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  1. Common Medications

    I agree with the above... there's always going to be a new medicine that you don't know, and you need to know how to look it up... some of the drugs I give commonly are Lasix Colace Digoxin Flagyl...
  2. What Was The Most Difficult Patient You Ever Had?

    that's just wrong.
  3. What Was The Most Difficult Patient You Ever Had?

    My most difficult might have been the patient going through DT's who chewed through the IV tubing and sucked the NS dry because he thought it was
  4. Help me please!

    I've taken HESI tests every semester of school. For me, our finals are so much harder than the HESI. At our school, if you study for the final, then you've studied for HESI. We're in an internship...
  5. Bed Bath

    Is this your first semester of nursing school? That sounds like something a Fundamentals instructor would do. If a patient says no, then you can't give them a bath. You could always try to convince...
  6. CPR Question: Rescue Breaths

    Okay, that makes more
  7. CPR Question: Rescue Breaths

    This is something that I have wondered about for a while. With CPR, what is the point of the rescue breaths? It doesn't make sense to me. The patient is not getting oxygen, they are getting CO2. So...
  8. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    New grads where I live start out at $15.65/hr... This is RN, not LPN. The bigger cities in AL pay maybe $17-19 an hour for new RN grads. Cost of living is much lower, but it's still grossly...
  9. called me a maid

    haha! Too funny! I can't believe you did it... I would have said some sarcastic remark and got reported.... I had a pt joking with me because I kept bringing him coffee (I'm a PCT), he said he would...
  10. Has your head ever gone numb????

    Mine is right now... I've been studying for MedSurg finals for the past week... hmmm... but seriously, no... not like an arm or leg.... arms and legs fall asleep because of lack of blood supply... if...
  11. Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    Dumpings Syndrome: related to gastric surgeries; reduce carb intake, do not drink liquids with meals, lie down after eating; S/S vertigo, syncope, sweating, pallor, tachycardia 5-30 min after eating...
  12. Reprimanded for cleaning up after myself!!!

    That's funny. I'm a PCT in the summers and our census was low. So I picked up those antimicrobial wipes we have (I can't remember what it's called, but it's very strong) and cleaned the siderails in...
  13. RN and BSN??

    A BSN is a bachelor's degree in nursing. A RN is a registered nurse. A person with an ADN (Associates Degree in Nursing) takes the same NCLEX as someone with the BSN. I have no clue if there are pay...
  14. I had a patient who fell and hurt his right hand. He was an older man (>80). Well, he insisted that I hold his member in his urinal while he went to the bathroom. I asked him why he couldn't do...
  15. Personality Type and Nursing

    ENFP... hmm... we really are rare... I think there may have been 5 on this