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An hour and a half is going to be a long long drive after an already long, exhausting shift! Some days I feel like I am barely able to make it home and my commute is only 20 minutes. Unless you're willing to move closer I would go with the second job...

You still need to treat the hypoxia whether the patient has COPD or not. I agree with using a nonrebreather in this situation.

What is the harm that comes from soap and water baths? In my experience the wipes don't do as good of a job with bad odors as soap and water, and sometimes the wipes leave a sticky residue. I generally prefer to go with soap and water but I certainly...

I had a really strange one the other day! In the dream my patient needed some kind of treatment that required me to count every single hair on my head and I kept losing track and having to start over. The other nurses and doctors couldn't understand ...

There are things much worse than death.

That's the policy for our med/surg/tele floors. We typically run at 125 ml/hr.

I've been getting Blue Apron for 4 weeks now and I really enjoy it! I live by myself and the meals have all held up well to eat the second serving as leftovers later in the week. The directions are easy to follow and I've been using a lot of new-to-m...

Exasperation - as in "she is here for COPD exasperation". Also, "Zyprexia". There is no "i" in Zyprexa. I hear these all the time and it drives me nuts!

We use gauze and a tegaderm.

These are the most common ones that come to mind for the med-surg floors at my community hospital: chest pain r/o ACS, CHF, COPD, pneumonia, postop abdominal surgery, altered mental status.

At my hospital, we (floor nurses) go to the ED to pick up new admissions and we do bedside report there with the ED nurse and ED provider. I really like it. We get a good overview of the ED course and plan going forward, we get to ask all our questio...

I definitely had my share of bloopers during nursing school. This was one of my best: I was taking care of a teenaged patient during my pediatric rotation. I was really flustered, trying to track down a piece of equipment that was missing from his ro...

I like this one: ECG Simulator - SkillSTAT

Hi Lexilou. I was also a little apprehensive about this too but I've been happy with my clinical placements so far. Here is where the class has been placed this year: Nursing Process and Skills (summer) - most of the clinical time was in the lab at s...

Thanks for responding, this is really helpful! :)

I have also been trying to find out this information! I called the bursar's office and the person that I spoke with was not familiar with a special program cost for the Accelerated Nursing program. I emailed someone from the nursing program to ask if...

Hi cwrn1, I am planning to start the UMass accelerated program this summer. It is really helpful to know what the schedule has been for you so far! They told us at the info session that it is necessary to have a car because the clinicals can be anywh...

My letter says that I need to return the form and deposit by April 1.

Good luck to everyone, I know the waiting is a little agonizing!

No, I live in MA.

I also received an acceptance letter today! I didn't have to interview either. My status changed at the end of February so it took a couple weeks for the letter to arrive.

It has now been two full weeks since my status changed (on 2/22) and I still haven't gotten the letter. They said I would receive the letter within 14 business days, which would be next Thursday, so hopefully they will start notifying at least some o...

My status changed to "A decision has been made..." a week ago (last Friday) but I haven't gotten anything in the mail yet.

Yes, my status has changed but I haven't gotten anything in the mail yet. This is what the status says: A decision has been made regarding your application. You will receive formal notice in the mail within 14 business days. Thank you for your intere...