amber1188

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1. Night shifts: how do you prepare yourself?

   amber1188 replied to amber1188's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks to everyone who has responded. My situation right now will probably remain the same for quite some while. Where I am working now is not where I want to be in the future (just temporary to get...

2. Night shifts: how do you prepare yourself?

   amber1188 posted a topic in General Nursing

   As a new grad I am having a hard time getting myself into some kind of routine for night shifts. At the hospital where I work, we do 5 12 hour night shifts in one week and my body gets really out of...

3. HELP! Getting over queasiness during IV starts

   amber1188 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello nurses, I need some help with queasiness during IV starts. I am looking for suggestions about how to get over this and what has worked for other nurses. I am a lot better now with tolerance...

4. need help for severe depression

   amber1188 replied to needs help's topic in General Nursing

   I wish you the best of luck and I hope that things start to turn for the better starting here with support. I agree with what another member has said that maybe you can enlist some help from other...

5. need help for severe depression

   amber1188 replied to needs help's topic in General Nursing

   I wish you the best of luck and I hope that things start to turn for the better starting here with support. I agree with what another member has said that maybe you can enlist some help from other...

6. Crossing Professional Boundaries

   amber1188 replied to amber1188's topic in General Nursing

   I am interested in collecting ideas of how to respond to a patient when you feel that a boundary is being crossed. For example, I had a patient as me to go out for coffee after he was discharged and...

7. Crossing Professional Boundaries

   amber1188 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am interested in collecting ideas of how to respond to a patient when you feel that a boundary is being crossed. For example, I had a patient as me to go out for coffee after he was discharged and...

8. Potassium piggybacks

   amber1188 replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

   What I have done in the past as someone else mentioned, is I have further diluted the KCl with about 50cc NS. If slowing the rate alone does not work, then I add the NS and that does the trick. Good...

9. Potassium piggybacks

   amber1188 replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

   What I have done in the past as someone else mentioned, is I have further diluted the KCl with about 50cc NS. If slowing the rate alone does not work, then I add the NS and that does the trick. Good...

10. Hey Canadians--Are there any nice places to stay in Ontario??

    amber1188 replied to askater11's topic in International Nursing

    somewhere that I went with my family a few years ago was French River region. Very beautiful and so relaxing. I would definitely recommend going

11. LPNs in Canada

    amber1188 replied to naelena's topic in International Nursing

    exactly what is an LPN??? I only know RPN and

12. diploma vs degree

    amber1188 replied to petunia's topic in International Nursing

    It's my understanding that the grandfathering thing isn't happening anymore. Maybe with diploma RNs, they just have to take a post-diploma course, but with RPNs, they have to take the full 4 years....

13. Your help needed!!!

    amber1188 replied to Post Boston's topic in General Nursing

    If you know you have a prob with sciences, then just brace yourself for many nights where your date consists of yourself and your text. What some of my classmates do is get together in study groups...