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    treatment of student nurses on the floor

    NCRNMDM replied to teterichko123's topic in General Students

    At some point, both nurses and nursing students have to grow up. To my fellow nursing students: not every nurse is going to treat you like a prince or princess just because you are a student. Nurses...
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    UGH! I Hate Psychiatric Nursing ....

    NCRNMDM replied to PacoUSA's topic in General Students

    I hate psych too. I love critical care nursing, and I love working with patients who have actual medical diagnoses, but that doesn't change the fact that we have to get through the things we hate so...
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    A fresh mind in need of any advice

    NCRNMDM replied to dana2010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    After I wrote my first post, I realized that you also wanted more information if we had it, and I do have a few more words of advice. I'm a nursing student in North Carolina, and in our state, you are...
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    A fresh mind in need of any advice

    NCRNMDM replied to dana2010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It's a choice you have to make for yourself. I got in on my first try at my local community college, and I will finish in 2013 with my ASN. I can then go to work, and get my BSN online in 1.5 years....
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    Community College? You must be stupid.

    NCRNMDM replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Students

    I feel like some BSN nurses, not all, feel that they are better than ASN and diploma nurses. ASN and diploma nurses who have a run-in with these type of BSN nurses, or BSN nursing students, aren't...
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    Community College? You must be stupid.

    NCRNMDM replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Students

    She can't get into the program until 2013, and it doesn't begin until the first of 2014. It's going to take her three years to get her prerequisites out of the way because the college she is going to...
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    Essential information I need to know in case a certain patient codes

    NCRNMDM replied to joyphul's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Code status, allergies, weight, admitting diagnosis, the situation that led you to find the patient, what the last vitals were (if you can get to them quick enough), what IV lines you have, where they...
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    Community College? You must be stupid.

    NCRNMDM replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Students

    I'm an ASN student, and I don't feel the need to defend my education until I meet a BSN student who thinks they are better than me. My friend who went to a four year university to get her BSN, a...
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    MICU vs SICU

    NCRNMDM replied to NCRNMDM's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thank you! Those were really good responses, and it's great to get feedback from experienced nurses. I can't wait to begin work as an ICU RN, and, since there a lot of ICU jobs open to new grads in my...
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    Community College? You must be stupid.

    NCRNMDM replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Students

    I realize that a lot of places now prefer BSN prepared nurses, but in my area, 99% of jobs are available to both ASN and BSN nurses. Therefore, it makes more sense for me to get my ASN, go to work,...
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    How do you handle leechers aka LAZY STUDENTS in your class?

    NCRNMDM replied to live&love&heal's topic in General Students

    Thankfully, I don't have that problem in my nursing class. We all help each other, and we would do anything for our classmates, but we don't ask each other to go over boundaries like that. We write...
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    I need help with labs!

    NCRNMDM replied to Sweeti738's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm in my first semester of nursing school, so this is just a guess, but could he be taking Aspirin or a similar med due to his history of heart related illnesses? Could this explain his low platelet...
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    My Clinical Instructor does not trust me

    NCRNMDM replied to konp's topic in General Students

    I agree with Arte_Suave. Your instructor knows that you don't trust yourself, and he is trying to build confidence in you. However, he is also weary of you because you don't trust yourself, and he...
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    Need Help finding Diagnosis for Psych Nursing Care Plan

    NCRNMDM replied to live&love&heal's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I haven't done psych yet, but our teacher told us that if the patient is a risk for suicide that is always your top priority. Do you think that his psychosis puts him at risk for suicide? If so, then...
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    seizure

    NCRNMDM replied to username33's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Sorry, I didn't mean to say unresponsive to commands in my charting example. I meant to say, "pt was non-verbal and sweating profusely." I just caught my mistake. So the documentation should read,...
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    seizure

    NCRNMDM replied to username33's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    I would chart something like, "1200- Called to patient's room (room number one) by CNA Smith who reported that pt was having, "jerking movements" which she took to be a seizure. Upon arrival to pt...
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    What would you do? ...stop TPN or not

    NCRNMDM replied to IheartICUnursing's topic in MICU, SICU

    I'm still in nursing school, but I want to work in ICU when I graduate. If it was my patient, I think I would've stopped TPN and done glucose levels from time to time to monitor for hypoglycemia. If...
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    Traveling in hospital with the patient

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

    One of the hospitals I'm familiar with (I did some work there before starting nursing school, and my mom currently works in the CVICU there) has a transport team that comes to assist the nurse in...
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    Need help with Nursing Process unit

    NCRNMDM replied to nique281's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I don't know how far you've gotten in lectures, but in my class we've already started lecturing and learning about different illnesses, diseases, and injuries, and how you treat them. What I've found,...
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    seizure

    NCRNMDM replied to username33's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    If the patient was non-verbal, and the CNA reported that he was seizing, he was probably postictal when you found him. Since he has a history of seizures, the seizure isn't particularly disturbing,...
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    pt dies after fall, who's to blame?

    NCRNMDM replied to sueannRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I feel that there is more than one person to blame. The first nurse who was leaving the unit should've given a detailed report to the nurse who agreed to watch her patients. If the first nurse didn't...
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    How do you deal with feces???

    NCRNMDM replied to JLWilliams11's topic in General Students

    As nurses, we all have that one thing that grosses us out. For most people in my nursing class, it's suctioning an airway. For me, it's dealing with colostomies and stomas. Feces has never bothered...
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    The consequences of religious belief..

    NCRNMDM replied to collins anyiam's topic in General Students

    I've experienced it before when I was doing CNA work in an ICU and ER. It is difficult to watch a patient go through that, but you have to realize that they hold their beliefs closely and will not...
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    Community College? You must be stupid.

    NCRNMDM replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in General Students

    I'm in an ASN program at a community college, and I will graduate debt free in May of 2013. I will then get a job, apply for an online BSN program, and have my BSN in 1.5 years. My friend, who just...
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    Thinking of leaving the program...

    NCRNMDM replied to nursegc's topic in General Students

    Do you really want to be a nurse, and if so, why? Are you driven to help people, or did you just "fall into nursing?" If you aren't really incredibly, whole-heartedly driven to be a nurse, then I can...