APBT mom

APBT mom LPN, RN

Med/Surg, Tele, IM, OB/GYN, neuro, GI

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  1. LVN program cost?

    I was lucky getting into the this program. There are others in the area that run between $14000 and $17000 but they are private schools and are not
  2. LVN program cost?

    Ok I saw how much you guys paid and you might not believe me but I'm in a LPN program and when I graduate in March I will have paid $3800 for
  3. urinalysis: WBCs, RBCs, urobilinogen, EU

    Females can have blood in urine left over from a period, patient could have had trauma to a kidney, it's basically used as a cut off as being contaminated unless there are any more symptoms that would...
  4. Lovenox

    Pinch, inject,
  5. searching for reliable uniform sites

    I use to get my scrubs there but now they have a store by me so that's where I go. They ship the orders straight from the store so as soon as an order comes in it goes right
  6. What would you do?

    I understand what she said to you but maybe she said it the wrong way. I don't think that she had to get in your face to do it. She is right that the patients could take what you were doing and place...
  7. Crutch Teaching

    We were told to bend the knee so they are less likely to bang the injured leg into something while swinging through the
  8. Music / Songs to represent nursing

    I agree a lot of songs have a message or meaning that people don't
  9. Music / Songs to represent nursing

    That song is about someone overdosing on
  10. Help! I'm going deaf.

    My clinical instructor told me that when she was a flight nurse one of the nurses that she worked with also suddenly started having hearing problems and over the course of about a month was unable to...
  11. Desperate for advice on LPN programs, Tampa

    I almost went there until they called me and told me that I had to bring $750 to orientation on top of the $150 a month that they said I had to pay once I got into the program "to make my loans...
  12. cute, non-tacky scrub tops?

    This is where I get my scrubs. The always have sales and clearance items.
  13. Pharmacology

    Try studying them by classification. We use Davis Drug Guide and in the front of the book the meds are listed by classification so we remember the side effects and nursing implications and all the...
  14. 2008 NANDA Nsg Dx

    The related to and manifested by are the signs and symptoms the patient has they are not in any NANDA books that I know of all pieced together. So if your patient had a history of anemia you could use...
  15. ankles are purple... how to doc?

    Purples purple. Our instructors taught us to document what we see and although we should know what the medical terms are and mean it doesn't mean that a lot of nurses remember especially if it is a...
  16. Our first clinical rotation was in a LTC and a hospital. Now they're all at different hospitals. We are allowed to choose which hospital we want to go to but only out of the hospitals they have...
  17. Age you will/were graduated?

    26 when I graduate in
  18. Digital bp monitors

    We had them at my old job. Thought they would be great and cut time doing vitals. Most of the time we would get an error reading, it would pump all the way up and only give the pulse, or the cuff...
  19. Tampa nursing programs

    Heard that too. Alot of us have been talking about it and I think once we graduate there's going to be about 20 of us jumping
  20. Exactly. What would the nurse friend have done if she was a patient who was admitted for hemorrhagic bleeding and the woman notified her that she had an abortion say two days prior then the mother...
  21. Tampa nursing programs

    That's what I've heard when talking to all of the academic advisors at both programs. If you get your LPN you're basically in because they're is no wait and they never have enough applicants for the...
  22. Cost of services

    You'll have to know the ICD-9/CPT code to get a quote from the insurance companies and this price will vary with the policy and contract that the facility has with the insurance company. The code is...
  23. Med Admin Test Tomorrow 2 ??'s

    You got it right with both
  24. portacath access

    Just make sure that it is something that you're allowed to do in the program. Had a student a couple of years back that accessed one and was kicked out of the
  25. You can only violate HIPAA if it is your patient. If the woman was your friends patient/ this happened at a facility where she worked and then she told the mother then yes she violated HIPAA. Since...