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I'm getting ready to start research on advance directives. I am particularly interested in researching how to deal with family members who disagree with their loved ones advance directives, and I'm also interested in the legal aspect and how family ...

One of my favorite instructors once told me, "the day you come to work, and you aren't nervous, you need to hang it up and find a new career." Her reason behind saying this is because we have a lot of responsibility, and the minute we get comfortabl...

Well, it's almost over! I graduate in four weeks and I'm looking at job listings every single day . I'm very interested in both NICU and newborn nursery (imagine that :) ) I've noticed that in most of the job listings and descriptions it says NRP...

Sterile maggots? Now I've heard it all :chuckle

We were always told that actual problems (pain, fluid volume deficit,etc...) take priority over potential problems (risk for injury, risk for fluid/electrolyte imbalance, etc...) Do you guys have to include collaborative problems in your care plans?...

I'm in sort of a pickle. My sister-n-law is due at the end of february. This just so happens to be when I will be in the middle of my preceptorship on the mom/baby unit. She and her husband smoke pot on a regular basis. When I confronted them abo...

Hi everyone. I am a senior nursing student, getting ready to graduate in only a few short weeks----YEAH:roll As soon as my first day of nursing school people were coming out of the woodwork to ask me crazy health questions. I'm sure you have had ...

I've printed out a bunch of "cheat sheets" that I take to clinical everyday with spaces to fill in for the date, rm #, vital signs, labs, etc... This has helped me out a bunch. At first I was getting report from the primary nurse-----losing that pi...

Okay, so I just realized that I didn't answer your question at all. All I can find is a description of drug-drug interactions, but no examples or explanations of which are pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic. Drug- Drug interaction- when an individ...

Pharmacokinetics is the study of what the body does to the drug. Pharmacodynamics is the study of what the drug does to the body. So---In other words, pharmacokinetics is where the med is absorbed, how it is distributed, how it is metabolized and h...

Do you think it is better for a new graduate to go straight into a specialty, or get a year or so of med-surg experience first?

Just started today! My clinical rotation this five weeks is on Neuro-----YUCK:(

Sorry----went back through 10 pages and couldn't find anything. Any other replies would be greatly appreciated:)

Thanks for your reply:) When people would ask me where I wanted to work in the beginning of school, I would always say I was going to wait until I had seen everything in clinical and then I would decide. I know I haven't seen everything, but I hav...

Before this offends anyone-----I do realize that med-surg can be a specialty. Some of our instructors say we should immediately begin working where we want to, and others say it's better to have some experience on a floor where you tend to see a lit...

Yes. I live in SC, and people around here are going crazy with this no carb thing. They're eating bacon and steaks three times a day and going into ketoacidosis because they arent's consuming anything but protein. I don't think they realize that e...

I pretty much agree with everyone else! A&P and Microbiology are a lot of memorization. I took two chemistry classes in High School (when I had dreams of being a chemical engineer----what was I thinking?). I remember Chemistry feeling more lik...

I have a friend who works as an LPN at a nursing home only on weekends, and goes to school during the week while finishing the program for RN. They gave her a job as a supervisor (which I didn't know was in the scope of practice for LPN's) immediate...

This one doesn't really have anything to do with nursing, but it's my favorite to use when I am in disagreement with someone------------There are three sides to every story, yours, mine, and the truth. :)

We are very fortunate in upstate SC to have a number of healthcare facilities. I can think of 4 hospitals within 45 minutes of my house, not including the outpatient care facilities that go along with those hospitals. The shortage of nurses in my a...

I am from a small town in SC, and when anybody around here decides to be a nurse they know exactly where to go. (Greenville Technical College) I am new to this website, and I have noticed that most of your programs are completely different from min...

What about those cloth stethescope covers, or the cute little pins to hold your badge?:)

I am new also-----and a native South Carolinian! I have a friend who is a CRNA. In South Carolina you have to have a BSN, then have at least one year of experience in critical care, then you can complete a two year CRNA program. I believe they hav...

I'm a student, and I have two Saunder's NCLEX review books that have great practice questions, and they have also helped me study for tests in class. They are set up like MedSurg class content-----Review of Systems. If you are taking your NCLEX aft...

I did a similar project for the postpartum unit. I called and made an appointment to speak with the nurse manager. I made out a list of questions first. She was very helpful! She gave me all sorts of hand outs and copies of the clinical pathways ...