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mindlor

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  1. If your teacher gets her tests directly off the Internet...

    mindlor replied to Melseal's topic in General Students

    My teachers pulled questions word for word from our textbook, the study guides that came with the textbooks and from the various NCLEX review books such as Saunders..... I studied all of these books...

  2. New grad not ready for new grad program - where to go from here?

    mindlor replied to RNenthusiast's topic in General Nursing

    Look for a new place.... Does not sound like such a good

  3. Help Assessment Final

    mindlor replied to kittkat2432's topic in General Students

    Start one system at a time.... Neuro = cranial nerves...... Respiratory = adventitious sounds, trachea not midline, use of accessory muscles...etc Cardio, brady or tachy, murmurs, irregular, delayed...

  4. Flu Shots anyone?

    mindlor replied to sauconyrunner's topic in General Nursing

    Make it convenient, that will improve your

  5. Double standard for men?

    mindlor replied to grpman's topic in Male Nursing Students

    One reason I became a nurse is to work with women. Not cruisin for girls thing, I just really really like women....I

  6. Vent about management......

    mindlor replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    HAHAHAHAHAHA good thing hospitals have a never ending supply

  7. Good jobs for Nursing Students

    mindlor replied to feralnostalgia's topic in General Students

    Same issue here slr. I tried to get that PCT job but nope....it never happened.... So now here I go charging onto the floor with zero real world experience.... Gonna be

  8. Vent about management......

    mindlor replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    Would have been a lot easier for the founding fathers of the USA to capitualte....but they chose to stand up for what they believed. It was not easy. Many died. But the rest is

  9. Vent about management......

    mindlor replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    If we do not stand up, conditions are going to get worse, and worse, and worse......... We must be

  10. Is this patient having Hypovolemic shock or Cardiogenic Shock or both？

    mindlor replied to harrierjz's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You are correct jt, there is not enough

  11. Is this patient having Hypovolemic shock or Cardiogenic Shock or both？

    mindlor replied to harrierjz's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes yes... The people who failed out of my nursing program where primarily paramedics and lpns who had years of real world experience.... They just could not block out their real life/real world...

  12. Vent about management......

    mindlor replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    I understan though about having to provide for your family. So yes, sometimes we must suck things up in this world......

  13. Vent about management......

    mindlor replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    Call the labor board but do not do so anomously. Stand proud, give your name. Then if the discipline you for reporting them you have an open and shut case in

  14. How Do I Help Them?

    mindlor replied to KatePasa's topic in General Students

    LOL tell me!!! I have my last two 12 hour shifts of my preceptorship where I have PAID to bust my RUMP/BACK.... Working for free is very unappealing to me

  15. Vent about management......

    mindlor replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

    Management has learned that jobs are hard to come by and they will get more and more cavelier in their ways of doing business. The best thing to do is speak with your feet providing you can find a...

  16. Is this patient having Hypovolemic shock or Cardiogenic Shock or both？

    mindlor replied to harrierjz's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Congrats on getting in to nursing school Now I am going to give you some solid gold advice.....what you do with it is up to you. A successful student CANNOT READ ANYTHING INTO THE...

  17. Flu Shots anyone?

    mindlor replied to sauconyrunner's topic in General Nursing

    What does the CDC say? Listen we have had this same thread a million times....... We are going to have to follow facility policy or find a new place to work.... Its just that

  18. Is this patient having Hypovolemic shock or Cardiogenic Shock or both？

    mindlor replied to harrierjz's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Well, the best clinical indicator of cardia output is urine output. 20 mL over 4 hours is very poor. However, from just the info provided it cannot be ascertained if this is caused by hypovolemia or...

  19. Double standard for men?

    mindlor replied to grpman's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Yup in my previous career I was accused of sexual harrassment by a female employee that I had disciplined. I was treated like a criminal and was assumed guilty until proven innocent.... Makes me sick...

  20. Flu Shots anyone?

    mindlor replied to sauconyrunner's topic in General Nursing

    I would not fire people over it but the mask initiative seems to me to be the way to roll...... To enforce, but a red sticker on the name badge indicating no flu shot, red badger, wearing no mask, =...

  21. How Do I Help Them?

    mindlor replied to KatePasa's topic in General Students

    I was in the same boat. I dont mind helping a FRIEND. But I tell ya, people claiming to be my friends as test time approached seemed to increase dramatically.... I detest being used. Eventually I...

  22. Is this patient having Hypovolemic shock or Cardiogenic Shock or both？

    mindlor replied to harrierjz's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The best answer truly would be that from the information provided by the OP, there would not be a clear way to differentiate between hypovolemic shock and cardiogenic shock...... Pt is in the ICU so...

  23. Is this patient having Hypovolemic shock or Cardiogenic Shock or both？

    mindlor replied to harrierjz's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    High CVP is characteristic of cardiogenic shock, not so in other types of shock....... was gonna leave this for the OP to research but being that you

  24. Double standard for men?

    mindlor replied to grpman's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Most organizations in the US have an EEO officer..... The only way things like this will improve is by uss reporting them....... Letting things slide will set the precedence that it is

  25. Organizing for nursing school

    mindlor replied to azjen43's topic in General Students

    Relax, do lots of fun things with people you love.... Worry about school when school starts is my best