Help - I don't know any NPs personally that I can talk to. I am considering applying for an NP program - most likely family care or adult care. My fantasy is to move to a rural area in my state that doesn't have close and convenient medical care (a...
Hello! I will be doing my pediatric clinical rotation this Fall for my FNP program and am trying to find applications for my new I-Touch that will be useful in the clinical setting. It's a bit overwhelming when looking at those available and not ha...
Thank you so much! I will look into this...all of the possible apps out there are downright mind-boggling (and expensive)! Your input is deeply appreciated.
Well...the scoop is you won't start out making $75,000 a year. More like a base salary of $45,000 - $55,000, maybe $65,000 if you are in an area that appreciates the need for good nursing instructors at a community college with an MSN. You don't ha...
In the first semester of my MSN, need to do a paper and am currently attempting to find research articles and information relative to nursing theory specifically used in the emergency care setting. I work in an ED, but we have no publicized nursing ...
The ED I'm at has "sides" - if your one side one beds 1-8 belong to you and your side-mate(s) (depending on staffing that day). When busy you get hallway patients. Triage brings them back, ambulance calls come in and whoever takes the call puts tha...
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You go panhandler! I agree with you 100%. Nurses should get it together and form their own practice groups - refuse to work in hospitals that don't meet patient-centered criteria for nursing practice and don't support nurses in order for nurses to ...
As a one-year old new-grad who started out in the ER (and still there), I agree with the above postings - especially the "don't p--- off the tech's or unit clerk". In addition, I'd like to add: - Find out where the "Clinical Pathways" book is and ma...
Attempting to collect information to revamp our emergency department orientation for new employees. Would anyone care to share what they do for orientation? 1. Orientation for New Grads in the ER. 2. Orientation for old nurses new to the ER. 3. ...
Thank you for the replies - please keep them coming. The ENA modules sound like a great idea - could anyone direct me to where I could obtain them - I did a little searching on the ENA website but didn't have any luck. Thanks.
What about an "at risk for" any of the side affects or ADRs that might be possible with the new med - or a "knowledge deficit" regarding new medicaiton? Of course, some instructors don't like either of those types of NDX's. . . but the reality is th...
Good for you!! I am a new grad-just-past-the-nclex-and-now-an-rn and have been orienting in an ED. Be careful. You need to be quick, but you need to watch what you're doing - for your safety and your patients'. And never be afraid to admit you ar...
a friend was with me - we both got 75. I got two math calculations an a bunch of questions specific to the knee contraption used after knee replacement. She got no math. Speaking with others some got math, some didn't, some got alternative medicat...
Yes - it's worth it. A little scary but worth it. I'll be finishing my BSN in 4 weeks (previously had a BBA). Many people in the program worked - some full time. It is hard, but if you don't have any other responsibilities (kids), you could do it...
I came her tonight looking for something to keep me going - and I found many things to do just that amongst all the different threads. Thank you. Please - when you nurses see those students coming through - be kind to them and teach them if you hav...
I graduate in December 04 (hopefully)- I say hopefully because I have had a few run-ins with my most recent clinical instructor - one of which was a the tubing from the feeder going into the peg tube hit the floor during medications. I find that wha...
Yes thank you from another greatful student. Except - about Mr. Smith - I would have thought the answer would be call the doctor, because we don't know if a) an order O2 has been written - so wouldn't that be a presumtous answer? If anybody could cl...
Hi - I'm a new "non-tradional" student too. 36 - midlife career change, mother of one and grandmother (too young). They are trying to kill you your first semester Rae - I 'm in my second semester of "nursing" in an accelerated CD2 program for a BS...