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thanks everyone! i think i am just going to invest in a good one and that way i will have it for a long time. between the littmann cardi ii, iii and ii master which do you think is the best? if you have had any of these and have some pros and cons a...

at the hospital i work at the nurse gets the patient ready for the morgue and then either patient transport or sometimes security will take the patient down because only transport and security has the keys to the morgue. i never got a call for a baby...

i was in the ICU last night at work and prior to that we had 3 traumas come into the ER. the newer nurse that was following the actual RN asked what happend with the traumas and the nurse said "they had a ___ pelvis" and the newer nurse asked what th...

i am a pre nursing student soon to be nursing student in the fall and i applied for a patient transport job. i have an interview tomorrow and i have a few questions. DO patient transporters wear scrubs at your hospital? how much is the pay usually? w...

i want to say it was comminuted. i am not 100% on that but it sounds right because i remember the word started with a C. i tried looking up pictures of this type of fracture but i couldnt find any because i was interested in what this type of fractur...

thanks everyone! its nice to hear that newer grads werent shut down right off the bat from being hired in a critical care unit. i think i am just going to apply, see if i get an interveiw and then see exactly what the hours would be like since it doe...

thanks. i know i wouldnt get into icu right after graduation although i do know of a lot of people who have that currently work in the icu as RN's but i would really like to start out in the ER because you get to see everything and its really fast pa...

hey guys! i am currently a nursing student as a sophmore (i went to a community college for 2 years after highschool to do my gen eds) getting my BSN. Anyway, i currently am trying to get a position as a ER tech at the hospital i currently work for. ...

what are some of the different ICU units such as MICU, SICU etc and what do they stand for and what do you see the most of in each of these? thanks everyone!

hey guys, i am a nursing student and work at my hospital as a patient transport and a patient companion. i was at my transport job the other night and i have been doing this for almost 6months and always when i go into a new/clean room housekeeping u...

i was in the ICU during work last night and the nurse ans nurse extern were wearing these long fabric yellow gowns with stripes down the front of them (if that helps in telling me what they are) the patient wasnt isolation thought because i was not m...

hey guys. so right now i have been out of hs for 2 years i did all my pre reqs for my BSN and i will now start and a 4 year university this fall and complete my last 3 years of actual nursing classes (it would have been 2 years but this school does a...

it sounds like everyone has positive things to say about externships and im really excited and hopefully in a year i will be able to get into nurse extern program at my hospital. It seems like GREAT experience and like someone said your alone with yo...

thank you very much. i really wasnt firmilar with these yellow gowns and im thinking it was either they were covering something up like blood because i think this women was bleeding a lot prior to me getting there or they were just being careful

ok thanks guys. at our hospital usually we have the isolationthings hanging off the door and we use blue plastic throw away gowns but these girls were wearing these yellow fabric type i think they were just wearing them to be safe

ok i am in nursing school and right now work as a patient transporter at a hospital. i work with someone who thinks they are an RN. anyway i went to take a patient for a test and her IV was saying there was air in the line. when i got her to the test...

thanks everyone for your advice and telling me how you get the air out...not to worry this guy is actually on his way out the door due to incidents like this and being written up so many times considering he got written up for that and yelling at a n...

thanks everyone...i know its not part of our job, id never touch the IV or anything like that at my job and i told my co worker that and that he shouldnt be touching it because anything could go wrong...after this happened i was just wondering how ev...

i would go for the RN but i might have a biased opinion since i want to be a nurse more than anything haha but if you think being a RN isnt a good choice for you dont do it or maybe you could do both evenutally? i chose being a RN because i love help...

hey guys, i know this isnt a medical advice site but i wanted to get some of your opinions since i am only just starting nursing school so i dont really know much yet. i have a TB test last week and i have had TB tests before for school, work etc and...

i started m patients transporter job today and idk how im going to remeber all the floors of this hospital. this hospital is huge and i dont know how im going to remember allthe floors and what is on each floor especially since there are different th...

oh gez i could only imagine how you feel. i just had a post a few weeks ago about how the only thing keeping me from my getting into my BSN program was a a&pII class that i failed by 1-2 points but this is actually keeping you from graduating =(....

i know my community college luzerne county community college has online a&p classes labs are usually on a staurday mornind and you do all the dissections and practical tests there not at home. i never took it online but i know people who have lab...

ya your probably right...chances are im just reading into the question too much and thinking theres more work to do than i actually need to do im just gana go over it some more....i feel so dumb though not being able to pass this stupid math section ...

today i went to re take my kaplan test. i had to re do the math and i got a 50, i need a 55%! UGH! the thing that got me was the questions that had to do with a clinical setting and they were talking about the flow rates of medicine, im not use to wo...