ScaredieCat

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1. Intravenous Fluid

   ScaredieCat posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a nursing student and I am currently facing a conundrum. I believe what I remember about our past lectures on IVF is this: when asked with the IVF level, it is the number where the fluid is aligned with. Meaning regardless whether is upside down...

2. Help me solve this dillemna

   ScaredieCat posted a topic in Medications

   The order of the doctor is Cotrimoxazole 4 mg/ml, 12 ml 2x a day for 7 days The available form of oral suspension of Cotrimoxazole is 200mg/40mg. How much should I give the patient?

3. Am I Meant To Be A Nurse?

   ScaredieCat replied to the_alchemist's topic in NCLEX

   Destiny is what you make of it. At one point in our lives, we question whether what are we meant to be. I, too, am an over-achiever. I, too, want to care for patients not solely because I render care to them...deep down inside, there is this lingerin...

4. How is it that I can't seem to focus?

   ScaredieCat replied to ScaredieCat's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for the advise...I would always ask somebody to check especially during calculations..

5. How is it that I can't seem to focus?

   ScaredieCat posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am currently at the fourth year of the nursing education. I am good with my academics but when it comes to duty perce, I always make simple mistakes which a 5th year nursing student should not do. I am very hard on myself and whenever I make a mist...

6. Need Advice

   ScaredieCat posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am currently a student nurse and I am so scared to make medication errors that it even comes to a point when I question what I have administered over and over and over at night even when nothing went wrong. I am afraid to make such errors especiall...