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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 Ambien Lopressor Lisinopril K-dur I could go on for ...

that's just wrong. :barf01:

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 vodka.

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 class where all we do are Saunder's tests. If you do ...

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 them, but with some people, it's just not going to h...

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 why rescue breaths? I understand in a hospital where...

Okay, that makes more sense.

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 underpaid...

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 double my tips for the day... ahh... if only....

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 the head is not getting a blood supply I would wo...

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 Ammonia levels rise in cirrhosis because the liver ...

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 the halls. Our supervisor thought that was great. T...

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 differences between the BSN and ADN. If there are, ...

I had a patient who fell and hurt his right hand. He was an older man (>80). Well, he insisted that I hold his penis in his urinal while he went to the bathroom. I asked him why he couldn't do that himself. He told me his arm was broken. I told hi...

oh my goodness! i unfortunately can believe that could happen, but he was let back in the hospital? seriously?!? and it is normal for ranchers to have guns. it is not normal for them to take them inside hospitals and threat to kill patient and staff...

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

Crispin and Dunkin

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 MRSA. Yes, I've given her a bath, and thanks for th...

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 vomiting. Also, my family lives about 4 hrs away, so ...

My dad was having a heart cath to find out why he was having problems with high blood pressure. He was really confused, and asked me when we got home, "Why in the world do they need to look at my heart? It's my blood pressure that's the problem."

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 frustrating.

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 legs. The mother said (and I quote), "If you think tha...

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 another department before going to the ER. Her reasonin...

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 that surgery be called? *Note: I'm new to allnurses....