CritterLover BSN, RN

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    Settle an argument for me

    CritterLover replied to Clarise's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    i think it depends on how confident you are in your test-taking skills. i didn't take any review class, and i passed the nclex on my first try without any trouble. however, i am also a very good...
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    Rounding Nurse Position?

    CritterLover replied to Rudegal2020's topic in General Nursing

    what they do depends on the doc and the facility. where i work, they write out most of the progress note -- what the consults have said, lab results, xray results, diagnoses. this keeps the doc from...
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    Easter considered holiday at your facility?

    CritterLover replied to Purdue_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    i've worked for several different hospitals in several different states, some faith-based, some not. i've never seen easter considered to be a holiday as far as pay goes. however, at my current...
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    Nursely Peoples! Please help me with a stats project by answering a few simple Qs

    CritterLover replied to Mesomorph's topic in General Students

    i type faster when i'm not reading something, or when i'm typing something familiar (at
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    YOU as a Pt-what would you allow a student nurse to do?

    CritterLover replied to KellNY's topic in General Nursing

    i had been a nurse for over two years before i ever gave an im injection. i worked icu, in an exclusivly trauma unit, and we gave everything iv. everything, that is, except vaccines. this was before...
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    How would you have handled this?

    CritterLover replied to Happeetxn's topic in General Nursing

    yeah, a derivative of coumadin is the main ingredient in rat poison. however, that doesn't mean that coumadin doesn't have its place. (as an aside, dog food is very high in vit k. so if you have a...
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    How would you have handled this?

    CritterLover replied to Happeetxn's topic in General Nursing

    what problem did the family member have???? it is pretty common knowledge that patients who have any kind of heart valve replacement are going to be on life-time anticoaguation, or suffer the...
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    pen light attaches to stethoscope - where can I get one?

    CritterLover replied to LanaBanana's topic in General Nursing

    do you mean pen lights with a key chain attachment? we used to get them from the organ transplant foundation several years ago, but they stopped giving them out. i found rayovac sells them in pairs....
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    Offended by pt- how to react?

    CritterLover replied to LDJRN's topic in General Nursing

    how do you wish you had reacted? i ask, because i think you handled it rather well, but you don't seem to agree. i agree with earle58, i don't think i would have laughed. i don't thik i would have...
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    Fibromyalgia

    CritterLover replied to veetach's topic in Emergency

    definatly agree with you, leah. i'm sure the disorder is real, but it sure does get taken advantage
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    im stuck..cant seem to find answers to three questions! human anatomy..

    CritterLover replied to browsing's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i'm only certain about #3. look up endolymph and see if you agree on #2. i'm not at all sure about #1, but it was my gut instinct, and when i looked it up i didn't find anything else. but i also...
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    Nursing trivia or how nursing used to be...

    CritterLover replied to smiley222's topic in General Nursing

    here are a few threads on the subject. :) https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/reminiscing-162481.html https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/what-iv-tubing-made-before-invention-plastics-114790.html...
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    Is it okay to treat a family member?

    CritterLover replied to cwinlv's topic in General Nursing

    no, our patients often have no home health involvement at all. sometimes they get a few visits on the front-end to do the teaching (and she may still get one of those, since home health methods of...
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    $10,000 penalty if you leave the ICU

    CritterLover replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    i was thinking it sounded an awful lot like recourse for new hires that are trying to get that "one year" of icu experience before going on to anesthesia school. i know that many nurses don't let on...
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    Iv Therapy

    CritterLover replied to DAMomma's topic in General Students

    yes, i think you are making this too hard. :) :icon_hug: osmolality tells you how concentrated a solution is. a hypotonic solution is less concentrated than blood. (think of weak tea) a hypertonic...
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    Is it okay to treat a family member?

    CritterLover replied to cwinlv's topic in General Nursing

    i don't see how that would be a problem. in fact, it is probably what you are going to be asked to do. home health isn't about the "doing" anymore. it is about teaching the family to do the task. at...
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    Concurrent licence from two different states

    CritterLover replied to Nursing4Sure's topic in General Nursing

    except for the compact states. if you live in a compact state, then you can only have one license for all of the compact states -- the state you live in. i used to have licenses in 3 states. now,...
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    "Too unstable for transport"..........WHAT?!?!?

    CritterLover replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    wish we had that, and not just for my nausea and has, :) we sent a trauma pt from our er to a higher level of care a while back that was reportedly doa. i wasn't working that night, so i'm not privy...
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    "Too unstable for transport"..........WHAT?!?!?

    CritterLover replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    wow, we are required to go with certain patients, much to my motion-sick prone self's dismay. if the patient is on a drip that the paramedic isn't authorized to monitor, we have to go. if the patient...
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    RN I to RN II

    CritterLover replied to Woman_in_love's topic in General Nursing

    no, i've never heard of it either. [color=#483d8b] [color=#483d8b]it sounds like a designation given to nurses by your hospital/hospital system. [color=#483d8b] [color=#483d8b]check with human...
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    Can't hear normal breath sounds

    CritterLover replied to Nursebarebari's topic in Pulmonary

    normal breath sounds are pretty subtle. don't mean to sound like a smarty, but have you tried really paying attention? i can remember having this problem when i was in school, and i just wasn't...
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    dobutamine

    CritterLover replied to samaletta's topic in Cardiac

    but dobutamine doesn't always have an effect on blood pressure. and when it does, it may make it go up or down. [color=#483d8b] [color=#483d8b]i've never truly titrated dobutamine without a pa...
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    DAR charting homework

    CritterLover replied to nursetobe?'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    are you asking for format help? this is the way i would format it: [color=#483d8b] [color=#483d8b]d: put your assessment data here [color=#483d8b] [color=#483d8b]a: whatever your interventions are...
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    Negligence???

    CritterLover replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    because you need to make sure you look at the lable on the product not just the lable the pharmacist has afixed to the plastic baggie they send the med up in. [color=#483d8b]make sure: it is the right...
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    The 'Image' of Nursing

    CritterLover replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    no, i think you are pretty much correct. that is much of the problem, as i see it. it is why we get dinged on pg type surveys for not getting that warm blanket for the ami in the er, even though we...