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  1. Has anyone one the waitlist heard anything ? Would anyone who was accepted be able to let me know when your secondary enrollment deposit is or was due ? I was placed on the waitlist and told positions...
  2. I know for other schools they look at the GRE, but I went to an info session for Jefferson over the summer and I asked about it and they said they don’t look at it. So it might help you elsewhere,...
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    DKA/HHNK

    Hello all, I work in a medical ICU in a primarily cardiac hospital. It is rare we see patients in HHNK but it does happen. Most recently, a patient was admitted at 4 am and not initiated on fluids...
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    DKA/HHNK

    This is why I was wondering if a protocol worked in other institutions, because of those kinds of nuances. I'll just be doing some reeducating. Thanks
  5. I applied in early November, I received an interview Dec 9th but I was out of the country so I deferred it to the next interview date which is this Monday, hope that doesn't hurt me. When I...
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    Lowest bicarb on abg

    “Undetectable.” Guy’s ph was 6.5 and blood sugar was 11. He somehow managed to survive another 12 hours. Only 23 years old
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    University of Maryland CRNA 2020

    Did anyone upload “additional documents”? Not really sure what kind of thing schools are looking for
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    Childcare & STEMI Call Question...

    My boyfriend is a cardiologist who frequently takes call in the ICU. He just doesn’t schedule himself for call on days he has his daughter. If they try to schedule him, he just says no. His mom and...
  9. We usually give blood while the patient is on dialysis. That may have helped. Or a dose of lasix or bumex immediately following transfusion if she is still making urine. Hard to say based on this...
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    Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    The infectious disease doctor was rounding on a 87 year old patient who had been started by one of the fellows on antibiotics for possible gonorrhea. The ID doc writes in his progress note: "at this...
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    What is a good quality stethoscope?!

    I have the littman master cardiology. worth every
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    reading EKGs- an advanced privilege?

    i guess technically the orthopedic doc would be allowed, but i hope he wouldn't do it without consulting
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    To Be (Monitored) or Not To Be (Monitored)

    At my hospital there's an order whether the patient needs to be transported on tele or not. There's a protocol in place they must be transported on tele if they're on a drip like amio, lido,...
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    reading EKGs- an advanced privilege?

    I'm an RN at a small hospital on a tele unit. As an RN the doctors trust me to read an EKG and alert them for anything alarming but I couldn't sign it off. We have a few PAs and NPs and their scope...
  15. Hi all, looking for a little advice. I graduated with my BSN in May 2014 and I have been at my first job on a cardiac step-down unit since November 2014. I want to further my education, and my...
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    Telemetry Nursing Questions

    1. If a patient exhibits say a 10 beat run or less of vtach overnight and already has labs for the morning, should I wake up the cardiologist or primary doctor if they don't have a cardiology...
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    DESPERATE for help & advice!

    I found that I obtained strategy tools better by doing Hurst review than by doing Kaplan, but I found Kaplan's questions closer to the NCLEX questions. If you get the Hurst online course you get...
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    Elsevier CAT exam

    I took the CAT exam! It moves up and down the way the actual NCLEX does like how if you get one right it will give you a harder one and if you get that one wrong it will give you an easier one. By...
  19. Hi! So i'm a high school junior and it's time for me to start looking at colleges and know what I want to do. Ultimately, I want to be a neonatal nurse practitioner. So I've been trying to research it...
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    What does a day in the NICU look like?

    theres a stickie on this already if you click here:
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    How to become a neonatal np?

    I understand why it would be worrying that I wrote that I want to be an NNP! ...what do they do? But that isn't exactly how I meant it. I knew a general of what an NNP does, but I was looking for...
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    How to become a neonatal np?

    Thankyou! But, why would you choose to get a degree then go to nursing school when you could just flat out get a nursing degree? Just getting your nursing degree would be faster right? Does doing...