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  1. Kaplan questions

    http://WWW.KAPLANNURSING.COM
  2. hello Susan & Vickie, what counties are you in, sounds like Susan lives in the Cary, Garner area I have found the Lee & Harnett County areas cheaper than Wake with easy access to hospitals...
  3. New to Dialysis

    Don't worry. Try to think about it from the patients view.....their graft/fistula is their lifeline. they have been taught to protect it, washing before cannulation, no bp's, no iv sticks, they...
  4. Don't laugh, but... what if I throw up??

    Nothing is as bad as a GI bleed IMHO. Once I had a patient with a massive GI bleed and was having trouble holding it down since he had explosive diarrhea several times that day.....At lunch I got a...
  5. watches - best for nurses?

    best watches 1. stretch band for easy handwashing 2. large black numbers on a white background (cause I can't see for squat) 3. sweep second hand 4. military time (if you are like me and have trouble...
  6. You know the family is nuts when...

    when you actually have daughter, mother and father in psych unit within a one month time frame, but not all at the same time......with issues ranging from bipolar disorder to depression to...
  7. White Pants Underwear Woes

    I posted this on another post about white scrubs, but I wear white nursing support hose under white scrubs, can't see panties lines and my legs don;t hurt after 12 hours on my
  8. Anyone Here Sew their own Scrubs?

    wearing white nursing support hose is great too, for not showing anything under white pants AND my legs don't feel like white hot pokers of fire after 12 hours :
  9. What is that smell?

    Oh THE SMELL! My 16 y/o has the same thing......i've learned never to enter without FEBREZE......I've crawled around on hands and knees smelling carpet, smelled the sheets, under the bed, the trash...
  10. Question about shoes.....

    I know this has been addressed before but I need your educated opinion(s). I went shopping today and "invested" in a pair of Dansko's. I also tried on a pair of Quark's and loved the way they felt...
  11. 50% Failed!!!!!

    Oh.....another note...... Our school has the most requested applicants for employment than any schools in the surrounding 5 counties. Employers know that our program is one of the most difficult and...
  12. 50% Failed!!!!!

    I attended nursing school in a rural town at the community college. Our class started with 54 students. We lost the majority in 1st semester and then only a handful the next 2 semesters. Went into the...
  13. Can you get strep if tonsils have been removed?

    Run don't walk to the doctor. About six weeks ago I had a "minor" scratchy throat, achy, tired.....then I broke out in red rash all over my body and in the palms of my hands.....sure...
  14. how many (nursing students) are sick?

    During school my class was plagued with stomach ulcers, depression, colds that would not go away, and during the last semester strep took over the class room with two of us having scarlet fever with...
  15. MD can't walk across the room to get a chart

    I think it is very interesting the the doc in the OP was female. I have seen behavior like this far more often from female MD's than males. Seems almost like they have something to prove to female...
  16. First timer - Burn Unit

    During a rotation at the UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill NC I heard an amazing thing from a 90% burn survivor. He said..... "Burn patients carry their scars on the outside for all the world to see....
  17. Spending the Benjamins

    Hope you guys don't mind a girl posting.....but I thought you might appreciate this.......one of the first BIG things to purchase for my husband (who has worked two FT jobs to put me through school,...
  18. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    While I was doing my L&D rotation I was paired with a 'slightly' ditzy classmate who sometimes spoke before thinking. Together we were hooking up a new admit to monitor for FHT's.....classmate...
  19. North Carolina $ for new grads around 18.50/hr with 3 - 4/hr shift and 10/hr WE stacked. Some specialty areas (L&D, ICU, ED) offer 1-3/hr diff too. Not as bad as some, not as good as others, but...
  20. While preparing a male donor for plasma donation.....when he asked why I was stroking his arm to make the vein pop up...... "If I stroke it, it comes up faster." I thought he and everyone within...