~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    My day in the ER... (vent)

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

    Ours know too we are coming, their is a sheet posted on the unit, but the particular nurses might not know they are getting a student that day until they come to start the
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    When should you start applying?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to shaps926's topic in General Students

    The facilities here don't want us to apply until we have our RN lic. Bummer! On a good note though our Head of our program has made it so we will get our transcripts within days of graduating. It's...
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    My day in the ER... (vent)

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

    I completely understand what you are saying and I feel for the nurses that aren't given a choice. BUT it's not the students fault that the school, hospital, instructor and so on did not give the...
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    Care Plan Preview

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to unionnurse12's topic in General Students

    It will help for you to have a good understanding of these going in. AN helped me know what a lot of this stuff was before starting NS. That said, I never really found care maps/plans to be all that...
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    Medical words that make you cringe.

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

    I was in the jail doing a clinical 2 weeks ago, the PA was doing physicals on the inmates, I was in there with him and he says to the inmate, "so when is the last time you took a sh!!?" I didn't see...
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    School asks for private info?

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

    Big red flags here. And really??? Dental records are important? Yea cause if I have a filling than I must have poor oral hygiene and can't provide good patient
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    For those of you that studied at Madonna University, what did you think of it?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Rinabby's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I will move this to. The State Program section so you can get better
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    Is this universal or just my program?

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

    We do too. On almost everyone, I love it, it's free
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    Nursing school help!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Jenn777's topic in General Students

    Look into nursing programs you might be interested and set up a meeting with a nursing adviser, they will be able to tell you what you need to do and the route you need to take to get there. It's all...
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    Is this universal or just my program?

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

    It will feel so great to have it done. Today it was so nice to know I won't have to do another one!!!! I remember 1st semester when we had the dosage calc and even returns, even though we got more...
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    which med do I give first

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to kbkbajs's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    While we are taught that pain is a priority, it is not always the case, sometimes pain meds can mask other things going on so we have to deal with the problem first before giving the meds. I am just...
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    Encouragement needed please!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to cainca's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Everyone is different obviously, but I am a wife and mom to 4 kids, I didn't have to work during nursing school, and I have done far better IN nursing school than I did during any of my science pre...
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    Is this universal or just my program?

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

    It is hard. We lost majority of our students first year. Thankfully as the semesters go on and people get closer we have lost less people. I have been fortunate to not lose any of the people I am...
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    Already want to give up :(

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

    This is completely normal. I am 4th semester and almost done and sometimes I feel like I somehow managed to fool everyone thus far and am no way smart enough to really have peoples lives in my hands....
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    Is this universal or just my program?

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

    We have this same policy. I just took my last dosage calc exam today. We get 3 tries also and have to pass with 100% and always take it right before we start clinicals. I honestly don't have a problem...
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    Medical words that make you cringe.

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

    I will take care of them. The word itself makes me cringe. We all have our things. I took care of a patient with a severe GI Bleed, was having to change her and help her q1hr for all the bleeding she...
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    Evolution of your specialty interests

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

    That is one thing I can't do, helos scare me. When our Peds rotation was slow we got to go to the ER (a couple of us took turns) in a big hospital. The night my classmate went it was slow and they...
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    Approaching the topic of dying...

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

    she copied and pasted the article she didn't link it so i have to do the same. i have seen in my hospital that the doctors might give the news or diagnoses but it's the nurses that end up really...
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    Approaching the topic of dying...

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

    My teacher just sent me a really good article on grieving today, she was sending it to me personally but it was about death and RN's. I will have to go find it and post
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    Evolution of your specialty interests

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

    I started nursing wanting to deliver babies, eventually be a certified nurse midwife, not work in NICU but L&D. Now I am in my 4th semester and I really liked the ED above everywhere else. I also...
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    Medical words that make you cringe.

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

    This reminded me of something and I don't even know why I am describing it again because it seriously makes me feel like I am going to throw up. I had to do a small PP on Autonomic Dysreflexia, it...
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    Medical words that make you cringe.

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

    We have an instructor and he always got embarrassed it seemed going over the male sexual health drugs and female drugs, which was shocking in itself because he was a long time nurse and a really good...
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    Student Nurse Catch 22

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to bigd123's topic in General Students

    They love to see students take initiative, sometimes I think they even test to see if we will. I would go to other nurses too when I had downtime and see if they had anything I could help with as...
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    Really worried about my pharmacology class? Can anyone offer some advice?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to wannabeanRN90's topic in General Students

    I can't help with studying advice because I suck at it, but I wanted to tell you not to give up hope. I had a lot of stuff go on in my second semester and I fell into some pretty bad habits, I started...
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    Student Nurse Catch 22

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to bigd123's topic in General Students

    If you have nothing to do ask the nurses or the aides if their is anything you can help with. Their is usually SOMETHING that can be