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How many days a week do you work? If you can, put those days together. On the last day when you go home, take a little nap, and stay up the entire day until you are dead tired at the end of the day. It is your work day anyways so why not use the r...

How about some acetaminohpen for the 100.6 and some Crystalloids for the 104/64 and hr 104 (what are her basline vitals?) Check a FSBS (feeling bad), and assess for any diabetic ulcers leading to infections (temp 100.4) Monitor for a few hours and dc...

I did a lot of practice questions and touched up on a lot of peds/ob/gyn topics. Kawasaki Disease questions are pretty popular I've been hearing. So make sure you touch up on such topics in peds. Personally I only read the Saunders NCLEX review book...

Nah, keep it short and professional. What positive influence you'd be as a nurse. Just make sure you get it proof read before you turn it in

WOWWWWWWWWWW... I'M GOING TO PRINT THIS I bet you the nurse I'll get report from, I'll barely get 50% of this information.

I see a lot of nurses provided you a way to take report. It will take some time, eventually you will develop your own method of taking report and giving report. When I starteda as a new grad, I had no clue what to report off the 1st day. So I started...

Thanks for taking the time to post

Most of the hospital preaches HIPPA so much but then you have to go in a room and give report while the patient in bed B and their family hears every single thing you just reported off about bed A... Ha, Hippa Bedside reporting is still better compa...

Since bed alarm is not considered a restraint, it is always safe to put a bed alarm on a patient who is considered confused or fall risk. Legally even tho you are clocked in, but since you still hadn't received report on that patient, you are not lia...

So far this is the most logic post in this enitre thread I've started. I did not mention the patient is allergic to any of the meds and most of you are jumping to allergies and reactions. All I simply wanted to know was whether it is safe to mix 3 c...

I guess I never mixed 3 meds in the same syringe and administered as an IM shot. So I wasn't sure if you CAN mix 3 compatible meds in 1 syringe.

That sounds terrible. I've dealt with a lot of lazy CNAs too. I'm a type of nurse that doesn't like "*****" at all. If I work with someone that is "lazy", I tell them. But I tell them in a way to get them going, not in a way to put them down. It ...

Wow, how new are you? 3 pair of gloves and you are still woried? Welcome to the world of bedside nursing. Your best moments are still to come. Good job on the precautionary steps tho.

I've seen TB patients in universal precautions on admission and finding out pt. is TB positive a day later or 2, while sharing a room with another patient. Door open, everyone passing by (hospital staff, family, friends) probably exposed. VRE posit...

Well, if that was my patient, I would keep an eye on his PT/INR. Let the doctor know that the patient is drinking a lot of cranberry juice. I'm sure they do frequent PT/INR if pt. is admitted in the hospital unless pt. has been on coumadin for a wh...

I don't think there is any concrete evidence of cranberry juice affecting coumadin. There have been numerous studies done. One of the studies show that cranberry juice has some levels of Vitamin K in it which affects couagulation. Another study sh...

Hi, I'm a nurse at Kaiser Hayward. Well, I know a lot of colleges are accepting more students than they did 3 years ago. I would apply at multiple colleges instead of just one. That will increase your chances. If not, you can always repeat some o...

Hello all. My wife and I have been reading posts on this website for atleast a year. We just joined and this is our first post. We are both RNs, graduated together, work in the same hospital and same schedule. We just don't work the same floor. I ju...

If you are working nights, its always better to work your days together. For example, I do 4 nights in a row a week, then 3 nights the next week and so on. Since I work 12am-830am, I usually sleep from 10-6. Before my last night, I usually sleep f...

Wow, good luck on that, I hope you passed. I remember when I took my boards on a friday and I had my results on tuesday, and started orienting thursday. Three excruciating days though. I just can't imagine how long you had to wait before. Thanks ...