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A 94-10 B 87-93 C 80-86 Below 80 is failing. The number of questions varies. Usually around 50-60. I prefer and do better on exams with 50 questions than exams with 100+ questions. Most classes have 3 exams and a final. A few classes have a paper or group project in addition to the exams.

You don't even have to have a CNA to be a "nurse" in my kids' school district. It's horrible. There should be some standard regulation about that across states

Stabilizing the vein really helps imo (one finger above and one below the insertion site). Just be aware that some instructors will criticize you for a finger above the site as it is easier to accidentally stick yourself that way. You might want to ask if you instructor about it first. You can always stabilize with a finger below the insertion site. Apply slight pressure down and away from the point of insertion. You'll get it! 6 tries isn't a lot.

Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it. It definitely wasn't a swishing sound. More of a lub-dub-dub. I feel so inadequate when it comes to heart sounds

A&P and Microbiology.

I'm a student and was wondering if it's normal to hear a split S2 sound on newborns? Sometimes when I'm auscultating and counting, it seems to me like there is an occasional 3rd sound. I asked a floor nurse about it and she thought that possibly I was getting confused hearing the couplets (lub-dub) because the heart rate was so fast. My perception was that there was definitely a third sound.

Does your school require you to cover them? It's healthier for you and your patients to be bare below the elbows.

I'm curious what your coworker's response was when you said his/her words hurt and upset you?

We have limited absences in our district. 8 are allowed. Also, my child has a cough all winter every winter, so I certainly don't keep her home for her "nuisance" cough. My children also have very sensitive skin and if I kept them home everytime they had a rash, they would miss half the year. Just a partent pov

The latest Cochrane Review found that influenza vaccination was completely ineffective at reducing transmission. I don't see why we are still discussing this. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0010949/

I don't care what color scrubs a peds nurse wears when caring for my child. I care that she's competent and compassionate. I doubt the kids would be put off by scrubs with a black background. Also, I think it might be a generational thing to associate black with death.

VCU no longer has an AMSN program.

Ok, I'm spouting. Lol. I wouldn't really mess with the pump, but I would raise hell. 10 mins of alarming (barring any emergency on the unit) is unacceptable and I applaud the OP for answering the call light. I was also trying to point out that for non-medical professionals, being in a frustrating situation (imagine a child who just went to sleep and waking up bc of the alarm) I would probably push the "silence" button. I know better because of my training, but the average person doesn't. All they know is the alarm is bothering their loved one and there's that tempting "silence" button. I understand how it happens. And I don't blame the patient's visitor (who probably didn't know better), I blame the system for not being able to answer alarms in a timely manner. What's the visitor supposed to think if an alarm goes off for 10 minutes and no one comes other than it's not important? 10 mins is a LONG time if you're stuck in the room with the alarm.

Flame me if you want, but if I were visiting my child or spouse in the hospital and their roommate's IV pump was alarming *for 10 minutes*, I would silence it too. Especially when there's a little button that says "silence" so clearly marked. Imo, 10 minutes is WAY too long for a call to be left unanswered and for an alarm to be sounding.

Absolutely.