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Hi Everyone, I am 3 months into a nurse manager position at an independent living facility. One of the biggest problems I see with this facility is the narcotic shift to shift count sheet. I've looked on-line, but can't seem to find what I'm looki...

Hello, I work on a busy hospital med/surg floor with-out telemetry (all other floors have). They are now turning our floor to a monitored floor in a few months and we all now have to take ACLS classes. The problem is, most of us can't read strips,...

Hello, I work at a hospital on a very busy med/surg floor. Last week our floor manager handed out a new policy she will implement starting tomorrow. This policy is our new rounding rules. There is a very lengthy paper the nurses fill out on the ev...

Well, after 3 LONG years of hard work, I got accepted into Mercy of Toledo's nursing program! :yeah:I am so happy and nervous at the same time. I actually live in Michigan and applied to 4 schools, this was the first one to respond. I've heard they h...

Hi, I am a fairly new grad (worked 10 months in LTC) and am starting on a Med/Surg floor tomorrow. So, we had 2 days of orientation on Epic and I know it takes a while to learn, but it sure seems like a lot of information. Does anyone know of any ...

I am in the same boat as you. I am a new nurse and work at a short-term rehabilitation unit. The average patient load is 16 (and I know most are saying you're lucky to have only that many), but you have to remember, being right out of school...it's o...

Hi Everyone, I am a "very" new graduate (just got my license last week). So I have been putting out resumes at hospitals & nursing home/rehab. facilities. I had my first job interview yesterday and was offered a position at a rehabilitation ce...

I ended up taking it and it seems pretty good so far. Thanks for all your replies. :)

Hi Elly, Yes, very expensive. I applied to every school in my area and it was a 2 to 5 year wait-list. Since I was 40, there was no way I wanted to wait that long. I can tell you, you will get an excellent education there but you will work your bu...

My drive was 45 minutes each way and I would have to go sometimes 5 days a week.

Hello, I'm also from Michigan (along with many others) lol. It is VERY SMART that you got all other classes out of the way before starting. Many people took other classes with the nursing classes and I just don't see how they could do it. I had it...

I just graduated on the 15th this month. Anything I can answer for you?

Thank you SO much for all your wonderful advice! I am really looking forward to my first day Monday. A friend of mine said the instructor I have is suppose to be really nice, so that is a real plus :)

Hello, I just passed my nursing final and now am doing my final hours precepting in a psychiatric unit. I picked psych because I enjoyed that rotation in school and thought this would give me a better taste of what it's really like. It seems when ...

Hi Everyone, So...I am in my 3rd semester (just started last week), and I am trying to stay ahead of the game. I'm pretty good with the math, but I'll tell you, I have been sitting here trying to figure out how the heck they get these answers to t...

Hi, Our teacher posted some math problems and I have no clue how she got the answer. Could someone please explain this to me? I've never seen an "mu" before either??????? Pitocin Give Pitocin at a rate of 4mu/min Available is 20u in 1000ml LR Answ...

Thanks for the breakdown! Great example to print out and carry with me so I won't forget. :) Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the help!

Thank you :)

So the PCA questions are back this semester...if someone could take a look at this and see if it's correct, I'd appreciate it. A patient has a PCA. It is delivering 3mg as a basal rate. The patient can have 1mg every 15 minutes on demand. What is ...

If you have a child with juvenile arthritis and Down's syndrome, which one would be more likely to get cancer? I would think that that since juvenile arthritis is an auto-immune disease, it would be more likely to happen in that case than a child wit...

Hi Everyone, I had to do a clinical day with a school nurse and I have to write a paper on my experience. I have some good ideas, but one of the questions I have to address, I'm not quite sure what to put. Could you tell me what this means exactly...

Hi Everyone, I'm going into my 2nd week and I am really stumped of what would be the easiest way to remember where to get these numbers and where to put them. I know some of the info is self-explanatory but from "maximum concentration" to "do you ...

Well, after reading this thread, I thought I needed to say something. I just got my exam grade for GI/GU and failed. This is how my semester went (I'll post my grades since no-one knows me :) )...first exam--84 second exam--78 third exam--82 fourth...

Hi Everyone, I'm a 4th semester student and each week at clinical, we all rotate to get a day as the "team leader". I know some basic things I should do (besides helping the instructor), like prioritizing who needs their medications first (ex: dia...

Thank-you both for your replies. We don't have to do any type of presentation or anything like that, you are basically the instructor's assistant for the day and they want to you to be able to prioritize. I know the basics (I think), regarding who sh...