FineAgain

FineAgain

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  1. Interesting or Different Anatomy:What have you encountered?

    FineAgain replied to nursefrances's topic in General Nursing

    They still use them quite often though...some older ladies are not candidates for surgery; some (older and younger) just don't want surgery of any kind. So they are offered pessaries. Not my cuppa...

  2. I need help with these nursing questions

    FineAgain replied to bryan_del's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Esme, it irritates me as well that "patients" are called "clients" but that is what the schools make students call them these days... Can you make them stop? Please?

  3. Interesting or Different Anatomy:What have you encountered?

    FineAgain replied to nursefrances's topic in General Nursing

    We had a woman deliver who had two lady partss, complete with uteri. I also have seen situs inversus...and a poor little infant with a 3 chambered heart. Many odd placements for a urethra as

  4. GUM! Can you chew it on shift?

    FineAgain replied to SummitRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    People who chew ice nonstop drive me to distraction, but I never once asked them to stop. Nor is that banned although it is more annoying. And my gum chewing is

  5. Help with APA format

    FineAgain replied to sjalv's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If you use citationmachine.com it will tell you how to cite everything you use as a reference (even web pages), as well as the correct way to do the reference. Saved my life and sanity on many...

  6. Hospital RNs - how do you organize your shift?

    FineAgain replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    1915: Get report 1930-2100: Give meds, do assessments 2101: Wheels fall off wagon 2101-0730: Put out fires, give meds, put out more fires; go

  7. IV push

    FineAgain replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    I don't dilute as much as I used to...but if I haven't given something before I look it up. Some medications can't be diluted - like valium! Causes crystals to

  8. My interview at a Hospital with the lions

    FineAgain replied to garn12's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    WORD.

  9. Any new grads having problems with their preceptors?

    FineAgain replied to newbie'13's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My preceptor was great. She gave me the skills I needed to survive a 7 patient assignment on a busy med/surg night. I expected her to not do anything -- she was there to back me up, to answer...

  10. My interview at a Hospital with the lions

    FineAgain replied to garn12's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    They treated me like that when I went to Grady Nursing School (back when there was such a thing). Lowered my confidence so much that I didn't go back to school for years. I'm a happy BSN now though....

  11. How can you tell if antiembolic stockings (TED) are working?

    FineAgain replied to chewybub's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I would also add in your presentation "are they applied correctly"? Makes a difference, and there are many ways to apply them, but only one correct

  12. NGT Gastric Residual Volume? What would you do?

    FineAgain replied to zlintones's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    GrnTea is right (as per usual) :) In a clinical setting you would use critical thinking as well as protocol. In the school setting they just want you to know to hold at GRV >75. The 25 mL and...

  13. i'm serching for journals

    FineAgain replied to trilia_03's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    But spelling

  14. Need help with calculating drops/minute

    FineAgain replied to sam0931's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes, they always throw in the dosage to put you in a quandry...learning to take out what you don't need and concentrate on what you do need it the key to med

  15. Tried the pearson vue trick, got the bad pop-up

    FineAgain replied to simplymeee's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    As far as the PVT goes...I have 3 friends that I know of who got the "bad" pop-up and passed. No one, however, gets the "good" pop-up and fails. So don't despair until its time -- prepare for the...

  16. Medical marijuana, role of the nurse, professional organization

    FineAgain replied to hotflashion's topic in Patient Medications

    Exactly MunoRN! The endocannabinol system activation of the CB1 receptor inhibits release of neurotransmitters such as serotonin and acetylcholine, associated with pain impulse transmission, and...

  17. Medical marijuana, role of the nurse, professional organization

    FineAgain replied to hotflashion's topic in Patient Medications

    Studies have shown that smoking remains the preferred method of administration, especially for the ability to titrate the dose. The oral medication lacks some of the cannabinoids that make the...

  18. Nurses notes

    FineAgain replied to TXnurse87's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a racket to me. A typical insurance company

  19. Medical marijuana, role of the nurse, professional organization

    FineAgain replied to hotflashion's topic in Patient Medications

    Interesting. My capstone was on medical marijuana. I was interested to see if its use caused lung cancer or other URT problems. Part of the paper was about nursing implications...here is a snippet....

  20. Suggestions on care plan builders?

    FineAgain replied to VictoriaFlorezMiller's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm sure it is. Medscape was just the one we used when I was in school. I always cut and pasted my care plans from the previous one. It is hard to do in an hour but I found that the care plan...

  21. Suggestions on care plan builders?

    FineAgain replied to VictoriaFlorezMiller's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I tried a few but never really liked them. Found it easier to have my own template and add in my information. Med sheets aren't hard...the info is right online in Medscape or other

  22. One in a million

    FineAgain replied to JeanettePNP's topic in General Nursing

    Holoprosencephaly...

  23. 4 Eyes Assessment

    FineAgain replied to Turtle in scrubs's topic in General Nursing

    Ours have to be done with a 2nd RN, no

  24. 4 Eyes Assessment

    FineAgain replied to Turtle in scrubs's topic in General Nursing

    It's part of our charting and we get a "ding" if they see it has not been done (during chart audits). It's fairly new (within the last 6 months or so) and has not proved to be a big deal. Everyone...

  25. pls help me solve this... thank you!

    FineAgain replied to exsassy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It drove me crazy all the way through Esme, both because they stressed giving the correct dose, AND gave us these crazy questions where we had no way to actually learn what the correct dose was. I...