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I don't know what your books are like but some have learning objectives at the start of each chapter, read those and look through the chapters until you know those things, they're often the important points. Also, if there are bolded definition words...

I live in Canada, I got a job before I even finished school. Nurses in my region start at 34.50 Canadian, so I'd say the pay and job situation are good. However, that shouldnt make you choose to do it or not. Nursing is something you have to WANT ...

I will be finished school in a month and a half and am trying to prepare a resume for when the time comes. I will be applying for a grad nurse position, as I don't write the licensing exam until February. I have a few questions. - First, what should ...

You will ALWAYS feel that way lol. It will get better at times and worse at other times, but nursing school is stressful. HOWEVER, take it from someone who is 5 weeks away from being done, IT IS SO WORTH IT. Get through it, and you won't regret it in...

I found I didn't have time to study and work out especially during exam time. I have a Wii with Wii Fit, and theres one work out on there that's called Step Up (stepping up and down on the Wii board) Freestyle, so you could set your pace and just go...

Student loans is not an option for you? I did not have the money to complete a four year degree either, but with student loans I was able to do it. Now when I start paying them back I will hopefully have a good job as an RN and be making enough to p...

I had some trouble understanding Med Surg when I just used the power points, and the text book readings were WAY to much to go through it all. I found it made way more sense to me when I did my patho research in clinical, it helped me to put it all ...

I have glasses and I often wonder if I should wear my contacts instead. I don't find my contacts comfortable so I think it would bother me, but at the same time I hate when my glasses slip when I'm gloved up, and I hate having to take my glasses off...

My comment is off topic in a way, but it has to do with the reality of nursing school. I have a week left of my LAST nursing class EVER, and then 3 months of practicum to finish of my degree, which I am doing overseas. Sounds awesome, right? It wa...

Definitely will see a lot of COPD, pneumonia, possibly chest tubes but that depends on the type of unit (this is medicine, not surgery so some places will not). Know different chest sounds and what they mean, know interventions for dyspnea, know abo...

When I first decided I wanted to be a nurse, I was too young to know what money even was or how much nurses made. I wanted to be a nurse, I didn't want to make a lot of money. When I told people in high school I was going into nursing, they all aske...

in this example, your diagnosis would be excess fluid volume r/t impaired excretion of sodium and water. everything after the exhibited part would be your evidence, which on a concept map would go under your diagnosis but not in it. hope that makes ...

That's how I learned them too, by looking at them in charts and determining (without looking at what the chart says) if they are high, low, or normal on your own.

In this question, B is more sterile than D is. D doesn't say anything about sterile gloves, it just says gloves in general, which doesn't mean sterile. Scrubbing into the OR is sterile, not aseptic.

I'm sorry but I take offence to this. I don't think EVERY nurse is a jackass. I definitely don't think I am a jackass. Some nurses are rude, that doesn't mean we all are!

I had some problems in my first clinical rotation in the hospital. My teaching caught me not transferring a patient properly (I was on ortho) on the first day, and she totally blew up on me in front of the patient and said I'm lucky I didn't kill he...

Also think about which ones may affect the others. For example, activity intolerance and ineffective tissue perfusion may effect impaired skin integrity. Also look at what the patient is in the hospital for. If your diagnoses have to do with the m...

In my hospital, it's a HUGE thing to label syringes, it's a big no no to not label them. I know what's in the syringe but if another nurse comes by they might not know. For example, if another nurse walks by and the patient has respiratory depressi...

I get that ALL the time. When I was finishing high school and planning to go to Nursing School, everyone said "If you're gonna be a nurse, why not just be a doctor, they make more money!". That's great, I don't care about money, I don't want to be ...

It may be different in different Regions, but for me, we label what is in the syringe. Patient name, name of medication, dose of medication, and date and time it was hung.

Your goal needs to fit the patient, it's hard to say without knowing more information. To use another situation as an example, if you had a diabetic patient who has very uncontrolled sugars and doesn't follow diet and insulin regimens, who is in the...

My choice was 3 as well. I see everyones point about physiological needs first following Maslow, but if you look up Maslow's hierarchy, the description of physiological needs includes air, water, food, etc, not wound dressings. Also, take into acco...

I was taught in school to chart "pleasantly confused", that's not a blooper. Opposed to confused and hitting and screaming, she is pleasant and confused...

I don't know how it goes for you guys, but before we were even in the care homes, we spent time in the lab learning how to do vitals and AM care and transfers and what not. So when we went to the care home, we knew how to do it. We were sent to do ...