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What would you do in this scenario? A nurse is in a hospital room doing vital signs. The mother of the patient is visiting along with a couple other family members. The mother of the patient comments that she (the mother) isn't feeling great (feeling...

How to share 1 vent with 2 or 4 patients:

Probably the first time white boards in patient rooms have improved patient care ?

The language of your question, “...limiting transgender healthcare for youth,” is loaded with bias. It promotes a false dilemma: either you get in line with the politically acceptable position that supports unnatural hormone treatments and radical el...

And I thought we had maturity and professionalism problems with a lot of our 21-24 year old new grads!

You should look into whether the accuser violated any laws by making her false accusation. Most governmental bodies that accept complaints/accusations from the public have a lot of regulations and laws requiring that the complaint is made in good fai...

Pediatricians often only make a little over $200k in some markets. $150k for an RN who is not an APRN is laughable.

The most important thing you can do is work hard, get excellent grades in school, and get a foot in the door in the specialty where you want to end up while you are still early in your nursing program. Get a job as a CNA, tech, intern, etc. All of my...

The hardest part of the CMC exam is the "steel cage" fight at the end when they throw you in a cage with Ronda Rousey. I'm still sore a month later!

Don't be careless with sterile technique! A central line bloodstream infection can absolutely kill a patient. It might be difficult to trace it to a particular nurse because it takes time to develop, but we are absolutely responsible as nurses. When ...

I passed the CCRN yesterday. I spent the majority of my time studying the AACN online review course and doing the Pass CCRN online question bank. I did watch the Vonfrolio videos about a year ago and made notes. I skimmed over the notes recently but ...

Night shift bagging powdered milk in a milk processing plant. Usually about 90 degrees and humid due to the huge machinery. Came home in the morning blowing milk dust out of my nose. The guy running the thing was an alcoholic and routinely stood on t...

If we really want a fair system that encourages the highest academic standards, the NCLEX should not only report pass/fail, but should also report a numerical score. This is what the USMLE does for medical students. Scores are strongly considered for...

Keep pursuing the second ICU position and just see what happens. If you need to respond soon to the first offer, you may have to accept before you have an answer from the second hospital. If you are in that situation and then get an offer from the se...

Just took Kaplan - taking the NCLEX 2 weeks from today. They taught us in Kaplan that padding the side rails is NOT appropriate for seizure precautions (contradicting what we were taught in school). They said that the correct method for seizure preca...

I'm interested in following this thread. Looking forward to reading the replies.

Fentanyl drip ordered to run at 900 mL/hr on a med-surg unit (dying patient). At a concentration of 5 mcg/mL, that equates to 4,500 mcg/hr. I told the doc I wasn't comfortable euthanizing the patient.

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG). I think it will benefit you as a future midwife to have ongoing familiarity with the science-based medicine side of OB to balance out the sources that are solely from a nursing or midwifery pers...

curriculum.

I along with most of my classmates started doing the ATI NCLEX review immediately after graduating. It was the review where you are assigned to an online review coach. Honestly, it was a complete waste of time. They give you tons of Power Point slide...

Just starting the Kaplan course... I just took the 180-question diagnostic exam and scored 77.22%. I'm definitely going to do the entire course, but can anyone tell me if I'm on the right track with that score? Do the Kaplan exams get progressively h...

I chart all the juicy details. Pt stated, "@!*! *%!" Pt then threw urinal holding approx 700mL of urine. Urinal struck wall approx 12 inches from my head and left urine splatter pattern on wall approx 3 feet in diameter. Pt then verbally compared my ...

Have your buddy "rescue page" you out of the room. Set an appointed time when you want your pager/phone to ring - or you can ask to be paged to the nurse's station over the call button speakers. Works like a charm :-)

TrevyRN - you're right. There are very few indications for hypertonic fluids. It is a standard of treatment for traumatic brain injury to try to keep intracranial pressure from spiking.

The AACN does have an advanced critical care journal, don't they (beyond just the American Journal of Critical Care & Critical Care Nurse)? Maybe the AACN and their journals aren't necessarily for you after you are a CRNA, but then you should be ...