LisaG21

PA just passed that it will be a none smoking state and resturants and bars have to comply within 2 years!! :balloons: WOOOHOOOO:balloons:

Ditto to april....you wouldn't say you bathed someone at 10 when you really did it at 11 cause you got held up would you?

I searched the board of nursing and our scope for this one I was curious. I think you need to get futhur explanation on this though. Are you the first person that the pateints sees? and you are admitting them to the psych unit for suspected? until a...

I went for my RN BSN and I gave IV push meds from the start. I am in pa and had clinicals in de and pa. The only time we weren't allowed to was in our peds rotation but that was the hospitals rules...we couldn't give any IV med. LPNS are not allowe...

I drove 2 minutes up the road to school every day lol So I don't have anything to offer here but I wanted to say you shouldn't listen to your lecture tapes lol If they are as boring as my nursing school's classes were you would fall asleep at the whe...

Its not often we ask for the advice on those that failed....:chuckle but this is different. I took my RN boards in june and passed with 86 questions, found out in 2 days (my state does not participate in early notification but I verified my license...

Welp, she got her results in the mail, and she failed. She bursted into tears just telling me about it. I didn't know what to do so I just listened to her, and I gave her a bag of m&ms lol. She keeps saying its a minor set back and that she will ...

No we did not. We did get in gowns to learn how to do various assessments, however no private areas even came close to being exposed. I would refuse on all counts to do this, although a proper bed bath does not expose a patient if it does it is very...

Hey guys Really quick....I am gonna renew my CPR card on saturday cause it runs out the 31st but I am a new nurse and I am pursing a pediatric position ...should I just wait cause the class this weekend is 60 bucks and its for the healthcare provider...

ok I am kinda nervous saying that I do not have a cpr certification during an interview.....I have one on thursday for st. christophers and I don't now...I def will not get pals but I am still thinking about the BLS lol....has anyone heard anything a...

ok so I need BLS so I should take the class saturday...then I will have to take PALS...and if I want ACLS? what is the difference between all these? lol I mean... the BLS class on saturday is from 9am till 330pm...what could possibly take that long??...

Anyone have the nursing license plate? I was wondering if its a good Idea I am kinda nervous about it. Let me know your thoughts thanks!

alright lol...hey do you know do I have to join the full membership or just the state membership because I really don't have 300 dollars for the full lol but i would renew the state for 99 lol

Hey guys Quick question. My dad is currently a home care patient with a catheter. He also has a colostomy that seems to make noises and leak smells all at the wrong moments anyway my problem and so is the home care nurses problem is that he goes th...

Some people have told me not to get them because they said you are at risk for being sued cause people know you are a nurse or they may fake emergencies and then rape you or something I don't really know lol everyone keeps telling me its a bad idea. ...

He does have a wound care specialist that was tending to both his colostomy and his bed sore (some nurses didn't think it was important to clean him up everytime he went to the bathroom but that is a whole other story lol) but they said his stoma wa...

Hey guys My mother had a lung transplant 9 years ago last feburary and has had little problems since then. She had a chest xray done last week for a persistent cough/cold ( I had a severe cold the week before so we thought it was just that ) symptom...

hey guys We went to the doctor yesterday. And there mixed news. The spots are what I thought was going on, the doctor sees lung transplant patient and doens't want to over look anything lol so they send you to your lung doctor. So the lung doctor sai...

hey guys Sorry I haven't been back here since I posted my life is sooooooo extremely hectic lol. My dad does need the catheter, he has retention. He is a parapeligic they think some form of MS but they don't know cause its so hard to diagnose. He has...

hi guys I just graduated in may. I live in delaware county pa and I am looking for a job probably taking on in southern jersey.

I live in philadelphia, and the hospitals around here are offering sign on bonuses: graduate hosp- awesome hospital very respectable 20 thou for new grads I think they just want more nruses cause they are in university city and there are sooo many hu...

hey guys My brother had this in the eightys...they thought he had limes disease but it turned out to be kawasaki. His kidneys eventually shut completely down and he coded. They gave him Immunoglobulin and asprin. He has had no other problems since th...

Hey Guys They ordered a Cat Scan of her chest and her doctors at penn want to see her ASAP probably thursday (that is when they do their post transplant people). Like you CrunchRN I keep playing it off like it means nothing but deep down I was ready ...

aww man I so fell for it! lol I just graduated and recieved it too lol but I had this in high school for whos who among the nations high school students but it was a big deal our teachers had to nominate you and stuff so I thought it was the same th...

Hey guys I took NCLEX this morning...if someone shoots me I probably would be the happiest person alive. My state does not give out the results early so I have to wait for them.. My test shut off at 86 and I didn't even get to the break..I took Kapla...