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Hello everyone :) I am a fairly new RN graduate who landed a job in the OR as a circulator. While I absolutely love my job, one aspect that I find very nerve-racking is when I have young patients. I am not sure if it is because I am not the best with kids or it's that their parents make me extremely nervous, but I always get anxious when I have to do my pre-op assessment and take a child to the OR. Do you OR nurses out there have any tips on how you explain the surgical experience to kids? Do you inform the parents of anything they might witness in the OR (such as a child twitching as a result from the medication they are receiving). I think I am having the most trouble finding a way to explain things in terms that children can understand. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks :)

Hello all! I am starting my nursing clinicals this month (AHH ) and I am just reviewing some basic anatomy and physiology prior to starting school to refresh. I am starting to make flashcards (like little cheat-cheats) with helpful information that may come in handy during lecture/clinicals/lab this semester. For example, one card I made consisted of each of the four quadrants of the abdomen and what organs were included in each quadrant. I am still trying to come up with other helpful information that I can put in my binder and look at quickly if I need to reference something. Can anyone give me any additional information that I may want to include that would benefit me while I am studying or during a lecture as a quick reference? Thanks!

Hello everyone! I have successfully completed my prerequisite classes needed to apply for the nursing program! :yeah:Finally! So if I am accepted, my clinicals will start August of 2011...seems like forever away. This next spring semester I will not be taking any classes since I am not required to take any additional ones. So I am going to work at my part time job so save up a lot of money. However, since I am going to have a LOT of free time on my hands, I plan to just study some nursing literature prior to starting clinicals: such as nursing skills, dosage calc information, etc. Does anyone know of any free resources I could study to help me prepare for my clincials in August? I was considering searching Youtube and iTunes University, but I am not exactly sure what to search for, as I did before and didn't find anything great. I wonder if there are any online study aids I could access to gain some prior knowledge in the nursing field? Thanks for your help!

i am also taking micro this semester. the book we are using is foundations in microbiology by talaro. any helpful advice for taking micro would be greatly appreciated!!! i need to maintain my 4.0, and i am worried this micro class will ruin that for me :uhoh21: does anyone know of any helpful sites/videos for micro (in addition to the ones posted in the thread).