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  1. Anyone in or finished the pre-licensure online BSN program?

    tsm007 replied to artonurse's topic in Western Governors University

    Depends on the location. Some locations are very competitive some not as much. From what I can tell California is the most

  2. Anyone in or finished the pre-licensure online BSN program?

    tsm007 replied to artonurse's topic in Western Governors University

    It's two years once you are in the nursing program. The first 6 months of the program don't count towards the 2 years so it's 2.5 years

  3. Anyone in or finished the pre-licensure online BSN program?

    tsm007 replied to artonurse's topic in Western Governors University

    Nope. The labs are all on the weekend and you can only loosely make schedule requests. That would probably be a deal

  4. Missed a fracture

    tsm007 replied to Buggus's topic in School

    Because the mom did not know the kid fell off the playground. If she went to the ER and said I have no idea how this happened um, yah, that might make someone

  5. Patient greeting cards - How do you sign them?

    tsm007 posted a topic in General Nursing

    It seems to be the new trend sending patients a get well card when they leave the hospital. We have to sign them for our patients and I'm sick of signing "Best wishes for a speedy recovery" or "Hope...

  6. Patient greeting cards - How do you sign them?

    tsm007 replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mind signing them. A lot of patients send us cards too. I understand your point too though and some people I do not sign them

  7. When to ship pt out to hospital? WWYD?

    tsm007 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My confidence has greatly improved now that I have a little experience under my belt, but had a rough shift last night and wanted some nurses opinions on two scenarios. I am a part time agency nurse...

  8. WGU Pre-Licensure BSN Pre Reqs

    tsm007 replied to robacosta's topic in Western Governors University

    You can take a CLEP test for that. That's what I took. Human Growth and Development | CLEP I used Speedyprep.com to prepare for it. It wasn't too

  9. When to ship pt out to hospital? WWYD?

    tsm007 replied to tsm007's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thanks for the vote of confidence. I think I'm going to shake that off as a bad

  10. When to ship pt out to hospital? WWYD?

    tsm007 replied to tsm007's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thanks. If I'd have realized that someone could make themselves cough up blood I would have waited. Next time I go there I'd wait it out, but I really feel I should have got that in

  11. I need advice pls

    tsm007 replied to L.dnurse's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Google search brought me to this

  12. WGU Pre-licensing BSN for 2015

    tsm007 replied to ShondaJ's topic in Western Governors University

    Yes, they are much better (the WGU instructors anyway) than what I saw when I was in a traditional program. One of the lab instructors did not impress me as much, but really only one and not going to...

  13. WGU BSN prelicensure inquiry

    tsm007 replied to Robins19's topic in Western Governors University

    Yes. Most of them

  14. WGU BSN prelicensure inquiry

    tsm007 replied to Robins19's topic in Western Governors University

    Depends on what state you live in. California is very competitive. The other states not so

  15. WGU pre licensure

    tsm007 replied to Jesse1234's topic in Western Governors University

    Yes. No way around that one. Although occasionally some of the clinicals do wind up being 8 hours, but most are

  16. How much would a liter of fluid hemodilute labs?

    tsm007 replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    8 at around 6pm, 6.5 around 6am. I do not have access to any other lab results since I'm at home now. I think that was too big of a drop, but not sure what would be an expected drop, 7.5?

  17. How much would a liter of fluid hemodilute labs?

    tsm007 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Boy, this is getting old. I swear every. single. day. I am having to look up stuff I didn't learn in school and can't find in a book. If you have a pt that comes in with a possible GI bleed, positive...

  18. How much would a liter of fluid hemodilute labs?

    tsm007 replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    Initial hgb was 8, recheck hgb was 6.5. I was concerned about a GI bleed with a positive occult blood, but 2 of the nurses I worked with thought the drop was likely caused by the fluids. I don't have...

  19. New RN - Just Barely Keeping Up

    tsm007 replied to jessbRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm still kind of new myself, but what I've been doing is charting my vitals and any abnormals while in the room. I don't go through and chart all the normals that takes too long, but anything that is...

  20. COPD and O2 use, am I wrong?

    tsm007 replied to tsm007's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Hmm, that makes sense, but honestly don't think the O2 was doing any good anyway. Once I slept on this a minute. RT put him on a venti mask because he was mouth breathing. He had been ordered a CPAP...

  21. Q's for prelicensure students/grads

    tsm007 replied to EmmReeCPT's topic in Western Governors University

    -What advice do you have for new students? Use the COS (Course of Study) more as a guide than following it literally. Find other resources to reinforce what you are reading. I liked the "Demystified"...

  22. Do WGU graduates find jobs?

    tsm007 replied to Stargate Atlantis's topic in Western Governors University

    I graduated from the prelicensure program and have had absolutely no problem finding a job and neither have my classmates. ALL of them have jobs and none of them took a long time to find

  23. Prelicensure Clinical Schedule

    tsm007 replied to EmmReeCPT's topic in Western Governors University

    I commuted and stayed in a hotel a few nights at a time. If you ask, they can try to group your clinical days together. It will not always work out like that, but I did get a lot of my clinical days...

  24. Why 1/2 normal saline?

    tsm007 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm trying to figure out why 1/2 normal saline would be ordered in my patient? Patient is here for uti and aki. BUN is in the 50-60 range, creatinine 2.5-3. Initial sodium was 131 and is now 136. Saw...

  25. Why 1/2 normal saline?

    tsm007 replied to tsm007's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, I think you are right. Now that it is not 3am and I've had some sleep my brain is working a little more clearly. It was pretty simple - dehydration. I did not talk to the doc, but the house...