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Not all of them. Orthos, eyes, orals, vascular, and plastics do not have to void. Pretty much everyone else does. SDS unit in hospital which also covers endoscopy. Endos do not void either. About 40-50 cases a day and 30-40 discharge home same day.

I was accepted to the RN-BSN for UTA Online program to start January 2011. Anyone else starting with me?

I did not know it should be changed if they had had a hysterectomy-it make sense though. Thanks!

The reason those patients are not in pain and you are is this...they had a camera shoved up their butt and you had your face peeled down and pulled back up. Plastic surgery hurts a lot...colonoscopy not so much.

I don't understand "floating it in" either, and I've been doing IVs for almost 20 years. Are you saying once you get a flash to withdraw the needle, hook it up to the saline and then continue to advance it? Since moving into periop I do a lot of IV, but find I have a hard time with 18s. They always blow in my no matter what. My coworker have mentioned floating it in, but I don't really understand the concept. I hate to be dense, but...

How is this working out for you so far? Are you doing the online program or the the classroom?

Thanks to both of you. I appreciate the info.

When I first applied it meant you were a "RN applicant" until you passed the nclex exam and you had 90 days to do so. I got a job right out of school, had 90 days to pass the test, and was designated as an "RN applicant" on my hospital ID and that is how I was supposed to sign my paperwork, i.e your name, RNA. Hope that helps.

Background- I am a diploma level RN with something like 118 hrs of random college credit. I was applying to a RN-BSN program online and they want to know when I am going to take this test. I googled it and it came up as an aptitude test? I have been an RN for 17 years, what is with this test? Fill me in please. Thanks bunches.

Yup, I would never do that. When I withdraw a med for a patient, I give that med myself. I never hand off a med, ever. That is part of the irritation...I am doing my work and her work too. I did not realize that is what you all thought I meant was going on...er, absolutely not. She is having us withdraw and medicate for her, not just withdraw meds for her to medicate with (which I am pretty sure none of us is stupid enough to do!)

Thanks guys. Yeah, we "noticed" that she asks us to medicate her patients for her. It is pretty casually done..."hey, can you get him something for pain for me?" and of course, we administer it ourselves after a quick assessment. (We are in a small open ward type unit) But it is getting to be a big PITA and we realized her patients weren't getting the pain meds unless we gave it to them for her. I honestly have not noticed whether she gets anything else from the pixis or not. I made it clear yesterday that I am not comfortable with this practice and the other nurses agree we need to put our foot down about it. If she comes clean and it is an access issue then that is different and we can address it. I didn't know access would be restricted like that in cases where there had been past issues. If it wasn't restricted access, how would it indicated diversion? I am unclear how not getting in the pixis is indicative of diversion. Fill me in please. Thanks much.

Why one of the nurses I work with seems to not want to be on record in the pixis? She always asks someone else to get meds for her patients regardless of how busy we are. I can't quite figure it out, she will let her patient suffer until someone has the time to medicate the patient for her rather than just get the med out herself. It isn't laziness, it is something beyond that, I am sure, I just don't know what.

Once I said..."Did I get drunk and we get married during the black out? Because only my exhusband has ever spoken to me this way." But generally the doctors have been respectful. I did have one surgeon, whom I was not actually speaking to, literally stamp his feet and yell about a family member recently though. I had gone to retrieve the anesthesiologist to speak to the patient's daughter and the surgeon caught wind of the request and threw a tantrum. I was quite shocked, both by his behavior and by the fact that I had no idea why he cared in the first place. It was just a wait of breath and adrenaline on his part and made him look like an idiot.

I need to see the flash.

I live in the Salem Lakes/ Rock Lake area of VB which is a nice safe area near TCC and the amphitheater. I do not have trouble with traffic at all in the mornings and rarely have jet noise issues. I love the schools. I would have moved out of state years ago if I was not so attached to the VB schools.