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  1. Is it just me? (Nurse/patient ratio related)

    nminodob replied to devi's topic in General Nursing

    Wow - you people need to unionize! California has staffing levels to protect us - we have 3 pt on our stepdown unit, 5 on med-surg floors, and 1-2 in the ICU. If we take a 4th on our stepdown unit,...

  2. new grad on nights

    nminodob posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, I finally got my dream job- on the unit I wanted (traumatic brain injured) in the hospital I wanted (Level I Trauma, teaching hospital, serving the underserved and uninsured). As luck would have...

  3. 20% Pass Rate

    nminodob replied to Blove86's topic in General Students

    I don't think that is attitude, just reality! While I was in nursing school I ran into the same phenomenon - students who spent too much of their free time worrying about things outside their...

  4. You can pass NCLEX with 77 questions

    nminodob replied to aspiring_midwife_wi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Another thing about the format of the test - because of its adaptive nature, you are bound to get a bunch of the answers wrong - it only matters if the questions thrown at you were above or below the...

  5. Transistion from Extern to Intern then RN

    nminodob replied to DAMomma's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have had similar experiences. I was a volunteer, then a CNA, then a student doing clinicals, then an intern - all on the same unit! Housekeeping and nurse assistants always tease me with the threat...

  6. Is it worth going to school to be an LPN?

    nminodob replied to Shawn7997's topic in General Nursing

    In hospitals it will be harder to find work - but in community college programs that choose RN program students by a lottery (as we do here), an LVN/LPN can challenge by passing a test and bypassing...

  7. scope of practice issue

    nminodob replied to nminodob's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks all for the replies- I am licensed since January. Until then - I will do nothing that could jeopardize my job, which begins the 27th. I still think that the charge nurse was wrong in the way...

  8. scope of practice issue

    nminodob posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all- Recently graduated nursing school and about to begin training as a per-diem nurse on a stepdown unit where I have several years experience as nurse assistant and as a paid intern. Long story...

  9. scope of practice issue

    nminodob replied to nminodob's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all your replies - and yes, I have taken the boards and I am licensed (for the last 3 months), and I am due to start new grad training the 27th of April. As I said, I won't do anything...

  10. kudos?

    nminodob posted a topic in General Nursing

    I may not be posting this in the right area, but I am curious how to give posters "kudos"? There are so many insightful postings on this

  11. Accepted

    nminodob replied to becky5438's topic in General Students

    Congratulations on getting in! If you are doing a 2 year program, I think you will have only four days/week class and clinical, at least that's what my friends who took a diploma course had. School...

  12. kudos?

    nminodob replied to nminodob's topic in General Nursing

    Well, thanks -I will try

  13. confused about heparin, lovenox, coumadin etc.

    nminodob replied to Jnsaxton's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Your post has a lot of useful info - however, if I am not mistaken, the PT test is used with Coumadin, and PTT with heparin, not the other way

  14. First Aide?

    nminodob replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Same thing I was thinking when I had just graduated from nursing school and nearly hit a skate boarder while riding my bike - the guy flew in front of me, I swerved, and he hit the ground banging his...

  15. RN to BSN, work and go to school or just school?

    nminodob replied to margo2007's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Lots of nurses are doing the same thing and still working - if you already have a job (and one you are happy with!) you would be crazy to leave it

  16. confused about heparin, lovenox, coumadin etc.

    nminodob replied to Jnsaxton's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    My admittedly limited knowledge: A hep drip would be seen in the hospital setting with a pt. who has a dvt for example, although many other dx may also require a hep drip. The dr would probably order...

  17. Pt.'s partner asked to have intercourse with a stoma !

    nminodob replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry - but I classify this story along with those "gerbil in rectum" tales - perhaps there is some truth to them, but they describe a minute fraction of the patient population and are usually...