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cmonkey

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  1. Everyone Starting Nursing Courses Fall 2010

    cmonkey replied to guiltysins's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I start this fall and I'm already freaking out because my school doesn't have the book list out yet. Somebody stop me. I did find out they should have it out in April, and I'm trying to decide if I...

  2. LAST case study!

    cmonkey posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    yeah. i know. a year later. but babies take up a lot of time. :loveya: this one is reproductive, and since i found a fantastic values site (labcorp is awesome), i think i've got it nailed down, but...

  3. LAST case study!

    cmonkey replied to cmonkey's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hey, so, um. Anyone? Bueller? Still curious for your takes on

  4. How to Supervise "Older" Employees?!?

    cmonkey replied to Amber Lynn's topic in General Nursing

    As someone who will be one of those older employees, I think you should supervise them the way you would younger ones. If they're new to nursing, you are patient and calm and help them when they need...

  5. NANDA question

    cmonkey posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm helping a friend with her workbook questions and we're going back and forth over one: The pt is admitted with osteoarthritis. One assessment, the nurse notes that the pt walks with a limp. What is...

  6. Ideas for a clinical "cheat sheet" ?

    cmonkey replied to AOx1's topic in General Students

    Skyscape products are also available for the Android

  7. Would You Go To Haiti To Help?????

    cmonkey replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing

    1) I don't know but I suspect you can. 2) I absolutely

  8. How do you pay for school?

    cmonkey replied to mmh2's topic in General Students

    I was totally with you on your plan until you got to the 401(k) part. You know that you'll have a penalty AND taxes at your tax rate, right? So you could be losing 50% of the money in that account?...

  9. how to survive nursing school- financially

    cmonkey replied to greatpyr_mom's topic in General Students

    Bankruptcy will not create income. If you don't have money coming in, it's not going to change that. You can stop paying CC bills and save up for school and be in better shape than you would with BK...

  10. Nurse stealing Dilaudid

    cmonkey replied to susiesmith21's topic in Patient Medications

    Wow, watch a lot of crime shows much? Yes, Silkwood died under suspicious circumstances, but it doesn't sound like the OP is working with criminal

  11. kind of a personal question but....

    cmonkey replied to Jay2daq's topic in General Nursing

    Jay, I'd *highly* recommend checking out Dave Ramsey before you saddle yourself with a new house and lots of payments. It's worth the work to get out of debt and build up cash, and it can be done....

  12. Nurse stealing Dilaudid

    cmonkey replied to susiesmith21's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm not even in school yet and I'm telling you to run, fast ast you can, from that place. And as someone who had Dilaudid recently, I can't understand wanting to steal it. I've done a lot of drugs,...

  13. Fast Meal Ideas

    cmonkey replied to Rachelsoon2bRN's topic in General Students

    I do "dump" meals, where you make a sauce, dump the meat in, and then cook. If you take it out of the freezer at night, you can have it thawed and ready to cook when you come home from school the next...

  14. Dilaudid and bp

    cmonkey posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had surgery last Monday and was on a Dilaudid pca for the first day and a half or so. It worked great for the pain, but gave me a pretty funny story that I thought I'd share, mostly because I have a...

  15. Dilaudid and bp

    cmonkey replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    Huh. Do you suppose that having crazy allergic rxn to a few things in my life might predispose me to producing lots of histamines for other

  16. Dilaudid and bp

    cmonkey replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    I was edematous, they were pumping so much fluid into me. Kinda glad I had the foley, actually.

  17. Dilaudid and bp

    cmonkey replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    The nurse who brought me the first dose said, "Okay, this is Toradol, and the best thing about it is everything." Too

  18. Dilaudid and bp

    cmonkey replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, now, let's not use nasty names! IIRC, it was a dose of .3 (I'm assuming mg) q10m, then q30. Spacing it out helped a bit. Now I'm down to ibuprofen once or twice a day for the sciatica I've...

  19. Cheyne-Stokes and haldol?

    cmonkey posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    My aunt is in end-stage COPD and on home hospice and was just prescribed haldol. My mom and I are trying to figure that out. Is it to ease some kind of delirium or something else? I've never heard of...

  20. How much is school costing you?

    cmonkey replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    Mine should be under $7K with books since I don't have to take any of the liberal arts classes and can just concentrate on core curricula.

  21. Gain or Lose Weight?

    cmonkey replied to gams77's topic in General Students

    Since I'm only going to have to take core classes, I'm going to use the "spare" time by also taking a phys ed class of some sort. I'll only get that exercise if there's a grade at

  22. What ages need sequential stockings?

    cmonkey replied to linda2097's topic in Operating Room

    PS, my dad used to have TAK 2 ASA as his license plate. He'd love

  23. What ages need sequential stockings?

    cmonkey replied to linda2097's topic in Operating Room

    That's sort of what I figured, but I wanted to be sure. It begs the question, though: long flights. Is the DVT risk there due more to the pressurization of the cabin or sitting? Because even on a long...

  24. What ages need sequential stockings?

    cmonkey replied to linda2097's topic in Operating Room

    *bump* because I have a question about these things. Is there something about anesthesia that promotes DVT development vs just lying around for an extended period of

  25. Anesthesia

    cmonkey posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I was just reading the thread about why patients are to void before a surgery, and I saw a mention of paralytics. Are they used in most surgeries with general anesthesia, or is it case by case? Why...