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When you serve in this type of volunteer RN position, who pays for malpractice insurance?

Would a New Grad RN qualify for a camp nurse job? How do you get insurance for this type of volunteer job? Who would pay and would there be any support in case of emergencies?

How does volunteering and using RN skills relate to malpractice insurance? If you volunteer as an RN in a hospital, but not an employee, do you have to buy your own insurance or are you covered under the hospitals? ... Also, Does the military allow nonmilitary RN volunteers to help in positions where they can use nursing skills?

I only used Feuer and found it very good for NCLEX review. But I wish I had known about these audio reviews before I neared graduation, as it would have definitely helped me during my clinicals as well as on exams. I have not used Hurst, but hear it is good also. Great idea to get them for nursing school purposes instead of just for NCLEX!

I had both SAUNDERS books, but the questions in the Q&A book were harder than the REVIEW BOOK. If you are going to get one of them , I would recommend the REVIEW book way over the Q/A book. The REVIEW book is easy to manage and some of the questions on NCLEX seemed to come right off some of the Saunders Review pages. It is divided into short 10 page chapters and each chapter has questions w/ rationales at the end. There were a few chapters which could be improved or had some outdated info, such as CPR, but overall, it is an excellent book and the material will definitely help you on the exam. I got a lot out of the Q/A Saunders book, but the questions were very hard, and some of the material seemed to stuff that I did not have in lectures in school, and it was taking too long to go through the book, so when I switched to the REVIEW book, I realized how much easier it was to study. The CD with the Review book did not have as many questions as the Q/A book, but some of the questions were the same for each CD. I would RECOMMEND you get the SAUNDERS REVIEW BOOK over the Q/A book. There are some other RNs who recommend it on youtube and explain how they paced themselves. The material in the Q/A book was good, so I will probably still do some of it at my own pace now that I am finished the NCLEX. Hope this helps. Good luck.

https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/feuer-practice-tests-766507.html I found using a combination of media to be helpful. Here is a comment I put on another discussion. I started out using a Lippincott question book, but was not happy with it, so I got the Saunders Q/ A NCLEX book and then the Saunders REVIEW NCLEX book. The CDs that came with those books were good, but the Q/A book CD was better. I found the Saunders Review book to have a few errors, but overall, it is an excellent review and breaks it into small 10 page chapters that don't seem so overwhelming. It is very well organized and easy to read. The rationales are also excellent and helpful even when you answer the question correctly. Also found the Feuer Pharmacology and Feuer RN/LPN review Audio CD sets that came w/ booklets to be excellent, although since I was already using Saunders, I did not use the booklets from Feuer as much as I planned. I enjoyed listening to Feuer and they gave a lot of helpful tips about such things as medication errors that you may not expect, but happen commonly. There were also a lot of legal issues covered which I did not completely have in my class materials. Overall, the lectures were interesting and some of the information will help me be a better nurse. I used some of the book by LaCHarity et al on Prioritization and Delegation, which was also helpful, but with some of the answers, both me and some friends tended to disagree with the answer and sometimes the rationale was not really explained enough to justify their answer vs another that I and friends felt would be more appropriate.

https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/feuer-practice-tests-766507.html Here is some info I wrote on a different discussion in case it helps. I think it is nice to study with more than one source, basically. I started the two Saunders NCLEX books and CD questions first, and then bought the Feuer Pharmacology CD lecture/ booklet set and also the Feuer 28 CD lecture set w/ booklets. The Feuer lectures were great and I wish I had listened to them during my semesters or summers in-between as it would have also made clinicals a little more relaxing.

I just passed at 75 questions (first time). I found the FEUER Audio Review CD Sets very helpful. They came with booklets with review materials and questions. I mostly used the Saunders Comprehensive Review book and also, the Saunders Q& A book ( those questions were more difficult than the Review book). Also, I reviewed part of the Delegation and Prioritization and Assignment book by Linda A. LasCharity, Kumagai, and Bartz. I got both the FEUER PHARMACOLOGY Audio Review as well as the NCLEX RN / LPN Audio Reviews and felt that they were well worth the money. There are some very helpful tips that will not only help you in the NCLEX exam, but also in your nursing career to be a better nurse. They share some interesting stories as ways to demonstrate ways to avoid common errors and anticipate things and be prepared. The Saunders Review Book was also excellent, and it was nice that it divides the material into 10 page chapters in outline form with questions and rationales at the end, so you don't get so overwhelmed with the size of the book. There were a few mistakes in Saunders that I noticed such as review of CPR had contradictions from one page to the next. One of the chapters for labor did not include information that was needed to answer the questions at the end of the chapter and it was not info that most students would be familiar with. The rationales were very good.

