Sarah Bellum

A1C 14.8 - lived, drank gin and juice like it was going out of style Trop >200 - lived but became a frequent flyer to the CHF inpt unit INR 14 - lived, fell chest first against a bathtub, got a hematoma the size of half a basketball over the left ...

Ditto from my now former facility. I could count on one hand the number of times in 3 years a pt had been toileted or cleaned up while in the ER. Most of them had to use the bathroom immediately on arrival to the floor or were so wet/dirty they nee...

specifically inpt hospice. Long story short I got kind of attached to a pt over the course of several admissions in the past 9 months. Said pt was d/c'ed recently to inpt hospice, still a&o. I'd like to visit, but am wondering if there is anyt...

Thank you all for the responses. Sadly it is a moot point, I discovered my pt died over the weekend. RIP, you will be missed by many.

In Hamilton County it's superjobs.com. I used WIA money to pay for prereqs for nursing school and STNA training.

Not to sound like I'm depending the sweeping generalization from the person on the parenting forum but there are a lot of nurses who are either not knowledgeable or misinformed about breastfeeding. I've been on the receiving end of bucket loads of "...

I am the primary/sole wage earner in my family. My husband has been unemployed for 2 years. Even when I was working part time as a PCA I carried the health insurance for my family of 5. Talk about some tiny paychecks...

I have the opposite problem. I'm 41, and look like it. I'm a new grad and everyone who doesn't know me assumes I've been a nurse for years because of my appearances. A little self-confidence will go a long way as will dressing, speaking and act...

I love my job. New grad, off orientation about a month now, busy tele step down unit. I've been in the workforce 25 years even tho I am a new nurse. No workplace is without politics and drama and management problems, why would nursing be any diffe...

I graduated in a class of 29 last month. Only 10 of us have jobs so far, myself included thank goodness. There is definitely not a nursing shortage here in SW Ohio!

No, CNL and CNS are 2 different roles: (from the AACN website) Q: How is a Clinical Nurse Leader different from a Clinical Nurse Specialist or other advanced practice nurse? The CNL is not prepared as an advanced practice nurse (APN) as the APN is cu...

I remember names of a good number of my pts from when I was a PCA. Funny story - my son had a procedure at a small hospital several months before I started nursing school. The CRNA was very nice, he let me go back to the OR to be with my son to be w...

IIRC it's just like the basic calculator on a desktop computer. Add, subtract, multiply, divide decimals. No fraction.capability that I can remember but you can always convert them to decimals. Good luck!

This came up during a presentation given by a local nurse recruiter at my nursing school. She said they like older new grads, life experience counts for a lot as well as already having a work history so they have a better idea about the kind of empl...

Just went to a resume writing seminar for new grads given by nurse recruiters at a large hospital with a great reputation, they said to include it. They also said they are using it to pick the best candidates since they are hiring so few new nurses....

+1 Your education is largely what you put into it. In my DE-MSN program there are students who are "skaters" and then there's the rest of us who actively look for opportunities to learn both in the classroom and at clinicals. I, for one, do not ex...

OR, OB, oncology, ortho, psych Pretty much anything that starts with an O or a P.

Xavier University's program is RN to MSN: http://www.xavier.edu/msn/RN-to-MSN-Program.cfm

No. One of the services that our local WIA provides is guidance in selecting a career. My husband just had an appt. with a WIA rep for help in changing careers and he has not even applied anywhere yet. I had not been accepted to my program yet whe...

This question showed up on a study guide for my upcoming endcrinology exam. I record the lectures and have listened to them all and cannot find where we talked about this. Anyone know? If I had to guess I would say HOB up at least 30 degrees at a...

Does anyone know? We are working on med administration in nursing school right now, they sure don't seem safe. No one has hurt themselves on one yet but I've rad the stories here and wonder why they are still around.

So I've been working 1st shift as a PCA on a med-surg floor for a couple months and so far it's been pretty great. But I've been thinking that I might do better on 2nd shift, largely because when I get home I'm EXHAUSTED and all I want to do is go t...

I'm in a direct entry MSN program and I also struggled with what degree to get initially. Some days I regret my choice just due to the speed and intensity of the program and that I have 3 little kids and a husband that is sometimes helpful, and some...

I think 3 years is enough before starting an NP. Any less than that for me and I'd worry I hadn't seen or experienced enough to decide on a specialty. And I'd want plenty of clinical time within that specialty as well. JMO.

Sweetpea - friend of a friend named her daughter this Fourteen - this one I saw in an obit a few years ago, it was a man who was his mother's 14th baby. I might have started to run out of names too!