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I would say try to get some medsurg experience if you're unsure of what you really want to do. It exposes you to a lot of different patients and helps with assessment. You just see so much variety, but after a while it gets old. I've been doing it for about a year now. It's been a good learning experience.

It seems like a lot of this assignment is based on chapters we haven't read yet. Kind of irritating.

I agree. Unnecessary and nearly inappropriate.

This reading seriously seems like it's dragging a bit... at least for me. I'm glad Mrs. Doubtfire is on the movie list :)

This class is so strange already. I still am not sure what the coaches/teachers are expecting from us, especially with these assignments. It's kind of unnerving to have to rely on other group members in an online course.

I'll be in research 5/20 as well. Hope it goes smoothly!

Definitely annoying the quiz is due Friday instead of Sunday.. and assignments are due Thursday after this week! Ugh.

Sketchers Go-Walk shoes. HEAVENLY. New Balance tennis shoes still let my feet hurt, but after running back and forth all day, the go-walk shoes help my feet stay comfortable. I wish I had known about them during school.

I'll be starting this course on the 5th! Hopefully it's not too bad.

I remember being afraid to try something new in clinicals. I think I had that apprehension all the way up to landing my 1st job last month. But really, if the teacher asked you to read over injections a weekend ahead of time that is something that should be done. It at least would give you an idea of what to do. To survive nursing school you have to stay ahead. That's just how it is. But the instructor should provide some sort of demonstration ahead of time and check you off on skills 1st. Search for it on youtube.

This sounds just like my old nursing program. I graduated in May and I do NOT miss clinical prep paperwork! (I just hate the paperwork at my current job... haha). But yeah. I feel like a lot of it was just busywork and a lot of it was that the instructors just didn't understand how much they were all throwing at us at once. If it wouldn't tick them off, you could try as a class explaining that the paperwork is just too much.

I just finished nursing school in Texas this past May, and we had clinical experiences in many different places, up to an hour away from the school. And they don't care if you don't have transportation. A lot of us carpooled.

Yep. That actually happened last spring during my final semester of nursing school. It was really awful. TPA is a fibrinolytic that comes to mind. In this case, it's better to prevent than to treat.

You could say "risk for infection r/t complications secondary to chorioamnionitis" or something along those lines. But yes, a medical diagnosis is never directly your "related to" section. Different diagnosis books may propose it differently. Also, your college library may have access to peer-reviewed nursing journals online.

Ambulation after arthroplasty is important and well-timed. Lovenox is often given to most of the patients I've seen in the hospital just because they are often in bed a lot, and therefore at risk for blood clotting. Lovenox will hopefully prevent the clotting from occurring - if a clot occurred and the patient began to ambulate, what would happen then?