APBT mom

APBT mom LPN, RN

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

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  1. OMG.Do Nursing students really practice on eachother??

    APBT mom replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    At the school I go to the only thing that we've done on a person is head to toe and vitals. We stuck ourselves for the blood glucose. We aren't allowed to do anything invasive but they offer other...

  2. What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    APBT mom replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Pacytopenia first day on the floor from ICU reverse isolation. I was afraid he was going to catch something everytime I went into the room. I swear I washed my hands about 200 times in 4 1/2

  3. uniforms, ect: tax deductable?

    APBT mom replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    When we did our taxes last year we were able to deduct both our work and school attire (me scrubs, shoes, socks, undergarments Yes you have to wear them for work husband jeans, shirts, work boots,...

  4. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    APBT mom replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    i do the same thing that 20 mins can be spent on studying and we have to wear pants anyways so noone wil ever

  5. After a great clinical rotation

    APBT mom replied to MB37's topic in General Students

    Everytime we leave a clinical site we tell all of the nurses thanks for eveything. We also get a thank you card that we have all the students sign for each floor we've worked on that we give them and...

  6. legal work

    APBT mom replied to SlimDivaLPN07's topic in General Nursing

    I think that it's ok as long as you stay in the scope of practice of the CNA. I would call your state's BON just to make sure

  7. Difference of Opinion...Opinions Needed!! *LONG*

    APBT mom replied to Crux1024's topic in General Nursing

    We have to give meds with our instructor also. We tell the nurse that we can give 2100 meds but no IV pushes/piggybacks. Sometimes the nurses remembers not to give the meds sometimes they give them....

  8. Do LPN's get pinned?

    APBT mom replied to mamunsey's topic in General Nursing

    I'm graduating in March form LPN school we get capped and pinned it's been that way since the school opened in

  9. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    APBT mom replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    You know you're a nursing student when.... that cramp in your calf is a DVT and the pain in your butt from sitting on it for three hours is a stage 1 decubitus. everyone has a question about "this...

  10. Instructor Issues.

    APBT mom replied to It's Alisa's topic in General Nursing

    I agree I would let it be known as to what's going on in class. Check your student handbook (school rules) in regards to breaks. Also check in there about where tests questions come from. It is the...

  11. drug test results

    APBT mom replied to EDnurse2009's topic in General Students

    That sucks that they won't let you start clinicals. You figure the school would have known the hospitals policy on UDS results before you even started clinicals so this could have been resolved. When...

  12. Is your L&D dept. in it's own seperate building?

    APBT mom replied to PattonD's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hospitals and MD's have a contract with Medicaid and any other insurance that they accept on how much they will be paid for certain procedures. Medicare and Medicaid pay the most and the insurance...

  13. Arterial PVD question

    APBT mom replied to ndflyer's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The only thing that I can think of is dvt but it's too many

  14. Help! Doing drug research for next day patient care

    APBT mom replied to Sheagirl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yup that's what I do. If you don't have a CD you can google Davis Drug Guide and it will take you to their site and you can pull up the drug info from

  15. No She/he Did Not!!!

    APBT mom replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

    Oh no she did not just ask the patient when his last bowel movement was after she got finished changing his colostomy bag. Oh no she did not just walk her patient up and down the floor three times...

  16. Vitals sounds and sethoscope

    APBT mom replied to shippoRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Our instructor told us to lift them up or go down the side a

  17. Vitals sounds and sethoscope

    APBT mom replied to shippoRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When your taking a blood pressure the sound your going to hear is a thump. Easiest way to do this is to pump the cuff up to 160 and let the air out slowly the first sound you hear is the systolic the...

  18. why do you want to be a nurse???

    APBT mom replied to Nili927's topic in General Students

    What I say is "the reason that I want to be a nurse is to able to be there for someone during what can be a difficult time in their life". It's a little different than saying I want to help people but...

  19. husband begrudgingly supportive

    APBT mom replied to RN_Pursuit2b's topic in General Nursing

    I was in a similar situation as you when I started nursing school. When I started my pre req's he was fine, when I applied to another program he was fine, when I got accepted he was fine, when I went...

  20. Discussing grades with classmates?

    APBT mom replied to OgopogoLPN's topic in General Students

    The only people that know my grades in class are the people that I talke to but we're all pretty much up there in grades with high B's-A's on everything so it's not really that competitive. The only...

  21. Nursing School Drug Test?

    APBT mom replied to bluelight's topic in General Students

    We had to be drug tested at the nursing school I'm in. The company gave us a paper to write our information on and there was a spot to list any medication that you had took in the last 30 days along...

  22. failed a check off...

    APBT mom replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Students

    That's what it

  23. failed a check off...

    APBT mom replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Students

    Don't worry about failing a check off almost everyone fails at least one. When I did my check offs and would do something that wasn't right if I stopped what I was doing and explained what I did wrong...

  24. deferments

    APBT mom replied to Medsport's topic in General Nursing

    Try contacting a debt consolidation place they have you give them copies of all of your last statements and then you just pay them every month and they pay off your

  25. abbreviations OF nurses

    APBT mom replied to NurseNature's topic in General Nursing

    You can google nursing abbreviations and a list will pop