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Hello all I recently started my nursing classes and am looking to purchase a stethoscope for lab and clinicals. I wanted to know from your experience what stethoscope is the best for nursing students. I am aware that everyone says LITTMAN is the best...

Hello my fellow ER nurses! I work in a level 2 ER in Chicago, lately I have seen more LVAD pts coming in but we don't take care of LVAD pts and I have not had any teaching on them. Does anyone know who offers LVAD classes in Chicago for nurses? Tha...

Hello All, I am in need of some help. I have been searching online for the Lewis Medical Surgical Nursing E-book to see if I can download it from on line. I have not been successful. Does anyone know where I could get the E-book? Thank you for your t...

Hello All, I am looking into getting my TNCC/CCRN but I have heard its best to get one first then the other. What certifications do you have and did you get then in any particular order? Thank you for your help.

Guy came in for a spider bite "A spider bit you?" "Well I don't know if it bit me but I saw the spider I tried to kill it, then I felt something so I don't know if it bit me" He had nothing, no bite, swelling, redness just lack of common sense.

I had a pt come in for a mosquito bite. We put bacitracin on it and gauze/tape. The pt then wanted bacitracin/gauze/tape to take home. I couldn't believe it. Another pt came in just for a pregnancy test. She peed in a cup, she wasn't pregnant have h...

Worked for me. Took NCLEX Tuesday, I did the trick 30 minutes after taking the exam and I got the good pop up. I tried it again that same night and I got the good pop up again. I paid for my quick results today, and I passed! You passed too! Congrats...

KML 1030, yea waiting is horrible! BUT if you got the good pop up then just wait for them to update your RN status. :) Ortizz184: I used a lot of things to study. I took the Kaplan course and did about 80% of their question bank. I needed more conte...

Hello All, I took the NCLEX exam today, and 30 minutes later I tried the PVT. I got the good pop up.....BUT now I'm wondering if I did the PVT too soon. Do you have to wait a certain amount of time to do the PVT? Thanks in advance for your reply :)

Hello all, I am wondering how many hours you all have to do for your leadership clinical? Our school does 120 hours in 5 weeks. Thanks for your answers. :)

I think so. The last clinical we have is leadership. Where we start off following the nurse and we then have the full patient load. This way we have experience being a nurse. We have to do 120 hours in five weeks which seems like a lot to me.

Hello All, I need help with a nursing diagnosis for my patient. He is a 22 month old boy with thrush who came in the hospital for fever of unknown origin. He had fever off and on since August which his mother was treating at home but brought him in...

How was his fluid status? -Fluid was low, he was on D5 0.9% NaCl infusion How was he eating? -He didn't eat much Thank you so much, I really appreciate it, you are a life saver! :)

Hello All, I am having the hardest time coming up with a nursing diagnosis for my patient please read and see if you can help 20 y.o pregnant female, estimated gestation 35 weeks and 5 days. previous abortion 10 weeks, had positive RPR went from 1:25...

Do practice NCLEX questions for the class you are taking, look at the success book such as Med-Surg Success: Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking it'll give you practice questions and rationale for every answer. It helped me a lot ...

Feels good to say I am a Senior!! Thanks Congrats & Good Luck Everyone were almost there, I can see the light!

Nursing school will do that to you. It's because the content is much more dense. Don't focus on reading the whole chapter because patho is SOOOO boring. Focus on what your teacher mentioned in class and what they want you to know.

I'm already exhausted and its our second week. I try and stay positive that I'm almost done and the payoff is near but I'm tired all the time. I think I need caffeine IVPB lol

I prefer to sit in the back. I hate sitting in the front or in the middle.

I feel your pain, I commute to my school which is already an hour away. My clinical is currently 30 min further than my school with a start time of 6:30 so I have to leave my house around 4:30 to make sure I get there on time (you never know b/c of a...

I feel the same way, I just started my senior year and I keep procrastinating. This is my break from reading community (very boring btw). BUT you are almost there! It is true though only nursing students understand the pain we go through. Everyone I...

I feel your pain, I've come home from an exam feeling good and then I saw the score. What you need to do is review your exam (if it's too late then do that next time) and see were you went wrong, maybe you thought too much about the question or you r...

Same thing for me in my program. BUT if you're in clinical and the nurse is going to put an IV ask if you can do it, they walk you through it step by step. A girl in my clinical group was able to start an IV even though we are technically not going t...

We're Seniors!! SO excited but SO scared at the same time. I know it's going to be hard work but I am so excited to be done in May. Good Luck Class of 2012!!

Congrats! You're a nursing student! When you get to Med-Surg you get more opportunity to do more things. Med-Surg for me is when I started to feel like a nurse. Hope this helps! Good Luck!