RookieRoo

RookieRoo

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  1. Pregnant in Traditional BSN Program

    RookieRoo replied to swanky's topic in General Students

    I don't have any advice, but I wanted to say

  2. Concept Mapping: Help me be better

    RookieRoo replied to RookieRoo's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thank you! I am bookmarking all of

  3. Concept Mapping: Help me be better

    RookieRoo replied to RookieRoo's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    UMMMMMMmmmm.... decreased cardiac output r/t altered heart rhythm, altered preload, and altered afterload, AEB afib, edema, and decreased peripheral pulses? Hgb-9.9 after 2 units blood. (it was 7.3...

  4. Concept Mapping: Help me be better

    RookieRoo replied to RookieRoo's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    PS- sorry for any spelling or obvious errors, it is late and I am fuzzy-brained. I will check again in the

  5. Some of Us Are Trying to Help You...

    RookieRoo replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This is how mine are as well. They are talking about switching up the format next semester and are "interviewing" 5 nurses to pair with 5 lucky students to trial a 1:1 student:nurse thing, but for now...

  6. First Fundamentals Exam went Awesome!

    RookieRoo replied to JulianaRose's topic in General Students

    congratulations! I took fundamentals last semester but we have the fundamentals ATI this semester, slightly

  7. New grad, no job: RN-BSN assignment frustration

    RookieRoo replied to JustAdmitToObs's topic in General Students

    Okay, cheating was the wrong word. This is more what I was going for. I still say better to look at and reuse ACTUAL experiences from a different standpoint, than make up fictional

  8. Needlestick Injury d/t careless error. Seriously rethinking if I'm cut out for this.

    RookieRoo replied to smaritania47's topic in General Students

    I was going to say something along these lines as well. In sports we always learned that we will play the way we practice; the same is true of anything you endeavor to learn. You taught your body and...

  9. New grad, no job: RN-BSN assignment frustration

    RookieRoo replied to JustAdmitToObs's topic in General Students

    Sorry, but that does not sound like good advice to me. It's basically cheating, no? I would draw on what you have from student clinical experiences, and maybe if you have any health-related...

  10. Need help coping with death of a loved one while in nursing school

    RookieRoo replied to lobatse's topic in General Students

    Go to your mom's funeral. Go say goodbye. Not a lot of things in life are truly important, but this is. Nursing school, classes, everything else... there are things that are more important and this is...

  11. Benefits of Clinicals w/ partners vs. without.

    RookieRoo posted a topic in General Students

    Our instructor offered us a choice tonight, to do our medsurg clinicals with a partner or without. Up until now we have been paired up by the instructor and given patients. I feel like I am a...

  12. What would you do?

    RookieRoo posted a topic in General Students

    I am in med surg 1 and our instructor, who was absent today, arranged for a cancer survivor to come in for us to assess and ask questions to today to go along with our cancer unit we are studying. In...

  13. What would you do?

    RookieRoo replied to RookieRoo's topic in General Students

    thanks everyone. you're probably all right, it's just sooooooo frustrating! Gah. I guess I will go do some ohhhmmmmm's

  14. Prioritizing Nursing Diagnosis

    RookieRoo replied to arkrunnergirl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Not my thread- but I wanted to say, Esme, you rock. You're so helpful, I get a lot out of reading the feedback you leave for other posters. Thanks a

  15. how were you able to live (financially) while in nursing school?

    RookieRoo replied to Nursetobe25's topic in General Students

    My wife works her orifice off for me to be able to go to school. Being in the accelerated BSN program means I do NOT have time to work any kind of job, even part time, so she works overtime and pulls...

  16. Malignant Hyperthermia

    RookieRoo posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi all, My med surg professor was lecturing on this today and asked the class why a nonrebreather is appropriate therapy for a post-OR patient who has malignant hyperthermia (in conjunction with other...

  17. Oh you're a Nursing student?

    RookieRoo replied to happyinmyheart's topic in General Students

    Terrifying for those of us who will be facing the job market in the coming year or

  18. Disruptive & talkative students (vent)

    RookieRoo replied to Little_Bear2013's topic in General Students

    I just read through the latest comments and got frustrated all over again. Yes, the instructor SHOULD be doing something, but isn't. Our last class session was ridiculous- we probably wasted a good 30...

  19. Malignant Hyperthermia

    RookieRoo replied to RookieRoo's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    OOOOOOOOHhhhhhkay. I completely get it now, and TraumaDreams, I agree that you should totally be a professor. What a great explanation! I understood the nonrebreather mask from the get-go, but wasn't...

  20. Disruptive & talkative students (vent)

    RookieRoo replied to Little_Bear2013's topic in General Students

    yes, we have one of these in our cohort as well. It is frustrating as the instructors try to be nice, yet this person argues, talks over others, and tells anecdotal stories in class... every...

  21. Get to know your classmates...

    RookieRoo posted a topic in General Students

    ...because they will be a life line. My classmates and I have laughed, cursed, and been there for each other from the beginning. Tonight, one of them saved my orifice by volunteering to watch my sick...

  22. When you are at clinicals

    RookieRoo replied to nowim clean's topic in General Students

    This is kind of the way our program is set up as well. Our instructor has to be there for us to do almost anything, and certainly to pass meds of any kind. It makes it difficult because there is only...

  23. When you are at clinicals

    RookieRoo replied to nowim clean's topic in General Students

    I had my first med surg clinical on thursday and I feel like I made myself available. I asked the nurse assigned to my patient constantly if there was anything I could do or help with, and I shadowed...

  24. What are the expected lab findings for a patient with a NGT?

    RookieRoo replied to PentelRSVP's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes, thanks. I'm learning! Just looked on my med surg syllabus and electrolytes and pH are next week's topic. So, I'm a little ahead of myself but glad to be learning.

  25. How does everyone else survive while you go to school?

    RookieRoo replied to blackberry74's topic in General Students

    My wife works too and supports our family of four plus dog, but it's still been hard. We've cut back on anything unnecessary- this includes cable and fancy smart phones, going out to eat, and shopping...