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most of the clients we serve are on invega sustenna, some are on risperdal consta, none on haldol or prolixin as they are unavailable in the area I am in. Most clients relate only the first couple shots of invega sustenna are somewhat painful, invega is a somewhat harsh medication, most of the practioners in the clinic i work in prefer invega sustenna because it's every 4 weeks, compared with every 2 weeks for risperdal consta.

I applied for psych too, I wanted to know what kind of education and clinical backgrounds people have going into this program?

I am a community mental health nurse, the clinic I work at gives risperdal consta and invega sustenna injections, invega comes in 117mg, 156mg, and 234mg and is suppose to be given every 4 weeks, some of the clients we see had their 234mg invega sustenna bumped up to every 3 weeks, all of the clients who have gotten it every 3 weeks have gotten these hard knots after a couple weeks of getting the injection and after giving couple more the nurse practioners have discontinued the clients off it, has anyone heard of this happening to their clients? I know invega sustenna is a very harsh medication and a side effect is injection site issues, just wondering if other people have had this issue?

Hi, this is question that I could answer myself, but I would like some input because I'm super indecisive, so I have 2 options for nursing practicums: Emanuel's Burn Unit or IV Therapy? which one would you choose?

My first quarter in nursing school was in the summer because I was a transfer student, we had (10 weeks): Intro to Nursing Pharmacology Nursing Skills (1st 5 weeks) Assessment (2nd 5 weeks) Skills Lab and a clinical it was like 18-19 credits

Our school had us get Sparks and Taylor's Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, it's a great help it gives you multiple nursing diagnoses, with interventions, expected outcomes, etc some diagnoses include: activity intolerance r/t oxygen supply and demand fatigue knowledge deficit r/t difficulty understanding disease process and its effects on self care We always start careplan out with (1) assessment data that shows why you choose nursing diagnosis vital signs, objective data, subjective data (facial expressions, pain, etc) (2)nursing diagnosis (3)patient expected outcomes Patient will have increased O2 above 92% by end of hospital stay Patient will verbalize reasons why smoking is dangerous to health by end of hospital stay (4)interventions/rationales monitor patient's vital signs every hour monitor patient's lab values (mainly WBC, RBC) every day (5)evaluation of patient outcomes Patient outcome was not met because patient's O2 were unchanged by end of hospital stay Patient outcome was met because by third hospital stay O2 increased to 95%. Hope this helps:stdnrsrck:

I'm currently in the Walla Walla University - School of Nursing in Portland, it is a great program and the class sizes are small and the program is growing, the first 2 years is in Walla Walla and the second 2 years is in Portland, I transfered to the Portland campus from MHCC so I don't have first hand experience from Walla Walla University, but everyone else from there says it's great and I love the teachers and clinicals.

All of the nursing programs in portland are very highly competitive, do stuff based on GPA, points, other certifications and other test scores. Right now I'm at Walla Walla University - School of Nursing and it rocks, it's a BSN program and I transfered in for 2 years (it by Adventist Medical Center. Like other people have said, Linfield OHSU University of Portland Concordia and other community colleges that are in OCNE (transfer to OHSU for BSN)

As a current nursing student, I only got a tour at the Burn unit in Oregon, I'm doing my practicum at the Burn unit, other than that we don't get Burn unit rotations.

I currently go to Walla Walla University - School of Nursing and their program is 2 years for bachelors and i think if you're a LPN they take some of your classes and you just take a few less classes, http://www.wallawalla.edu, look under nursing

I don't know if you're looking to graduate with a AA or BSN, but the school I'm at WWU in portland is a BSN program is a great school, i don't know about their transfer policy, but i'm sure you could look it up on http://www.wallawalla.edu in the nursing part

I took my CNA 3 years ago from cascade medical school in 4 weeks, it was about $1000, they have CNA programs it seems like at just about any community college, if you get hired at certain places sometimes they pay off your CNA class costs. I worked at legacy meridian park for about 3 months and then got into nursing school, hospitals are in my opinion a lot nicer than nursing homes to work in, i got lucky and was working there just weekends, now if you want to work in a hospital oregon you have to have your CNA2.

well, I'm in a nursing program in oregon getting my BSN and they didn't even require or give points for having your CNA certification let alone phlebotomy, it probably would give you good experience to do IVs, but it might not give you extra points to get into a nursing program. I wish my nursing program gave us more time to practice IVs, we got a day with the IV nursing and couple of times on medsurg floor.