Mandychelle79 ASN, RN

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    Pinning Song

    Yeah I meant GOOD not
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    What changes did you make before you started NS?

    Well oiled machine.... LOL LOL LOL Sorry. Yeah we just take things as they come and hope for the best. I pull out my hair on a daily basis. You just learn what you can live with is a lot worse...
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    Pinning Song

    Have you ever listened to the song Rood Riddance? I think it would be completely appropriate for pinning/graduation, or heck even a
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    Pinning Song

    That song is called Good Riddance and it is by green day If you google Graduation Songs you may find some that will
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    lowered calcium level

    Was working on my pathopapers tonight for clinical tomorrow. Both of my patients have cellulitis. one thing that they had in common was after starting iv abx to treat, their calcium levels dropped...
  6. I work on psych. You may want to research some of the side effects of some of the meds he is
  7. As long as its not forbidden I don't care if others eat in class.
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    For Fun--Kudos 2 Me...The "toot your own horn" thread

    Passed my first Resp. quiz ( teacher is notorious for hard quizzes) with an 80
  9. I get what you are saying but where they pull from can change from test to test, but the justification for the answer will be from whatever is the "official" text for the class. Atleast that has been...
  10. Well, how did you study this time? During fundamental nursing, I used Fundamental Success as my main study tool. My school test using NCLEX style questions and this helped me learn how to play the...
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    Administering Antidotes

    Not that Im aware of, unless it was part of a protocol. In that circumstance, id be calling a condition r ( rapid response team, one stage below a code blue) and a dr can order it
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    Administering Antidotes

    When I went through my EMT training, we were taught to make sure the patients hand was on the epi-pen and "assit" them in giving
  13. Yes, it would protect you from spreading it also. Like reverse isolation for neutropenic patients. They were worried that the staff that had contact with the patients would spread it to others. The...
  14. I love how students who have never worked in the health care setting, when seeing how things actually happen, say that " I will never do that when I am a nurse" Every time I hear that, I want to say...
  15. I guess our class as a whole is pretty open with our grades. I thought it was after the Hesi exam last year ( I did very well on it) people were saying how I must be getting an A in the class, yet I...
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    Can a person with trach/vent talk?

    I worked in a LTC that had vent patients. The SLP would use a passy muir valve on the more stable patients and it would allow them to
  17. To protect the patients you wear a mask. We do it all at time at work. Last year, if you worked on a unit that had a confirmed H1N1 or the lab ( who floated everywhere in the hospital) you had to...
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    High postpartum Hct- why??

    Hct? or
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    Nursing Diagnosis

    Does it list any of the patients medical dx? If not I would go with Acute
  20. So the solution is not to be tested for the flu. You could miss class, but still get to clinical. It sucks that those in Healthcare can't stay home while sick like other professions. We laugh about...
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    Prioritization question

    I would think it would be fix the body image and the chronic constipation will go away. Fix the chronic constipation, but dont fix the reason why constipation is occuring ( body image) it will...
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    36 hours per week?

    Ours is the 12 hour people are considered full time for benefits for working 3 12's a week and anything over the 12 hour shift is OT. but are only paid for the 72 hours a pay. 8 hour people get ot...
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    Must read books for a Geriatric Nurse?

    As we once were by May Sarton. We are required to read it for our med/surg
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    For Fun--Kudos 2 Me...The "toot your own horn" thread

    Aced the math test and had the toughest teacher in the program tell me she liked how I answered questions in
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    Forced Flu Shots

    But she doesnt take the flu vaccine due to an egg allergy, which would be the food