edge24bri
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I agree. This is happening everywhere. You can thank the new insurance law, I will not mention it's name everyone knows. However, simply writing about it will not make a difference. Maybe it's time hospital staff unite, not as a union but rally. Do a petition to hospital administrators. I would like to see this type of letter printed in major newspapers calling out the institutions by name. I would like to see complaints filled withe the state boards, acha, osha jacho. Your right hospital administrators sit in their cushy offices lining their pockets. I'm tired of hearing complaints that the hospital is in the red, while the ceo drives a moserati. Meanwhile, the floors are filthy, the nursing assistants are being cut back, and fired if they sit for five minutes to relieve their aching feet. Yet they have 1 assistant for a busy icu unit of 32 patients. Yes patient care is suffering. Let's remind these administrators, government heads, as well as the departments I mentioned before, acha osha and jacho that they will someday be a patient and woe to them if things continue to go the way they're going. So I agree, but....simply writing a letter and posting it here is not enough. Maybe it's time to let the entire country know what's happening. Lets write letters to the presses, and file complaints with the departments that can do something about it. Just a thought.
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Alright. Now that's a better answer. But how does NCLEX ask that question? And what do they expect as an answer when there are so many conflicting responses and information out there and in books. Sometimes I believe NCLEX is money making scam. Now don't go insulting me on here like I have seen so many do to others, because frankly, I'm too old to care what others think of me or say about me. This is simply a comment. Does anyone else out there think the same and are too afraid to state it?
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Med line plus says that a person with a trach needs to deflate the cuff for swallowing purposes. But there are conflicting opinions and stats out there. So how do you answer a question like that if asked on NCLEX? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Hi, I feel for you. I'll be doing my first attempt soon and am too old to tray again if I don't succeed. However, aside from your content down pact, you must have a good handle on the testing strategies. NCLEX uses the nursing processes in the entire exam. Just saying
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Ditto on the...If you don't want to be called in the middle of the night, don't be on call or retire. Even the residents and fellow...you call them and say, patient so and so has a sodium level of 120, and they're like...are they this, are they that? Dude, get your butt up and come see the patient before they have a seizure....hello.......
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Hi, everyone....new poster, long time reader. I am a 57yr old studying for my NCLEX, imagine that? I feel like I know absolutely nothing. I have an LPN which acquired in 2012, however, I have lost some brain cells since then. HAHA. Bare with me please. I run across numerous conflicting information regarding when to draw peak levels of Vancomycin. A nursing review I took said 30 minutes after the completion of infusion. Some books say the same, google searches such as Med Scape says 1 to 2 hours after, which makes sense in that the duration is 12- 24 hours. Kaplan says 5 minutes, my job does it 1 to 2 hours after completion (lab always asks what time it was drawn). So yea, I'm pulling my hair out. I need to now what NCLEX expects from so many conflicting information. I know there is the NCLEX world where nurses have 1 patient and everything is hunky dory and then there is the real world, and please do not say that nurses cut corners, because my nurses don't....maybe they run a little late (not much) with their charting but, they don't cut corners. Please someone what does peak time does NCLEX want, 30 mins or 1-2 hours? Help! Signed, Eileen who is Frazzled