Nursing student at West Virginia University. I'm a huge mountaineer sports fan. I'm a cheerleader here for the university. I'm just a busy girl trying to get through nursing school in one piece!
Thanks for the advice, everyone. Does anyone know when seasonal contracts with banner typically start? I am looking at starting in August. I emailed a banner recruiter, but she's out of office till...
So I'm starting to look into the whole travel nursing thing. My best friend lives across the country in Phoenix, and I recently visited her and LOVED it out there. So, I've been looking for general...
I just took the NCLEX. I got done at around 1:50. It took me the entire time to finish. I thought after 75 it would shut off because I was pretty confident in my answers. Then, I got to question 100,...
I'm writing a paper on Oligohydramnios and have been doing a lot of research, however, I have not been able to find anything on nursing assessment and interventions for this condition. I know that the...
He isn't in the hospital. I saw him in a pediatric clinic. He's really perfectly fine, he's just been having some reflux problems. Other than that, his mom is taking good care of him. She doesnt work,...
I'm doing a careplan on an infant (2 months) with Reflux. The mother said he has not been able to keep formula down. He went from 3 ounces at a time to 1. He is a good weight for his age/size. He's 11...
I get to go to a Ped's clinic tomorrow for part of my clinical rotation, and each student was assigned 3 vaccines to talk about. Part of the assignment is to state the immediate and delayed side...
I would say big cities. I live in West Virginia and nurses start out making only 20 dollars an hour here, and Huntington WV is the most obese city in the country right now, lol. I've seen much higher...
Well, I bet that would be heaven for my mom who is a CNA. Where my mom works, it's 2 CNA's to 40 patients. She has to work a double 1-2 times a week on top of her regular schedule (normally work 7...
Well, I'll be honest with you. It sucks and it's not going to get any better for a while, lol. The best thing you can do is study the skills that you may have to perform, and go to sim lab to practice...
Thank you both very, very much for your in depth answers- things are much clearer now! I actually went in and saw the patient today and the reason his blood pressure has shot down so much is because...
I was preplanning today and my patient's blood pressure went way, way down. It was 77/49 before I left. We have to choose 3 nursing diagnoses. I chose Decreased Cardiac output due to the blood...