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    St. Luke's School of Nursing

    ashleyisawesome replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Congrats! I graduated in Aug 2012, it is a great program. Be prepared to study hard and have no social life, especially your first two semesters. If I remember correctly it is 2 hours of lecture 3...
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    How high have you seen??

    ashleyisawesome replied to Tarabara's topic in General Nursing

    in nursing school during my ER rotation, a 20 something woman came in unconscious. the glucometer reading just said "HIGH". took a venous sample and it was 1200!! new onset type 1... she turned out...
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    Learning Spanish is a plus, bilingual? trilingual?

    ashleyisawesome replied to jtoms's topic in General Nursing

    i work in a city with a high hispanic population. not knowing spanish didnt stop me from getting hired, but man do i wish i knew more spanish. m actually looking into taking some classes. every time i...
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    Am I The Only One?

    ashleyisawesome replied to springgarden's topic in First Year After Licensure

    philly is really saturated.. if you dont mind commuting or relocating the reading/allentown area is a bit
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    Have dress codes changed for clinical prep?

    ashleyisawesome replied to DoeRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    we never had to come the day before to do research, and im glad we didnt! i find that idea kind of silly anyway. when they become nurses, they dont come in on their day off to look up their patients...
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    Falsifying Documentation

    ashleyisawesome replied to scorpiaRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    related question: if the patient requests all 4 side rails are up, would you still need a restraint order? i usually just oblige, and chart all 4 side rails up per patient
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    overly pleasant demeanor after CA diagnosis?

    ashleyisawesome posted a topic in Oncology

    Hi everyone! I am a brand new nurse, and I am working on a med/surg orthopedic/oncology floor. we have a lot more orthos than oncology pts, but were the only unit in the hospital that can give chemo,...
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    Lehigh Valley Graduate Nurse Internship

    ashleyisawesome posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Hi everyone! I was just wondering if anyone has any info on the Lehigh Valley GN internships. I'm going to St. Luke's School of nursing right now, and I dont graduate for a year, but I'm trying to...
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    Wedging my foot in that crack...

    ashleyisawesome replied to Jmiami's topic in General Nursing

    where do you live? in PA i made 12/hr as a PCA/unit
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    How do you get out on time?????

    ashleyisawesome replied to grahamd01's topic in First Year After Licensure

    i work nights, so its a little different but i have always gotten out within a half hour of the end of my shift except for two times when I had a couple admissions to take care of. 1. cluster your...
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    Do you expect the CNA to wash all patients in the day shift?

    ashleyisawesome replied to crunchytaco's topic in General Nursing

    when i worked days, i would make sure all of my patients were washed. if the aid couldnt get to it because he/she was busy, i would do them myself and just ask the aid to help me turn them if need
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    young and inexperienced or....?

    ashleyisawesome replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    I am a new nurse on a surgical floor. i still cringe, and at times get a little teary eyed when I have to roll someone over on a broken hip and they are screaming bloody murder in pain, or when our...
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    Am I on the right track if I want to eventually work in SICU?

    ashleyisawesome posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I am a VERY new nurse. Still in my orientation on the Med/Surg floor I just started on. The floor I took the job on is a predominantly surgical floor. We see mostly ortho, gyn, urology, and CA related...
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    Pulled to other floors?

    ashleyisawesome replied to DroogieRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    i work med surg, on a unit that gets all surgical cases in the hospital. they sometimes float nurses from my unit over to ICU (we are the only med/surg nurses that get floated to ICU in our hospital)...
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    Patient assignments by room # not acuity

    ashleyisawesome replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

    our unit normally assigns this way. the only exception is if one of the pts is receiving chemo and i am not chemo cert. yet, another nurse will take that pt and i will take one his/her pt. every once...
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    Is it possible for a RN to work five 12 hr days?

    ashleyisawesome replied to f_nurse2b16's topic in General Nursing

    a lot of nurses where i work are required to work 3 12 hour shifts a week and eow, so theyll schedule themselves fri-wed (6 days in a row,, and have 8 days off in a row. i would be really zombie...
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    What are great fields in nursing for a shy/quiet person?

    ashleyisawesome replied to crunchytaco's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    oh hi fellow INFP! i agree about the night shift thing, its a much more friendly environment for introverts. i love it, its just hard to get used to the sleeping schedule. i currently work on a...
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    Examples of Pre-Employment Med Test?

    ashleyisawesome replied to GoosbyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    dont know where you can find one but i can tell you basically what was on mine, as i only took it a couple months ago.. there were a few fill in the blanks that asked what certain abbreviations meant,...
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    Once you are a nurse, do you get to choose where you want to work?

    ashleyisawesome replied to jazon77's topic in General Nursing

    in theory, yes, a new grad CAN be hired into pretty much any specialty. some specialties are very competitive and/or hesitant to hire new grads. depends on the facility, if you have any experience in...
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    What's the biggest mistake you've ever made as a nurse? What did you learn from it?

    ashleyisawesome replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

    im still on orientation on a med/surg unit. just a couple days ago, i went into a pts room to put up a new bag of fluids. she was sleeping, so i didnt want to wake her and look at her IV site, so i...
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    Am I on the right track if I want to eventually work in SICU?

    ashleyisawesome replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in MICU, SICU

    a couple of my classmates went right into ICU, but i thought it would be too overwhelming for me at first. heck, im overwhelmed in med/surg, but i guess thats typical. i want to get the hang of caring...
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    Do you have a set schedule?

    ashleyisawesome replied to Jmiami's topic in General Nursing

    im hired evening/night, so i can either work 3-11, 11-7, or 7p-7a. we self schedule for the most
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    What is your policy on PCA pumps?

    ashleyisawesome replied to sunnyskies9's topic in Patient Medications

    if you did exactly what the orders said, you didnt do anything wrong, but i can tell you what our protocols are on our ortho surgical floor: q 30 min vitals x3 as soon as the arrive on the floor. q1h...
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    How old is your hospital?

    ashleyisawesome replied to NevadaFighter's topic in General Nursing

    im part of a 6 campus hospital network. our main campus was created in 1872! our nursing school (my alma mater), is the oldest diploma nursing program still in operation in the country. the campus i...
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    Your Starting Salary?

    ashleyisawesome replied to x_factor's topic in First Year After Licensure

    RN 23.85 with .75 differential for evenings, 1.00 differential for nights. i work evenings and nights. hospital, med surg