danceyrun

danceyrun

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  1. So ridiculous.

    Our instructors taught us to look at actual problems before risk for problems. I think the only risk for diagnosis they really let us use is risk for aspiration. I agree that there are other (read:...
  2. Nope. Sounds awesome
  3. So sick of A&P

    How do you know that you will never need to use it? As a senior nursing student, there have been many times that I have seen something in my nursing books or lectures and thought "so THAT'S why I had...
  4. Allergic to Foam/Gloves/Soap?!

    Yes I do too. My nurse manager was nice enough to order cotton gloves to wear under the gloves which
  5. BMT nursing questions

    Length of stay.
  6. BMT nursing questions

    Wow, thank you all SO MUCH for your informative replies! All of this information is great to have in advance. The hospital where I am a PCT does not have a BMT unit so I really didn't know what to...
  7. I will be doing an externship on a BMT unit in a few months and I can tell you she was probably thankful and excited that you did this. At least in my program, we spent maybe an hour total talking...
  8. OMG Say it correctly!

    This isn't medical related but every time someone says "pitchers" when they are speaking of "pictures" I want to
  9. I'm sorry for your
  10. I am a senior nursing student and I know that I should be focused on getting any job that I can but I am having a hard time figuring out what kind of nursing I like. I seem to know alot of areas I'm...
  11. Frustrated and dont know what I want

    Thank you all so much for your replies! It is refreshing to hear that others have gone into critical care so early on in their careers. I am in the process of setting up several shadowing experiences...
  12. Really rough instructor

    My advice is to wait and form your own opinion. I had a clinical instructor once with a terrible reputation of kicking people out and being really mean but guess what? I am a super sensitive person...
  13. Multiple medication errors

    I have a question and I know that I'm just a student and I don't know how stressful it is to be a nurse, etc but why didn't you check the pts arm band? I'm not asking this in an accusing
  14. Please be nice to your aides.

    Oh no she didn't. This outta get
  15. What do you all think? Good idea or bad idea.

    I am a nurse tech and I check blood sugars, insert and d/c foleys, do some dressing changes, and am able to initiate/titration O2 therapy. Sometimes it just depends on the state and the
  16. Help..teaching med-Surg

    As a nursing student, I *love* when out professors give us case studies and make the class interactive ("what do you know about tx for x disease
  17. blowing veins during IV starts

    This may be a dumb question but how do you know if you've "blown" a
  18. data sheet

    Why don't you ask your clinical
  19. Anxiety in the Clinical Setting

    You don't feel anxious because you are a critical care NA. I bet you would feel differently if you had never set foot in a hospital before nursing
  20. Infected Needlestick

    Keeping you in my
  21. Whats your favorite montra or saying?

    Some days you are the bug, some days you are the
  22. I have been an AN lurker for awhile but just now made an account. I just started my senior year in nursing school but I feel like I don't know enough and I'm scared to death to graduate! I fear I will...
  23. Feel like I don't know a thing...

  24. Feel like I don't know a thing...

    We can do
  25. More ignorance. Any wonder the public is confused!

    Wow. Really, "Karla"?