our class size was only 6 total, so we had a lot of good, one-on-one interaction with...

  6. Male Nursing Salaries

    Jedi of Zen replied to cvpmvp2's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Good lord. Sounds like they're practically begging you to work for them, as far as benefits

  7. Young student

    Jedi of Zen replied to megaman10's topic in Male Nursing Students

    In my class of 200+ most people are in their early-mid 20s. I myself am 29. We had one guy that was 17 when he started last semester. We also have a few with gray hairs - probably in their late 50s or...

  8. Male Nursing Salaries

    Jedi of Zen replied to cvpmvp2's topic in Male Nursing Students

    How does that compare, in your opinion, with the cost of living in that

  9. Male Nursing Salaries

    Jedi of Zen replied to cvpmvp2's topic in Male Nursing Students

    At the hospital I work at, I have heard that the base starting pay for new grads is $18.75/hr (which seems awfully low to me, compared to what I've heard nurses make elsewhere). However, I've also...

  10. How many male teachers you have?

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

    We have 3 male instructors at my school. One of them is a former Army nurse. You can tell he's been in the military, because he's very detailed oriented and kind of barks out his points during...

  11. Working as a guy in neonatal ?

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Male Nursing Students

    2nd semester ADN male student here - I did neonatal clinicals last week, and much to my surprise, I actually rather enjoyed it. In fact, I found myself actually going out of my way to ask my...

  12. Gay male nurse stereotype?

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

    In my experience, among male students & nurses alike -gays ARE there, but the straight-gay ratio is probably not much different than what it is among the general male population. There might...

  13. Tell me your GPA. Just wanna compare

    Jedi of Zen replied to mahkev2000's topic in Male Nursing Students

    My cumulative GPA is only about a 2.6. The reason for that is because I went to 2 different colleges during the first 2 years out of high school, and took a bunch of random freshman classes that I had...

  14. Working as a guy in neonatal ?

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

    Awesome - thanks to all for the feedback. Much appreciated. Any further input out there from other neonatal nurses, male or not, is

  15. Curious...any of you guys considering Peds/PICU/NICU?

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

    I recently had a similiar experience in my neonatal clinical, which I just posted about in a new thread. It's kind of weird, honestly, how I found myself enjoying it! And hell, I don't even have

  16. Feeling inadequate in skills.

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

    I'm a first year myself, but I often feel inadequate as well. Actually, the great irony seems to be that nursing instructors will often bend over backwards to try to help the students who are "good...

  17. Test tomorrow, need help with digoxin :(

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In a normal, healthy person, what effect would digoxin use have on blood pressure? My guess is that it would generally raise BP, since it has a negative effect on heart rate and increases cardiac...

  18. Test tomorrow, need help with digoxin :(

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

    As far as rate, my understanding is that Digoxin lowers it due to the negative chronotropic effect. I'm assuming that, in turn, BP is raised due to the positive inotropic effect. And again, I'm just...

  19. "Serum osmolarity" vs. "Serum osmolality"

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm trying to figure out the difference in definitions between serum osmolarity and serum osmolality. My textbook (Fundamentals of Nursing, 6th edition, by Potter & Perry) states that normal serum...

  20. Question about Sub-Q injections

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I should probably know this already, but my question is this: In my lecture notes on giving sub-q injections, part of the instructions include "do not aspirate". I'm wondering: does that mean not to...

  21. Question about Sub-Q injections

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

    Thanks to all for the replies. My instructors use the term "aspirate" when referring to pulling back on the plunger and then injecting air into the vial when drawing up meds. (I assume the point is...

  22. Feeling lost during clinicals

    Jedi of Zen posted a topic in General Students

    I'm in my 2nd semester now. And I've noticed that during clinicals, a lot of times I just find myself feeling...idle. It seems like I never really have enough to actually do. And when I am doing...

  23. Question about Sub-Q injections

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

    sorry - i'm still not following: which of the 2 forms of "aspiration" are you talking about? drawing out the air before drawing up the med, or aspirating for blood once you've injected the needle? or...

  24. EKG on female patients

    Jedi of Zen replied to bill4745's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I'm an EKG tech myself. When I first started, I was kind of nervous about doing the females, but now I don't even really think about it. If the breasts are big and in the way, I have found that it's...

  25. Question about Sub-Q injections

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

    Yes, but what about when you're pulling back air before drawing up medication? Are you supposed to avoid doing that with an SC