TexasPediRN

TexasPediRN

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  1. Book to learn strips

    TexasPediRN replied to seanymph's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582551359/qid=1131064191/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-6219938-1723946?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Any of the Nursing Made Incredibly Easy books are...

  2. staying healthy in first year of nursing

    TexasPediRN replied to sliedberg's topic in First Year After Licensure

    *Try and get 8 hours of sleep a night. Yes, studying is important, but being sick really does impede on study time. *Eat Right. Get a good balance of all the food groups, and chocolate is always ok!...

  3. Admission times

    TexasPediRN replied to PedsERRN's topic in Emergency

    I also think that it is good to make certain times that you cannot send patients to the floor, such as the first and last hour of each shift. For instance, a nurse working 3-11 cannot receive a...

  4. charting

    TexasPediRN replied to girlfromtx's topic in General Students

    "Patient Sleeping, Resp's Easy, unlabored" Sleeping and breathing- catches it all! I use it a lot.

  5. who can check blood

    TexasPediRN replied to a54flo's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Personally, I'd prefer to stick with what I have known about checking blood, and that is that 2 RN's must do it. Even days that we had only one RN on the floor, we'd have to either call the nursing...

  6. Volunteering in NICU?

    TexasPediRN replied to Heathernanny's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I know our NICU dd allow volunteers, but you did go through orientation, needed letters of recommendation, as well as clearance from the state (child abuse clearance and I think criminal abuse...

  7. 2 questions relating to antibiotics Help please

    TexasPediRN replied to milenko's topic in General Nursing

    What should you check? The 5 rights of medication administration :) 1. Right drug 2. Right dose 3. Right patient 4. Right route 5 Right time Like previously mentioned, you give antibiotics pre-op to...

  8. Time Management

    TexasPediRN replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in First Year After Licensure

    you've actually picked up some very good tips there! I too, give my meds together if not contraindicated. What a pain it can be going into a persons room every hour. When I worked 3-11 I would come...

  9. 9 mo. old anemic breastfed. What foods?

    TexasPediRN replied to Agnus's topic in Pediatric

    hmm.. from moms point of view that dad has so many food allergies, i can understand why she is hesitant about waiting on foods. however, he is 9 months, and growing like a weed i'm sure, and really...

  10. If 50% of the class failed an exam..Was it because the instructor failed to teach?

    TexasPediRN replied to hopefully's topic in General Students

    hopefully- Wow. Our pharm class was always integrated with all of our nursing classes, so i've never had a straight out just pharm course. I think that 8 chapters, and no focus isnt really correct. I...

  11. Need some Ideas

    TexasPediRN replied to nurse_elyse's topic in General Nursing

    We did this too when I was in nursing school. Hands on is the best approach with kids. Our school had a special kind of germ powder that stayed on your hands (i beleive after you washed) and you could...

  12. If 50% of the class failed an exam..Was it because the instructor failed to teach?

    TexasPediRN replied to hopefully's topic in General Students

    Where the students who were complaining they were not prepared complaing because they had not studied enough, or were they complaining because the material was completely different then expected? Were...

  13. Stress and Nursing

    TexasPediRN replied to MikeyJ's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is stressful. Any nurse will tell you that at some point in their career (or many times) they have wanted to rip out their hair or yell at an incompetent person. Heres my list of the good and...

  14. Job Interviews..What else can I do???

    TexasPediRN replied to Curious1alwys's topic in Nursing Career

    I feel for you about not being able to find a job, but it sounds like this one should turn out just fine :) I too quit my job and moved (fiance's job transfer) and havent been able to find a job. I've...

  15. Medication Nurse Assistants

    TexasPediRN replied to K205's topic in General Nursing

    :quote: "you know some of you nurses are closed minded. i'm glad when i was a cma i had some great lpn and rns that helped me grow into the lpn i am today. yes i passed pills in ltc and if i didn't...

  16. Need some encouragement re: IV's

    TexasPediRN replied to Worthy's topic in General Nursing

    Just a thought.. Try the book "Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy" by Springhouse Publishing. I was HORRIBLE at dosage calcs, and this book really helped. In fact, all of their incredibly...

  17. Advice On Shift Report Needed!!

    TexasPediRN replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    Do you use Kardex'es? I always found using them helped. I too HATED giving report at first, but during my first days one of the girls sat with me and pointed to which section to talk about next, and...

  18. Pet Peeves

    TexasPediRN replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

    Nice topic! I apologize in advance to those ER nurses who dont do this! (not all hospitals have incompetent people!) I worked on a Peds/Med Surg floor. Our biggest pet peeve was when we got kids from...

  19. Shoes???

    TexasPediRN replied to MarylandNsgStudent's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Easy Spirits are the most comfortable shoes I have found to wear, and many of the nurses I used to work with love them and swear by them as well! Nurse mates killed my feet, but the easy spirits are...

  20. Gifts for clinical instructors?

    TexasPediRN replied to Cowboys_RN's topic in General Students

    Flowers or a plant and a nice card are a good way to go :) 150$? NEVER! Its the thought that counts, not the amount of money

  21. 5 items

    TexasPediRN replied to design_student's topic in General Nursing

    Top 5 things: 1. stethoscope(around the neck) 2. Alcohol swabs! Many of them! 3. extra bandaids & gauze (love when those IV's infiltrate and you have nothing on you :/ ) 4. tape! - you'd be amazed...

  22. Rotavirus

    TexasPediRN replied to BlueYYsRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    For rota virus we have always done contact isolation, but this was in Pediatrics and not in the NICU. I dont know if their policy differs. Our NICU never had a baby with Rota.. WE would gown/glove up...

  23. Fill in the blank on NCLEX?

    TexasPediRN replied to IvoryLena's topic in General Students

    what nclex is doing is changing the exam by adding alternative questions. now, the chance that someone got a whole test full of alternatives may just be a fluke right now- i dont beleive the entire...

  24. 1st Week as RN!

    TexasPediRN replied to tonet0908's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Quote: "We are all here to work as a team to help the patients, noone is better than the other person. You already know one of the most important lessons of all :) TEAMWORK! Even though these...

  25. Our clinical instructor was fired mid semester...help!

    TexasPediRN replied to landonsles's topic in General Students

    When I was a nursing student (in my last semester of clinicals as well) we had a clinical instructor become extremly sick and a new instructor was brought in since our old one was hospitalized for a...