Amber0515

Amber0515 specializes in Med-Surg.

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1. Need help on Final!!!!!!!

   Amber0515 replied to dragonflyet's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   well, here is how i usually study for my final...because of the act that we have comprehensive finals. I look back at my tests and see where my weakest areas were and i hit those the hardest. we have...

2. Failing barely

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   well, the thing is...if i fail...i am out of the program until next fall, the nursing program is just one class...it's kind of all just rolled into one. they only count our test grades, clinical...

3. Failing barely

   Amber0515 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Okay, so this semester has been hard...I have to get a 77.5 to pass and I was down to a 74 before i brought it up to a 76.7 (77)....so I am now failing by 0.5 points. We have a trends test then the...

4. priority nursing questions

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   4,3,2,1? i am prolbably wrong

5. priority nursing questions

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Exactly! That is how I feel! I always think "well, it diesnt seem serious enough for me to call the dr....so now I have to narrow it down.." and sometimes thats where I go wrong, I def overthink. They...

6. Interesting day today...bullying in clinicals

   Amber0515 replied to nikkole318's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   well, I have worked as a CNA and now I am working as an LPN and finishing up school. Yes, some CNA's do think they know more than a nurse. I have had a few instances where a brand new CNA (she is 50...

7. How does neuromuscular disorders affect oral medication

   Amber0515 replied to swansonplace's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Mike, I believe you are right. We wouldn't want them to be at an increased risk for aspiration pnemonia. And if they have had a neuromuscular disorder, this means the muscles are not working as...

8. Help, failing last semester

   Amber0515 replied to Adlib's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I know the feeling. I was straight A student in high school. And now I am trying to keep my head above the water. I just found out the more than half of my class are not doing very well now. But, I...

9. priority nursing questions

   Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   yeah, the answer was to notify the dr because its sign of infection...my teacher said that it would have been any of the others if the fever was not in the equation. but yes, these questions always...

10. Help, failing last semester

    Amber0515 replied to Adlib's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hey! dont worry, Im on the brink of failing also. My ortho test, I was so worried about studying neuro next that I blew it. And whats worse, is I shouldnt have failed ortho. I work on a med-surg unit....

11. priority nursing questions

    Amber0515 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hey all, Are there any good websites that give NCLEX questions with priorities? I seem to have a little trouble with these questions sometimes and would like more help with them ex. A ct is 2 days...

12. Nervous about Neuro!

    Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Okay so, something I was reading and I am not sure if I completely understand this one...it says that before they obtain a C&S or CSF for menningitis, they go ahead and give a broad spectrum...

13. Nervous about Neuro!

    Amber0515 replied to Amber0515's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes, thank you. So..this is the reason why they dont get opiates? So that they dont lose their LOC because we need that to assess them?

14. Nervous about Neuro!

    Amber0515 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi everyone, I am in my second year of nursing, graduate in may and I am needing some help with neuro. We dont exactly have the greatest teacher, she flys through the powerpoints and didnt even have...