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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...

  16. Pain med for ALS hospice pt

    medicalma'am replied to spoiled28's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Dear Spoiled28 What is the source of this patient's pain? ALS does not usually have pain associated with it. Is this patient at home or in a hospice

  17. Where Is The Best/Worst Place to Live/Work In Houston?

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

    There are NO state income taxes in Texas. A BIG

  18. Advice from Houston area nurses and GN's

    medicalma'am replied to nursen75's topic in Texas Nursing

    Did you look at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster? It is not far from Pasadena Bayshore, and is a bigger hospital. It is in a really nice part of the Houston area for housing, amenities,...

  19. Failed the Program

    medicalma'am replied to 2bOrNot2beRN's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Bless your heart! It is so hard to have wasted all your time. Maybe you did not pass, but you have learned a lot, I am sure! Look into other programs in your area. Could you get a job with the...

  20. Shabbos/Religious Observances

    medicalma'am replied to texasmommy's topic in General Nursing

    It would be great if you could find a school like the one in Lufkin that had clinicals on Mon-Wed, or Tue-Thurs

  21. I'm never primarying again, y'all

    medicalma'am replied to elizabells's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I am glad you are taking a rest. You truly need to do that for yourself. I'll tell you what, when that mom gets to heaven...it just won't seem to matter any more. There will be nothing but...

  22. Anyone know about the tyler county program?

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

    Do you have all your clinicals there? How long is this

  23. Longview or Tyler area

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

    I know that graduate nurses make about $20/hr in Nacogdoches as we had some representatives come talk to us at the start of our program in August. I know that Lufkin is about the same. There are...

  24. On the verge of Failing

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

    OK, this made me cry. Last month I too lost my cat, a 7 month old yellow tiger. I heard it all at about 4am, the screaming sound of my baby being taken by a cougar that we have since sighted. The...

  25. Care Plan Help

    medicalma'am replied to greenfaery's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am putting finishing touches on a care plan that is due in the morning also. This is our first and not for a grade. I would use 'risk of infection' because of her IV site. Use the bruising for...