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You may be getting to close to a valve. Here is a great video of how to tell where the valves are.

I did not and would not say that everything about the clinic was bad. I've told many people including my own family members to go there to recieve care for certain things. I just make sure that they take a very active role in their care. What I ex...

You will not likely find any nurse who is currently working for the clinic or one of it's regional hospitals saying anything bad about it. As and employee of the clinic you must sign a statment that you cannot say anything bad about them or you will...

Goto the NCSBN web site it gives you a test plan and breaks down what % of each topic is on the test. Good luck

I agree resign. After giving notice use your PTO or vaction time so you can be there less so there will be less for them to nit pick over. If as you say they are looking for every reason to write you up it will get even worse after you give notice....

I know one doctor who had every member of a family member who had a MRSA boil swab the inside of the nares with neosporin. This added to not sharing towels and such. If you know that you have MRSA in your nares or are just concerned this might be som...

Hi, I went to school in MS but I knew I would be moving to another state so when I was setting up my NCLEX I applied to the state that I knew I would be moving to. I contacted the BON and requested a lincese package and filed out the paper work and h...

Speaking only of the main campus loan repayment program (info recieved in 2006), you can request info and paperwork during your 90 day new hire time which must be turned in before the end of your new hire time. You must fill out the paper work and h...

Thank you for sharing you story. I experinced my first passing of life long before I was a nurse. It was my first husbands grandfather and I held his hand as he took his last breath. Since that I have been there for a few more passings including m...

I think the worse is when I wake up on my day off and open my eyes I know I'm at hime but my first thought is OMG I didn't assess bed whatever or OMG bed so and so had meds due a 7 and it's 8 and I jump up and say oh yea I'm not the nurse right now.

I passed NCLEX 20 years after dropping out of high in the 11th grade because I was pregant. I dreamed of being a nurse but never really let myself believe I would ever become one. As I said I dropped out of high school half way through the 11th gra...

I agree with the poster who stated the ADN nurse and the BSN or Masters degree nurse all take the same NCLEX. I have been a ADN RN for just over two years now and there have been times when I have asked a BSN nurse with ten years on the floor a ques...

I agree sometimes it's best just to drop a quick email such as.... regarding our discussion I just would like to make sure I understand every thing correctly this or that is going to happen on this date or at this time..... You know just the facts I'...

Oh yes the wall.... there have been times when I would chart close to that wall time and then later go back to add something or even check something and read what I wrote only to have no idea what I had been talking about or even no memory of writtin...

Sometimes you have to be straight forward with your questions, I asked ok I know that this is your idea staffing but what is the worse case and (just to take the edge off) the best. Also how much does the floor call off due to low (laick of work) a...

I've only worked in hospitals that have written assignments so when I shadowed I just took the time to look at it. While most employees are on their best when they know people are watching there are some who will be completely hosest about the floor...

PALS is pediactric advance life support. Not sure my I believe NPR is neonatal resuscitation

I feel that it looks better for you no matter what your experince to ask to shadow. In my opinion it shows the nurse manager that you want to make the right decision and not waste their time or yours.. Your not going to get hired and them put out t...

Your welcome. There are medical conditions like this and if you go to a doctor and explain what happens to them and you are dx with a medical condition then the board has to make some modifications so that you have the same chance to pass as everyon...

Some hospitals have a parent shift or a shift spilt system for this type of issue. Where I use to work had parent shift nurses who would come in and work as admission nurses or just extra resources for the floor. They didn't have them on night shif...

It would seem to me that if the assignment changes at any time during the shift and the written assignment is never updated that is just asking for this type of thing to happen or even worse what if the patient had been prescribed parkinson meds that...

Unfortunately there are many nurses like this. I recently worked at a hospital were the majority of the nurses I routinely worked with were like this, even going so far as to put down the nurses that were there before them right at the nurses statio...

I feel sorry for the nurses that come from other countries, alot of them don't realize that what they are being asked to do here in the US is not right. I've met some nurse who have said that being a nurse in their country is one of the lowest jobs ...

Of course you have a right to be angry. You should report something like that to the nurse manager. Not only is it not sfe for that patient it's not safe for the other patients or you. I'll never understand how a nurse can leave without giving a...

As night shift people we need to remember that we get less vitamin D and it messes with our natural rhythm. If you always work nights it's very difficult to live what most people consider a normal life. But hey normal is way over rated anyway. I be...