The Feuer Pharmacology Set is a 6 CD set and includes: Legal Issues, Methods of Administration ( lot of helpful review as well as tips from experienced nurses and including little things that could cause or prevent a lawsuit ), Pharmacokinetics, Drug Classifications, Herbal Meds, IV Therapy, Drug Calculations. They lectures are done in such a way that it is not just throwing out facts, but putting pieces together in a way you can remember better. They also tell some stories of incidents that created problems or embarrassment and you will make sure to avoid those, because the stories are interesting and make a point. It comes with a booklet for the powerpoint slides along with questions at the end. They review which IM sites are best for certain meds, needle sizes, adverse reactions, etc.. Just listening to these CDs helps drill in important info that you may otherwise not learn as well, and when you give meds, you will probably remember things reviewed in these CDs. They go over such things as the Antibiotics and their action and side effects, ways they need to be administered, Hormonal agents, anticoagulants, Antihistamines,, Mucolytics, Leukotriene inhibitors, Hypoglycemic meds, Pituitary hormones, Diuretics, Antithyroid and thyroid meds, Antiparkinson meds, Anticonvulsants...just to give a few examples. they also give review questions and there is also a section on math. These lectures are given by very experienced nurses who are there to help you. They make some of it entertaining while still staying focused. I think it is helpful not only for passing the NCLEX, but just gaining confidence by knowing things these experienced nurses have to teach. Kenya Beard is excellent!!

The Saunders Comprehensive Review book is really good. I also used the Saunders Q& A Review book and the questions were a bit more difficult in the Saunder Q& A book than in the Comprehensive Review book, but I think the Saunders Comprehensive Review book helped me more. I wish I had known about it during my nursing courses, as it is good to use for school test preparations. The rationales really help even if you answer correctly (gives you more info). Also got the FEUER Pharmacology CD audio and booklet set from Amazon and the lectures were so good that I went and bought the CD audio set by Feuer which is a 28 CD audio set and comes with a 4 study booklets for MedSurg, Women/ Maternal Child , Peds, and Psych. It is nice, because if you get tired of looking at books and feel overwhelmed, you can then turn on your CD player and gain lots of info as well as just "stuff" that will help you be a more critically thinking RN. Great for when you are driving or even just want to sit in a chair and relax more. The nurses really present the material better than any school lectures I had. The CDs really focus on what is important and make it interesting so you don't forget it. It was well worth the money. I also did some of the CD questions that came with Saunders books. Before I got the Saunder's books and Feuer, I was going through the Lippincott QA book, but did not find it very helpful.

I highly recommend the Feuer CD lectures and booklets. First, I have no gain or association whatsoever with Feuer. I am just writing because I am very impressed with these nursing reviews, and it is nice to have them to listen to and be able to listen again to drill it in. For the NCLEX, I also used the Saunders Review Book along with Feuer and a Saunders NCLEX Q& A book, that I used partially. It is nice to have the Feuer audio lectures to reinforce what you learned and what you are reviewing, and there are many valuable tips these lectures will give you in terms of your future nursing practice and legal pitfalls to beware of / avoid as well as just using these to help you pass your NCLEX. They also review delegation and prioritization issues very well. I ordered the Pharmacology Review CD's and booklet, and was was so impressed with the content and quality of presentation, that I went back to Amazon.com to purchase the 28 CD and booklet Nursing Review set by Feuer which covers 11 CDs on Med/Surg, 6 CDs on Peds, 6 on Women's Health and Maternal / Newborn Nursing, and 6 on Psych. These sets will not only help you review to pass the NCLEX, but they are wonderful just to listen to and gain valuable knowledge that you may not have fully gotten from nursing classes. The sound quality is excellent and the speakers are highly experienced, yet take a down to earth approach that maintains your interest with little stories that will help you remember the content better. It is well organized and very professionally done. They stay focused on delivering what is important to know while holding you interested. I learned so many things I did not know or did not know as well as I thought I did. Even if you have already taken the NCLEX, I think these lectures will help build your confidence and help you think more like an experienced nurse. The Feuer nurses take a much more friendly approach to teaching than what you may have experienced in your clinicals and classes. It makes you relax. Sometimes, they will explain how to answer certain questions on NCLEX. Their approach is that they are there to help you. It is a very friendly relaxed yet professional approach. I wish some of my nursing instructors had been a bit more like Feuer instructors. The Pharmacology CD set as well as the MEDSURG CD's and the Maternal Newborn/ Women's Health are all given by the same Nurse Practitioner, Kenya Beard for the 2009 CD Feuer. (The booklets are 2011). The content is up to date. Kenya has a beautiful voice and a beautiful way of inflecting her voice that really holds your interest, and she finds ways to add humor and interesting stories that stay on the task of reviewing the material. The psych lectures are also phenomenal in the content. There is a LOT of info given about communication techniques in such situations as dealing with an angry patient, psychotic patient, paranoid patient, etc. She also goes over a lot of medication information that is much more clearly presented than my school lectures. Also, she gives a lot of interesting stories as examples of mental disorders and legal issues, etc., but it is done in such a way that it helps you understand the material better and it is very interesting to listen to. The material is well-organized and very interesting. The material in the booklets reinforces what you should know as well as adds some things not covered in the CDs. By the time you are finished listening to the Psych CDs, you will feel like you have a much better understanding of your role as a nurse in helping these types of patients, the legal issues, communication issues, and medication issues. The learning curve is incredible for all of these CDs. I wish I had had these CD's to listen to around NUR241 or so. These people really know how to teach ins such a way that you won't forget and they put it in a nutshell ( so to speak). The pediatrics lectures have wonderful content, but I did find the nurse who did those to be a bit "shouty" and seemed to have a more anxious feel to her voice. She certainly knows her peds, but I wished that it was presented in a little more calm manner. You will still gain a lot from listening to her lectures... it is just her manner of delivery that creates a little anxiety tone. They are still great lectures. Someone stated that these Feuer sets were a bit "pricey", but I feel that they are pretty good for the money, considering how many CDs you get and the ease of listening and the effort Feuer company has made to make these top quality reviews. For the 28 CD set, not counting the booklets, it is about $205.00 and only about $7.00 a lecture. Along with that, the booklet material is good also.

