Love4Me

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  1. shift question

    Love4Me replied to boofish's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I thought I would hate midnights but have come to realize I LOVE them. Couldn't pay me enough to work straight days. And yes I have a husband and 3 kiddos. At my hospital new grads hire in on days...

  2. Best Stethoscope?!

    Love4Me replied to jillnurse2b's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I use the Neonatal Littmann and it works just

  3. Can you work in NICU right out of school?

    Love4Me replied to Krissyone's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yes U can. I did it. I work in a teaching hospital and got my foot in the door during my last year of nursing school. I started in our NICU as a student nurse. It is definately

  4. Calculating PGE drips

    Love4Me posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi everyone! I am a new nurse still in orientation and working in the NICU. Yesterday was my first time having an intensive assignment (as opposed to progressive) and I was taking care of a little guy...

  5. Calculating PGE drips

    Love4Me replied to Love4Me's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    You guys are right. My original post should have had the concentration 500mcg/50ml.

  6. Calculating PGE drips

    Love4Me replied to Love4Me's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I am okay with calculating the rate. It ran at 0.6 ml/hr. I use the dose desired/dose on hand calculation method: dose desired: 0.025mcg/kg/min = 0.025/3.9 = 0.0975mcg/min (then...

  7. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    As far as the question concerning how long it took to get accepted...I applied in May of 2004 and was accepted in July of 2004 and started the program in August of 2004. I did not apply until I had...

  8. Need help creating a report sheet

    Love4Me posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I have been in the NICU (as a student nurse) now for 3 months. So far I haven't found a way to do my report sheet that is organized. I look at what some of the other nurses have and it is all...

  9. Paid Training

    Love4Me replied to SraKristina's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Call around to the local nursing homes. Before I started nursing school I got certified as a nurses aide. I did 2 weeks of unpaid training at a Nursing Home in Waterford and then was eligible to take...

  10. Any pointers regarding heal pokes?

    Love4Me posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I am a student nurse in a level 4 NICU. We do the blood collections for most of our babies labs. More often than not they blood is collected from a heel poke. I have a hard time getting my kids to...

  11. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    You will do just fine in the LTC. You will do alot of the things that you learned in the lab. Expect to give a bed bath and do AM care. Change bed linens. Do lots of transfers and toileting. You will...

  12. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    So how is everything going for all of you? Has clinical started yet? The semester is almost half way

  13. Cna

    Love4Me posted a topic in General Nursing

    I currently work the midnight shift as a CNA in a LTC facility. I don't have the best of backs (due to a good case of scoliosis) and beginning to have back pain from constantly lifting and...

  14. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Yes, I am a second year student. Each instructor tests differently, so the only way to really know is to go by previous tests. Some universal pointers: the prep points usually cover alot of the info...

  15. Care Plans Help Please! (with the R\T and AEB)

    Love4Me replied to RNinJune2007's topic in General Students

    We use the Ackley book. It helps with activities and rationales but not all that great with the related to. Our instructor explained it to us that the related to is like the cause of the diagnosis....

  16. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I agree about the prep points. They do seem like busy work and take FOREVER to finish. But hey, we have no choice in the matter. They do help when it comes to the tests. Usually whatever is in the...

  17. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    http://www.oaklandcc.edu/iic/iichl/nursing_candidate.htm Hope that link works. If not, go to the occ website, click on the "campus" link. Click on Highland Lakes. Then click the department...

  18. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Hi Dream. I also took Pharm in the summer of 2004. Had the same instructor and she is great. Pharm covers everything you need to know for the calculations test. However, they only go over it briefly....

  19. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    We usually have a guest speaker. Sometimes it is interesting sometimes not. We also give alot of information regarding upcoming events and/or any changes in the program. The first luncheon is good to...

  20. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    By the way, I hope both of you are coming to the Luncheon next Monday. Sit and try and talk with some second year students. They have lots of pointers to

  21. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    One professor is very serious about wanting depth to her prep points. I had her last year for OB and I would sometimes have 6 and 7 pages of written prep points just to get those 3 points. Almost half...

  22. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I can't wait to see what the green uniforms look like With some of the classes you have to purchase a syllabus and then there is a separate booklet that looks like the syllabus, but it is the prep...

  23. Oakland Community College nursing program

    Love4Me replied to buRNer's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Uniforms for OCC can be purchased from any uniform shop (at least last year and they haven't told us any different for this year). I have bought them online and from local stores but never the...

  24. Any pointers regarding heal pokes?

    Love4Me replied to Love4Me's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I was so happy last night when I was able to assist a nurse with her heel stick. She had already stuck the babies heel not once but twice and was getting ready to move on to the other heel (she had...

  25. A question re: Albumin Transfusion

    Love4Me replied to mweaverrn's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Our albumin comes from pharmacy "ready to use". So I am not sure.