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    Uworld during nursing school

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to futurenurse.jc's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Keep using UWorld. Just go through the motions with ATI. Your experience doesn't seem much different from most others' experience with ATI (i.e. the contradictory information). Also, congratulations...
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    Bachelor Degree for CRNA

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to bgil's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You can always dual major. It's not easy but it is possible. The only thing is, if you have a minor or a dual major and you aren't finished with it at the same time you're finished with your BSN side...
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    Career changers - is it worth the change?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to FutureNurseInfo's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    For me, yes, it was definitely worth the change. I came from retail and was going to eventually either salary myself out of being marketable (i.e. being let go because I was too expensive -- and it...
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    New grad-How to learn med dosing when you have tons to give?!

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Summers3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In my residency, we are told to come in earlier to look everything up and see if it is appropriate. Over time (and, really, it's actually a short amount of time), things start to click and you realize...
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    Rough Day, Need Help, encouragemnt

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Testing12345's topic in General Nursing

    They should have not staffed down "d/t census." Clearly, acuity was not taken into account and patient safety suffered and a top cause of patient mortality (i.e. a fall) occurred because of this very...
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    prescription drug addiction

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

    Not all opioids are created equal. Here is a case study regarding one beleaguered cancer patient's struggle with SQ morphine: Morphine-induced hallucinations - resolution with switching to oxycodone:...
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    Do you have to hate adults to love peds?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to SweetPotatoes's topic in Pediatric

    Ooh ooh ooh...settle in. I hope to be brief but that is unlikely. When I was in nursing school, I had the vaguest of ideas that I would be working with adults, maybe in a CCU or med-surg or something...
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    To tell or not to tell?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to nursingRN123's topic in General Students

    Then you would be incredibly surprised. Quizlet usually is the word-for-word reproduction of a test (usually a take home test, but sometimes a straight up stolen exam or someone found out what test...
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    Aged Care Duty of care question

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Huwscor's topic in General Nursing

    Your gf can always call law enforcement out to do a report on the physical assault (seriously, if management thinks nothing about that then call the cops - that will get their attention). Also,...
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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    How's that now? The world would be a wonderful place if all people received the same education and took responsibility for their health and wellness. However, this is not the case and you have to know...
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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    In cases of FGM, a fistula will develop because of the radical infections that occur as a result of the
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    What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It is crazy but I think this also speaks to the pervasive shame that surrounds female anatomy. It seems that a good majority of grown women don't have a good grasp on what is what and that is usually...
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    "Fixin' to die"

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    I want a Snickers bar,
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    The Longest Forty Eight Hours

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to jaycam's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Yeah, I was so intimidated by the test that I started ASAP. What was particularly helpful was that the Saunders book I had used the same textbooks that my school used and it ended up being a helpful...
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    "Fixin' to die"

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    I made it through the majority of the comments and I'm not sure if I saw this particular notion brought up: as I was raised by folks from Oklahoma, terminology like that being used in the state of...
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    Are nursing school policies allowed to be changed

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to rgags6's topic in General Students

    Yes, they are allowed to do this. Yes, you can challenge it. Do you have someone in your on-campus organization (i.e. student nurse club) who is considered a "faculty liaison"-type of officer? I was...
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    How common is chemo through peripheral IV?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Wheaties's topic in Oncology

    It depends. I'm work in pediatric hemonc and we do sometimes do chemo through PIV (it's done much more frequently in the infusion center than on the floor). It is almost exclusively done on the big...
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    Nursing Safety and Passing NCLEX

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Leno182's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    People are entitled to be opinionated about certain things but that doesn't mean they are correct in their opinions. The person who said that is mistaken about what it means to possess a license. If...
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    Nursing Safety and Passing NCLEX

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Leno182's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    No, because they passed and that means they meet the minimum competency to practice safely as a brand new nurse. Anything else surrounding the circumstances of when they took and passed the test is...
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    Nursing theorists

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Luvnursing4life85's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Then you should know how asking for assistance here works (you also know that those responses are a dime a dozen). If you are asking for clarity, you need to say what it is about the particular...
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    intake and output

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to marthy055's topic in General Students

    As far as the predictor goes, I didn't put much stock into it because ATI is not the best resource for passing the NCLEX (honestly, ATI would expect you to figure out that eggs are part of the liquid...
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    Gun Owning Nurses

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    They are also very common in Southern California, as well, particularly the Inland Empire. People are very much into guns out
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    Does working at a small hospital make me less of a nurse?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Jaellys's topic in General Nursing

    What, then, in their opinion, makes a real nurse?? In my opinion, nurses that work in smaller facilities have magic powers because they end up having to make do with so much less and I think that is...
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    allnuisances

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

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    allnuisances

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    Like hell it