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why not just order it now? you can always take it somewhere else to have it engraved after you pass your boards. :) be careful it doesnt get stolen. nice stethos tend to get picked up by other people and mysteriously disappear on different units.....

Hey! Congrats to you all! I am a student at CSULA - and you'll probably see me at your orientation! :) good luck!

ABCs come before Maslow's needs because without ABCs intact, you're dead, and if you're dead, safety isn't an issue. Also if he's got CKD, it's likely that the activity intolerance is more "impaired gas exchange r/t fluid overload" although "fluid ...

Thanks guys. I spoke with my instructor, and yes, the resistance is one sign. Another is that if you were in the esophagus you probably wouldn't be suctioning any secretions. And lastly, if you were entering the trachea, there is an initial cough ref...

I have a random question that came to me after I got home from clinical on Saturday. I helped my nurse perform suctioning on my peds patient (15 months). first question: the suction cath was inserted in the nose and down to the trachea: what kind of ...

i'm a second year student and what I do is, on the top of my resume I put "Second year (6th quarter) nursing student with clinical experience in med-surg (3 quarters), labor and delivery, post partum, women's health, and currently in pediatrics. you...

WHAT?!?!?! i'm bothered by that.

right - babies do lose heat because of heat loss secondary to immature thermoregulation... therefore the thermoregulation is the primary cause.

I am going to say B. Immature Thermoregulation, although the too answers are so similar. But it seems to me that heat loss wouldnt drop basal temperature so dramatically because the "thermostat" is set at it's normal range. if the thermoregulation me...

yes, ranking will help you figure it out... but you also can't join, you have to be invited by your school's chapter. but as far as other HONORS SOCIETIES, your school may have a non-specific one (phi kappa phi) or there are other nursing organizati...

i'm a student nurse and this is what I take: ALWAYS - my stethoscope... and i hate having it around my neck, but it fits in the leg pocket of my scrubs.... in case you're looking for another place to keep it. i always have my pen light, a pen (i lik...

thanks for your help! I will check out the link right now. and yes, his GCS was 15 when coming in... so no probs there. :) Thanks for the explanation, it's making a lot more sense now :)

hey there - i have a question about my pt from last week, and thought you would be able to help. Pt. is 7 years old and was hit in an auto vs. pedestrian accident. let me start off by saying is is in very stable condition and probably at home and bac...

hey there - i have a question about my pt from last week, and thought you would be able to help. Pt. is 7 years old and was hit in an auto vs. pedestrian accident. let me start off by saying is is in very stable condition and probably at home and ba...

when your room looks like a war zone because you can only clean when you're on break, and once you're on break, cleaning is the last think you want to do. and you wait to do laundry until you run out of clean underwear! (please say i am not the only...

Thanks! :) we collect all things pomegranate in my house... so im the baby :) (and i good luck with all the reading!

I took intro to chem in summer at Pasadena City College - it's a commute, but they've got it! they've also got a good AD nursing program.

It's nerve-wracking, we've all been there. Just take a deep breath, bring only what you think you might need (really, probably only your stethoscope and some paper...) you'll be busy with just the one patient, because as DoOver said, there is a lot t...

Hey - i had this problem at one of the hospitals i was out, and it turns out they WERE getting their baths... just at 4 in the morning (yes, they were being woken up for that) so... needless to say, the 4 am bath wasn't a very good one, but they didn...

Hey there - I am new here. I'm a 2nd year nursing student in So. California, just getting started in my peds clinical. Despite that I have been in clinicals for over a year now, i still get this panicky feeling before every clinical. I get everyth...

oh my god! sooo true! I don't know HOW everyone remembers the question - down to the word! I would tell my classmates: just because YOU got it wrong, doesn't mean you have to fight it. Just admit you got it wrong and MOVE ON!

OH no! I'm glad to hear you got through it ok! Thanks for the heads up...you said you forgot how to load a syringe pump... i've never even touched a syringe pump.... so you've got the one up on me there! I hope it all goes well!!!!

Hey! YES! our peds clinical is the SAME! Actually, reading your msg makes me think we're in the same class - lol. I swear it's like they gave us a break with Maternity, and now they're putting us on the chopping block. I have an exam this week on t...

MappyMouse - thanks, I do eat breakfast! :) Will - i guess I should have been a bit more specific about my clinicals. In med-surg we always went the day before to pick patients, and that was great since it allowed us to prepare. Once we got to Mater...

hey - I feel ya, med-surg is SOOO not my thing! Lecture was difficult, but at least I was used to that...I could read the book and listen in lecture and figure it out, but clinical was a frantic mess some times. Really, the best advice I can give yo...