AOX4RN

AOX4RN MSN, RN, NP

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  1. Why is there a nurse when you have a midwife with hospital birth?

    AOX4RN replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The midwife still needs an assistant during the labor, birth, and postpartum process. She doesn't manage and perform all of the duties at birth. That isn't safe. The RN does what an RN does, the...

  2. 30+ page care plans

    AOX4RN replied to Boog'sCRRN246's topic in General Students

    I doubt any instructor assigns a 30 page paper, it's just how it ends up depending on the patient's

  3. 30+ page care plans

    AOX4RN replied to Boog'sCRRN246's topic in General Students

    We have to include our drugs in our care plans and to write out all the required info takes up space. My last care plan had something like 20 pages of

  4. judging student

    AOX4RN replied to deetrain's topic in General Students

    Yes, someone in my clinical group did last semester. The student is going to resume the same class with another group this semester. The faculty referred the student for remedial practice with...

  5. Prepping for Med-Surg I clinicals

    AOX4RN replied to citylights89's topic in General Students

    Don't your instructors give you guidelines and goals for day/week? In general we go the day before get a census report from the charge nurse about who will be discharged and who might be good cases...

  6. Cerritos College: Getting into Nursing Program

    AOX4RN replied to Carol220's topic in California Nursing

    I have a group of six students to mentor through their first semester. We meet once a week and keep in touch by text/email on other days. We are a full-time program and the classes and clinicals are...

  7. Cerritos College: Getting into Nursing Program

    AOX4RN replied to Carol220's topic in California Nursing

    yep, parking stinks. but after the first drop date it gets much easier to find parking. i don't park in the corner lot by the health occupations building but in the lot that is near the police...

  8. maternal fetal conflict paper

    AOX4RN replied to Becca07's topic in General Students

    How about that as your opener? You could clean it up and draw in those pathos (PIH, GDM, and HELLP) state a few of the health detriments to mom and move on from

  9. Priming and spiking?

    AOX4RN replied to RNashley86's topic in General Students

    I have a group of students I'm like "Big Sister" to and they were so confused at what "culture and sensitivity" meant in terms of urine... like do they REALLY have to be culturally sensitive to pee??...

  10. Does anyone else feel like their program starts off slow?

    AOX4RN replied to jennafezz's topic in General Students

    Our ADN program has 5 weeks of skills only then four in the SNF/LTC, then took off with Med-Surg and worked up to 2 patients a week. This quarter we started off on 2 patients in Med-Surg right away...

  11. Sketchers for clinicals?

    AOX4RN replied to VVCN2012's topic in General Students

    If your scrub pants are long enough you can't tell how ugly they are I love them. My heels are still hurting me from last Thursday when I wore my Danskos. Until I had Shape-ups, I thought my...

  12. Hanging primary IV and secondary IVPB

    AOX4RN replied to karol07's topic in General Students

    What do you think? I'm doing this now

  13. What does your uniform look like?

    AOX4RN replied to SingDanceRunLife's topic in General Students

    I didn't like it either until one elderly woman on a unit lit up when I walked into her room. She said, "I love all your white uniforms. You like like angels!" and clasped her hands together as if I...

  14. so sad, class was cancelled =(

    AOX4RN replied to tokidokifantasy's topic in General Students

    If it's Wednesday evening (you have clinical until 3pm at the latest) or Friday you'll be fine. Tests are always on Mondays for Fundamentals and Med-Surg. Thursday tests will be for Theory or...

  15. Can nursing student working at the doctor's office perform blood draw?

    AOX4RN replied to miniangel729's topic in General Students

    In CA we have to be phlebotomists now if you're not an MA or

  16. What does your uniform look like?

    AOX4RN replied to SingDanceRunLife's topic in General Students

    Whatever we want as long as it's white from head to toe. Mine are

  17. so sad, class was cancelled =(

    AOX4RN replied to tokidokifantasy's topic in General Students

    When was it supposed to be scheduled? It's not on the online schedule anymore so I can't answer.

  18. so sad, class was cancelled =(

    AOX4RN replied to tokidokifantasy's topic in General Students

    Yes it's necessary. But the class the OP is talking about is a general pharm class for anyone in a health sciences class to take; the one I'm talking about is a 2-part class within the nursing school...

  19. so sad, class was cancelled =(

    AOX4RN replied to tokidokifantasy's topic in General Students

    It's too bad they didn't give the nursing school the head's up that was going to happen. Some of us might have tried to audit it for a review. Many of us were turned away from the nursing school's...

  20. Golden West College Spring '09

    AOX4RN posted a topic in California Nursing

    Anyone else have an application in for the Spring Semester? Good luck to all facing the algorithm for

  21. Cerritos College: Getting into Nursing Program

    AOX4RN replied to Carol220's topic in California Nursing

    I didn't take it. They are strongly recommending you take it now. See if you can get in

  22. Cerritos College: Getting into Nursing Program

    AOX4RN replied to Carol220's topic in California Nursing

    If you apply in March 2011 (you need to be done with the core prerequisites to do so), you could be accepted to the Fall '11 or Spring '12 classes. It's a lottery so you could end up in either one......

  23. Age limits/requirements

    AOX4RN posted a topic in Government, Military

    I hate to ask for repeated information but I'm having a hard time navigating the websites for the various services. I understand there is an upper age limit for the full service AF/Navy/Army and...

  24. HIV+ student concerned about drug testing while taking Marinol

    AOX4RN replied to up'n'coming's topic in General Students

  25. Citrus College OR Cerritos College (Help! Dilemma!)

    AOX4RN replied to BT001's topic in General Students

    In the first and second semesters your schedule looks like this: Monday: Test from 9am to 11am (for the first semester students, the first 9 weeks you have a test every Monday and then every other...