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I was just sitting here thinking and thought, wow at my hospital we wear name tags that say our position, first name and last name. **Does anyone ever worry about some patients who dont have your best interest in mind to try and find you on facebook...

hey guys. i am going to school for my BSN and need to get a stethoscope for clinicals what stethoscope did you use in nursing school? do you wish you had a different stethoscope during nursing school/clinicals that could have been better than the one...

im trying to get into nursing school and i really wanted a job as a NA at my hospital but after applying many tips i have realized even though they will train me to be a NA i am probably going to get beat out by CNA's. i really have no time to take a...

hey guys, i have never been great at math and i currently have the "Dosage calculations ninth edition by Gloria D Pickar" book, i think its an ok book but i want something more straight forward and made simpler showing me flat out step by step how to...

hey guys my friend i go to school with is doing a project for school she is a psych major and she was having some issues trying to decide what disorder this case would be and she asked me about it yesterday but i wasnt sure . A 12 year old child who...

We have eicu in the icu that I work at. I honestly feel like we don't call to them a lot during the day an evening we have our own critical care doctors in the unit along with nps an pa's. after 7pm we only have np's an pa's in the unit so sometimes ...

hey guys! i am currently going to school for my BSN. i currently work at my local hosptial as a patient transporter i have been at this job for almost 6 months, even though the job pays really good for the job and the hours work for me going to schoo...

ok this is a really stupid question but its bugging me and id like to know haha. say someone takes a deep breath in what is that V like shape that get sucked in on the base of the neck called

hey guys! i am currently a nursing student working in an MSICU as a nursing assistant part of our job is to get the room "set up" when an incoming patient is coming to the unit. I wanted to get other nurses opions and things you as nurses would want ...

HI everyone, im currently a nursing student and a nursing assistant at my local hospital in the ICU. To make a long story short in the ICU that I work at aides never did vitals or outputs because they felt that those were critical and should be watch...

hey guys, i was talking to some of my classmates who are going to different schools than me and a few people going to a community college near me said that after 4 days of clincals which clinicals start apparently the 1st day of classes they are allo...

I was reading a few posts on here and I saw a few people say that they bought a good stethoscope (a littmann for example) and used that for learning, clinicals basically ... that was their main stethoscope. But then they also bought a cheaper stetho...

hey everyone, in the fall i am going to be starting a BSN nursing program and i was wondering what things i should get. I know i need a stethoscope,white shoes, kelly clamps, pen lights and a BP cuff. what other things would you reccomend? are there ...

hi everyone, I am currently a nursing assistant in my hospitals MSICU. The hopsital is a level 1 trauma ceneter but we dont have a trauma ICU. I am in nursing school and ever since i was young i always wanted to work in either the ER (like the traum...

hey everyone! i am currently in the market to buy a stethoscope for my clinicals that start this fall for the BSN program i am in. littmann seem to make nice durable well made stethoscopes and since i am just starting out i figured i should probably ...

thanks everyone! i know it seems excessive to have all 3 suctions set up but as soon as a room is cleaned our unit wants our nursing assistant to have the room semi set up in the way that ALL suctions are set up and ready to go in an emergency, there...

our hospital now uses diginicares. i dont think they leak ALOT but they do leak with out a doubt and nurses have told me that they let the smell out a lot more than other systems. i think they are all going to leak and smell and get clogged and backe...

hey guys! so I'm a nursing student and worked at my hospital in patient transport for a year and I am now a nursing assistant in the ICU. when I worked in transport I noticed this but even more when I started in the ICU as an aid because I use hand s...

hey everyone, i am starting nursing classes for my BSN this fall (all pre reqs and any other classes are already done). I work at my local hospital as patient transport aid (taking patients to rooms, to tests, discharges, morgue etc) i have worked t...

I am still in nursing school and I usually always wear makeup when I'm out most of the time like a "full face of makeup" not like a clown or anything weird and over the top haha but I usually always wear foundation, concelar, eye liner, mascara, a li...

hey guys, i currently work at the hospital as a patient transport aide but i want to actually be with the patients more and see whats going on actually and gain more experience while in nursing school. i want to apply as a N/A in the MSICU part time ...

hey guys, i am a nursing student going for my BSN and a few months ago i posted a topic on here about if i should get the littmann classic II or the littmann cardi III. I decided right now for school i am going to probably get the classic and then wh...

hey guys! i am currently in school for my BSN and i work at my local hospital. i always knew i want to work with trauma patients or in the ICU now after working in the hospital and seeing everything first hand i realized that i know the ICU is where ...

hey guys! ok so i love the koi cargo pants their so soft and comfy and have tons of pockets i can stash things and feel like everything isnt jammed in them or that its pulling on my pants having stuff in them but i feel like they fade quick, do you g...

i am going to just go ahead and buy a good stethoscope that way i will have it and i am goin to be using it for 3 years while in school so i mind as well have a good one and one i like. white would be such a different color to have as a stethoscope a...