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I'm graduating with my BSN this weekend and we are having a pinning ceremony the day before graduation. I would fight to keep it!!

Thank you for the reply! That was very informative. Hopefully I'll be at SAMMC doing the fellowship in the next few years!

Hey everyone! I'm in AFROTC and I graduate this May (35 days to be exact). I'm going to NTP in Cincinnati July 2nd, and I'm going to be stationed at Keesler on a med/surg floor. I have majorly caught the ICU bug (especially cardiac patients) throu...

Like some have posted, you cannot do a LP if there is any risk of increased ICP d/t the risk of herniation. Such a sucky delicate balance!

Same, purple clip on armband.

In my head I say lub-dub 1, lub-dub 2, lub-dub 3. However, this is very difficult to do when your patient is tachy, and it can sometimes be a tongue twister. Just keep practicing :)

you really should get a book to help you write these care plans. I have Doenges' Nurse's Pocket Guide that works really well for me. Its hard to get used to writing these care plans without one of these books. Good luck!

I have seen these things that snap on the top of a vial and it has a plastic "needle" to access the bottle, and then a port at the top (like a heplock for an IV) to attach a syringe to draw up the med, then we'd carry the needle in it's package to th...

21 beds, one tech. tech only assigned 11 during day and all 21 from 11p-7a. its very very busy!!

Oh GI bleeds...makes the entire floor smell!!

Community Health. It's all common sense and I feel could be covered in one or two class periods instead of an entire semester!

I'm just about to start my last semester of my BSN and I find getting to know my textbooks before classes start realllly helpful. I'm very particular on my study habits, and it might seem like a waste of time to some people, but this is what I have ...

this is right...my aunt works for them developing diabetes medicines

are you trying for AFROTC, or do you want to go to COT after you graduate? I'm in AFROTC while getting my BSN right now and they do look at your GPA to get scholarships and to be selected for Field training, but generally your 3.3-3.5 GPA should be ...

It really depends of your state’s nurse practice act. I’m going to be a nurse intern in Iowa this summer so I can tell you how it is for me. I have to be enrolled in a class at a college in order to be able to do procedures (IVs, NGs, Foleys) and p...

We have 6 guys in a class of 21. All are heterosexual.

On the floor I was on we needed the black pens for consent forms, and the red pens used on the paper charts to show that we recognized the new dr orders. I use the highlighter on my sheets to mark what time pts need meds, and to highlight important ...

First off, buying an NCLEX book early is the best thing I ever did. I'm not sure how your program will work, but our tests have questions very similar to how the NCLEX questions are worded. Sometimes all of the answers are kinda correct, but you have...

First off, buying an NCLEX book early is the best thing I ever did. I'm not sure how your program will work, but our tests have questions very similar to how the NCLEX questions are worded. Sometimes all of the answers are kinda correct, but you ha...

Set yourself up a schedule kinda like your own personal syllabus. Make it reasonable and not overly ambitious. Maybe a chapter or two a day or whatever you feel is best. As nerdy as it sounds, I got in such a habit of studying during school last y...

Most of my teachers take their test questions off of the CD's and maybe just change one little part of them. I'd say get the CD's!

We wear a polo shirt as our top, so all I have are the pants pockets which kinda sucks! Black Pen, red pen, highlighter, permanent marker, bandage scissors, carpuject, chapstick, alcohol wipes. I have IV tape and the elastic tape rolls on my stethosc...