~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    Question I got wrong on my test!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    yes and for elderly we try to go to areas that don't lose their elasticity as bad to check. BUT my point is, in real life if given that exact same situation in the question, were to happen, initially...
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    Pharmacology--where do I start?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to dallet6's topic in General Students

    Start with the different parts of the body and the drugs that work on them. It seemed that in Pharm class we started with the brain and then the heart and worked our way from there on the different...
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    Question I got wrong on my test!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    You asked how skin turgor could show the extent of fluid loss, it can help with determining dehydration better then a weight can without any baseline. You would obviously use it in combination with...
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    Will be a CNA help me find an RN position?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to LoveMyBugs's topic in General Nursing

    I regret not knowing anything about CNA's or EMT-B before Nursing School. I didn't really know about these types of jobs and how to go about getting them until I was just about to start my nursing...
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    Will be a CNA help me find an RN position?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to LoveMyBugs's topic in General Nursing

    Wow really??? Give me the patients over the paperwork any day. I have done desk jobs and hated it. The best part of being a student is I get to work with the patients more and have less charting to...
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    IV insertion tips, tricks, hints, sites, etc.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to kcochrane's topic in General Nursing

    I was just reading this the other day, it's a 24 page list of tips and tricks on IV's
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    Can RN student take the LPN test?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Dadou82's topic in General Students

    In fort collins, an hour north of Denver, after your first year of nursing school you can take a short class in the summer and then be eligible to sit for
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    I know we are "just students" but sometimes you just need to go with your gut.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN posted a topic in General Students

    and can easily be dismissed sometimes when we have concerns, but I just wanted to say, ALWAYS STICK TO YOUR GUT AND ADVOCATE FOR YOUR PATIENT. I am doing my maternity OB rotation this week. Now I am...
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    I know we are "just students" but sometimes you just need to go with your gut.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    Find a few LOL the younger the faster the HR You can also find the sounds online to practice with
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    Pharmacology Question - Alpha Blockers

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to newbiepnp's topic in General Students

    They are asking if nurses really need to know this, not students. Which of course the answer is still yes, but I think they get that students need the info, they just don't seem to make the connection...
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    I know we are "just students" but sometimes you just need to go with your gut.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    Every 50 raise a finger and start back with one, then add up your 50's and your final round. Makes it so much easier to keep track when you are counting beats over
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    I know we are "just students" but sometimes you just need to go with your gut.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    It did, but it was also sad. It was the littlest baby I have taken care of and I just wanted to take him home. Mom didn't seem like she would care anyway. She was completely ambivalent to him I think...
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    I know we are "just students" but sometimes you just need to go with your gut.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    Thank you! We just did our Peds and OB in 8 weeks, it was rough, they split the semester in half so the first half we had Med/Surge and the second half was Peds and OB. I finished clinicals last...
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    Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    You said OR is really your calling, after seeing your patient interactions and the things you say about every one of them, I agree! You will work best in a situation where your patients are under...
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    Question I got wrong on my test!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    The answer should be weight if it wasn't worded so poorly, you can't determine the extent of fluid loss by weight when you have no baseline or your baseline is 4 days into the episode. Turgor would...
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    Pharmacology Question - Alpha Blockers

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to newbiepnp's topic in General Students

    Nurses are the ones that are GIVING the meds, and they will be the first ones the finger pointed at. A nurse needs to know what they are giving, the reactions one might have for it, when to hold it....
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    Are females attracted to male nurses....or just really laugh at the males doing this?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to mpolo's topic in General Students

    I never commented on your character at all. I don't know you from Adam. I was just sharing lessons I learned and have seen a lot of woman do. Which BTW, all the jackass persona's I have seen, weren't...
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    Is this abandonment?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ra3583's topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering that to, I don't know anything about home health care but wouldn't you get an idea? Then again, I wouldn't turn down a job that is 30 miles a way. 300 yeah, but 30 doesn't seem like...
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    Now, if you saw this on a chart, what would YOU think?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    That is funny. I am guessing in this case Doc was needing some coffee LOL, it was notes on a resp. assessment. Some of these reminded me of another one though, when we were doing clinicals in the...
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    Is it illegal to force students who have financial aid to buy books from your school?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to sweetiepie98's topic in General Students

    This is the first I have ever heard of something like this happening. It's all going to go off your school policy and how they do things when they adjust your cost and how much will come to you. I...
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    Question I got wrong on my test!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    EXACTLY. I guess I should have read through all the responses first, but I need to try and pry myself off of here and go to bed LOL. Anyway, you said it better then I just did. I mean, if they are...
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    Question I got wrong on my test!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    It would be daily weights. Skin turger is a sign of dehydration. But when talking about fluid gains and losses daily weights is the what they go off of. Although it think it's a badly worded question....
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    Dear future nursing students,

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to BeeFree963's topic in General Students

    I don't understand it either. I am truly happy for my friends that get good grades, even when I might have gotten a bad grade, I want to see them do well and succeed and they are the same with me. I...
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    I really CANNOT believe it

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to 9livesRN's topic in General Students

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! I have read your journey from the beginning. I was a pre nursing student when I read your first day post and I did one for my semester. Now I am just about done with my first...
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    Pharmacology Question - Alpha Blockers

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to newbiepnp's topic in General Students

    I think one of the biggest things to remember with anti hypertensives,(when it comes to nursing care) any of them from what we are taught, and besides contraindications is to ALWAYS check a BP before...