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  1. Antibiotic + corticosteroid?

    manchmal posted a topic in General Nursing

    Can someone share with me the rationale and pathophysiology of giving an antibiotic with a corticosteroid for, say, a bacterial infection (maybe sinus, maybe ear)? I ask not only because I'm trying to...

  2. Redlining.

    manchmal posted a topic in General Nursing

    I responded to a real old thread but I am not sure if it will show up and I really want info. So...who can tell me what "redlining" is, its history, etc. Nursing school trained us in a 21st century...

  3. incident report documentation policy?

    manchmal replied to karray's topic in General Nursing

    Can anyone tell you NOT to file an incident report? Say a doctor or supervisor tells a nurse that something doesn't require incident report, or specifically not to fill one out. Or an RN tells an LVN...

  4. Redlining.

    manchmal replied to manchmal's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks!! In this instance, it WAS signed by day shift, and they didn't catch the error. So I figured that WHATEVER my signature meant, I didn't want it to appear in 6 months time that I was the third...

  5. did I do the right thing????

    manchmal replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    I know it's an old thread but I have a similar question about "redlining". Night shift at my facility goes through the day's written or computerized orders and signs (after the staff that pulled the...

  6. question about IM emergency meds from new psych RN

    manchmal posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Hi everyone. I did a few searches on here for this topic, and found a couple things, but the site is working too slow for me to keep searching for exactly what I wanted to ask, so I hope you'll...

  7. Claiming suicide can get you out of anything!

    manchmal replied to bjaeram's topic in General Nursing

    Well, after re-reading the original post NOT on my tiny screen phone, I see that I read into the situation a bit r/t the substance abuse -- the OP didn't say the pt. was intoxicated...must have been...

  8. Claiming suicide can get you out of anything!

    manchmal replied to bjaeram's topic in General Nursing

    I think there are some insightful comments on this topic, and also a few that seem to be written by a person who doesn't really "get" severe mental illness, etc. The OP says this pt had no prior psych...

  9. question about IM emergency meds from new psych RN

    manchmal replied to manchmal's topic in Psychiatric

    Thank you both for taking time to share your experiences! If anyone else has any other insight, I'd love to hear it,

  10. Stress of finding a job

    manchmal replied to RoxyChic's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Near Central Ohio -- outside a major city, but within driving distance. So I imagine in northern NJ, the cost of living may be higher. Rent for a 2 bedroom house here is approximately $850/month. A...

  11. The Truth to the Pearson Vue Trick & My Results Timeline

    manchmal replied to KER5050's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Congrats!! I took my test in Ohio last Wednesday morning. Started at 8am, finished around 8:50, 75 questions. Got good popup at PV about 2 hours later. The next morning around 10:30am, I was able to...

  12. Stress of finding a job

    manchmal replied to RoxyChic's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Wow, $25/hr would be considered a VERY good starting salary in my area of the country. That's over $50,000/year. I'd say average starting salary for an RN is $20-$23/hr. here. Is the cost of living...

  13. Help! Pre-Employment Drug Testing

    manchmal replied to SweetieRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand why these places are refusing prescriptions that we try to bring in to self-disclose LEGAL medication use! I had a pre-employment drug screen last week, and am still kinda weirded...

  14. Stress of finding a job

    manchmal replied to RoxyChic's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Are you guys in rural areas, or urban areas? I am curious, because job availability seems to vary quite a bit depending on whether you live somewhere where a bunch of other people want to live, or...

  15. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    manchmal replied to zefutebolera's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I'm a new grad, and I got my NCLEX RN results and a job offer the same day. I had been very worries about finding a job, and I feel extremely lucky. The job offer is actually my "dream job," in...

  16. How To Survive (and Thrive) In Nursing School

    manchmal replied to 86toronado's topic in General Students

    Good article. I agree especially about the NCLEX and questions early -- and also don't get totally bummed if you don't do great in Fundamentals...to me, that was the absolute hardest class because it...

  17. I feel so bad

    manchmal replied to beeble's topic in General Nursing

    You did the right thing by trying to talk to her first. You probably wouldn't have gone to the manager if she had been more receptive to your talking to her. So she seems pretty much to have chosen...

  18. What do you always have in your scrub pockets?

    manchmal replied to Lilbit's topic in General Students

    OK, I'm probably dense, but... what do you do with 2 different colored pens and a highlighter?? Like, specifically...cross off stuff when you're done, or... Also: Is there a thread on here about what...

  19. Does nursing school teach you anything?

    manchmal replied to snickerdoodle17_1's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Nursing school teaches you: to be diligent, to do your homework/research, to work very hard, to learn to sift out good info from the crap, to be resilient and brave, to put up with crappy...

  20. Spouses/Visitors In Patient's Beds

    manchmal replied to jpmrt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oooh, here's an interesting one (to me): what about long-term inpatient psych? There are both voluntary and involuntary admissions, some forensic and some not at state hospitals, and I was thinking...

  21. Spouses/Visitors In Patient's Beds

    manchmal replied to jpmrt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hey, in nursing school they teach us that sexuality is a physiological need according to ole' Maslow... :) Not that I totally agree with the whole Maslow thing, but I do think it's interesting how...

  22. Mental health nursing easier than Med-Surg?

    manchmal replied to stellaRN1983's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a last-semester RN student who started this program specifically to do psych nursing. I was open to being interested in other things, though. Last semester, I was in ICU...and while 90% of my...

  23. Can student administer medication without RN supervision?

    manchmal replied to AnneN's topic in General Students

    Oh man, we had to do the McDonalds drive thru style flu clinic, too -- the whole school did it, with first semester students drawing up vaccines, and students who have taken pharm and passed skills...

  24. What was the lowest diastolic bp you have seen?

    manchmal replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    78/44 during c-section of mom with twins with 900 or so ccs of blood lost. They got it up pretty fast. Listening manual, I've heard 102/40 and patient had a hx of heart disease of HTN -- I was a...

  25. Can student administer medication without RN supervision?

    manchmal replied to AnneN's topic in General Students

    Did anyone else's school not tell them anything about this sort of thing? I mean, I got a student handbook that told me that I was to do x, y, and z, and most of it was somewhere along the lines of...