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  1. can anyone please tell me what rhabdomyalgia is?? i had a pt. that had a hx. of this the other day and i try to look up anything that i have never heard of or don't know much about. when i googled...
  2. peripheral pulses

    I am having a little trouble with finding peripheral pulses. I can find the ones in the arms, neck, and face, but have problems with the lower extremities. I can only palpate them sometimes. Any...
  3. LPN School Prep

    I agree with sitting back and enjoying it. I thought before I started that I may need to start looking into books or going over what I thought we might be studying, but when I got into the program, I...
  4. what to practice my skills on

    I used a water bottle in between my husbands legs(he was dressed of course) to practice foley insertion. It makes it more realistic when you are doing sterile
  5. We just had a test on endocrine disorders and there was a question an there about iodine. Why would you drink an iodine preparation through a straw? I looked all in our book and notes and could not...
  6. just a question.....

    daytonite, you are so wise! that was the right answer about the pillow. thank you so much. i understand the rational now that you explained it to me. let me ask you a question--i know that this is...
  7. just a question.....

    That would be for thyroid treatment? Why would it have to stay
  8. Help with Neuro

    That was the hardest test that we had in med/surg. I'm not really sure how, but I managed to get a 95 on it. My advice is just to research all of the illnesses on your own and understand them before...
  9. Underwear and white scrubs?

    We are checked too. One day a girl in our class wore pink flowered panties--not even thinking about her uniform being white. She hid from the instructor all morning and finally got caught. She didn't...
  10. Just finish my care plan

    Congrats! I finished my first one recently!! I didn't realize how much time actually went into one. I thought that it was just a "fill in the blank" kind of thing--boy was i wrong. We had to have 5...
  11. Healthy Clinical Lunch?

    I like to eat those soup at hands and oyster
  12. Depressed failed my first test in nursing school

    Most instructors give that first test as a "break you in" test. On our first test only 3 out of 28 passed--only by 2 points. Our inst. told us to buckle down and study and we now still have 25...
  13. My first bed bath!!

    I have just a few months left of school and I remember my first bed bath. I was so nervous! I was shaking so bad. I just went in and got my supplies together and started talking to my pt. I think...
  14. med surg help

    thank you guys so much!! I just had my respiratory med/surg test and i made a 98!!! I couldn't believe it. Thank you all for your
  15. med surg help

    I am in my second semester of school to be a LPN. We just started med surg in January and have already had 2 HUGE tests. Although I did okay on these two, I am finding it kind of hard to keep...