queenjulie

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  1. Peds ATI Next Week ... HELP!!!!

    queenjulie replied to NurseB_'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Huh, I guess our school doesn't use those. I know all our tests are from a test bank, and they're NCLEX-style questions. I wonder if they're the same thing, they just never bothered to tell us there...

  2. Peds ATI Next Week ... HELP!!!!

    queenjulie replied to NurseB_'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Congratulations! Now that the scary part is over, can you tell me what ATI is? I've never heard of

  3. Speaking Of The Heat Wave - Hospitals Before Central Air Conditioning

    queenjulie replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a home health agency in North Carolina in a small, poor town, and most of our patients have no air conditioning in their homes, or only a room A/C in the bedroom window. It was 105 degrees...

  4. My Guide To Making The Grade And Maintaining Your Sanity

    queenjulie replied to Tree525's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Several pages--ha ha ha! That is hilarious. Our first syllabus was FIFTY-SIX PAGES LONG. I almost

  5. My Guide To Making The Grade And Maintaining Your Sanity

    queenjulie replied to Tree525's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    My suggestions: 1. BE ON TIME. Actually, be early. Trust me. 2. Be in uniform. Your school assigned a uniform because that's what they want you to wear. Wear it. 3. Ask lots and lots of...

  6. Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

    queenjulie replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's too bad you all are not me! I'm not going to be a nurse for three and a half more years (I haven't gotten accepted to school yet, but I totally will! All the teachers know me already!), but my...

  7. Patients should ALL be swabbed tested for HIV

    queenjulie replied to Cathylady's topic in General Nursing

    I would have a very hard time not firing someone who humiliated a patient that way on the spot. Actually, I would probably have an even harder time not slapping them in the face. I just cannot imagine...

  8. Moms to small children that are in nursing school?

    queenjulie replied to Devie06's topic in General Students

    When I started nursing school last year, my daughters were 4 and 2. They are both in full-time day care, and my husband has to take them and pick them up on clinical days because I have to be at the...

  9. Foley Catheter Insertion

    queenjulie replied to sports2245's topic in General Students

    Yep--we were taught last semester that current best practice is not to test the balloon. Just screw on the syringe, insert the catheter, and then inflate. (And re: the drape, once you're done...

  10. please nurses tell me how you did it :(

    queenjulie replied to kitty222's topic in General Students

    Huh? Maybe I don't understand what a test bank is. We were required to buy an NCLEX test prep book for our ADN program. It has hundreds of sample questions with teh answers for us to practice. Isn't a...

  11. how long for clinicals?

    queenjulie replied to bayli1's topic in General Students

    We have them starting one month into the program, all four semesters. We did 6:30 am to 2 pm once a week the first semester, then 6:30 am to 4 pm two or three days a week (and, memorably several...

  12. Because venting is healthy.....

    queenjulie replied to ShantheRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't say that, please!! I've got a year left of nursing school in North Carolina, and I was thinking it was going to be a bit less difficult to get a job then in some other

  13. curious...how many units is one bag of blood?

    queenjulie replied to milkcarton's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Wow, I'm so glad I read this thread! I always just assumed one bag = one unit; it's good to know that apparently it varies by product, and how much you actually get out of it is different too! I learn...

  14. Nursing Research Journals

    queenjulie replied to Lisa1980's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Google Scholar--go to Google, then at the top where it says "images, videos, shopping," etc., click the drop-down arrow next to More and click Scholar. That will allow you to look up journal articles...

  15. KCl, Enoxaparin, & Side Effects

    queenjulie replied to guest377568's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    For 2 and 3, I want to say, "But it comes pre-packaged! You don't pick anything!" and for 5, I really want you to write in, "It depends on which damn med I'm pulling!" :) Seriously, though, those...

  16. What's an IO

    queenjulie replied to ErinBSN's topic in Emergency

    Not medications, medicine. We still learn lots and lots of meds in nursing school, and do dozens (hundreds?) of drug cards! But what the commenter meant was that we aren't allowed to do is say...

  17. So You Want To Become A Nurse?

    queenjulie replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Keep in mind that wages have been stagnant for over twenty years. Inflation has caused prices of everything we buy to go up steadily, as it always does, but wages have not gone up to match it. I agree...

  18. What are your must-do's?

    queenjulie replied to missdeevah's topic in General Nursing

    I can understand listing what time you need to pass meds, but do you really list every single med? Doesn't that take forever? I frequently have patients with twenty or thirty meds, and if I had six...

  19. Difference between Nursing Implications/Interventions/Implementation

    queenjulie replied to mik11's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Interventions are something you actually do--an action you take. Say your patient is having trouble breathing. An intervention would be sit their bed up in high Fowler's position. An implication is...

  20. Examples of narrative charting for ped with Trach and G-tube?

    queenjulie replied to blessnme's topic in General Students

    Check here for a good example in one of the replies:

  21. Can I ask a few dumb questions?

    queenjulie replied to Twinmom06's topic in General Students

    My school is like @Reebles--we are required to be CNAs before you can start, so the first semester of clinicals, we do vitals multiple times a day, listen to heart and lung sounds, do blood sugar...

  22. What are your must-do's?

    queenjulie replied to missdeevah's topic in General Nursing

    I can't wait to see the responses to this! As a student, you can be sure I will be printing it out and memorizing it for clinicals!

  23. Unlicensed caregiver?!?!

    queenjulie replied to caregiver1977's topic in General Nursing

    I work for a home care agency in North Carolina, and we hire people to do that exact job all the time, and we call them "companions" or "homemakers." You don't need a license, and you do the exact...

  24. What is muscle tone and how's its assessment is done in an unconscious patient?

    queenjulie replied to Rajveer Kaur's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Muscle tone is basically strength of the

  25. Pharm Flashcards

    queenjulie replied to mom2ccg's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm glad I'm not the only one! I have HUGE stacks of flashcards from last semester, and I took them with me everywhere. I would flip through a few every time I had a minute--before class, after class,...