CharlieT

An airplane I have put up with so much crap in nursing school that I deserve it.

45 here, will finish up with the spring semester. I have enjoyed my time in nursing school, but it has been a long and rocky road. I was ready to start making a difference in the world for people with my life instead of just making things.

I am so tired as well. I have been looking forward to pinning for years. Now that its less than six weeks away, it just seems like another thing to try to work into my hetic schedule.

I am now doing my preceptership in the ER. I love it! I am using my nursing skills and using things I have learned from all of my classes. Peds, psyc, fundamentals, ....., all of them.

Yes, starting with the first day of clinical. Of course we are practicing under the license of our preceptor.

I am supposed to go to pinning in Dec. I failed my first psyc test, so I am now really under the gun to pull my grade up. Just 3 months till pinning, I really need to just suck it up and put in the study time.

I light my candle Dec 15. Three and a half years to earn a two year degree.

Get to know a few people, they will be your support system. I am starting my last semester. Nursing school will come to an end one day.

3.5 for me

Tara ann, Think of med surg as being a catch all for the bulk of adult patients in the hospital. This is where people go that don't belong in a speciality area such as the ER, ICU, NICU, peds, etc. You will see many general nursing procedures in med surg. Stuff like foley caths, IVs, injections, SCDs, insulin and many other meds. At my school: med surg 1 aka common health problems med surg 2 aka uncommon health problems med surg 3 aka preceptership aka another offical name that I can't remember right now

Three years ago I had dreams of CRNA. Now I just dream of passing NCLEX and obtaining gainful employment ;-). The ER is an area that I would like or some type of ICU perhaps.

One more week and I start my last semester! Psyc and critical care classes, each seven weeks. I am also picking up an elective in phys. assessment. Pinning is in Dec. I am so glad to be wrapping up, I have been working on this for over 3 years.

After posting this I see that my equation is hard to read. 5000mg,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,500mg -------,,,,,,,, =,,,,,,,,, -------- 12.5ml ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,X ml There we go, just ignore all of the commas.

fosters girl On some problems you may need the total volume, it really depends on what they are asking you to solve for. ns88 and Bob are spot on for solving your second problem. Here is how I would attack it, this is a little different than most people would solve but it works for me. 1g = 1000mg, so, 5g = 5000mg from our label we have a ratio of 5000mg in 12.5ml ok, so now that we have all of our info, here we go 5000mg 500mg ------- = -------- 12.5ml X ml notice that milligrams are on top on both sides. I could have put the mg on bottom of both sides, it really does not matter. now for the best part "multiply the diagional that does not contain the unknown then divide by the only number thats left" 500mg times 12.5ml = 6250 6250 / 5000 = 1.25ml This is how I set up the ratio type problems. Different people set up problems in various ways and that is OK. I learned this method many years ago and have applied it for all sorts of things. Let me know if this dosent make sense and I will give you a better example.

250 ml to be infused in one hour x a 60 drop set = 15000 drops to be infused in one hour 15000 drops / 60 minutes in one hour = 250drops per minute They often give you too much info. You don't need to know the type of med or the total volume to be infused to arrive at the answer they are asking for. NOTICE: The 60gtt per ml set, there are 60 minutes in an hour, hmmmm......that was a really good number to use for an infusion set, not just some number pulled out of a hat. Think about it enough and you can come up with an even shorter way to solve this. Good luck in nursing school. I start my last semester in 3 weeks! Charlie