Sadala ADN, RN

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    Visitors who stay overnight. Vent.

    Sadala replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That said, studies show fewer mistakes for pts who have family members who stay. That's a good enough reason for me to be around as much as
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    Visitors who stay overnight. Vent.

    Sadala replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have stayed overnight with both my grandmother and my father once they were out of CCU (while in CCU I stayed downstairs where many of the families are allowed to sleep in chairs). I've also stayed...
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    Private loans & community colleges

    Sadala replied to sugarmagnoliaRN's topic in General Students

    I received some kind of regional scholarship that is a no interest loan if you don't work in the region for 24 mos post grad. This particular one doesn't specify where you have to work, just the...
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    Are you an A student. How do you achieve it

    Sadala replied to joselyne's topic in General Students

    Also, if someone is really good at a practical skill then by ALL MEANS let them teach you how to do it. I am kind of an "up in my head" type. I'm great at patho, not so good with my body. The girl...
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    Are you an A student. How do you achieve it

    Sadala replied to joselyne's topic in General Students

    Oh yeah, whoever said keep a planner is right on the money. Also, save your clinical work so you don't have to completely reinvent the wheel every time. Go over each day's classes after class or...
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    Are you an A student. How do you achieve it

    Sadala replied to joselyne's topic in General Students

    uhhh.... I got one A and the rest B's my first semester. Uncharacteristically, I was HAPPY. I think (again uncharacteristically) that I may have startled several teachers by hugging them with no...
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    Question about HSV-2

    Sadala replied to SwampCat's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    My understanding of both forms of HSV is that they enter the skin through broken skin or intact mucous membranes. Meaning that gloves plus intact skin is pretty good protection (and then add good...
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    Has anyone left their employment due to mandatory vaccinations

    Sadala replied to anniemm's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm a student and several vaccinations (or titers) as well as the flu vaccine are mandatory. I personally have no issue with any of them. Perhaps if I was sensitive to vaccines or had experienced a...
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    I have technical questions...

    Sadala replied to Sadala's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I appreciate all of the
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    stuttering as a nurse.

    Sadala replied to MartinArvizu's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't have a stutter, but I do have a bit of expressive aphasia. I tend to say, you know, the umm, umm... And invariably someone fills in for me whatever word it is I'm looking for (or not). I...
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    Help communicating with my nurses.

    Sadala replied to LiLev's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I don't think its a loss at all! You said that you spent other clinical time taking very good care of your pts. That's both a skill and an art and I'm sure your patients were so grateful. So you...
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    Help communicating with my nurses.

    Sadala replied to LiLev's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In our clinicals, we have a large book with different procedures and we check and document that we performed a procedure on a certain day (the instructor signs off on it). So if there are certain...
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    Pediatrics: Acetaminophen vs. Ibuprofen

    Sadala replied to dgirlemmy's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I have seen articles since 2011 where J&J has recommended the max for acetaminophen be reduced from 4 g daily to 3 g daily, but I cannot find where this has actually become the new max. Sorry,...
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    Forensic Nurses as Medical Examiners

    Sadala replied to Artemis2.0's topic in Forensic

    I would think that it will be difficult for them to find enough MEs to possibly convert all offices to MEs and that this may be an employment option for nurses. i.e. That an ME may have a wide area...
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    I have technical questions...

    Sadala replied to Sadala's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose that was part of the question. Don't know that another facility would even allow that, dependent upon the type of facility. So if it seems that usually one is not allowed to do so, then...
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    I have technical questions...

    Sadala replied to Sadala's topic in General Nursing

    Ok. Good to know. Suspected as much due to thinking there would be concerns about efficacy of equipment and sanitation. Anything used was, of course, sanitized between patients. None of the...
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    Do you use a rolling backpack? What one?

    Sadala replied to bellafsu89's topic in General Students

    Ok, nothing was BIG enough for me so I got a rolling sewing maching trolley. And I LOVE it. Everything I used previously fell apart, but this is awesome and fits EVERYTHING. I think it cost me...
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    People say the funniest things in school...

    Sadala replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    Actually, the yoghurt deal has been something many women have done for years, and there is a reason that it can be helpful. I've even known physicians to recommend it. Of course, they mean plain...
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    I Chart Too Much?!

    Sadala replied to skittlebear's topic in General Nursing

    You'll have to forgive me since I'm new (as in still a student), but I thought that was rather the point. If you don't chart it, then it didn't happen, and what have
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    The Nightmare known as Psychiatric Care Part One

    Sadala replied to TopazLover's topic in Psychiatric

    Physicians, and not just psychiatrists, still try to give women hysteria dx. They just use different semantics.
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    Male nurses student and skipping OB/L&D clinicals

    Sadala replied to Jfarmboy's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Have a cousin in CCU right now after hemorrhaging during childbirth. Not sure she's going to make it. actually. And then there's cathing, etc. People in CCU do need caths and cath care. They also...
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    MD's hand writing

    Sadala replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Do they? Maybe a way for them to stop those phone calls is to write legibly and correctly give the
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    which is harder.. to be a pedi nurse or geriatric?

    Sadala replied to BabyRN23's topic in General Nursing

    I think ltc is frequently sad. That said, I LOVE the geriatric population and I think I could work with them just fine. I don't see older adults as diminished people. I see them as unique...
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    Getting a Boost Because You Are A Minority

    Sadala replied to Clodhopper's topic in Men in Nursing

    I was actually seriously wondering if it won't help to have more men in nursing in terms of people taking the profession more seriously and in terms of increasing pay scales. And yes, I'm female....
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    National trend...hiring only BSN's?

    Sadala replied to PeacefulRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Do you have to practice as an ADN prior to beginning a BSN degree? And... can't you do the ADN to BSN online? I had wanted to both start working and completing an online BSN asap after completing my...