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  1. I started working as a nurse tech recently on a med/surg floor. I am assigned 12 patients. I find that I can barely do it. And even at that I go home feeling like I didn't do as a good a job as I knew...
  2. PCT/Nurse Tech: How many patients do you have?

    Thanks for all the replys. I work again tomorrow. I guess I don't feel so alone knowing you all did it but it is still pretty overwhelming. I want to give great care and I just can't do it with this...
  3. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Whatnot? What does that really mean?? I think people saying "whatnot" makes them sound intelligent but ...... I don't think
  4. Attending VCC fall 2009 RN program

    A rolling back pack is great especially one you can put a duffle on top of and the whole thing not fall over. you will get a duffle bag with lab supplies in it the first week of school. I really like...
  5. Diabetes and Pregnancy

    The other day at clinical, working with pregnant women, I noticed in the chart 2a+DM or DM2a or something to that effect. I asked the teacher what that meant and, of course, she asked me what I...
  6. I am looking for suggestions, charts, mnemonics and/or ideas on how to keep straight what happens when in both fetal growth and development as well as child growth and development. I fear the test...
  7. UW Hospital RN's in Madison, give me the gouge!

    You posted a long time ago but I was wondering if you ever did go through the New to Practice program at UW. I graduate from an ADN program in Florida in December 2009 and am looking to move back...
  8. I need pictures

    I would go to google and type in fetal development or 24 32 week pregnancy and search and then at the top you can click on images and it will do a search just for pictures. You are able to look at a...
  9. How's the job market there in Wisconsin?

    I graduate in December in Florida and want to move up to Madison. Any idea if I could get in for that December deadline? Also, do they take ADN or just
  10. Thanks for the link. Anybody have ideas for how to keep it all
  11. How difficult to transfer RN license from one state to another?

    Do you know if more states are trying to get added to the compact, or has it always been just the original
  12. I have a clinical tomorrow at a home for disabled children. Most are brain dramaged children as a result of a car accident, Shaken Baby or birth defect. One of the diagnosis for the child I will care...
  13. Need Help with Smoking Issue!!!!!!!

    for what it's worth : when i met my husband i was a social smoker. he knew it and did not like it but i guess you'd say he tolerated it. if i'd been smoking he would not kiss me whatsoever. but that...
  14. All you A students

    Why eggwhites? Is Rhodiola something I can but at my any pharmacy or is it only at like
  15. Med Surg, Help desperately needed!!!!

    Yes, I have gotten past the A stress and like I said now I am just stressing about getting the 77% I need to pass. I feel no matter how much I study the exam has such aloof questions on it that I...
  16. Med Surg, Help desperately needed!!!!

    I too am struggling through Med Surg. I was an A student up til last semester, but now I am hoping to get the 77% I need to pass. At this momnet I have an 85%. I just took a pharm test on Friday and I...
  17. Orlando area schools, opinions please!

    I am in the VCC ASN program. This program is about 18 months. You go straight through every semester (5 semesters total), no summers off! They offer a day program only. It is offered primarily at the...
  18. pay range for rn new grads from wisconsin

    Does UW Hospital Madison hire new grad ADN's or only BSN's? I am in ADN program and intend to move to Madison once I am done. I plan to go on for BSN at some point but I believe I'd have to establish...
  19. looking for lpn/rn shcool in orlando

    I had been a medical assistant about that long too. I now go to Valencia. What kind of schedule are you looking
  20. Haldol and Ativan cocktail IV

    I am a second semester nursing student. Tomorrow is my first clinical and my very first patient's dx: drug overdose, medications are Ativan 2mg and Haldol 5mg. I simply googled the two meds and found...
  21. Milwaukee Area Technical College

    What do you mean by petition? Like a points system, and the best win? Is it for MATC-Milwaukee only or MATC-Madison
  22. Help Needed With Math/heparin Question

    Your client has a heparin drip ordered to be infused at 1,000 units/hour. The drip is concentrated as 40,000 units of heparin in 1L of D5W. This IV solution will be infused via an infusion device. (...
  23. Sex and Nursing School

    I have talked to him the best I can. He really doesn't like to address it because he is embarrassed and I guess upset with himself, feeling inadequate. It is not like we went from once a week to now...
  24. Any Valencia CC students for fall 08?

    On most days we need to bring the Orange Nursing hardcover. In addition, only 2 days a week you will bring one or both of the blue Skills books. Thats it. The rest stay at home. I started out with a...
  25. Any Valencia CC students for fall 08?

    The first semester there are just 3 days that you go out on clinical. Those days are just 7:30am - 3pm at an assisted living facility. The second semester there is clinical either one 12 hour day or...