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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 mostly just in passing. Who cares what people think ...

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

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 to be, harp on you about things that seem to be u...

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 only way to become a CRNA or NP is to become a nurse ...

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 practice MANY more skills, see many more diverse case...

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 blood but our nurses RARELY draw blood either it is g...

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 just like any other profession in my opinion. Do you...

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 there, oh no. After all of the hard work getting in and...

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 me.

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 after finals unless they pull off miracles. Our NCLEX ...

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 improper.

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 apart all you want but these just sound silly.

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 a burn "from the nose..." and a scratchy voice I...

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 children.

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

hahah thanks for the vocab lesson. I actually know better but it was almost 3 in the morning when I replied. The best part is, I am usually the one calling out all of my friends for grammatical errors on facebook and such. Turnabout is fair play I su...

there is no way to answer this as a student. even if i feel like im prepared i am sure there will be a time or a billion where i think "man, why didnt i learn this in school" I think nursing school prepares you to take the NCLEX...nothing can really ...

I am in school with a nursing student named Karen Hart. hahah she will be Karen Hart RN when finished.

I have searched to see if anyone has asked this before but for the life of me can not find anything on it previously. I am sure there are some ADN to BSN students out there and I would like to know, does your ADN GPA figure into your cumulative GPA f...

I can tell you from experience...extensive experience at that, vet tech is not a viable career option if you plan on not living in your parents basement forever. The highest paid vet tech I have ever met who worked at a specialty hospital in Long Bea...

I would assume things like wash your hands before dawning gloves, dawn gloves, use a sterile needle, use an alcohol prep pad for 15 seconds on the site of VP in a circular inner to outer motion, don't blow on it to get it to dry (seriously, i have ha...

has anyone considered that hospitals are more apt to hire a BSN nurse as opposed to an ADN nurse due to the fact that they don't want to pay for all of the ADN nurses to finish a BSN and then pay them more when they do when they could just cut out a ...

It depends on what unit he is going to be on. I would assume he is going to be in palliative care or hospice? If this is the case I would say that pain control and coping would be the most important issues. I would also be mindful of any family membe...

Discharge begins when turkey is admitted to my mouth. Pardon the aside, I had to reply to that lol. Yes discharge planning begins the minute they are admitted because that is the exact minute you are trying to get them back home and everything you as...

Ciale, I am in the same boat. I was a 4.0 Biology major before nursing school back in the day. I took the MCAT and got a competitive score. I was in the 99th percentile on my TEAS V test and I score level 3 on every ATI exam we have and somehow the ...