HERE IS Part of List so far: 1. mrwikstert channel on youtube Hawknurseis on there several timesAll the videos by Hawknurse are EXCELLENT and to the point. http://www.skillstat.com/about.htm http://www.technion.ac.il/~eilamp/anatomyintroduction.html http://www.youtube.com/user/hawknurse?feature=watch#p/u/21/_hZRMbEqDzICrutch & Cane Walking review http://www.atriummed.com/PDF/greenhandbook.pdf Chest Tube pdf booklet http://antranik.org/category/science/ http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/fammed/OutpatientManual/content.html http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/fammed/OutpatientManual.htm http://cim.ucdavis.edu/EyeRelease/Interface/topframe.htm eye movement simulator neuroscience learning website UC Davis School of Medicine ed4Nurses on youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/user/ed4nurses Lots of good lectures re diseases and nursing care / CME's etc. TheAncientScholar on youtube.com lots of videos on mechanical ventilation NurseCentral on youtube MedlineUniversity on youtube suctioning and setup for yankauer http://sfgh.medicine.ucsf.edu/education/resed/procedures/centrallines/ http://www.netplaces.com/new-nurse/time-management/planning-out-your-day.htm http://courses.washington.edu/med610/mechanicalventilation/mv_primer.html#indications

RE: ...looking for underserved hospital here in new york. any suggestions? If you google Medically underserved areas of New York, there are several great government websites as well as some nongovernment ones and they have phone numbers on some of them. Some of them do not specifically target nurses, and some are about nurse practitioners or doctors, but they might have some good leads. Here are just a few... Find Shortage Areas: MUA/P by State and County http://www.rupri.org/Forms/NewYork.pdf National Women's Law Center Report Card - People in Medically Underserved Areas NYS Medicine:3-year Limited License

http://www.deha.org/scholarshp.pdf Delaware Health Care Commission at (302) 744-1220. Shortage Designation: Health Professional Shortage Areas & Medically Underserved Areas/Populations

Most states have programs, I believe, where there is free tuition paid if you agree to work in an underserved area where healthcare workers are desperatley needed after you graduate. I think it is sort of like a loan where if you don't carry through, you are required to reimburse the government. Someone I used to know did one of those in North Carolina, where they got their tuition paid, but they ended up having to move out of state due to a family circumstance and could no longer fulfill their obligation to work in a NC underserved area, so they had to repay every penny. Here is one program for tuition redemption in NJ: http://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/professional/workforce.shtml You can search your state government website and find phone numbers and email info and try contacting them. Also, go to the Health and Human Services government webpages about scholarships. http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/scholarship/ http://www.collegescholarships.org/grants/nursing.htm http://www.google.com/search?q=free+tuition%2C+nursing%2C+government%2C+underserved&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS329US329 Also, http://nursingcareersinpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2009/03/nursing-scholarship-programs-funding.html