dollphyn

dollphyn

Plastic surgery and Med/surg

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  1. Am I Making the Right Decision?

    dollphyn replied to QueenCityNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you are that unhappy, you definitely need to find something else. I am in the same boat as you are. I am just over a year as a RN. I have been out 2 months due to a critical illness and am now...

  2. apply for job before nclex or wait?

    dollphyn replied to 09NewGrad's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely apply now. I applied back in April 2008 and found out they were giving me a job on the floor I still work today. I started June 2nd 2008, but did not take NCLEX until June 17, 2008. If...

  3. Anyone ever gone through nusing school while pregnant?

    dollphyn replied to ngillilan1's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately it does happen. I had a girl that was pregnant, but she was due in the summer. So, she finished third semester, then had the baby like in June or July when there was a break. For me it...

  4. Nursing Shortage? Not Here!

    dollphyn replied to newmanmom's topic in General Nursing

    Also in Dallas, Texas, at least at the hospital I work for. I was a part of the June 2008 new grad preceptorship and we had at least 250 new grads. Don't know yet for this year, but do know they...

  5. Attention all 50 states: what is your nursing ratio? please post!

    dollphyn replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Texas.....Days is 4-5:1 and nights used to be as many as 7:1, but they have taken some of the rooms to make surgical rooms, so now nights is 5:1 and no tech. Day shift gets a tech, but they leave at...

  6. Leaving Nursing Program & Coming Back

    dollphyn replied to NiteQwill's topic in General Nursing

    I had to leave my final semester d/t an unplanned pregnancy in Fall of 2006. When I tried to return in Spring 2007, they told me they lost my paperwork. Then when I tried to get back in for Fall...

  7. Do you round on your patients every one hour?

    dollphyn replied to LilyBlue's topic in General Nursing

    On my floor, which is a post-op floor, we do hourly rounding until 2200 and then every two hours after that. I do not wake my patient and ask anything if they are asleep. I quietly walk in the room,...

  8. "End Stage" Untreatable Obesity

    dollphyn replied to medgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    My floor has just taken over the bariatric service. I really enjoy watching Discovery Health especially about the journey of people who are morbidly obese and are seeking help. There was this one...

  9. discharge or drainage: same thing?

    dollphyn replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

    I went looking around on Google to see what I could find. On one of the websites that was a MD website, regarding the eye, drainage and discharge were used interchangeably. They even gave a listing...

  10. insulin coverage

    dollphyn replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess it really depends on when it was taken. On my floor, the night shift tech will take the blood sugars from 0630-0700 before going off shift. We night shift nurses, do not cover with our...

  11. Pulling New grad/new employee to another floor two days after coming off orientation.

    dollphyn replied to bkleriRN's topic in General Nursing

    On my floor there are three of us that started back in June. As soon as we were off orientation, they started floating us, even though we were told that we would not be floated for six months. My...

  12. Help Please

    dollphyn replied to Dixie_81's topic in General Nursing

    I used the website Google and found some information about Burkitt's Lymphoma. The first website that came up was Wikepedia, it even had some pictures of children that had the Burkitt's lymphoma. My...

  13. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    this website that i am sending you the link to has free nclex questions that really helped me during school and after. it is the nclex 3500, i know there is a new one out there with more questions,...

  14. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    Mine came via email, but in my junk email folder. I really do not remember what addy it came from because I deleted it after I got my license. Just make sure before you trash anything, you are...

  15. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    Back in May, we took the Hesi on Wednesday May 7, 2008 and I got my ATT on May 28, 2008 so about three weeks. Some of my classmates did not receive theirs until June and one of them did not get...

  16. Cyanotic Stoma

    dollphyn replied to Sunbeam3's topic in General Nursing

    i have never had a patient with a cyanotic stoma, but if i had i would have done the same thing you did which was called the md. a cyanotic stoma means that their is compromised blood flow to the...

  17. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    I was accepted in Spring 05, and at that time the lowest GPA of pre-reqs was 3.77 and the side courses was 17 and a GPA of 2.92. I actually did not have to take the Hesi because back then it was the...

  18. Cleaning up vomit

    dollphyn replied to caliwannabenurse's topic in General Students

    To me, I thought I would hate trache suctioning, but it is actually ok. The patients I take care of that have a trache have not bothered me as much as the ones that vomit. I am a post op nurse, so...

  19. Working after breast augmentation/implants.

    dollphyn replied to twilight85's topic in General Nursing

    I actually work with plastic surgery as a post-op nurse and what I have found with breast augmentation and implants is that you ladies jump back pretty fast. It really depends on your body and how...

  20. El Centro/ Northlake-----Spring 07

    dollphyn replied to Spill's topic in General Students

    I am at Baylor Dallas and this past March they had a job fair that I went to. You just talk to the hiring managers and they will call you for the second interview. I went for the second interview in...

  21. cathethers, and swollen hands

    dollphyn replied to penny77's topic in General Nursing

    I really do not like bladder scans. The patients I have had the scan says that they have 400mls in the bladder, but I pull off 900-1300 depending on the patient. I have never come across the...

  22. Blood in stool care plan

    dollphyn replied to MissMarishaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Bowel eliminiation alteration, gastrointestinal alteration, those were the two that jumped out at me looking at the NANDA list. I know when I have had my personal bouts with ulcerative colitis, I...

  23. Nursing and Astrological Sign

    dollphyn replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in General Nursing

    Scorpio here. Plastics/ENT/Maxillofacial med/surg

  24. Lovenox injection sites

    dollphyn replied to iwanna's topic in General Nursing

    I had a teacher in school that actually had this question on a test. She put abdomen 2 inches away from belly button and other answer was in love handles. If you look in NCLEX books, they have...

  25. "Well, that's ONE way to do it!"

    dollphyn replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I drew my own blood once because they kept trying to turn me into a pin cushion. I told them give me the butterfly and I will draw it. Her eyes got real big when I got blood and she was unable to in...