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When you enter nursing school, of course you know it's going to be hard. If it wasn't then everyone would be doing it. When you are doing your clinicals, you see all the nurses on the floor doing their job and you have so much respect for them and yo...

I was seen at the ER a few weeks ago with an elevated D-Dimer (1.06). A little over a week later I asked my MD to redraw. It was drawn in her office then shipped to the hospital to be tested and the level read (10.2). I freaked out and went to the ER...

I can definitely understand what you are going thru. I am currently out of work for 2 weeks. My psychiatrist took me out! I have currently went back to school for my BSN and my professor has taken me out of that for 2 weeks as well. I just had a brea...

Does anyone know a successful diet? I have exercised and tried to eat right but when I get stressed I eat! And if I don't see results fast I give up! I have really been doing good walking and going to the gym for the past 3 - 4 months. Still I haven'...

I have them all of the time. I can just think of something or say to myself what if such and such happened, what would I do. And you guessed it, not to long afterwards, I'm talking hours or in some cases a day or two that exact same thing happens. It...

I have had the exact same thing happen to me. It feels like you have a elephant sitting on your chest!

About a year or so ago I had an Anxiety Attack. I know its because of my career choice. Does anyone else ever experience Anxiety Attacks?

Too late. Already on meds. Maybe I just need to have the doseage turned up or something!!!

This last attack I had they classified it this time as a panic attack. A lot of the s/sx were the same except I felt warm in my pelvic area and felt like I had to urinate but could not!! Very weird!! I thought that maybe I had a hemhorrage. From what...

The s/sx i had with my first attack was pain in both my legs below the knees and it was more in my calf than anywhere else. Then by the afternoon it was only in the left calf. When i got home i elevated the left leg and i could not get comfortable so...

I have been nursing for right at 4 years. I have done clinical, hospital, hospice, ADON for a pcs agency, and now I am currently doing Skilled Nursing. I made very good money with hospice but you have to be on call and leave your home in the middle o...

You know there is one thing that puzzles me. The pt had a box of self caths lying on the bedside table and the mother stated to me that he hasn't been self cath since he was 13 yrs old and he is now in his late 20's. The box looked new! Something tel...

I inserted a foley catheter on a spina bifida pt and I set up the procedure table and my sterile field. I did everything as I was instructed. I advanced the foley and stopped when I met resistance. I asked the pt to relax because I felt him tense up....

OMG!!!

I definitely can say that this has been a learning experience for me!! Slowly sounds real good!!

Yes but MD would not give order to do so. MD stated it was close to 5pm on a Friday and she wasn't writing any orders. You know how MDs can be!

No, they're not on coumadin. It's just that I've always taken pride in taking good care of my patients. Now I feel like I've failed!!

Well this pt does not do self caths. The doctor sent an order for an indwelling foley to be placed. I'm not this patients primary nurse. I was only trying to help out another nurse because she was busy at the time and needed someone else to place the...

Thank you so much!! You don't know what that means to me!!

If I were you, I would look at the picture as a whole. Where would you benefit the most? If you don't have kids and you can live with your mom, I would get a job at a hospital working the graveyard shift and continue along the path towards your RN. I...

I have worked to hard for my license to lose them! Plus, the fact that I'm a worry wart doesn't help either!!

Has this ever happened to you or are you speaking of an experience that you've heard of. This has never happened to me. I am freaking out!! The doctor was notified and she stated that she wasn't giving any orders because it was close to 5pm on a Frid...