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1. What do ICU nurses do?

   medicalma'am replied to mcpnurse's topic in Critical Care

   That is so true! The docs just keep keeping them alive. They are not the ones who are there for 12 hours with them dealing with balancing all the drips to keep them going, seeing the patient suffer,...

2. How do I become a critical care nurse?

   medicalma'am replied to mark1973's topic in Critical Care

   My hospital hires graduate nurses into ICU. We have a three month (at least) preceptorship and critical care classes once a week. Once I was on my own the stress level was high. I had loads of...

3. subarachnoid bleed questions

   medicalma'am replied to Zookeeper3's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

   I think that you are doing just what you should by answering her questions without giving any more information. Just keep answering her questions and hope that as she comes around they will become...

4. NCLEX Obsessed

   medicalma'am replied to Scorpio,LPN's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I used Saunders and Prentice Hall and found Saunders to be really much easier. I so needed that book to make me feel better when I was getting 68% in the Prentice Hall book! It made me feel...

5. Failed NCLEX-RN

   medicalma'am replied to lilygrl2468's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I just took mine today and it was the hardest exam I have ever taken. I have to agree that listening to others is not good. All anyone said to me was the IT WAS HARD, so I studied well. I think I...

6. My HESI story.

   medicalma'am replied to 2btmanrn's topic in First Year After Licensure

   We also have to pass the HESI exit to graduate at 850. We are allowed three tries and have never 'lost' a student because of it. We pay nothing to take any of the many online exams we are required...

7. Where are there jobs in Texas?

   medicalma'am replied to newgrad82's topic in Texas Nursing

   Many smaller towns outside of the big cities are hiring. Try Conroe and Livingston outside of Houston. Tyler and Nacogdoches have great hospitals to work for, but they each have lots of grads about...

8. Missed Dosage Calc by two points!!!

   medicalma'am replied to malestudentnurse's topic in General Students

   Well, I took the dreaded test today and passed. I had done ALL the problems on those websites this weekend and it paid off! That is my LAST DOSE CAL TEST!!! Till my on the job tests, that

9. Missed Dosage Calc by two points!!!

   medicalma'am replied to malestudentnurse's topic in General Students

   Here are some websites that our instructors gave us. I copied and pasted the problems to a word document and have been working on them all weekend. My test is tomorrow....

10. Thank you, nursing school gods.

    medicalma'am replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    Our instructors told us last semester that they had been 'babying' us too much. They discussed not giving us their PP's online to print out. They wanted us to take notes instead. OK, they have...

11. Missed Dosage Calc by two points!!!

    medicalma'am replied to malestudentnurse's topic in General Students

    We take it at the beginning of each semester. We have to get a 90 and have three chances to pass. We only have 10 questions o the test though.

12. Thank you, nursing school gods.

    medicalma'am replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    I had the same experience. I assumed it was because our program director was in the lecture hall with us. One other student and I commented to each other during a break that the lecture was...

13. For the eyes of the "older" pre-nursing students only!

    medicalma'am replied to stpauligirl's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Archie and Jughead, Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Clebs, The Lennon Sisters, sing along with Mitch, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, Tiger Beat magazine, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Elia Kiliakan. I...

14. For the eyes of the "older" pre-nursing students only!

    medicalma'am replied to stpauligirl's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Before malls, my friends and I would catch a bus in Webster Texas and ride to downtown Houston and spend the day shopping at Foley's and Macy's and getting pictures taken at the drugstore in a little...

15. For the eyes of the "older" pre-nursing students only!

    medicalma'am replied to stpauligirl's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My late husband had a 'Robbie the Robot' in the 60's and I remember going to the theater to see '101 Dalmatians' when it first came out and being VERY afraid! I was about 5 years old. In the early...