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  1. Max on Levophed?

    I think the thing many are forgetting is you may be able to run 1000mcg/min of a certain drug but there comes a point where more isn't necessarily
  2. Not to be too descriptive but I admitted a nice older lady from the ER last night. She was coming in with SOB d/t (from what the ER told me) a chronic condition that had apparently been somewhat...
  3. NP info

    Hey, I'm an RN looking into possibly going to NP school. I was wondering if some of you wouldn't mind sharing some info with me. What kind of NP are you? (acute care, peds...) How many hours do you...
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  5. Having a hard time with death

    Thanks for your thoughts everyone. It's not that dying as a whole upsets me, almost 1/2 of the pt's I take care of sometimes will never make it out of my unit and I know that. The weird thing with...
  6. It sounds like you are freaking out about the test to me. IMO, the number one rule when taking NCLEX is to not freak out. If you failed with 75 questions then you are either not taking in the material...
  7. Do you ICU nurses ever have more than 2 pt's? How often if you do? We get 3 pt's every now and then, usually one or two of them are waiting to transfer in the AM. My main question is how do you deal...
  8. What's your personality like?

    Most of all I would say that I'm laid back. I think one of the most important parts of being a good ICU nurse is your ability to remain calm when everything else is going downhill. I'm also very task...
  9. The math tests that you are required to pass are on basic drug calculations, very easy. The teachers tell you exactly what you need to know. When I went to Jeff State we had 2 times to pass with a 90...
  10. We had a list and they stopped doing it because they said it was "stupid." I'm not sure how but whatever. It's not really a problem but when I'm taking care of 3 and the nurse next to me has 1 and is...
  11. I'm usually not angry when I get three patient's. Sometimes you can't help getting a third patient when you're short staffed. The only time I get mad is if I get the third patient when some other...
  12. Update on jobs for new grads

    You must be looking in the wrong place. Brookwood has several jobs posted, including
  13. Does anyone work at St. Vincents?

    I knew a guy that worked there before he graduated. Call up to the ER and see if you can get in touch with the Nurse Manager or ER director. If you can't get in touch with them I use to work in the ER...
  14. When an MD "holds" a med it is automatically dc'd by pharmacy to prevent this info from getting lost in report to the next nurse or one nurse not writing it on the MAR. The MD should write it on his...
  15. WI: 75 questions NCLEX RN results

    You
  16. UAB hiring new graduates

    The residency programs requires a BSN and you don't have to go through that. The residency program is for people who don't know exactly what they want to do and it allows them to work in more than one...
  17. Who really cares? I'm a male nurse and there isn't really a difference. I work with a lot of other nurses who are
  18. I think Jeff State generally requires a little bit of a higher score to get into. I had a friend that got into Wallace with 155 (she failed out twice). Jeff State admits during the
  19. Kaplan is the best. They use old NCLEX questions in their
  20. Nervous about NCLEX

    Review courses are helpful but not always necessary. 50-60% on NCLEX practice tests is actually decent. At first I was scoring around there on Kaplan's NCLEX questions but then I was getting in the...
  21. How To Document Sleeping On Night Shift

    Pt resting in bed, arousable to voice. VS per flowsheet. Call light within reach. Denies pain. Denies
  22. Health Care Reform

    Nurses are nurses and everybody needs them. I don't think it will be much harder to find a job if it passes as it is
  23. can u believe it

    Why in the world would you ever call a doctor to find out if you need to hold a med or something???????? As nurses we should all know when to hold meds, especially something such as insulin. In your...
  24. The hardest part of 2nd semester for me was adjusting to the types of tests you take. In first semester the questions are more knowledge based. In 2nd semester everything is application based and you...
  25. calculations test???

    You will take calculation tests during the pharmacology class and at the beginning of every semester starting with the 2nd semester. Nothing is hard if you