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  1. anyone knows anything about the GREs?

    NurseFirst replied to t2000JC's topic in General Nursing

    You ought to be able to find the average GREs/GPAs for entry. If not on the web, certainly in any of the many of the grad program directories widely available... NurseFirst PS -- but, as with Medical...

  2. Suggestions for Coping with Pt Death

    NurseFirst replied to amj10rn's topic in General Nursing

    Some 27 years ago (yikes!)...but didn't continue until recently :)... We did clinical in a long-term care facility (natch) and there was one lady who could not talk (don't know why)...but would always...

  3. Patient Resources: Websites and Forums

    NurseFirst posted a topic in General Nursing

    Someone in the student nursing forum just posted a website for chf patients (to help us students)...however, I'm interested in starting a thread where we could post sites that are good support sites...

  4. Discover Nursing is awesome!!!

    NurseFirst replied to xy/RN2b 2006's topic in General Nursing

    After all, we can hardly leave out Nurse's Aides, can we? But...the war is won by winning many smaller battles...

  5. ER the TV show

    NurseFirst replied to aruray's topic in General Nursing

    lol!!!

  6. A question about Diploma Nurses

    NurseFirst replied to Headhurt's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that the Flexner report had a dramatic effect on medicine, and medical education in this country. However, I think the "golden age" of medicine has passed--having risen in the 50s and 60s...

  7. input about my moms post op (in ICU) condition

    NurseFirst replied to McMudda's topic in General Nursing

    And I'm sure that folks here really sympathize with your plight. However, it's not easy to say what should be expected with your Mom without knowing her full medical condition. You really need to...

  8. Well, this reporting agency has just about given me my !##&*~ fill.

    NurseFirst replied to Crumbwannabe's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't figured it out yet....please help! Thanks!

  9. Why aren't we unionized?

    NurseFirst replied to leslieanne's topic in General Nursing

    How about the fact that the California Nurses Association has lobbied and gotten passed legislation that improves patient care...such as lower nurse to patient ratios?

  10. Your perception of student nurses when they visit your hospital?

    NurseFirst replied to avery's topic in General Nursing

    But I'm a lot faster when I can use my own steth and BP cuff, and don't have to go searching for the dynamap machine. I never had trouble figuring out which side of the BP cuff goes next to the...

  11. Flu Vaccines.... What a problem!

    NurseFirst replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, I haven't seen anyone changing how they are giving flu vaccines, after the information that SQ and ID doses a fraction of the IM doses have been just as effective. (You can read the...

  12. Why aren't we unionized?

    NurseFirst replied to leslieanne's topic in General Nursing

    as i wrote, discussing the situation with the la times and the la herald, the times had to pay higher wages because they had to compete with the unionized la herald. unions (as much as i don't like to...

  13. ER the TV show

    NurseFirst replied to aruray's topic in General Nursing

    Sheesh! Carter subsequently developed an addiction from taking opiods for the pain from his injury and was "confronted", with Carter being down to some rehab for impaired physicians, accompanied...

  14. Why aren't we unionized?

    NurseFirst replied to leslieanne's topic in General Nursing

    In Los Angeles, when I was growing up, there were two newspapers: the LA Herald (?) and LA Times. Now, it's true, the first newspaper was unionized, and the Times wasn't. But you know what? The...

  15. What is your favorite nursing journal?

    NurseFirst replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    "Made Incredibly Easy" (yep, the same folks who brought you the books have a bimonthly journal. I subscribed to it when I discovered nursingcenter was "selling" articles from the journal for $2.95 a...

  16. "Cookie Cutter" uniforms

    NurseFirst replied to Limik's topic in General Nursing

    Is a guy I've seen who wears a v neck "cutesy" scrub top, with chest hair sticking out. Yuck! I have no problem with chest hair (in the right place, of course)--but this becomes some weird mix of...

  17. Why aren't we unionized?

    NurseFirst replied to leslieanne's topic in General Nursing

    I think most hospital-based health professionals belong to some kind of bargaining unit. You can check it out, for instance, by looking at the jobs on the Kaiser Permamente jobs site...where they...

  18. ER the TV show

    NurseFirst replied to aruray's topic in General Nursing

    "conscious sedation" or "twilight sleep"Frequently is fentanyl and versed.

  19. Nursing School Bloopers

    NurseFirst replied to Jabber964's topic in Nursing Humor

    Good thing he was comatose ...

  20. Depression and Antidepressants...

    NurseFirst replied to Monkey_Man's topic in Nursing Career

    At least that's what I've heard about the amphetamine-like anti-depressant Wellbutrin.

  21. Your perception of student nurses when they visit your hospital?

    NurseFirst replied to avery's topic in General Nursing

    Rather...I'd end up getting gowned up, and before I went in the room, remembered something I wanted OUTSIDE the room. Oh...so, as I'm told, if you're gowned and gloved, ppl assume you've already been...

  22. timing of meds

    NurseFirst replied to katzrkool's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree...it makes more sense to wait. If you are giving a medication which has, as its side effects--drowsiness, then it only makes sense to me to wait to see how that med affects the patient before...

  23. Need your input...Wait til fall or start LPN in February

    NurseFirst replied to SarasotaRN2b's topic in General Nursing

    Then you will start building upon what you learned in your pre-reqs immediately, and will be less likely to forget it. I like the idea that you will have your LPN and will be able to work--gaining...

  24. Phenergan?

    NurseFirst replied to RN92's topic in General Nursing

    Darn! I miss all the fun. They gave me a MS PCA after my hysterectomy, but all it did was make me very sleepy. Felt really good after the sleep, though...like I'd been on vacation. But I actually...

  25. Your perception of student nurses when they visit your hospital?

    NurseFirst replied to avery's topic in General Nursing

    Love yer posts, TriageRN_34. In our program, clipboards are de riguer. We only wonder, at different clinical sites, whether we can take them into the patient's room or not! Some of us even have the...