Sadala ADN, RN

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    A Call to Action from the Nation's Nurses in the Wake of Newtown

    Sadala replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A murderer is a murderer, whether he or she uses a gun, a bomb, a knife, a hammer, or a car. That is the point. An inanimate object is not dangerous. A person's dangerous behavior is dangerous....
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    A Call to Action from the Nation's Nurses in the Wake of Newtown

    Sadala replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A lot of people advocating for weapons bans seem to have very little/to absolutely no knowledge about guns. There seems to be a paucity of knowledge about the US Constitution as well. And some of...
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    Are you an A student. How do you achieve it

    Sadala replied to joselyne's topic in General Students

    I also know a couple of girls who get great grades and their process is different from mine but it WORKS for them - the important thing. But they use some version (with skills and with patho) of...
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    Are you an A student. How do you achieve it

    Sadala replied to joselyne's topic in General Students

    Wait. Stop the presses. They TELL you when you will have quizzes? LOL I wish! They never tell us. But... we can pretty much guarantee that when our butt hits the chair in any given class or lab...
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    Has anyone taken A&P and Microbiology in the same semester????

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

    At our school you couldn't have taken all three together in any case because you had to take A&P I prior to A&P II. I didn't even know that some schools had anatomy and physiology as separate...
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    Learning Spanish is a plus, bilingual? trilingual?

    Sadala replied to jtoms's topic in General Nursing

    I noticed that in the back of our mother and baby text there is an entire section on spanish translations of key term and phrases. So... I guess that really is being suggested although no one has...
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    Ever disappointed on Christmas?

    Sadala replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    I guess I don't really care about receiving gifts very much anymore. Esp at Christmas. I feel more disappointed at times like this, when, as a student I do not have enough money to get the things...
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    Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    Sadala replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I've also had this occur with physicians who come in to see me and as soon as they've left the room I've reported to the nurse that the pump was shot off by the physician due to alarming, so that...
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    Has anyone taken A&P and Microbiology in the same semester????

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

    OMG Yes! What Soprano said is so true. You def want a great teacher for both courses. Check word of mouth, ASK the head of the science department (they are typically surprisingly candid) and look...
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    Has anyone taken A&P and Microbiology in the same semester????

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

    I took them together and I thought it was one of the smarter things that I've done (ok, that's not a super long list, but anyway). I just thought that they went well together because many of the...
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    Visitors who stay overnight. Vent.

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

    I think families are going to become more present and involved (for the better or for the worse) as time goes on. More and more family members are going to be caring for other family members and i...
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    Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    Sadala replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am definitely guilty of silencing my OWN alarm and then calling to let the nurse know it had gone off and I hit the silence button. I can't imagine touching someone else's. Nobody ever seemed to...
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    Future Shortage in Bedside Nurses

    Sadala replied to westieluv's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm afraid that if I don't go on to get a BSN after completing my ADN then I won't be employable in some regional areas and/or might get phased out as time moves on. I keep hearing that the job...
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    I have technical questions...

    Sadala posted a topic in General Nursing

    First, I should admit that I have both control issues and issues with systems. In other words, I like to do the best work in the most expedient manner. In particular, I don't like to find myself...
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    clinical care package

    Sadala replied to pd4993's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    small bottles of hand sanitizer. I ended up giving away like five of those to fellow students. One of those pens that writes in four colors (why do they want us to have one? I DONT KNOW. They...
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    i need help on all subject for teas taken 2x HELP . i really want to be a nurse

    Sadala replied to tempbesty313's topic in TEAS Exam Help

    Do you have the booklet and did you sign up for the online prep tests? Both of those helped me immensely. If you know everything in the book, you are good to go. And if you do the online prep...
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    Who's taken the teas v?

    Sadala replied to sch1109's topic in TEAS Exam Help

    I'm going to comment without reading the entire thread on account of its looooooooong. When I signed up to take the TEAS V I purchased the prep book and the two online practice tests. I'm really...
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    Buy or Rent These Books

    Sadala replied to HenryN.'s topic in General Students

    Also, sometimes you can get the same books used on amazon and save a good deal of money. It can be cheaper than renting in some cases. (Just make certain you have the correct ISB
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    Buy or Rent These Books

    Sadala replied to HenryN.'s topic in General Students

    Definitely you will keep using your drug guide, and if you like that particular diagnostic handbook I would buy it as well. A lot of students seem to want to hang onto their fundamentals books, but...
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    Working while in nursing program?

    Sadala replied to dopestethoscope's topic in General Students

    A lot probably also depends upon your school, the scheduling of your classes and clinicals, the distance of the school from where you live as well as the distance of the clinical sites (and other...
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    Working while in nursing program?

    Sadala replied to dopestethoscope's topic in General Students

    I just finished my first semester. At the beginning I was working 40+ hours per week (the school was perhaps err... not aware that it was so much). By the end, I was down to 20 hrs per week and the...
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    How is the floor/hospital census lately?

    Sadala replied to rn undisclosed name's topic in General Nursing

    Seems like ER and cardiac would be busier through the holidays. I've frequently wondered about that. I know that in social services holidays were miserably busy. People would get with their...
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    I have technical questions...

    Sadala replied to Sadala's topic in General Nursing

    I do that. I've actually gotten fairly OCD with the whole cleaning thing. I clean the stethoscope with alcohol. Somebody told me it was bad for my steth, but I didn't really care. I strip at the...
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    Visitors who stay overnight. Vent.

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

    I don't even understand why they're there unless its for that reason. The nurses actually wanted us there after my father's heart attack because he was an active smoker who obviously couldn't smoke...
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    COPD Nursing care plan

    Sadala replied to ala2ch's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You said its an ER? Did they want you to do a care plan on constipation? Was just curious why you wouldn't address the more immediate issues. I'm a student also, so don't take what I say as etched...