AOX4RN MSN, RN, NP

Never give up a license or certification you worked your butt off for, unless the next license or certification absorbs/trumps it.

I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure you'll get plenty of review in school

I was also accepted into class 146

Well since a bolus means to give the medicine as a single dose all at once, I can say that I've given many narcan boluses and seen heroin (and other opiate) ODs magically wake up to live another day of drug addiction. (But not before they curse us fo...

The ER I work in is completely ridiculous and that's why I love it. I will take the EMS run for the 22 year old who is having anxiety r/t to dropping her iphone in the toilet any day... she frees me up to take care of the STEMI going to cath lab nex...

Yup, I know many techs in my unit who wanted the job and thought it would be a formality of a title change when they graduated nursing school. Nope, most are in different units or at entirely different hospitals. Nurses get interviewed about new gr...

Easy. Don't cut the cord. In a perfect situation, deliver the baby to mom's chest and cover with warm blankets and stimulate it to cry to clear it's airway if needed. In about five minutes the placenta will want to deliver... keep it connected to...

Wow. From which Ivy League school did you buy your degree? They, and Vanguard in particular, cater to nurses who are working full-time and have families. Four hours per week in the classroom with a strict attendance policy in addition to online p...

I'll write this reply for anyone who needs accurate information about Vanguard University. I have lived in Newport Beach nearly my whole adult life and knew about it before I was a nurse. They don't claim to be accredited. They are accredited b...

Re: ultrasound for PIVs... after getting one you'll need to train nurses to use it

Did you take it yet? The rules of the test are you can't miss any of the lethal rhythms on the strips they give you. Tele nurses and other monitored units have to take a rhythm test every year. If you don't pass it you get one repeat... fail it ag...

Yeah, start there. No biggie... on my current unit we have new grads fresh out of school. You get preceptored and mentored and if it's a good unit, you have a team environment. We have different levels of acuity in our unit so new grad assignments...

I've got two years on tele and am going to the ED soon. According to the managers I interviewed with tele is a great place to get experience that will help in the ED. Our tele unit is also a step down from CCU/CVICU and it's a STEMI center, so it's...

I've been working as a telemetry nurse since graduation two years ago. I worked one year in a hospital that was very basic tele and now I'm at another that would be considered a sub-ICU environment considering we do everything from cath lab recovery...

Becoming a direct-entry midwife (DEM) is a waste of time for a nurse. Five minutes after earning whatever education and credentialing available as a DEM, you're maxed out in the field. It is far better to continue toward grad school and earn the CN...

Looking for an RN-BSN online that has NO chemistry requirement. I don't want to take chem. Never want to take chem. Didn't need it for my ADN program. I know there must be something out there... please share if you know one!

What orientation are you talking about? Someone from the school called me today and said there isn't an RN to BSN orientation scheduled yet.

I just looked on their website and there isn't a nursing orientation posted. There is one from last Fall but the notice wasn't sent until April for an August orientation. I'd say there is still some planning ahead for the school

Our new admits on the night shift come up from the ED with IVs in place. There are always IVs that need to be replaced at all hours of the day and night.

Our tele ratio is 4:1. Brush up on your cardiac meds, rhythms, and all the usual med-surg common probs.

We aren't allowed to be interrupted on our lunches and have a sign on the door reminding people before they barge in. If we get interrupted we get to start over

I took it today too... shut off at 75 questions. I got a boatload of SATA questions and one that made me LOL about humor as a nonpharmacologic pain relief. It made me channel a friend so I cracked up. Then when I got to question 74, I made sure to...

So I'm an RN! I took the test on the 14th, the license was issued on the 16th, and posted to the CA BRN website on the 17th Yay me!!

I did the Kaplan classes and trainers as they were assigned. I worked through 65% of the Qbank questions and averaged about 60% on them... sometimes up to 68% and as low as 48% depending on my attention span I scored 65% on the Readiness and Train...

i doubt your cosmetics will inspire a sex offender to go after you. it's not always about sexual attraction.