brillohead ADN, RN

Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty

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    Question about starting a BsCN at age 24/25

    brillohead replied to bswstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Just graduated this year with my ADN -- I'm 44yo. Going to get my BSN online, probably starting next year. I've been a bookkeeper for the past 15+ years. Did office work, banking, and fast food...
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    Time running out to finish NCLEX in 4 years, Do I have any options?

    brillohead replied to ilovenrsing's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Check with your BON about your options. I know in my state, you have to take a "refresher course" of some sort if you don't pass the NCLEX within a certain period of time after graduation. Your BON...
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    Nursing facilities infested with bugs

    brillohead replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes I think that Florida's bugs provided the inspiration for the "Men In Black" movie franchise -- the bugs in that state are GINORMOUS! Makes me glad I live in Michigan -- I'd rather have...
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    Should I Stay Or Should I Go????

    brillohead replied to PookaTown's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    That was my point... that if the OP was working a job too, there would be "no life" outside of work, school/studying, and occasional sleep. An accelerated program is certainly do-able if not...
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    Should I Stay Or Should I Go????

    brillohead replied to PookaTown's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It's going to be VERY difficult to do the accelerated program while working, IMO. Most people have trouble with the regular program while working full-time or even part-time. Yes, you'll be able to...
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    Proximal vs Distal

    brillohead replied to stephanne's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    For things that are not limb-oriented, the head is typically used as the point of reference. For example, when talking about the esophagus, the "mouth end" is the proximal portion and the "stomach...
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    Attrition/Retention rate at your School

    brillohead replied to Sadala's topic in General Students

    I just graduated from a community college's part-time ADN program. Out of the 80 people who started the part-time program with me, only about 25 people graduated in the same part-time program. Some...
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    Shortage of Nurses

    brillohead replied to Determined1992's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Check into community colleges, too. The one I just graduated from has a combination of wait-list and competitive
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    Stethoscope and Superbugs

    brillohead replied to rumwynnieRN's topic in General Nursing

    (How pathetic is it that I'm ridiculously pleased with myself for having just used the word "fomite" in a post here? Does that qualify me for admittance to the Crusty Old Bat
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    Stethoscope and Superbugs

    brillohead replied to rumwynnieRN's topic in General Nursing

    Regular cuffs I can see, because they have that nylon-style covering that has a better chance of actually being cleaned. But the disposable type of cuff has a felt-like type of cloth covering on it....
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    Stethoscope and Superbugs

    brillohead replied to rumwynnieRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I did my OB clinical, that hospital had stethoscopes on each baby-bed, and you ONLY used the baby's assigned steth in that room. I did a med-surg clinical in that same hospital, and each...
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    Giving an awesome verbal report?

    brillohead replied to Maddy_Rose's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Depending on how the eMAR is set up, I also like to know when they last had pain meds and what's been working for the patient's pain (how much, how often, ice packs, positioning). I like to stay...
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    I got found out!

    brillohead replied to hiddencatRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, what cat DOESN'T have issues?
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    Forced wearing of nursing cap.

    brillohead replied to onetiredstudent's topic in General Students

    What have you been smoking? How can the pinning ceremony be a1000-year-old tradition when nursing school hasn't even existed for a fraction of that long? ?
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    I got found out!

    brillohead replied to hiddencatRN's topic in General Nursing

    Me three! I would always have doctors/nurses ask me if I was a nurse because I would give detailed H&P and med reconciliation, etc. And friends, coworkers, and neighbors would always seek me out...
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    Is there any truth to this?

    brillohead replied to Nurse SMS's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I spent a good part of the 1990s like that. Lowest recorded blood pressure, taken with a manual cuff, was 56/"48-I think" (nurse's words, not mine). Even now, morbidly obese, I'm lucky to get...
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    Should hospital provide and launder scrubs?

    brillohead replied to Kitty Carlisle's topic in Emergency

    Um, I do believe you're rolling your pant legs up WAY too high if they're putting pressure on your girly
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    Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    brillohead replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

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    What did you do during your OB rotation?

    brillohead replied to ssalulu's topic in General Students

    L&D = assigned to one laboring mother. I got to observe one lady partsl birth and cleaned up mom afterward, and I observed one c-section birth and cleaned up baby afterward plus did a newborn...
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    Please don't judge....it's been 13 years since graduated RN and debating the NCLEX

    brillohead replied to helpmepass's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I thought that if you didn't pass the NCLEX within a certain period of time, you had to take some sort of "refresher course" in order to get an authorization to test again. Or am I thinking of...
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    Question about normal temps being lower for some?

    brillohead replied to jbrmdr's topic in School

    I'm hypothyroid, and particularly before my thyroid was diagnosed and treated, my "normal" was often in the low 96 range, and sometimes in the mid-95 range (based on physician's office thermometers)....
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    "Throwing Out" questions on a test

    brillohead replied to DawnJ's topic in General Students

    My current instructor does analysis of the Scantron results and gives points back accordingly. Like bsnstudent16 said, if there was some ambiguity where either of two answers could have been...
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    Are You Allow To Review Your Dosage Calculations

    brillohead replied to Itspossible's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Have you gotten a dosage calc book or gone to a website to find out which formats you have a problem with? Take some practice tests and see which ones you get right and which ones you get
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    Appropriate way to Check off Bed Baths (Fundamentals)

    brillohead replied to AmesRT6510's topic in General Students

    And again, I stated "discuss it with your instructor and work around it." It can be done privately and respectfully -- no need to make a big announcement, "HEY EVERYONE, CHECK OUT SO-AND-SO, THEY'RE...
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    Appropriate way to Check off Bed Baths (Fundamentals)

    brillohead replied to AmesRT6510's topic in General Students

    Gotta love it when people just pick and choose the parts of a comment that they want to respond to. Context is important... or did the internet use disappearing ink on the part of my post that said:...