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    What Nursing school are you in? Show your pride!

    dosamigos76 replied to straba's topic in General Students

    Clovis Community College in Clovis, NM... and we have a 100% pass rate for the second year in a row for both NCLEX PN and
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    Roll call!

    dosamigos76 replied to Rustyhammer's topic in General Nursing

    I am in Clovis, in an ADN program at the community college here. I just finished the first year (LPN) and will be working at the hospital here in town. In the fall I will return for my RN. Hopefully...
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    Are ATI Tests similar to boards?

    dosamigos76 replied to heatherm673's topic in Texas Nursing

    I am in New Mexico, and we took the ATI. The whole purpose of it was to let you know what areas that you are weak and what the liklihood is that you will pass NCLEX. You can go online to their site...
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    Can you get hired into L&D right out of nursing school?

    dosamigos76 replied to Natalieboo's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am in an ADN program and have just finished the first two semesters and graduated with my LPN and will return in the fall for my RN. I was just offered a job in L&D the other day. It is an RN...
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    Can you perform the Heimlich on a person with a fundal plication?

    dosamigos76 replied to warrior woman's topic in General Nursing

    My daughter had this procedure done at 7 months of age. She is now 13. She CANNOT throw up anything from her stomach. If something is stuck in her eosaphagus (sp), then that can come up, but nothing...
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    Why don't I feel anything??

    dosamigos76 replied to warrior woman's topic in General Nursing

    When someone knows that they don't care and they don't care that they don't care........then you have a problem. That does NOT describe you. I've read your posts for over a year and that in no way...
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    Why don't I feel anything??

    dosamigos76 replied to warrior woman's topic in General Nursing

    You said it perfectly! It is what it is and that's ok.
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    Why don't I feel anything??

    dosamigos76 replied to warrior woman's topic in General Nursing

    You care, or you wouldn't be there. The fact that you wonder why your emotions aren't all riled up does NOT mean that you don't care. Sometimes our emotions keep us from being the best nurse we can...
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    What does CHF NOS mean?

    dosamigos76 posted a topic in General Students

    I know it is Congestive Heart Failure, Not Otherwise Specified, but what the heck does that mean? First semester student here just start clinicals and found it in pt's chart....nothing in my...
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    What does CHF NOS mean?

    dosamigos76 replied to dosamigos76's topic in General Students

    Thanks for the info, you all stated pretty much what I thought. We are just starting clinicals and a friend had this charted on her primary pt's chart. Thanks again.
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    I thought this was a nice story to share..

    dosamigos76 replied to iliel's topic in General Nursing

    just posting the story for others. Neat story, thanks for sharing. Cheryl M Margaret Ann Caniff - Elliott My cousin Ruth Caniff graduated from Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Indiana. She...
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    Blonde joke again

    dosamigos76 posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    Who's The Dummy? A young ventriloquist is doing a show in a small town in Arkansas. With his dummy on his knee, he is going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde woman in the third row...
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    a good medical excuse

    dosamigos76 replied to rdtyu7's topic in General Students

    Ummm, duh.... nope, can't think of a darn thing....gee, too bad for you! Whatever!
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    skipping class, a hard habit to break

    dosamigos76 replied to PlanetCaroline's topic in General Students

    Call me a geek :-) I haven't missed even one class in my prerequisites. It's too important and means a lot to me to be able to attend class. Also, I don't want to get into a habit, you know it...
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    Roaches are going to drive me out of home care!!!

    dosamigos76 replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    I just checked at Urban Legends and this apparently isn't true, even though we've heard this story make the rounds. Here is the link: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.htm First of all,...
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    Family members at the bedside during a code blue?

    dosamigos76 replied to momoftriplets's topic in General Nursing

    Spacenurse-how brutally awesome! Thanks for sharing
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    LPN to RN starting over or will LPN skills be useful for RN program

    dosamigos76 replied to AllieElizAbeth's topic in General Nursing

    Our Community College uses the "ladder program". You have to have all of your prerequisites out of the way before you can enter the program. At the end of the first year of the nursing program you...
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    Pain scale

    dosamigos76 replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    konni, Good luck with your surgery. I pray that it will be successful and that your new Doctor will treat you appropriately.
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    Nurse is a nurse is a nurse

    dosamigos76 replied to Dayray's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for posting the review for the movie! I may have to get ahold of this one...and maybe some Kleenex.
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    Q about Nursing School credit hours

    dosamigos76 replied to marilynmom's topic in General Students

    AllieElizAbeth, Our Community College is the same way. I started last summer and have gone fulltime straight through and will only be eligible this fall. I've taken A&P1 and 2, Chem 113, Intro...