kayvary

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1. Feeling Overwhelmed & Incompetent

   kayvary replied to newgradpedsnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I feel the same way as you, I'm still on orientation but everyday when I go home I obsess over things I should have done differently. Though I do feel like the whole npo thing isn't a problem, I've...

2. Using judgement, med parameters

   kayvary posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   I am a new grad on orientation and I already know I am going to be posting on here a lot. My first question to those with more wisdom... I had a patient who had IV BP medication ordered every 6 hrs...

3. Lead Placement for 12 Lead

   kayvary posted a topic in Cardiac

   I am looking at a picture in my book for the placement of electrodes for a 12 lead ekg and it only shows 10 leads! But it specifically says 12 lead ecg, which I always assumed meant 12 electrodes....

4. After Hypoglycemia

   kayvary replied to kayvary's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Thank you for the responses. This happened in the morning around 7:30 am - the patient already had his breakfast in front of him but I did later find out his appetite hasn't been good lately but we...

5. After Hypoglycemia

   kayvary posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   I was at the hospital today and had a diabetic patient who I gave insulin to according to a sliding scale. The glucose was high, almost 400. But later on the patient was cold clammy and...

6. Passed NCLEX-RN on third try!

   kayvary replied to NurseJTG's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   Congrats! Thanks for sharing your

7. Elderly post-op delirium/disorientation

   kayvary posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

   Hello. I need to pick a topic on post-op complications. A lot of people are already doing pneumonia, incision infections. I recently encountered an elderly patient whose baseline is a&o x 3...

8. ACNP/RNFA salary negotiations

   kayvary replied to kguill975's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Hello, I am not an NP but I stumbled across this thread while researching info about RNFA's. The AORN website has a salary survey from 2012; only 3.4% of the survey respondents were RNFA's so it was...