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What about an office position? If you do home hospice, good clinical judgement is important, because often times you are by yourself in the home. You'll drive yourself crazy second guessing all the little things that come up. If you're heart is in ho...

I'm a new hospice nurse, and I'm finding a lot more patients than what I had anticipated are wanting a lot of treatment for things unrelated to their hospice diagnosis. Or wanting ct scans, pet scans to r/o symptoms. A lot of people being discharged ...

I feel like it's more, they don't want to continue to see their own doc, they just want us to treat all other conditions, usually because they aren't ambulatory. It's easy to keep within the mindset of " only treating and managing the hospice diagnos...

8 on days is a lot, but like others have said you will start to be faster and more efficient, hang in there you will get the hang of it, I felt the same way, got sick every day before work, but you will get through it!

Definitely focus on time management and organization, it's the biggest challenge for most new nurses

our protocol goes up to 3 mg IV or PO q2 hours, so over a 12 hour shift that's 18mg, don't worry you did fine!

thanks for sharing, and congrats!!

If you already took the test all you can do is just sit back and wait, try not to think about it, at this point there isnt anything you can do now, given the test is the only deciding factor. Good luck!!

I'd love to hear what you ended up doing and what happened??

I think if they wanted you there bad enough they would have made suggestions or assisted you in getting there, if it's as bad as you say, major roads are closed, etc, and it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to get there, what are you suppossed to do? I unders...

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Usually a patient in sickle cell crisis they will infuse fluids, put them on O2 and give pain meds. Red blood cells won't help, the problem is the occlusion of the vascular spaces caused by the sickling. What do you mean by 13 months pregnancy?

The opposite happened to me, once I had the gallbladder out I began having reflux. I'm soo happy I did though I'd much rather pop a Nexium than to have the unbearable pain I was having with my dysfunctional gallbladder :)

I used to work in the school system as a behavioral modification assistant. I accepted a job in a pretty poor neighborhood school, my family was against it obviously, but I kept with it, until I was threatened and then I made the decision to put my...

Take time for yourself to relax and have a good time, or you'll become like some of my classmates, cranky, sleep deprived and obsessed :)

once you get a routine down it's fine, I don't deprive myself of sleep period, I get at least 8 hours a night, its one of my priorities :)

I'm going to finish my BSN program in December, I've been thinking about joining the Army to do nursing there. My husband is Active duty Army also, anyone in this particular situation? I'm wondering how that works with stationing and also wondering i...

it depends on your instructor, i did a lot of bed baths and oral care, some of my classmates in other groups did a lot of iv's caths and wound care. Good luck!!

What I do is as soon as I get the MAG I look up the meds real quick with what class the drug is, reason for admin, common side effects and nursing considerations, like labs to look for, or when to do B/P or pulse prior. This way I feel comfortable g...

My request form for my senior preceptorship is due tommorow and I'm still on the fence as to which hospital to choose. As an Army wife, my first choice had been WalterReed, to get some experience in the military hospitals, after I get some experience...

I'd double up by wearing a tampon and a pad and spanks or something to hold it in place, luckily we wear dark blue pants

wow, i'm still in school and i'd never dream of doing this, although I know that some of my classmates had clinical instructors who often left the floor and they gave meds by themselves, i agree with your statement about being clear about your expect...

question to you wives that have interviewed, do you disclose your husband's military status? I haven't worked as a nurse yet ( I graduate in Dec), but I know that in the past interviewers always ask what brings me to the area when they look at my res...

i sold the ones i dont really care about, ie theory, health promotion modeling, study guides etc.

Aww I went to Stockton for my first degree, before they had a nursing program in 2002. I had a 920 on my SATs and I got in, good luck!!!