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  1. Common Medications

    curlilockz replied to LexieM's topic in Medical-Surgical

    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?

    curlilockz replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    that's just wrong.

  3. What Was The Most Difficult Patient You Ever Had?

    curlilockz replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    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!

    curlilockz replied to Hischild777's topic in General Students

    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

    curlilockz replied to kittyn's topic in General Students

    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

    curlilockz posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  7. CPR Question: Rescue Breaths

    curlilockz replied to curlilockz's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, that makes more

  8. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    curlilockz replied to EveMJRN's topic in General Nursing

    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

    curlilockz replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    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????

    curlilockz replied to CaliGirl0629's topic in General Nursing

    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??

    curlilockz replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    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!!!

    curlilockz replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    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??

    curlilockz replied to PartyofOne1's topic in General Nursing

    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. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    curlilockz replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    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

    curlilockz replied to Mesomorph's topic in General Nursing

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

  16. Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

    curlilockz replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    To my fellow nursing students: yes, the patient our instructor assigned me to smells badly. Yes, she's an overweight woman with areas on her abdomen with necrotic flesh that's probably infected with...

  17. Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????

    curlilockz replied to jessi1106's topic in Nursing Humor

    This happened to me while I was a patient. I went to the ER one evening, with severe abdominal pain and vomiting. One of my friends (a guy) had to take me because I seriously couldn't drive due to...

  18. Has anyone failed a test? I need some encouragement!

    curlilockz replied to silly32girl's topic in General Students

    What is the lowest passing grade you can make? At my school it's a 73, a 72 is a fail. And yeah, I had a 4.0 until this semester. It's

  19. Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

    curlilockz replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was helping a nurse shave a pt's leg for surgery on his ankle. He was in his late teens, and his mother and grandmother were in the room with him. The nurse made a joke with him about his hairy...

  20. ER Experience

    curlilockz posted a topic in Emergency

    I am still in school. I'm still not sure what I want to go into, but right now, the ER is what I'm leaning toward. Anyway, a good friend of mine who is a nurse told me I should get experience in...

  21. TURP - emergency surgery

    curlilockz posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was in the OR on a clinical. One of the surgeries I saw was done on a pt who had a TURP in the morning. He had to have emergency surgery later that afternoon due to extensive bleeding. What would...