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    Someone, throw me out a life jacket!!! What am I doing wrong?

    NCRNMDM replied to nique281's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I make notecards which I use to play a matching game. Here's how I do it (I hope this explanation isn't too complicated): Take your study guide, if you have one, and look over all the material on...
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    How can I impress the director of our nursing program?

    NCRNMDM replied to Hellostudentnurssee's topic in General Students

    Maybe it's because I'm from the East Coast, and have lived here my whole life, but I'm not sure what an East Coast attitude consists of. I live in the southern United States, and, yes, if we have...
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    What do you ACTUALLY DO in clinicals?

    NCRNMDM replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    We are on a post-surgical floor that also accepts ICU step down and medical overflow. We are first semester students, but we do everything. We insert IVs, foleys, NG tubes, etc, we hang IV meds, give...
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    carrying/labeling meds

    NCRNMDM replied to SC APRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    We have to scan each medication into our computer system before we give it, and this usually has to be done at the patient's bedside (we also have to scan the patient's wrist band prior to...
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    What does Accepted Auto mean?

    NCRNMDM replied to Prenurse in training's topic in General Students

    Thank you, I will. Keep me updated as to how nursing school is going for you, and don't hesitate to post any questions you have to the forum. We are all here to support and help one
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    Symptom of hypernatremia/Quick question.

    NCRNMDM replied to anonymousandy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    By the way you worded that, I am going to say no. You said hypovolemia/hypernatremia, so I'm assuming you mean hypernatremia related to volume depletion. If the body begins to suffer a great deal of...
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    So I have my floor and preceptor, now what?

    NCRNMDM replied to sgalvin07's topic in General Students

    I've never worked telemetry, but I did some work in a major ED at a large medical center, and I know the types of patients we sent to telemetry. There were multiple telemetry floors at the hospital I...
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    What does Accepted Auto mean?

    NCRNMDM replied to Prenurse in training's topic in General Students

    Congratulations! You're about to embark on an amazing, stressful, insane, trying, intense, and rewarding journey. There will be days when you wonder why you had to choose nursing as your field of...
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    Just got my preceptorship assignment for next semester...

    NCRNMDM replied to Sturmgeist's topic in General Students

    It really depends on the size of the ED, if you are in a trauma center, and the level and quality of services your ED can provide. I did some work in a rural community hospital ED and a level one...
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    Need to interview nursing students....

    NCRNMDM replied to mchacon21's topic in General Students

    1. what semester of the nursing program are you now enrolled? i am currently finishing my first semester of nursing school. in january i will begin second semester. i am currently enrolled in an asn...
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    Failing 4th semester....feeling like a failure

    NCRNMDM replied to Leesha's topic in General Students

    thank you so much for this! you hit the nail right on the head in every aspect that you covered. i am only 19, but i feel blessed to have gotten into a nursing progarm. my program was incredibly...
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    Standard Precautions vs. Universal Precautions?

    NCRNMDM replied to hbgwan's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    They are the same thing. At the places I've worked, the only thing standard precautions entailed was wearing gloves when in contact with body fluid, washing hands between patients, using hand...
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    Why I don't tell my family...

    NCRNMDM replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    My mom gets it because she has worked critical care for 28 years. My dad, grandparents, and the rest of my family don't have a clue. They didn't understand why I was stressed out after being accepted...
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    help! future nursing career plan

    NCRNMDM replied to poodloo28's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am also a male, and I am currently in nursing school. Being male has nothing to do with how likely you are to get into a program. I graduated 8 months early from high school, and did all of my...
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    Do you know of anyone who has been thrown of of nursing school/program? And why?

    NCRNMDM replied to Laurenslovely's topic in General Students

    Yes, I do. She lied and told me that she didn't know why she'd been thrown out of the program, but I know that she does. The dean of our program, the second in charge DNP, and the girl's clinical...
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    Should I report wide-spread cheating in my class?

    NCRNMDM replied to malarwen's topic in General Students

    Report it now! Cheating is morally and ethically wrong, but it also endangers patients that these students will potentially care for. You aren't cheating, and you are passing; clearly you have an...
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    How to grow backbone in ICU?

    NCRNMDM replied to AllAngelsRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I'm still in nursing school, but I want to do surgical/trauma ICU when I graduate, and I've had experience in the ED prior to beginning the nursing program. My problem with your entire post is that...
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    first day at hospital>>

    NCRNMDM replied to smily11's topic in General Students

    We had learned basically every skill prior to starting clinical, so we were expected to take patients our first day. We have worked our way up, and we are taking 2-4 patients now, and we are...
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    Nursing Supplies

    NCRNMDM replied to ad3vans's topic in General Students

    You need a Littman stethoscope, and our school said it had to be black or navy blue. You are safest to buy a black Littman, because I've never heard of a nursing school having an issue with that. As...
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    Reporting off to staff nurses as a student

    NCRNMDM replied to Somewherenear's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You sound like you're covering everything, and you sound very thorough. I don't tell the nurses all of the information that you talked about. We work on a surgical floor that also takes ICU step-down...
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    Pt. on vent in cardiac arrest - would she continue breathing?

    NCRNMDM replied to jetson's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    The ventilator has nothing to do with the heart, and it is not regulated by the heart. When a ventilator is set up, it is programed to give a certain number of respirations per minute, to deliver a...
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    A "dating female students in your class" post

    NCRNMDM replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I'm a male in nursing school, and I am also the youngest in my program at 18. There are four other guys in my class of 20, but they are all mid 20s to late 30s. All four of them are married or in a...
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    Concept Map: dehydration & fluid volume excess?

    NCRNMDM replied to Arianna727's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Fluid volume excess r/t rapid IV fluid administration secondary to dehydration AEB whatever evidence you have. The way you worded it sounds
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    Nursing DX - Respiratory, Help!

    NCRNMDM replied to Qtip's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I would think more along the lines of ineffective breathing pattern. Sure, his sat is 92 percent, but that isn't great, and he is also having shortness of breath and difficulty breathing, and he has...
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    Will I be able too survive nursing school?

    NCRNMDM replied to ImScared2BANurse's topic in General Students

    I took all of my prerequisite courses, except microbiology, along with my high school classes while I was still in high school, and I graduated nearly eight months early so that I could get into the...