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I hate hearing more stories of nurses eating their young aka lateral violence. It happened to me for two years. I switched hospitals. I precepted two new grads before I left. I gave them all my advice, praise, and encouragement to deal with the "dinosaur" nurses on our floor. My parting words, were if they couldn't find a happy medium, follow in my footsteps and leave after your 1 yr of experience. Honestly, it was my managements problem. I complained, gave examples/scenarios Other nurses wrote these nurses up-which just started a ridiculous frenzy of nurses writing up other nurses. Management was "laissez faire" style-nothing was going to change. That floor had been like that for close to 10 years-it had a reputation. So I got out. Best move I could have made. I'm at a magnet hospital now-what a culture difference!

babymaica-on the nclex you just put in the numerical number-no units.

i got 16 SATA, 4 med, bunch of who would you see first, and a bunch of infection/disease control questions-hope that helps!

Thanks for the congrats everyone !

hey all, so I've only been on allnurses for a couple weeks but it helped sooo much! Thank you for all the facts. I just found out I passed NCLEX today. Took it on Tuesday. Did all 265 questions-major migraine afterwards-totally thought I failed-I think everyone does though. Had every topic-16 SATA, 4 med. Lots of questions similiar to Kaplan-if anyone is doing that I think you'll be pleased with their program-i found it helpful. I'll be sticking around though-I know I'll have a lot of questions when I start working :)

Thanks jadu1106-that i can remember :) Enough studying for saturday...off to bed for now!

hi all, Does anyone have a good way to remember, decorticate and decerebrate posturing. I know what they look like but always forget which is which. Also, for cranial nerves I learned a picture-type mneumonic device where the "7's" faced eachother for the frame of the face, "1" was the nose, "2" were the eyes, "8" were the ears, I can't remember all of were everything went-anyone heard of this? and remember what it looked like? 1. Woman with systemic lupus can get pg after 5mo. of remission or 2yrs after first diagnosis. 2. 6mo: sit with support 8mo sits unsupported 9mo pulls self up, can say "mama" "dada" 3. Gemfibrozil (Lopid)- lipid lowering agent, se abd pain, gall stones. Take 30min ac. Check liver fxn tests. 4. Terbutaline (Brethine)- preferred over ritodrine (yutopar) b/c no BP s.e. S.E. include maternal tachycardia, nervousness, tremors, HA, pulm edema. Fetal s.e. tachycardia, hypoglycemia. 5. Ranitadine (zantac)- decreases acid production, Take HS, prevents stress ulcers (which are usually duodenal). 6. Pinworm testing- pinworms crawl outside the body first thing inthe am to lay their eggs. Collect specimen in am by touching scotch tape to childs orifice. 7. Technique for removing abd dressing with penrose drain, remove gauze one layer at a time to avoid dislodging drain.

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