nursing.mypassion

Again, I'm studying for NCLEX-RN. Even tho I've googled and learned that R-side lying after liver biopsy helps because it creates the pressure needed to counteract bleeding as the liver is very vascular. Still, I don't get it, I thought gravity will...

NCLEX-RN practice question: Nurse should plan to care for a pt with "moderate flail chest" DOES NOT include: pleur-evac drainage system with the rationale that pleur-evac drainage system is for pneumothorax. From Brunner and Suddarth's Med-Surg tex...

Hello, I'm having my ER practicum at a community hospital right now. I feel very fortunate to land a spot in that ER and have a wonderful, nice, experienced, and knowledgeable preceptor. However, I'm not so sure what I am expected to do in my pract...

Ok. I'm doing NCLEX-RN practice tests. One of the questions was about a pt asks the nurse when to resume sexual activities after being d/c to home after an MI. So, this prompts me back to a question a pt posed to me and a doc. when I was a nursing st...

Why can't a nurse make a copy of the incident report (of the medication error the nurse made) as a personal file? Yet, she can keep a writing note of the incident. The NCLEX-RN rationale is that the nurse can be subpoenaed in court ? (it's a NCLEX-RN...

OK. One is a BSN, RN and his sister is a high school student. His sister is in need of a physical exam to submit the results to her high school. She asks him to do a general physical assessment report so that she can turn it into the high school in t...

Practicing NCLEX-RN: How come Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia only requires standard precaution? I thought all pneumonia requires droplet precautions? (remember SPIDERMAN mnemonics for droplet precautions?) I did a search on Google on the mode of t...

I'm practicing for NCLEX-RN. There is one explanation for 1 answer that doesn't make sense to me: Cramping in the calf = blood clot possibility (the pt is total knee replacement post-op). I've googled it all but couldn't find how cramping may indica...

Oh, I think I've got the answer. Blood clot may cause ischemia. Ischemia may cause leg cramps. Therefore, when pt experiences leg cramps, there's a possibility that there's a blood clot. Agree?

I'd suggest you do some research on how other ethnic groups like blacks, asians, latinos, other religious views look at diseases and view their lives in terms of pain, time, life, family cohesion, autonomy, informed consent, freedom. Then, you'll rea...

Here is my 2 cents. I think CNA's do a lot of nursing work: bathing, taking care of patients, comforting them, some even spend more time with the patients than RN's do, etc. I remember I attended a talk by a nursing leader and he said that when we de...

Hi, Thx for all the good pieces of advice I have received here. I'm writing to ask for help in terms of relieving stress for me and my preceptor. My preceptor is recently very stressed. Since she's very kind to me, I feel like I need to do sth to hel...

That is very helpful. Thank you for your advice. I'll discuss it with my preceptor. She's very tactful with me and always kind to me. So, I'm thinking that she won't tell me what I'm doing to her. I think I should just go ahead and let her know what ...

It's not until May for those who chose OR. OR interviews are on different dates rather than in April. That's what I heard. Hope we'll get what we've chosen. Best of luck to you and me all who chose OR :)

go for it. best would be a cna in the ER or float pool and in a hospital you'd like to work at as an rn later on.

Hello, I heard that some OR docs are very nasty and I'm interested in becoming a new-grad OR RN. I was told that some even throw stuff at nurses and injure them. I can stand being verbally abused but being injured on the job by nasty docs is totally ...

How to tell a dark-skinned pt is pale just by looking at them? I know capillary refill may work but how to identify that they are pale just by looking at them?

i went to nursing school and condemned myself for choosing it 'cuz i was superly worried about how people are going to trust me. i was beating myself up for going to nursing until i found this awesome ER nurse who taught me so much that i'm in love ...

would recommend going to schools in CA. that way you can network with the hospitals you're doing your clinicals at.

i can't answer all your questions but the cost of living is pretty high. tax is around 6% i think. rent depends on what you want to rent.if you share a house with your own bed room, it's around >$800/month, if you want your own apartment, it's aro...

I'm going to have my practicum at an ED both peds and adults. I would appreciate it if anyone would please let me know things that I have to be knowledgeable about to be a good standing student.

i would recommend shadowing family nurse practitioners and family docs and do research on docs/nursing practice acts and the school curriculum. of course, don't forfeit your offer. who knows, you may change at the end of your 4 years.

I'd say have someone check your stethoscope's 'ears'. i had a friend who bought an almost $500.00 stethoscope and couldn't hear anything so she went to the store and have them fix the stethoscope's ears to accommodate her ears' anatomy and now she ca...

i didn't ask specifically for OR. i just asked generally about my application status. they say that decisions are being made and that if I yet to hear anything from them, I should stay happy. I'll keep you posted should I hear anything from them.

soysauce : no news is good news, if you havent' heard back from ucla there's still hope. at least that's what i was told when i called ucla. keep the hopes up. seems like those who were called are those applied to icu as 1st choice. i applied to OR a...