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mcs1505

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  1. Pain scale is missing a key element

    mcs1505 replied to ThatPoshGirl's topic in General Nursing

    I think that's great. I'd never heard that from anyone before (granted, I'm still just a student). I think that would help a

  2. Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

    mcs1505 replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

    To my profs: I love you all! Thank you for filling your lectures with clinical stories to provide examples and keep us awake at the same time! Esp you, Dr. J, for your incredibly "inappropriate"...

  3. Pain scale is missing a key element

    mcs1505 replied to ThatPoshGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Believe it or not some people are actually very capable of disconnecting and not exhibiting what we think of as typical displays of pain. Certain cultures, especially, are very stoic and will not...

  4. Pain scale is missing a key element

    mcs1505 replied to ThatPoshGirl's topic in General Nursing

    When I was 19 I was in the ER for abd pain (which needed emergency surgery to fix 2 months later) and when I told the nurse it was a 9 she looked at me and said, very skeptically "A 9? Are you sure?"...

  5. Emergency Services- Medical?

    mcs1505 replied to BeachyRNn08's topic in Emergency

    I've never seen that, but I would jump at the chance. As an EMT I always preferred the medical cases over trauma or CP. I liked the "mystery" of what might be making them sick instead of just "they...

  6. Age you will/were graduated?

    mcs1505 replied to sweetiez's topic in General Students

    I'll be 23, almost 24 when I graduate next

  7. parents please talk to your teens

    mcs1505 replied to litbitblack's topic in General Nursing

    That's why they should watch their alcohol!! I came home one afternoon to find my 18 yo sister having a pool party and one of her 21 yo friends had brought alcohol and was letting all of the underage...

  8. Best 4 Year Nursing Colleges

    mcs1505 replied to mcwingo29's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.allnursingschools.com/faqs/schools.php This is a good resource for helping you to choose a school. "Best" is kind of relative depending on who you are. Just because they have the highest...

  9. Drinking while breastfeeding?

    mcs1505 replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1170.asp small amounts of alcohol do get into breastmilk and are passed on to the baby. one study found that breastfed babies of women who had one or...

  10. What do you think about a nurse breastfeeding infant at nurse's station during break?

    mcs1505 replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Exactly what I was driving at with us already having to battle misconceptions about what it is we do. People already think we don't do anything but sit around and gossip, you know they'd say "She had...

  11. Is there some sort of Nurse/Med student rivalry?

    mcs1505 replied to ThatPoshGirl's topic in General Nursing

    My classmates and I have only been in clinicals a few weeks and have had some funny run-ins with the med students already. First a classmate of mine overheard one med student tell another med student...

  12. What do you think about a nurse breastfeeding infant at nurse's station during break?

    mcs1505 replied to mitchsmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think this is just an issue of professionalism: 1. If you're at the nurses station you should be at the nurses station, available to patients. Even if the nurse in question was ready and willing...

  13. Nurses on Antidepressants?

    mcs1505 replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I have always felt more on task when I took my medication (when I needed them) but, as we all know, they effect everyone differently. I would say that if you feel "impaired" it doesn't...

  14. otoscope Q

    mcs1505 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    We are practicing using the otoscope in lab and I am so afraid of inserting it too far into the ear that I don't insert it far enough. Looking around I saw student going varying depths and I've...

  15. otoscope Q

    mcs1505 replied to mcs1505's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thanks so much, that's a lot more detail than I found, it helped a

  16. Use alcohol to clean ear piercing?

    mcs1505 replied to cowboy_carl's topic in General Nursing

    Well the H2O2 didn't hurt, at least not much, and I was so fascinated watching it bubble (at, you know, 6 years old) that I didn't

  17. Use alcohol to clean ear piercing?

    mcs1505 replied to cowboy_carl's topic in General Nursing

    I used soap and water on mine while it was "fresh" (first couple weeks), hydrogen peroxide after it had healed a bit. I had no idea alcohol was a bad idea: my parents used to put it on cuts etc....

  18. Moving home with the parents for school- better than debt?

    mcs1505 replied to cherubhipster's topic in General Nursing

    IMHO, you can't place a price on your sanity. I say this from experience. I once stayed in a job that preyed on my emotional/mental state and I wound up having to quit and be on medication for a few...

  19. AMAZED at what some students get away with!!!

    mcs1505 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm trying not to take offense at some of the generalizations that have been made here. I'm still in my first few weeks of clinicals and our instructor has been very very strict on the fact that she...

  20. $4 prescriptions

    mcs1505 replied to woody62's topic in General Nursing

    The way it sounded to me when I talked to them was that the move to $4 scripts was primarily for people with no insurance since most of the big insurance companies only make you pay 5-10 for most...

  21. stupid question about hours

    mcs1505 replied to coltsgrl's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a parent and obviously don't know your kids but you might be surprised how responsible they can be. I know I got myself and my little sister on the bus when I was 12 and my mom had to be at...

  22. Nursing school is like pregnancy, the real work starts when the baby is born

    mcs1505 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, I'm a "first trimester" nursing student and totally identify with the "morning sickness" and the other day at clinicals I had to fight back tears when my instructor started telling me I wasn't...

  23. income of nurses

    mcs1505 replied to binger0919's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on several factors: geographical location, level of education, specialty, whether you're in a hospital or private practice, experience, etc. But yes, I've heard of a lot of nurses pulling...

  24. nurse vs doctors

    mcs1505 replied to monkeymedic's topic in General Nursing

    1. Spelling? Seriously? We care about spelling on the internet now? *insert one of the many many snarky remarks I don't want to waste time choosing* 2. I agree with the people who pointed out...

  25. How do nursing students look for jobs?

    mcs1505 replied to spotliter's topic in General Nursing

    I graduate next year too and I've been googling different places I would like to live and finding the hospitals in the area, then coming back here and using the search function to find out what other...