bols27

bols27 specializes in Hopefully ICU one of these days..

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1. Worried about my nursing supplies!?

   bols27 replied to Randi156's topic in General Students

   I have a master cardiology with my initials laser engraved, no one has said anything cross to me about it. I have had a few instructors and even a resident comment on how nice of a scope I have but...

2. 9th Nursing Caption Contest - Win $100

   bols27 replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

   I know the punching bag was installed to help us de-stress, but she has been in here for 3 days

3. Not impressed and depressed

   bols27 replied to BitterSweetSN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   Just think of nursing school as boot camp. They break you down, try to convince you that you don't know anything about anything, make the smallest of tasks considerably more complicated than they need...

4. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

   bols27 replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

   People that enter nursing school with the goal of immediately continuing on to a non nursing or expanded nursing role are forced into going through nursing school first to enter that position. The...

5. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

   bols27 replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

   I just finished the LPN portion of an ADN program. I also just got a job as a PCT in an ER instead of as an LPN in LTC making considerably more money because the PCT position actually allows me to...

6. PCTs giving injections!

   bols27 replied to Kdrenee's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

   I work as a PCT in a ED and we insert and d/c foleys, do wound care, splint, EKGs, some patient teaching such as crutches, d/c IVs, and so on. About the only thing we don't do is start IVs or draw...

7. What a coincidence. . .every single student nurse who shadows me. . .

   bols27 replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

   I don't understand the animosity towards students who wish to become advanced practice nurses. I understand that some will not be able to accomplish this for a variety of reasons but honestly it is...

8. Getting accepted into nursing school

   bols27 replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

   Don't worry, once you are actually accepted then you get to go through the gut wrenching glory fest of skills returns, exams, clinicals, and then the wonderful NCLEX. Oh but the fun doesn't stop...

9. Shocked...Confused...& Terminated=SAD "(

   bols27 replied to NrsLucky's topic in General Nursing

   I am sorry if this is a silly question, but why was administering atropine IV per the doctors order outside of your scope of practice and IM is not? I am a nursing student so this is of interest to...

10. How many people did you lose?

    bols27 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    We have our final for our first semester on Wednesday.It is a 2 year ladder program. We started with 42 in August, lost 2 after Fundamentals, 1 so far a couple of weeks ago, and probably 3-5 more...

11. What would the IV rate be...?

    bols27 replied to nashgirl516's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Nashgirl, it sounds like you go to the same school as me lol. Our current instructors are terrible at writing questions but will have none of it if we try to explain why the questions are

12. Dx Cardiac Output - these crazy NANDA's!!

    bols27 replied to julimom's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think there are some crazy nursing diagnoses...one of which being "disturbed energy field"... i mean come on. someone had to be laughing when they wrote that one, or "impaired religiosity" rip me...

13. Urgent! Case study of the child with a burn

    bols27 replied to vague111's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm with Grn Tea, that dark brown urine is a classic presentation of myoglobinuria, particular attention needs to be paid to her I/O to make sure she isn't having a renal insufficiency issue. And with...

14. Question about a care plan for post-op T& A

    bols27 replied to smghanayem's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    wouldn't the fact that the patient is 4 put them at risk for ineffective protection in and of itself? deficient knowledge seems like another one you would be able to use a lot with

15. What would the IV rate be...?

    bols27 replied to nashgirl516's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    it seems to me that there is a lot of information missing in this