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Hi everyone! I know this would be silly but I would like to hear your opinion about make up Nurses should look good and are well groomed right? But is make up really a necessary part of good grooming? It's because our clinical instructors require ...

One time in the OR, I scrubbed for an Ex-Lap case. The patient is a young male in his early 20s and has been suffering stomach pains since he was a child (so long, imagine that pain...). When the patient was opened up, the surgeons found out that the...

Hmmm...could that dead kitty be her pet she forgot she had?

So true! Thanks for posting, made me laugh a lot!

Need help with loculated pleural effusion. How do you describe it? The Brunner (and some other) books describe it as being "walled-off". Sorry if I don't get what it means but it's one of the things that make it a bit harder for us foreign students w...

Hi everyone! My groupmates and I are currently working on a case study about a patient diagnosed with Acute Renal Failure secondary to Acute Gastroenteritis. For the pathophysiology part, how can AGE lead to ARF? Our patient has hemorrhage. From the ...

Thanks very much for your help for the third time :)

Can anyone help me with my case report? My case is a high risk pregnant woman with inguinal hernia. I'm going to have my oral report to my clinical instructor next week and I still haven't figured out how inguinal hernia can be detrimental to pregna...

What is the relation of inguinal hernia to high risk pregnancy? All I know is that when the intestine gets incarcerated in the inguinal canal, it carries with it a uterine ligament. Which is it? And how is it detrimental to pregnancy? Thanks a millio...

I do have one tiny floater which I got last April or May. It shrunk but it did not completely go away. I can't imagine how other people with severe floaters feel. I found this online petition for cure on floaters. Maybe some of you who would like to ...

Nurse 1: Hey, why do you have a thermometer on your year? Nurse 2: Oh my, which ass did I put my pen into? ================== :lol_hitti ================== In the mental institution, one of the patients is singing while in bed (in supine position). L...

Just this April/May, our teachers (all nurses) were having heat between them. It was like a previous faculty member vs. the new faculty. Because of this fight, the new faculty had intentions of resigning. The result, that previous faculty member resi...

Our teacher always tells us that in writing nurse's notes, it should include the whereabouts and activities of the patient. Here's something my teacher told us. It's not exactly the same but it goes like this: [...assisted Patient X in standing ...

I'm still a student but here're what I think: - Nursing is service, as symbolized by the cap, and the "reward" one gets from serving people and taking care of the sick feels so great. I think no other profession can feel that happiness. - On the sa...

Haha, I finally found a way to get away with it. Our professors said wear make up, they did not specify which. Since I sweat like hell, I don't wear powder. I also don't wear mascara or lipstick because they're sticky and do not make me feel comforta...

I am not hearing impaired but I've hearing problems. My ENT told me that when I clean my ear with ear buds, it pushes the ear wax farther into the ear canal. And so, I used to feel how it is to be deaf, sort of... I'm all right now but sometimes, I m...

I just came accross this thread. Thank you very much for posting this. I'm about to be exposed to OR for the first time sometime in August. This is really of big help

It's really tough but it's fun, right? Or is it just me? Just yesterday, I had to go to a diagnostic center to have a throat swab (we are going have our duty at an ICU). The person asked me, will this be gram-stain or culture? At least I know what t...

Thanks for the replies and opinions, appreciate them :) About the demerit logbook, it will contain all the (minor) violations a student nurse makes like being late (Oh man, my classmates are VEEEERRRY tardy. Some would go to a 7am class at 9am. If it...

I just took Microbiology last semester here and I used these websites. They do not have notes (some have a few but in Spanish) but they have good photos of microorganisms. I had to find these when I was still taking up the subject because my classmat...

Article from Medscape: The Impostor Phenomenon in New Nurse Practitioner Graduates Posted 06/07/2006 Shelley Yerger Huffstutler, DSN, APRN-BC, FNP, GNP; Gayle Varnell, PhD, MSN, BSN, CPNP http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/533648?src=mp Hope this ...

Thanks very much for the remider, I've edited my post already. ^_^'

Nope, the guys are not required to put on make up. I really do not like being forced to put on make up. It's because what's the use of beauty without the brains and the skills to do what a nurse does, right? I admit that I'm not that good looking as ...

Thanks very much for your replies. At least I fell assured that I don't have to work with make up on me at the hospital :) Our teachers make us wear only light make up but still, it irritates me. I also easily perspire. The make up will just wear ou...

We are now starting our Fundamentals of Nursing class in our school. My classmate and I were assigned to report on Dr. Leininger. Though I was able to get information about her and got a framework of her theory, I cannot understand her sunrise framew...