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I would add that while you won't have a problem transferring your license, you may have a problem networking. If you were to go to school in the area you ultimately want to work in you might be able to work as a NA during school and then have an "in" once you graduate. I'm not saying it's impossible to go to school in one place and then work in another, but it will certainly be more difficult.
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I would guess that most hospitals on this list have a good deal of patients with OI. U.S. News Best Children's Hospitals: Orthopedics
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I know that I sometimes plant pain pereptions in my patients' minds. I work with post-surgical peds patients and always just ask flat out if they are in any pain. If they say no or give me a low rating on the numeric or faces scale that I don't think is accurate, I remind them that it's okay to have pain and it doesn't mean they've done anything wrong or that the surgery didn't go well. I would so prefer to have a patient rate their pain higher than maybe it is and give meds appropriately than to have them not say anything until it's really severe. Most of the time I find, even in peds, that I get pretty accurate pain ratings regardless of my wording.
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I got a temporary full time job in the infant room at a daycare. I wanted to work in peds, so it seemed like a good way to get some baby experience in while studying my developmental milestones!
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One of the things that really helped me was making a running list of meds/assessments/interventions I wasn't very familiar with that I encountered during my practice quizzes. After I finished the quiz I would look up everything I could about these topics so that if I came across it again I would be prepared. I'm so happy I did because there were a few times during my NCLEX that I had questions about things I had looked up just a few weeks before!
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I feel bad for not only the patient, but whoever follows the cranky, I'm-not-going-to-give-pain-meds-unless-you're-screaming nurse. They're going to be playing catch up all shift to get the pain under control!
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But the question didn't ask what the best indicator of pedal perfusion is, it just wants to know the first action you'd take. You've got a fresh post-op patient being admitted, not someone who's been on the floor a while. ABCs. Vitals first, then CMS assessment. Think of it this way: if his BP is zero you're not going to have a pedal pulse and you will have just wasted time assessing CMS when you could have been calling a code!
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Do whatever you want! I think that an actual nurse wearing a sexy nurse outfit is 100% better than a non-nurse wearing one!
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I work with post-op peds and have the darndest time getting them to deep breathe. Some can use the IS and some do okay with bubbles, but they rarely do it hourly even with prompting. We also have party blowers and pinwheels, but do you have any other activities that your kids do that would be a fun way to break up the monotony of hourly IS use? I'm thinking straw painting, cotton ball races using a straw, kazoos, etc. Something FUN!
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Twinmom, that sounds like the holy grail of grossness!
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Oh my gosh yes! The worst show for me is/was(?) HawthoRNe. My two favorite scenes: 1. Teen girl in labor, fetal heart monitor in the background. Fetal HR drops to 30 for a sustained period. This goes completely unnoticed by everyone and is not addressed. 2. Patient needs emergency surgery, but surgeon doesn't want to operate because he's too hypotensive. Monitor in the background again, BP is 110/67. Hello. I appreciate the desire to make things more realistic by having monitors, but at least make them accurate!
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