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  1. Passing Statistics for NCLEX RN and PN-2014

    nurseprnRN replied to RNsRWe's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Thank you for this insight. This is actually both revealing and cautionary for US students. We see so many U.S. students who prep for NCLEX by cramming facts, facts, facts --they think they have to...

  2. New grads in specialties without the basics

    nurseprnRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    "The Knife and Gun Club" is a term commonly used by ER nurses everywhere as a rueful description of the occasional night where everyone who comes in seems to be a member. Not my hyperbole, can't begin...

  3. New grads in specialties without the basics

    nurseprnRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Probably not true at all, since the BoN that accredits a school of nursing specifies the same number of clinical hours for each. But it makes SUCH a great sound bite

  4. New grads in specialties without the basics

    nurseprnRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Says only the person who thinks every day in the ER is the Knife and Gun Club. It isn't, any more than every M/S day is an acute stroke or DTs. There are plenty of ways to start with lower-level care,...

  5. Special Snowflake!

    nurseprnRN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Since I am female, I would prefer "Emerita." Just sayin'. I am perfectly willing to join that awesome triumvirate on that basis. You could call us the (Three) EEEs. We've been around long enough...

  6. Special Snowflake!

    nurseprnRN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Au contraire. True COBs bow to no one, and we are all sisters (and maybe a few brothers) to every other COB. None of us rule the roost, nor do we aspire to. Bow to one of us, bow to all of us. Better...

  7. Online Microbiology class

    nurseprnRN replied to kreyol77's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I would never, never, never take any online course without having it in writing from your target nursing program that they will accept the credits in transfer. Never. Did I say, "Never"? And "get it...

  8. Do you leave work for the next shift?

    nurseprnRN replied to knowledge_seekerLI's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I would like to say something more helpful, but I'm really having a hard time decoding this. Could you use some punctuation to make multiple sentences, please? I did get that you are working a lot...

  9. Will an EKG course be worth it?

    nurseprnRN replied to Mommyfuturenurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It's not just that it's not an option. Much of ACLS includes performance of skills that are not part of your scope of practice until you are a licensed professional; CNA or EMT are not. You also need...

  10. Help! I think I'm going to accidently hurt or kill someone

    nurseprnRN replied to HollySue061566's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Another thing that will increase BP is ... Opioid withdrawal. He was taking Norco regularly, eh? And c being NPO for surgery, what would he likely do? And how effective would the usual doses of pain...

  11. Student Health Survey

    nurseprnRN replied to augurey's topic in General Students

    I was nursing my second when the Hep B vaccine first came out, and asked my very excellent pediatrician if it was OK to take it. He smiled benignly and said, "It'll be much better for the baby if his...

  12. No calculators allowed as an RN?

    nurseprnRN replied to dancediva234's topic in General Students

    Perfect answer. This distills all the ideas the OP's teacher and the rest of us are trying to communicate: Calculators are fine for arithmetic and to prevent arithmetic errors, but mathematics has to...

  13. Are care plans valuable?

    nurseprnRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    My point was not that the RN's plan of care was for naught because the culture was not to pay attention to them. It was that people should pay attention to them, must pay attention to them, and the...

  14. Needle stick - Isentress & Truvada

    nurseprnRN replied to pmabraham's topic in General Nursing

    A hundred years ago I got put on meds for a positive TB test. I gutted it out for a month of nausea and then stopped. Perhaps not comparable, but it was a big deal at the time (before HIV and HepC...

  15. Failed my nclex

    nurseprnRN replied to rafiki121's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    That's probably a better idea than knowing just a little bit too little to meet standard, don't you think? Who cares how long it takes? Not quite sure what you mean by your not meeting the Kaplan...

  16. I'm the worst CNA they ever had

    nurseprnRN replied to jarae's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Sometimes HH agencies conflate HHA and Homemaker positions. This is not uncommon. They get better reimbursement for HHA than for

  17. I'm the worst CNA they ever had

    nurseprnRN replied to jarae's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I dunno. I think you have to feel sorry for somebody who is obviously so unhappy. That's a good way to let it roll off your back when people are like this. I agree with the "Take notes" thing. As a...

  18. Will an EKG course be worth it?

    nurseprnRN replied to Mommyfuturenurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    What does this mean? Your RN is acting as somebody's LPN? If you mean that an RN can be hired for an LPN job and work in the more limited LPN scope, this is not true. If you are licensed as an RN,...

  19. Are care plans valuable?

    nurseprnRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Example: Patient documented as fall risk (yeah, yeah, everybody's a fall risk, but this one had fallen backwards on her butt several times at home before being admitted). She was supposed to use a...

  20. No calculators allowed as an RN?

    nurseprnRN replied to dancediva234's topic in General Students

    I bought my first calculator for figuring hemodynamic drips in the ICU in 1974, when they were newly available - and pricy, and big. You do need to know the why and how to set up your problems-- God...

  21. Becoming a nurse is no longer an option for me?

    nurseprnRN replied to KAThftf's topic in General Students

    My kids filled out their own FAFSA forms. I gave them my tax returns and they took it from there. Never a peep about, "You are holding out on me." They also took care of their own learner's permits,...

  22. Are care plans valuable?

    nurseprnRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you, and I am sorry that I have been unclear in making my point. Students have to put a lot more into their plans of care for school purposes precisely because they do not know much, and...

  23. days off- a rant

    nurseprnRN replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in General Nursing

    Believe it or not, it took somebody some trouble to give you a total s*** show schedule; they probably won't have the time or motivation to keep it up indefinitely. Meanwhile, now you really have...

  24. RN Diagnosis Chronological order

    nurseprnRN replied to allinoneplace01's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm not exactly sure what you mean here. It appeared to me that you were making your priority nursing diagnosis thus: I'm not seeing any NANDA-I hierarchy in the book that rates any nursing...

  25. Graduate Nursing schools with no GRE

    nurseprnRN replied to kamododragon's topic in General Students

    This sounds more and more improbable by the day. "A rare genetic condition" isn't a qualifier for nursing school. Or the military, for that matter. A real NP knows that, so I don't think this is...