SElliott87

I knew from day one med/surg and floor nursing were not for me. My first job right out school was in a fast-paced urban Emergency Room and I thrived off the adrenaline, and somewhere along the line became the go-to person for any psych emergency, combative patient or mental health/overdose client that came through our squad doors. Fast forward ten years later and I work as a Nursing Supervisor for a small, for-profit mental health and addiction treatment center utilizing MAT. I love my job, and though I tried some other specialties out inbetween the ER and now (travel ER, home care, oncology, hematology), this type of nursing is my niche and passion. Also currently 2 classes in to my PMH-NP Program. CONGRATS on being a new grad, and the best piece of advice I can give you is to remind your patients that having a mental illness or an addiction does not make you less of a person, or less deserving of a chance, and that there is no straight line from addiction to sobriety!

:confused:I'm in my first semester of my last year of nursing school and I still struggle with the math. I had to withdraw from classes early last semester so I never got a good handle on figuring out the problems...and there is always the dimensional analysis vs. formula debate ( I typically work with formula...). Can someone explain how to solve this problem and/or recommend a good website? A newly admitted patient is to recieve 1250 u of heparin per hour continuously. The solution available is 1 L D% 1/4 NS with 50000 u of heparin. Set calibration is 15 gtt/mL. Calculate the hourly flow rate and gtt/min. (The answer key says 25 mL/hr and 6gtt/min...but im not understanding how they got those answers )