9livesRN BSN, RN

SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine

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    Nursing School... Really??

    ! am in your shoes! it is Doable!!! 1- organization, i use google email with google calendars and email alert to all my does, even to remind me what i need to study and to send me reminder 4 days...
  2. I am at Keiser Orlando, we are fully nationally accredited! I highly recommend the school!!! Great
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    Keiser or Medvance?

    I go to Keiser in Orlando, Am on the 1st RN cohort, and we are on our last semester here! I would recomend it to ANYONE... people complain all the time... but if you do what you are expected to.......
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    Suggestions to prepare for school

    you know what... If I were you I would get the pharmacology book that you are suppose to use at school, over this period of time and read it, even if you don't understand much.... I did that, and it...
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    precepting in the ER!

    I Did not precepted at the ER, but got to go there for clinicals, and it was AWESOME, all this different patients, and different things going on.. i loved the team work at this hospital I was at. We...
  6. This thread is an interesting project... i look back to my first semester of REAL nursing school... and laugh... i was such a dork, freaking out about making a bed, or transfering a PT. Oh, and the...
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    Anatomy + Microbiology + work?

    You can do whatever you put your mind into it! I took A&P I, A&P II, Micro, Psych on the same semester and worked fulltime through it. now... like ^ said: forget about social life, the closest...
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    NEED HELP ASAP!! DKA

    could you use knowledge deficit, related maybe noncompliances with treatment (check hemoglobin A1c) ??? that would even be a psychosocial
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    ATI Maternity

    i dont think you can, have to check the
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    Help with acid-base

    " Administration of sodium bicarbonate in amounts that exceed the capacity of the kidneys to excrete this excess bicarbonate may cause metabolic alkalosis. This capacity is reduced when a reduction in...
  11. Shooting for A's!!! Hello there, it has been a long time since i last posted here, so here we go: This semester things have gone insane, taking advanced med-surge, pediatrics, and mental health...
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    ATI TEST =(

    how many proctor peds ATI have you taken, and what is a level 2 on your
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    Ahhh crap!

    I had a guy jump out of the high bed once (he forgot he had no legs) so i rushed to help... I am glad he was not my pt!
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    ATI and Pharmacology

    we have to get a level 2 on ati otherwise we fail aswell, i am al done with farm, fundamentals... now i am simultaniously working on mental health/peds/medsurge.... wish me luck yall... proctor test...
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    I cant make the call ?? Need some advice :(

    chill it... taker a good nap, a shower, and got get some coffee and get the book: FUNDAMENTALS: REVIEW and RATIONALES!!!! then, you sit down answer a whole load of them and READ THE RATIONALES, and...
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    End of the semester laziness

    i am so tired... and crappy... taking mental health, advanced adult medsurge, and pediatrics together, plus clinicals... big test tomorow, then lecture from 12 to 8pm and i am here... reading ya'll...
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    Help! On the borderline with clinicals

    chill it!!! calm down, be prepared before clinicals, study your patients, meds, and your goals, prioritize, make check lists!!! i relly like check lists,... they keep you on track of what to do next...
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    1st year nursing student

    what i used to do, i Id follow my nurse and hear all the patients, than id tell her to tell her mates if any of their patients had funky sounds so i'd go listen to them!!! and that is how i got a bit...
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    VCC nursing students

    GOOD LUCK to all of you!!! I am at another school here in orlando, we are about to graduate... i often see some of your peeps around the hospital!!! enjoy the
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    Diabetes question

    medicines, stress, can also add to your blood glucose, was the machine calibrated
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    What I want for christmas this year

    I would love a chumby one you guys!!! if any body wants to give me one!!! LOL its a nice little gadget that you can put on your bed side full of widgets, you can access internet, radio, there is an...
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    Men in Nursing

    about to graduate here! and lovin'
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    water spills

    it probably took long to hear what she had to say than to wipe the floor didn't
  24. Hi there, usually on the 1st semester all you do is get used to the settings, charts, and routine. Move patients, make beds, give showers, or bed baths, clean but, and learn therapeutic communication....
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    Sad..lost another!

    class is not the same since i lost my budy who would do everything together, seat in class, group study, clinicals... we were like Ike and