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1. Apothecaries' system?

   puggy replied to twarlik's topic in General Students

   I teach pharm and med-math and I just touch on drams and grains. Occasionally you run into a doc that is older and still uses drams and grains. If you run into it on NCLEX it is usually a question regarding ASA or Tylenol which is ordered gr x (and...

2. Vag exams

   puggy replied to MidniteLaborRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Many years ago a physcian sat with me at night in labor hall until I could learn the ins and outs. He kept telling me to either feel for a hole that my fingers would slip into, or a stretch rubberband that I could run my fingers around. Hurray! On...

3. On Line Masters Program?

   puggy replied to layna's topic in Educators

   Frontier Nursing Service offers a Masters on-line, you have to go there for some of it. I did a traditional Masters. Check with your state universities about on-line classes. UK offers a DNS with most of the work done online - I think you have to ...

4. Help Need To Dispute Grade Iv Therapy

   puggy replied to clodcat's topic in General Students

   I would go to school Monday and talk to the program chair. I would ask to look at my test and a list of the questions that were thrown out. I would go over the test question by question to make sure there were 1) no scan tron or other grading erro...

5. 6th sense....

   puggy replied to I_Love_Donuts's topic in General Nursing

   I am very intuitive and have been all my life. I have been a nurse for 20 years and the docs I work with closely trust that intuition. (They have a hard time swallowing a dose of "I told you so." ). Sometimes it can be scary though!

6. Anyone doing Doctoral studies

   puggy replied to puggy's topic in Educators

   I work in a great place where we get 6 free hours per semester so it would be a waste to not go to school. (Plus we get time off to go - I was off a whole semester to finish my Masters). I agree PhD is academically sound and DNS is kinda like a red...

7. "They" really don't understand!

   puggy replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

   Nursing school is hard - thats because when you get out of school you are given the job of making truly life or death decisions regarding other peoples lives. As adult learners we all strive to make the "A" and people in less intense programs do not...

8. Anyone doing Doctoral studies

   puggy posted a topic in Educators

   Just wondering if anyone is working on a PhD or a DNS? I am suppose to start on my PhD in a few weeks but wonder if the clinical degree would be better suit my needs as an instructor (associate professor of nursing at a small college). Any thoughts...

9. Chronic Tardiness

   puggy replied to Tweety's topic in Professionalism

   At our facility we start report on time regardless if everyone is there or not. Those that are tardy have to get report from the unit manager and on night shift from the house supervisor. These incidents are written up and placed in the nurses file...

10. How many staff members attend a delivery??

    puggy replied to tamrnmomof4's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The doc, the labor hall RN, and an RN from the nursery.