Sarah Hay

Sarah Hay

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  1. Unsure of what happened

    That's odd. One morning about 6am a patient on our floor went out of and fell back onto the bed and the charge nurse ordered a stat chest x-ray because the patient never regained consiousness and the...
  2. All patients have a right to deny any type of care. You must document the refusal, however. Your professor should be shamed for making you think you HAVE to make your patient accept any care you...
  3. Wearing scrubs to clinicals...

    Dressing
  4. Pharmacology help....17 drugs by thursday!

    Epocrates.com is also a great help. Or go buy a drug guide. In my program, we were required to purchase one. [= Good
  5. Which drug to give..........and why????

    I'd choose
  6. Sorry, misread the first sentence.
  7. Are your credits transferable? At my program/college, our nursing credits will not transfer so if we choose to leave this program, we'd have to start all over from the beginning somewhere else. Every...
  8. I am in my second and last year of my associate degree nursing program and am currently taking Medical Surgical Nursing for Adults and Children II and Nursing Skills. When I read the Med-Surg text, I...
  9. Numbing cream for peds IV's?

    When I did my rotation on a Pediatric floor, the RN used sweeties on a little infant while doing his
  10. motivation for studying

    For motivation ... if I do not study and make good grades, then they will kick me out and there goes the past year and a half of my life wasted and I'll be a big
  11. Help me please!!

    That's odd. I had no problem what so ever getting in the ADN program here in Florida. I applied, took the exam and got the letter in the mail. I didn't even know I had completed the proper pre-reqs...
  12. Things you need to know about Drexel

    100,000 $ for your
  13. Male Student Nurse Interested in OB.

    Equal Oppurtunity
  14. medication sheets

    [= Here you go. Medication Preparation
  15. Which Has Priority? Pain or Nutrition?

    Pain.
  16. dumb and stuttering nurse

    Well, you go to nursing school to get 'un-dumbed' and I'm working on that and I stutter occasionally like at the beginning, but once I get into the subject and talking more the stuttering goes away....
  17. Pregnancy during nursing school

    In my program, you will be removed if you become pregnant.
  18. Just because you finish nursing school and pass your boards ... doesn't mean you are supposed to know everything. You learn more and more as you work the floor.
  19. Which NCLEX book do you recommend?

    I bought the Saunders NCLEX review and it's great. I'm in Med-Surg II and I like the book because it gives a review of importannt topics as well...
  20. is it possible to pass med surg or should I just quit

    You can do it! I am in Med-Surg II now and it's easier than Med-Surg I because you know what to
  21. This is gonna be one heck of a semester!!!!!!

    Visible tattoos are a big no no. Especially as
  22. Metabolic/ respiratory acidosis and alkalosis

    This is not based on compensated or uncompensated because we haven't learned that... With respiratory you look at pH and PC02 (pH and PCO2 will teeter-totter) With metabolic you look at pH and HCO3-...
  23. "He just got out of the army not too long ago. He was honorably discharged after threatening to kill himself." -x- Does that tell you something? X(
  24. Just keep at it and your confidence will go
  25. $800 worth of textbooks for one class????

    One class? Are you sure? What books and what