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I am a new nurse manager and I am having difficulty with calculations ? We are planning to implement a different nursing model and I have to figure out how many RNs and how many PCTs I have to have for the unit to be fully staffed. Our targ...

Bringing this topic up. I am in the same situation and chose director of nursing position. Did not want the opportunity to pass since it may never come back. Just wondering what you decided to do when u were making this decision and are you glad abou...

I have always had a problem with pulmonary function tests. Help me interpret these findings PEF> 80%, FEV1/FVC >75%.

I did not ask ok AN right away and I prefer evidence based articles over google to find my answers. I did read several articles but I also thought it would not hurt to ask an opinion of someone here.

I have a 40 something year old with asthma.

I work on a busy ortho unit. Our recent problem is increased number of falls. Especially lower extremity joint replacement patient falls while getting them up and ambulating. Although we stay with the patient, use gait belt, bed and chair alarms, fal...

We also use commode versus bathroom, knees with femoral block are the ones falling most of the time. Do you have 2 persons to assist the patient? Do they get up with knee immobilizers?

Nur500 is a piece of cake :) ended up with 98.5%.

2.5 years

I am starting January 6!!! Yay!!

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I just started working with provant and yesterday attended my first event. In IL they pay $28 an hour. Everything was very well organized. There were 10 of us and others worked for provant 3 or more years. They send emails with events you can either ...

So did it turn out to be legit?

Hi! I have a question for the ICU nurses. I am a student, therefore, I do not have experience but I have curiosity. I know that sedation vacations help to prevent VAP, but how about patients that are getting paralytics, who are sedated with propofol...

Thank you all for your input.

I think you've made great decision. Let me be honest. You will hate nursing school and then you will love it :) As it comes to clinicals, most of my clinicals were on Saturdays only, from 6:30am till about 3-4pm. One clinical rotation I had Saturdays...

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I just started working as a PCT with no experience, altough I'm in my last semester in BSN. I'm getting paid $14 day shift, with differentials $1 for weekends and $21 overtime.

I'm graduating from Lewis accelerated program in August. So far non of the semesters seemed to be light. It was pretty mcuh very intense. Some of our cohort quit because of the stress and intensity. Some went to traditional cohort so that they can go...

Hi all! I'm graduating in August 12 with my BSN. This means that I will have my license in September. This also means that I'm missing on the new grad program that starts in August. Are there any new grad programs that start later (other that March)....

Please share what you feel you need to improve to become a wonderful nurse. Finish the sentence. I feel I need to improve my:

Ok so here is a lot in information about the legalities of the use of medical cannabis. However, I'm having a hard time finding information about what are the nursing interventions other then patient and family education and patient advocacy. So how ...

This semester I have my clinicals at CCU/PCU I think I need to manage my time better. Who do I see first? How am I going to round so that I would not skip on something critical.

That's exactly what happened :) Funny but that's true:lol2:

Edit: Never mind. Just figured this one out :) I feel like I'm hitting a wall and I need your assitance. I had a post op patient after small bowel resection and I'm now writing a care plan for the nursing diagnosis: Risk for infection r/t/ invasive p...