queenjulie

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  1. Socks!

    queenjulie posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have nursing shoes already, but I need some recommendations for good socks! My feet get hot and sweaty easily, and when they do, I get eczema on them, which drives me insane. My dermatologist...

  2. Should a person with Essential Tremor pursue a nursing career?

    queenjulie replied to shakyinohio's topic in Nursing Career

    What is an AMAP? Sorry, I don't have any advice, but I was wondering what that acronym stands

  3. Stopping birth control pills every two years?

    queenjulie posted a topic in General Nursing

    My brand-new, 2011-edition pharmacology text says, "Many health care providers prefer to have patients discontinue birth control pills for 3 of every 28 months. This allows the body to return to a...

  4. Stopping birth control pills every two years?

    queenjulie replied to queenjulie's topic in General Nursing

    Basic Pharmacology for Nurses (13th ed.) by Clayton, Stock, and Cooper, published by

  5. Just How Messy Does It Get???

    queenjulie replied to greenfiremajick's topic in General Nursing

    The messiest and most horrifying nursing story I've ever heard was on here, just a few days ago. You can read it here, if you dare: Letter from the Illinois Eye-Bank - Nursing for

  6. Non-pitting edema and rating

    queenjulie replied to clearblue3's topic in General Nursing

    Your instructor is crazy. As the others stated, pitting edema is rated by how many millimeters of depression the edema holds after you press it. Non-pitting edema could only, by definition, be rated a...

  7. Skin Prep- waste of time?

    queenjulie replied to anonymous1919's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new nursing student, and one of the first things we were taught about pressure ulcers is that skin prep is now a research-recommended treatment for Stage I pressure ulcers (along with...

  8. IV complications

    queenjulie posted a topic in General Students

    For which of the following IV complications would you immediately remove the IV? infiltration extravasation phlebitis thrombophlebitis thrombosis hematoma localized infection at IV site venous spasm...

  9. Dear Precepting Student:

    queenjulie replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Students

    Um, no. I am halfway through my first semester of nursing school, and we learned two weeks ago how to start IVs, and have been cleared to start doing them with supervision by our teacher or an RN in...

  10. arrrgh! OB is killing me.....

    queenjulie replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Students

    Argh! I don't know how I'm going to get through OB rotation when the time comes for that--I'm a pretty hardcore natural birth advocate, and I don't know how I'm going to stand watching women get...

  11. Do you know how to find all the pulses?

    queenjulie posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm in week three of nursing school, and I'm also a CNA (it's required before you can start nursing classes), and I have a question--should I know how to find the popliteal, femoral, temporal, pedal,...

  12. Do you know how to find all the pulses?

    queenjulie replied to queenjulie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm glad to hear you just learned them! It just seems so odd to be almost a month into nursing school, plus having been through the CNA training, and not have learned any of the lower-body pulses yet....

  13. sterile technique question

    queenjulie replied to 1fabulon's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes, at least at my school, sterile technique means setting up a sterile field, wearing sterile gloves, etc., which you wouldn't do for an IV bag change. I'm pretty sure the answer would be 3, but I'm...

  14. sterile technique question

    queenjulie replied to 1fabulon's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Are you sure? I just learned wet-to-moist dressing changes last week, and they very definitely require sterile technique (although as you noted, the skin itself is not sterile). Is a surgical dressing...

  15. Pearls of Wisdom.....share yours

    queenjulie replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    :frantically taking notes What a brilliant idea for a thread! This should be pinned to the top of the page. I just started school, but I got one last week: Treat oxygen as if it were a medication. It...

  16. Anyone in NC use the mynursingkit?

    queenjulie replied to Kstew27's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Is Northwest the base right off Ballahack Rd.? My husband is *dying* to get a job there! He applied for a security job a couple of weeks ago but hasn't heard anything yet. He works for the state...

  17. Anyone in NC use the mynursingkit?

    queenjulie replied to Kstew27's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Does Kaahele mean you're from Hawaii? We just moved here last year from Pearl City--my husband was stationed at Pearl Harbor. I'm Julie--I usually sit a few rows back from the front on the left side...

  18. Wound descriptions--beefy red versus red?

    queenjulie posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm just starting to learn dressing changes and charting wound descriptions, and I have a question. Why do we call a clean, healing wound "beefy red," instead of just "red"? Does "red" always imply...

  19. Stupid question, but when toileting a patient...

    queenjulie replied to Rebewarr's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think it's okay to just ask, "Can I help you with getting cleaned up?" or something like

  20. Help with vitals...tips, tricks, anything???Please

    queenjulie replied to tammy1974's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am so glad you asked this! I feel totally ridiculous fumbling around with the stethoscope and BP cuff and the pressure valve for it--I end up dropping it on the patient's bed half the time, or not...

  21. need advice for doing online pre requisites

    queenjulie replied to jyoti732's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    At my school, the biology and anatomy prerequisites had to be done in class, not online, because they had laboratory portions. The more general prerequisites, like communication and introductory math,...

  22. Anyone in NC use the mynursingkit?

    queenjulie replied to Kstew27's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Are you a first-year ADN student at COA? I think you're in my class. :) I've tried using mynursingkit for the readings these past two weeks and found it basically useless. I'll probably try it a few...

  23. Hate being a CNA; will I hate nursing?

    queenjulie posted a topic in General Students

    I will be starting nursing school in the fall and I just completed my CNA certification, which is required before starting school. I hated it. Part of it was a crappy teacher, but I have no interest...

  24. Private CNA?

    queenjulie posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a new CNA and will be starting nursing school this fall. An acquaintance just asked me if I was interested in helping out her mother, who is recovering from a broken hip and cannot be left at...

  25. Hate being a CNA; will I hate nursing?

    queenjulie replied to queenjulie's topic in General Students

    Thanks for all your replies. What I really hated was the hopelessness of it all--boring, repetitive work that had no hope of helping anyone. We did our clinicals at a LTC facility that was only DNR...