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Hey, I am in my third week of nursing school and I am already stumped. We had to do a process recording and I didn't do too well on it. Can somebody give me a website, a book, something to help me to understand what exactly I need to do on these thin...

I have Betty Boop as a nurse with my name,RN and my graduation year. I got Betty about 2 yrs ago and my name added last year when I graduated and passed boards

As a CNA i have wondered the same thing. CNA's usually have 15-20 patients (noc shift) and are under 3-4 nurses. I have gotten asked on more than one occasion where I was when I was helping another nurse because that nurse needed help too. Don't get ...

When I first started my CNA classes my instructor would always talk about an infection called "Mercer" we needed to be aware of. Not having any education, I kept googling and trying to research Mercer to no avail. I did not know what she was talking ...

Hello, I am doing my OB rotation now and I wouls say be prepared to know the different standards of vitals signs for the newborn and also about fetal heart tones. I don't know if you have had an OB lecture yet, but these nurses assume you have some k...

When I am doing an apical pulse rate, I listen to the breaths after I am done counting the heart rate. Same theory as the previous poster, the pt thinks you are counting their hr, but with a stethoscope on, usually they don't speak to you. Hope this ...

Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. It is easy to teach them out of a book, but helping me to share real life treatments is invaluable information. Thanks again.

Hello, I am a sophmore nursing student and I am doing a presentation tomorrow on femur fractures in children for my clinical group. My question is I have all the general infomation dx, tx and such but I was wondering if there were any hints or tips t...

As an employee of Advocate Health, I work as a CNA on a post surgical unit and I can tell you that we are very committed to doing the timeouts everytime. We do them 3 times, on the unit, in the holding area, and right before the procedure begins. The...

1. I really admire someone who doesn't talk down to me and that teaches me things. As a nursing student, I appreciate that. Also, someone who can tell the supervisor or whoever needs to be told no. When you have 2 nurses 18pts and one aide, we really...

i couldn't have said it better myself...thanks for this comment!

Hello, I attend Prairie State College in Chicago Heights and right now I can say that there is a waiting list to get in there. I had to repeat second semester with about 30 others, and we had to do a lottery system to see who would get in and the re...

As a CNA myself, I can not fathom the idea of taking on a position such as this one....very scary. As a mother, be a thorn in the school districts side and continue to follow up. If you don't get answers soon, go to the state. This is such an unsafe ...

I am not a nurse, yet, but when I was in clinical this past Wednesday my instructor told me I charted too specifically. I put that the pts wound was on "the right side of his abdomen."

This was my first thought, too.

My dear mom made some scrub tops for me using a "Sew Easy" pattern...however either she made the head hole too small or I have a big head because my head did not fit in them..lol. After some adjusting, I got many compliments on them because they are ...

As far as I know, there is a waiting list at all the JC's in our area, unless you have most if not all of your prereq's done. There is no job placement either at SSC, PSC, or MVCC. Class size from what I was told was average lecture has the most stud...

Hello, I do not attend SSC, but I do got to Prairie State. However, I work with several people who do go to SSC if you want me to ask them some questions about thier program.

At my hospital, have what they call the "three P's" for potty, position, and pain. The nurse is to round at the top of the hour and the CNA at the bottom of the hour, so the pt will see someone every thirty minutes and we are to ask about these three...

Good Morning! I had a first responder class to which the instructor did tell us that if you are having a hard time hearing the pounding to watch the needle bounce and that would give you an good estimate of the BP. However, he did stress the importan...

Hello, I had my 10 year IUD inserted on August 25th, and although the insertion was very painful for me, it wasn't anything that motrin didn't take away. With my first cycle, I had pretty bad cramps that first day, but I didn't get cramps prior, so I...

Hello, This is my first post here, but something happened at my job and I really feel I need to speak out about it and get opinions from other professionals. I currently work as a CNA in a hospital. I do work the night shift. I found out on Thursday...

At our hospital, the night CNA, (me) does q6's at 0600 and the night nurse covers, the BID's and TID's are for 0700, so I do those at about 0715 because it is the day shift RN who covers these and I don't want the patient to wait too long for insulin...

I work as an aide in a hospital on third shift so my work is not nearly as stressful as yours, although there have been some nights I ask myself why. I am also a nursing student and I did my clinicals this past semester in a nh and it was terrible. I...

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