Caprica6

Caprica6 has 10 years experience.

Latest Activity

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   What is your "favorite" procedure?

   Caprica6 replied to NewRN'16's topic in General Nursing

   IVs and NG
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   Grading Changed to Pass/Fail?

   Caprica6 replied to sdgirl1's topic in General Students

   At the end of the day, the courses are pass/fail. If you achieve a grade above the minimum requirement, you've passed.; if you don't, you've failed. The only thing that pass/fail affects is your...
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   Pregnancy and academia

   Caprica6 posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Hi all, So, I'm full time faculty and recently found out I'm pregnant (yay!), due the end of November. When did you tell your dean/director that you are expecting? I'm thinking that I might be able...
4. 

   Any nurses pursue master degree that is not related to nursing?

   Caprica6 replied to juviasama's topic in General Nursing

   I have a Master of Public
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   Putting in orders without an order.

   Caprica6 replied to Kastiara's topic in General Nursing

   I never did...opens you up to much liability. There are nursing interventions that you can use as a stop gap until you can get an official order. If it's a life-threatening event and you need...
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   OB Unit for Male Student

   Caprica6 replied to nurse2bguy555's topic in General Students

   I strongly encourage you to *not* do this. You will most likely make some waves for yourself in your school that you don't want to have to surf. It's difficult to find clinical placements for students...
7. 

   I’m so over Nursing School

   Caprica6 replied to Diana Gomez's topic in General Students

   You may want to change your username if that is your real
8. 

   Sitter to escort patient during smoke breaks.

   Caprica6 replied to cna1234's topic in General Nursing

   Why should the sitter have to be exposed to their carcinogenic
9. 

   Unfair Tests?

   Caprica6 replied to EverConfused's topic in General Students

   Are you 100% sure that there wasn't additional assigned readings that were not in the textbook? Or that the instructor didn't mention it during
10. 

    Starting a volunteer parish health ministry

    Caprica6 replied to Jeniele's topic in Parish

    I'm also interested in learning
11. 

    PhD Nursing... thinking about it

    Caprica6 replied to raecudzy1's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I'm *still* writing my dissertation...this has proven to be an exercise in
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    Student Not Eligible for NCLEX

    Caprica6 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    My thoughts as well...what are you going to do when she gets disciplined, or denied her choice of specialty/schedule/vacation at work? There's no reason you still can't be her biggest...
13. 

    Carry a stethoscope without hanging it on neck

    Caprica6 replied to jalainec's topic in General Nursing

    I always hated having my stethoscope round my neck, so I carried it in the cargo pocket of my scrub pants. Of course, this required me to ut only scrub pants with a cargo
14. 

    Secretly breaking contract

    Caprica6 replied to lorias's topic in General Students

    I've always wondered how expensive having a horse is, can you tell me how much your horse costs or would the number be skewed as yours is a very high
15. 

    Field Trips

    Caprica6 replied to SmallTownNurseSWL's topic in School

    Question for all the school nurses: for those of you that need to go with the students requiring a med, does that leave the rest of your student population without a healthcare professional to...