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  1. A reminder to ALWAYS listen to your patients.

    mariedoreen replied to VizslaMom's topic in General Nursing

    My grandfather was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the hospital, given 3 months, and discharged home on a Sunday. He was bed bound because he was weak but otherwise doing okay. On Tuesday he asked...

  2. Need advice: leakage for test questions

    mariedoreen replied to aruray's topic in General Students

    I don't see the big deal either. I've been in college for years and have had a lot of instructors that pulled questions word for word from our study guides, the CD or the website and included them on...

  3. Failed my drug screen!!!

    mariedoreen replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    LOL!

  4. Failed my drug screen!!!

    mariedoreen replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    No kidding! My husband, a police officer who works rotating shifts, has an rx for restoril prn that he only uses when he's working graveyard shift. Depending on how much of a problem he's having...

  5. Your perception of student nurses when they visit your hospital?

    mariedoreen replied to avery's topic in General Nursing

    ah... maybe you took the original comment from the LPN as more than what was said? I don't know, a lot is said nonverbally and in intonation. I guess what we're all hearing is "an LPN said that I...

  6. first week on my own off to a BAD start...

    mariedoreen replied to breastfeedingRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Lol, it'll be okay. They're not going to write you up right off the bat like that. Especially when you've got a good reason for what happened and you're completely new. The most that will happen is...

  7. SHAVING & WAXING

    mariedoreen replied to barkley's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Maybe this isn't as new as y'all think.... In the late 70s when I was a little kid, I accidentally barged into the bathroom at my grandparent's house to find my grandpa (a state government employee...

  8. How far/long is your drive to school/clinicals?

    mariedoreen replied to Lisa Michelle's topic in General Students

    Put me in for an hour too... exactly that one way from my doorstep to campus or clinicals. It's an easy drive with a lot of pass lanes and I don't have to worry about ice or snow, so it's not...

  9. Measuring for Orthostatic Hypotension

    mariedoreen replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you very

  10. Measuring for Orthostatic Hypotension

    mariedoreen posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I need some help. I have to do a checkoff in school for measuring orthostatic hypotension and we've been given no info on the procedure and all the books I have that talk about it are not very...

  11. Paying Fee to become a CNA

    mariedoreen replied to Sweetpea00's topic in General Nursing

    Oregon too and this is actually really, really common. One college I applied to explained it like this: 1) All the students are on a more level playing field when they come in and they don't have to...

  12. Paying Fee to become a CNA

    mariedoreen replied to Sweetpea00's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I'm curious too. Where are you in Oregon that you weren't required to be a CNA before you applied? I thought all the community colleges required it.. Educate me,

  13. Paying Fee to become a CNA

    mariedoreen replied to Sweetpea00's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Oregon Rene, I'm on the Oregon Coast and between the 8 credit Community College class, supplies, fees, lab tests, and STATE BOARD OF NURSING CERTIFICATION FEE (a little over $100...) I know I was...

  14. New LPN - asked to triage (please help!)

    mariedoreen replied to labonita271's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a naive student, but am wondering.. couldn't you call your state BON and request some assistance with understanding the parameters of your scope of practice and where a situation like this one...

  15. Help me understand the role of ALBUMIN ??

    mariedoreen replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, I understand it better now. I tried a search engine multiple times but kept pulling up unrelated info or research docs that were over my head. This was a clear read that really helped....

  16. Help me understand the role of ALBUMIN ??

    mariedoreen posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a little confused.. our Pharmacology book says that some drugs bind to albumin and are then carried throughout the body (at this point I'm thinking Albumin facilitates distribution) BUT that...

  17. Nurse's syndrome

    mariedoreen replied to ollikristiina's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a hospital path lab for 10 years and was the same way.. the first words out of my mouth when I began to come out of anesthesia for a T&A as an adult were "Can I go home now?" No...

  18. My New Stethoscope!!!

    mariedoreen replied to tmiller027's topic in General Nursing

    I had a cheapo scope for my CNA class last summer and did not have the easiest time with BPs etc.. I thought it was me and had no idea there was such a difference in the quality of scopes. I got a...

  19. Would you let your kid ride a MOTORCYCLE ???

    mariedoreen replied to Oregon Runner's topic in General Nursing

    You mean a donor-cycle?? That's what the firefighters and paramedics who respond to their fatality accidents call them where I

  20. Huge Dilema RE: Nursing School Long!

    mariedoreen replied to Jen2's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a "keep my head down" kind of person when it comes to nursing school and my interest in actually getting through it so.... while I'm not saying I'm right (because most likely I'm being too much of...

  21. metrology exam =P

    mariedoreen replied to Honeybun1206's topic in General Students

    Lol, is metrology a common word in Cal? I'm in Oregon and had never heard it before in my life.. I tried my dictionary, my medical dictionary, and then finally had to hit merriam webster on line to...

  22. Looking forward to being a nurse, not looking forward to that first year

    mariedoreen replied to dianacs's topic in General Students

    Rene: I'm 99% sure that I'm going straight to graveyard when I graduate. (I have a work agreement with a hospital that's paying my tuition). One of the reasons I took my pre-reqs slowly was to give my...

  23. What does your screenname mean?

    mariedoreen replied to PMHNP10's topic in General Nursing

    My two middle names. My mom is french and evidently it is custom there to give their daughters two middle names.. one name is to be for a beloved family member and the other is to be the name of a...

  24. Anyone else PARANIOD about giving oral presentations??

    mariedoreen replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Students

    LOL, I almost quit high school because I didn't want to go through the required senior year speech class. I'm not kidding! I'm with you, I hate doing any kind of presentation, but one thing I know...

  25. What to do with old nursing books?

    mariedoreen replied to rpbear's topic in General Students

    There are actually several of them. Just google something like "selling textbooks" and you'll get a lot of options