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  1. Tips to hear breath sounds

    guest64485 replied to Megsd's topic in General Students

    Make sure you are having the person take in a deep breath whenever you move the stethoscope and put the steth on the skin, not clothing. If you are able to hear the heart sounds, you should be able...

  2. do you read everything?

    guest64485 posted a topic in General Students

    I am in the second semester of nursing school. I just got done spending 8 hours yesterday working on my reading for my med-surg class, for one week. The assignment was 2 chapters of the main book...

  3. Lawsuits and Nursing Notes

    guest64485 replied to Holly27's topic in General Students

    I am curious if this family will be having an autopsy done on the deceased? I'm sure that would answer some of their

  4. Good News For Me! (Just Wanted To Share)

    guest64485 replied to brown eyed girl's topic in General Nursing

    congrats! Sounds like the receptionist went above and beyond for customer service. Many places have a rule that employees can not accept gifts so I don't know if she would be able to accept a gift...

  5. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    guest64485 replied to EveMJRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, males do make more than females in the nursing field http://www.nursingworld.org/tan/novdec02/inbrief.htm (click the link, then scroll

  6. How many don't make it out?

    guest64485 replied to LadyEJ BSN, RN's topic in General Students

    wow mala, that's pretty severe. For my program, we start out with 70-75 accepted per semester and somewhere in the 20s

  7. soooo confused about IV

    guest64485 replied to mani3433's topic in General Students

    Ok, so as an earlier poster mentioned, you have several types of solutions Isotonic - Normal Saline (NS or 0.9%NaCl), Dextrose 5% in water (D5W)**, Lactated Ringers Hypertonic - 3%NaCl, 5%NaCL, D10W,...

  8. nursing school stress

    guest64485 replied to ostomyrn2b09's topic in General Nursing

    had to wait a year to get into nursing school. They had 400 applicants for 70

  9. how many (nursing students) are sick?

    guest64485 replied to Maisie's topic in General Students

    stress related GI problems here

  10. How many applicants are you "competing" against?

    guest64485 replied to jaysma's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The school I'm at routinely has 400 applicants for 70

  11. Salary question??

    guest64485 replied to joe134's topic in General Nursing

    It will have taken me 3 years to get my ASN. And that's with already having a bachelor's degree. Starting wage here for a hospital nurse is 19.50/hr. That goes up to about 27 with max

  12. Nursing research with ADN?

    guest64485 replied to mommyoftwo's topic in Research

    what would be an ideal (nursing or non-nursing) master's degree to get to increase my chances of working in

  13. First Day at work did not go well--please advise!

    guest64485 replied to SherryBSN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you had to do the day all over again, what could you have done differently? I agree with the other posters in that giving the med was not your fault. You did what any normal nurse would do. It...

  14. This cannot be ethical!

    guest64485 replied to sweetcheekers's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to second what Dapper said. Don't make such wide assumptions about a person based on one

  15. languages

    guest64485 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking about becoming fluent in another language. However, I want to make sure that whatever I chose, I will use, so that I won't lose it. Can the bilingual/multilingual nurses out there...

  16. CNA before RN

    guest64485 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Students

    I worked as a CNA the summer after my first semester of the nursing program. It seemed like the first semester of the program focused a lot on cna type duties so I don't think its critical that you...

  17. What would you think...

    guest64485 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    If she was only 17, it may have been her first time giving blood or just having a basic blood draw. For some reason when I would think about getting a needle slipped into my vein I'd think about bugs...

  18. Holidays - what do you do for co-workers?

    guest64485 replied to lovesmarissa's topic in General Nursing

    Usually I'll go in with a few other coworkers for a small gift for my boss, and then everyone in the department will pool in money to give to a charity. I really like the idea of doing charity...

  19. Feeling Overwhelmed!

    guest64485 replied to Canadian_Girl's topic in General Students

    Hi Jax, I have similar feelings as you in regards to nursing school. While its been one of the best experiences of my life (in feeling like I have made a difference, and can really make a difference...

  20. What was harder? Non-nursing bachelors or ADN?

    guest64485 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    I think asoldierswife05 summed up a lot of my feelings quite well. I have a bachelors in psychology from a top-end university on the dean's list, and nursing school is currently killing me. Nursing...

  21. Non-Smoking Hospitals

    guest64485 replied to katy_kenemy's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital went smoke-free last year. Employee health offered a great deal of resources to quit smoking. They had informational sessions and greatly reduced prices for quitting-smoking-aids as well...

  22. How much info can past employers hand out?

    guest64485 replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    She should definitely put down every place where she has worked in the past, otherwise, it will be falsification of the application. Call the human resources department to ensure that the only info...

  23. how to pick a pt. for clinicals?

    guest64485 replied to sonja77's topic in General Students

    I'll ask the nurse who isn't going home in the next 24 hours, and then i'll pick a random patient from that group. I figure that when I'm a nurse, I won't get to pick my patients. Plus, sometimes...

  24. Help me talk to patients....

    guest64485 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    Oftentimes I will get pieces of information about them from their chart that I can talk with them about. For example, I might read that a patient's husband has been in a lot(i.e. medication discussed...

  25. Not so wise wisdom teeth

    guest64485 replied to funinsun's topic in General Nursing

    I had my wisdom teeth out about a year and a half ago. I had relocated and switched to a new dentist who picked it up where my old dentist didn't. While the dentist did the x-rays, I was referred to...