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  1. My spirit is broken.....

    cndn_grl08 replied to fairy-mary's topic in General Students

    Unfortunately, there are nurses out there who are like this. I am the kind of person who takes EVERYTHING seriously, and often come home crying as well. However, I keep telling myself that if they...

  2. Frustrated - Questioning Choice of Career

    cndn_grl08 replied to BrightFirefly's topic in General Students

    One thing to keep in mind, is as a nurse you can do almost anything! For example, nurses work in hospitals, in clinics, in schools, in the community. Many nurses don't put in catheters and NG tubes....

  3. care plan question

    cndn_grl08 replied to JMederich's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I agree with JMederich. Without knowing much info about this patient, I would assume Risk for Infection would be a priority, r/t post op and diabetes. As for the renal failure, yes, most that I have...

  4. I was yelled at by my nurse yesterday

    cndn_grl08 replied to EllieBean13's topic in General Students

    I'm the kind of person that knows my stuff but always wants to make sure I'm doing the right thing before I do it. I used to ask a lot of simple questions that I should (and did) know the answers to,...

  5. Just finished Medsurg... I feel like I don't know anything.

    cndn_grl08 replied to on eagles wings's topic in General Students

    Cardiac and Respiratory is important, many older people will have issues like COPD or CHF and such, even if that's not what they're in the hospital for. Know the basics, not everything. The rest you...

  6. Stressing the skills on the CNA exam, any advice?

    cndn_grl08 replied to havehope's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I don't know about this exam, but I had to do something similar in my second year assessment class, where we had 5 stations and each station we had 5 minutes to read a scenario and assess a "patient"...

  7. My Guidlines for Success for New Incoming SN's

    cndn_grl08 replied to mttzakr87's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Great tips, and I suggest following all of them as I also agree with them all. To add to the list, always keep in mind that marks don't matter when school is over. Getting a job has nothing to do...

  8. Newborn Nursing Diagnoses Help!

    cndn_grl08 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm a student on Mother/Baby and I'm having difficulties with diagnoses. I have a few for mom but I need 3 for baby. This is mom's second child, she was induced and delivered lady partslly today, and...

  9. Help with Newborn Nursing Diagnoses

    cndn_grl08 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm a student on Mother/Baby and I'm having difficulties with diagnoses. I have a few for mom but I need 3 for baby. This is mom's second child, she was induced and delivered lady partslly today,...

  10. Help with Newborn Nursing Diagnoses

    cndn_grl08 replied to cndn_grl08's topic in General Students

    Definitely allowed risk for diagnoses. The passing of the meconium was during delivery, which is abnormal. It is usually passed within 24 hours of

  11. Help with Newborn Nursing Diagnoses

    cndn_grl08 replied to cndn_grl08's topic in General Students

    Well an assessment was done after delivery, which I was not a part of. And like I said, other than the two things I mentioned, everything else seems to be normal. There is nothing in the chart...

  12. Giving Injections/Shots

    cndn_grl08 replied to morganv's topic in General Students

    Sub-Q injections are really easy once you do a few, I too was very nervous to give them the first few times, but after being on surgery units where pretty much everyone has insulin or enox. or both,...

  13. Auditory Learners

    cndn_grl08 replied to Despareux's topic in General Students

    I'm definitely an auditory learner. I too take my laptop to class because it helps me to see the notes organized on the page, rather than all cramped and messy. I only read the textbook if there are...

  14. 1st Nursing Cartoon caption contest - win $100

    cndn_grl08 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    That's what happens after working a double