Georgia peach RN

Any one using these self adapting wound dressings? seems it makes choosing the correct dressing easy - just the one dressing will absorb exudate or provide moisture to dry wound bed or even both, seems to be too good to be true just thought I would t...

I say reach for the stars! My dream was to be a nurse, I too was sidetracked. When I first attempted to become a nurse, I was advised that the nursing class was full and I should enroll in the medical assistant program which would be very similar to...

While I was in LPN school many moons ago I worked in a group home for developmentally disabled adults we had 3 clients in our home it was the best job I've ever had loved every minute of it. Had no problems with study/school/work I had a 3.78 GPA in ...

Ok so I have just completed my first year as a RN. (LPN 12 yr). I have been working a prn job at a small rural hospital where I have been thrown into charge nurse position, working with LPNs mostly we have been having aprox. 7-10 pts.We have computer...

I was working in ICU, Pt. RR 35, HR 145, LOC altered, sat 90% on 100% NRB; family extremely worried; Doc says to me the lowly nurse, She's better, You don't need to be so excited -- Nurse - maybe this pt need a pulmonologist??? Doc -- No she is fine ...

During my LPN clinicals 13 yrs ago we were required to bring our text books. Today with education system moving to e-books, I would ask these questions of my nursing advisor or wait til the first day of class and ask my instructor before purchasing m...

Are you planning to move to GA? Im confused about why you are looking at pay scale / cost of living in GA.

Talk about early recognition of someone losing control and nonviolent crisis intervention

As a new graduate LPN in 2000 I started out at $12 an hr in an acute care facility. I would expect acute care would be more today, typically LPN makes $2-$5 more an hour in LTC here. Now the Dr. office usually pays less.

I too am a new RN but also have 12 yrs experience as an LPN. I also have been in situations where the Charge Nurse (RN) was unable to perform all of her duties because they were new to the facility and/or they were lacking in experience. I have encou...

I work in ER on PRN basis, I have not worked in a large trauma center but only small rural hospital ER, I have found that most of our ER nurses are cynical. They see people who will lie about anything just to get drugs. This is why they are that way ...

lol ER - busy = total Chaos! not busy = lovely ICU - Controlled environment unless full then total Chaos! choose your poison.

Great advice here, I only have one thing to add but it will not help you since you did well with the lectures - I would record my professor's lectures and listen to them over and over.(this was my weak spot) Lab was really easy for me because I am ve...

This is exactly what I would do! Run from dishonesty, these kind of people are the ones who will make things up and turn in to the board of nursing

You should consider the publication date of the used books. My NSG instructors required our class to cite all materials we turned in and our books had to be 5 yrs or less old unless they specifically allowed a certain book or material to be used. Tha...

I checked out University of Wyoming, I was sold until I actually applied to the school and was accepted, I was under the impression that I would need to complete 3 or 4 core courses prior to application but after I applied and they did an official re...

I would do exactly what the above poster says format - if needed make a cheat sheet - ask yourself what you would need to know if you were in each caregivers role Start on time - great point you dont want to be giving report til 8 am or later neithe...

Just want to add as a Nurse who works in different departments in a small rural hospital who has a case manager on staff from early am til around 11 pm, I LOVE CASE MANAGEMENT NURSES!

Our facility has a Critical Lab Value Log, when there is a Critical Lab value, Lab call the Nurse, Nurse documents in Critical Lab log, the time notified critical lab, Dr. notified and time, then on the paper copy of the lab we have a stamp we stamp ...

Ok I work in a small hospital where the Out patient clinic that does all endoscopy too. I was told today that in the event of an emergant EGD due to an upper GI bleed the pt may be taken to the OR after hours and we could be called back in or have to...

In these cases our department is responsible to care for them including going to OR with GI doc. if necessary, they will not be calling in any of the OR crew for our patients. at least that is my understanding for now

It looks to me like you will probably pass with a little study time. I would get my finals out of the way then when things are not so stressful study a couple of weeks to a month then test. I always take my clep exams during down time such as summer ...

Yes most of my experiance is in the procedure room and yes I do have ACLS, I have been recovering out patients recently and have been oriented to this my main concern is when an emergent pt comes in after hours and goes to the OR and is intubated the...

Thanks, that makes me feel some better, I got the assisting part down, been doing that for several years now and know what to expect and I have had to assist with GI bleeds in the past but never had to recover them. In the past we have always used pr...

Medline makes a biological odor eliminator that we use during our wound care clinic. It works fairly well. We have used oil of wintergreen and the vicks trick also but the odor eliminator is the best expecially after the patient has left. We have bee...