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  1. End stage COPD clinical patient

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    Last night we had an 88 y/o patient in clincal with end stage COPD...and she still smoked. We actually debated whether it was worth going through the motions with patient teaching regarding how...

  2. End stage COPD clinical patient

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    Thanks for the replies - I think my response would've been (if the question wasn't more or less rhetorical on the instructors behalf) is that I would've had to upheld my own values to a certain degree...

  3. Rounding up on IV med cal questions

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    I had thought the only rounding you do pertaining to all this IV stuff was in regards to the size of the drops (gtt)...obviously you can't give a partial drop to a patient. However, we had our second...

  4. 4 weeks in ...

    semester1kid replied to Livy022's topic in General Students

    I'm in a two year program and microbiology as well as A&P 1 & 2 are required pre-reqs. The only difference with us is that while the program is technically designed for students to be taking...

  5. Military Husband:Are Nursing CreditsTransferable To Different Nursing Schools?

    semester1kid replied to Care215's topic in General Students

    It's funny that you say that - my mom is a nurse who was married to her second husband while she was in school (and he was in the Airforce)...he was transfered from Offut AFB near Omaha, NE to Hanscom...

  6. Need Help Taking BP

    semester1kid replied to j.brooks49's topic in General Students

    I agree with the 'practice, practice, practice' advice - only last January was I in your position...failing the first attempt because I was so nervous (and despite being efficient at it in a non...

  7. Another med calc question

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    Here's something that showed up on a practice test. We were given the answer, which is 20 gtt and I did concoct a manner of figuring it out for myself. First I'll type out the question then my...

  8. Another med calc question

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    Thanks a lot - we have the actual test on Tuesday and wasn't certain how to handle that one, even though I had inadvertently come up with the right

  9. Being a mom in school

    semester1kid replied to frogkicker's topic in General Students

    Well I'm a dad and work fulltime in an unrelated field (finance dept at the home office of a large retail chain). It definitely has its moments. But you can get through

  10. Another med calc question

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    One thing I didn't consider is that 60 minutes in an hour and 60 gtt could cross each other out - is that my missing piece of the puzzle? Since they cross each other out, my answer would still be 20...

  11. They bumped up our minimum passing grade point average...

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    ...from 73 to 75. From some of the posts I've read here in the past, I guess I still have no reason to

  12. What does your uniform look like?

    semester1kid replied to SingDanceRunLife's topic in General Students

    I guess we're almost the opposite of you - we have white pants and white lab coat. Our shirts are pretty much the same color as the pants depicted in your picture. Last semester, I almost always...

  13. Can nursing student working at the doctor's office perform blood draw?

    semester1kid replied to miniangel729's topic in General Students

    Some facilities will train a nurse (nursing student) to draw blood while others will leave it to the hands of a phlebotomist. In our school, nursing students are not introduced to phlebotomy (although...

  14. They bumped up our minimum passing grade point average...

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    That's not too far from us - for us it's 65% based on exams throughout the semester and 35% on the final. Also, or the third and fourth semesters, the HESI Test will acount for 10% of the grade (not...

  15. My most important tip for a nursing student is....

    semester1kid replied to 1234student's topic in General Students

    I agree with the previous comments about the answers on exams - but remember that each question will have a key word or phrase that makes one answer better than the others. When you read the question,...

  16. Med calc question

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    Here a question I have in regards to how to calculate a drop rate related question - I did come up with the correct answer as was posted on our blackboard. But the way I went through it felt choppy...

  17. Math Question

    semester1kid replied to Pmusicinhamony's topic in General Students

    Our school does allow calculators. However, they have to be simple bare bone calculators and not the scientific ones...I'm not really sure what the advantage is with scientific calculators, but that's...

  18. Community College of RI

    semester1kid replied to mber115's topic in General Students

    Are you already an LPN or are you a CNA? If not, you cannot work shifts in a hospital. After one semester (and 75 hours of clinicals) you can get your student nurse license, which essentially is a CNA...

  19. to those of you who had the summer off...

    semester1kid replied to anonymousstudent's topic in General Students

    We do have a break this summer...and will next summer. However, there is no break for our last two semesters and it will be continuous for 12 months

  20. My most important tip for a nursing student is....

    semester1kid replied to 1234student's topic in General Students

    I don't know about other schools, but in my school, we answer questions on tests in regards to what we read in the text book and not what we may find from other resources - For example, the ranges of...

  21. Acronym help???????

    semester1kid replied to dscott76's topic in General Students

    I can see why - although not actually taught as a 'right' to us, it was still very much emphasized. In clinical, we had to have the computer in the room, opened up on the patient's MAR and log in...

  22. Acronym help???????

    semester1kid replied to dscott76's topic in General Students

    LOL - for us it was the '5' rights: Right Patient Right Medication Right Dose Right Time Right

  23. He wont bleed....Is there a trick to this?

    semester1kid replied to dscott76's topic in General Students

    Yup - messaging...we call it 'milking' the finger. Before you do the finger stick, 'milk' the finger by 'pushing' the blood down the finger towards the finger tip. Perform the finger stick and if...

  24. Whats the answer

    semester1kid replied to dscott76's topic in General Students

    I would stick with the latter - since the first one is just fixing what was a mistake. The second equation is exactly correct from the word

  25. Who 'da man!!!!

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    PS - as everyone here can relate to, there were some stressful moments to say the least. The fine folks here on allnurses were a great help and for that, I thank