AbigailJo

Hi all, I've applied for NYU Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program Spring 2020. I received an update today stating I've been waitlisted. Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea how many people apply/get accepted? I'm curious how...

Good luck Kathy! Let me know if you hear anything!

Awesome suggestions! Thanks so much for your thoughtful insight!

Hi all, I’m currently working at a teaching hospital in NYC that is very good but slightly disorganized when it comes to workflow. I am trying to brainstorm how it could be improved. From my perspective, the residents are very overwhelmed and complet...

Hi everyone, I'm curious about living in the UK on a nurses salary. Is it worth going through the paperwork and visa process? I saw someone say that the salary is NHS band 5 which is around £25,551 a year, which is $33,500 usd. This seems low. How...

The reason it "keeps coming up" is because band 5 is $33,500 usd. My question is about the fact that where I live, I'd be around the poverty line at that salary. I'm asking what's different between here and there that makes that a living wage there. ...

Hi all, I am currently in school pursuing my masters and one of our assignments is to interview a nurse who has a degree in informatics. I work night shift and it's difficult to find someone at the hospital to interview. I was hoping someone here wou...

Hi all, disregard this message. I found someone at work who let me interview them!

Hi all, I have recently started working on a Med-Surg floor. Most of our patients have many IVPB, but the problem is we are never given the rates to run them. Or worst yet, the rate listed is wrong. As some who is new, it's very scary to me to think ...

Thank you all for your replies. I didn't realize this was such an uncommon practice. I am new to IV medications and the people around me act like this is proper practice. I will contact the pharmacist tonight and write down her recommendations. In ad...

The patient had normal saline running at 75 ml/hr on a peripheral line. She was NPO and yes I had lab values. No tele. None of our IVPB orders come with rates. I was told by my nursing manager that this is is how it's done throughout the entire hospi...

Hi there, I am going back for my MSN this fall, and I'm wondering if there would be any opportunity for a Public Health RN-MSN to join an organization full time and assist the planning and execution of trips abroad. I have always been interested in...

It just depends on their situation. I am grateful for Excelsior. It took me 2 years to do the prereqs and the nursing courses including the FCCA. I am currently on the CPNE wait list. I would have rather done a more traditional route, but the reality...

I currently work in home care for quadriplegics who require trach and vent care. I have a client who I love dearly, but is extremely noncompliant. He refuses ROM, ADLs, he has refused to get in his wheelchair for the last two years, ect ect Most rec...

Another home care nurse here, and yes we do it. We usually take them with our phones and email them to the Doctor. Our patient knows and watches me delete the photos after I send them. The doctor comes only once a month and I do wound care everyday. ...

Thank you very much everyone for your advice! I have left this case and told my nursing manager exactly why. Thanks again!

I need to vent. I work in home care for a medically fragile child. I love it. I love the family and the staff. We do not clock in and out. We simply write our times on our notes and they must line up with the other nurses since they won't pay two of...

Hi all! If I'm giving cool mist over night to a trach patient and run out of "sterile inhalation water" am I able to sub "sterile water for irrigation?" is is there a difference? Will it harm my patient? Thanks!

Thank you for your help!

Libby, this is amazing advice. Thank you so much for your help!

Hi all! I'm suppose to be taking Reproductive health at the end of the month and I am really struggling to get started. This will be my 5th exam. Could anyone share their experience with me (within the limits of Excelsior) so I could get some motiva...

Have you been studying the syllabus? Or something more? How do you feel about the information so far?

Awesome job! This one was more stressful for me then some of the nursing exams. You're on your way to putting those two letters next to your name! Congrats!

Yes, I believe he wants to die but will not go on palliative care because it's against his wife's wishes. It's a very sad situation. He was a person who had a lot of control over his family and business and now has no control. Thank you very much fo...

I'm so sad and suprised by how many negative and scarcastic comments this post got. I asked for help and advice from veteran nurses, and I was mocked. This patient declines total care from our nursing staff. He gets no oral care, no bed baths, no ha...