LanaBanana

LanaBanana

Level III cardiac/telemetry

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  1. CNA nursing students.........

    LanaBanana replied to 2bRnKim's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I worked as an aide at St John while in school and I've got to tell ya - it made me soooo much more comfortable in clinicals. First I felt more comfortable in my basic skills, but I also had better...

  2. nurse with mono

    LanaBanana posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been exhausted for several weeks, however 3 weeks ago I fell and broke my leg so I was just chalking it up for a while as needing extra energy. When I went back to to the doc for the leg I asked...

  3. New Nurse

    LanaBanana replied to dottimur's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    Congrats!!!!!!

  4. Rose State? wondering if im on the right track

    LanaBanana replied to Jenners's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    CNAs help with the basic patient needs - in our hospital this includes vitals, bathing/changing sheets and clothes, ambulating and repositioning patients, passing meal trays and feeding those who need...

  5. allergy injections?

    LanaBanana posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am going for allergy testing next week and would like to be able to start injections (if indicated of course). I had a dr a few years ago that suggested it but I hated having to go to the clinic...

  6. Help with I & O

    LanaBanana replied to RN ColbyJack's topic in Cardiac

    We have I&O sheets that are either taped somewhere inside each room or placed in the nurse-server ( a little closet at the door that has access from inside and outside the room.) Anybody who...

  7. Transporting Telemetry Patients

    LanaBanana replied to mercyrn02's topic in Cardiac

    Wow. I'm on a telemetry floor and our patients go off monitoring all the time for tests. EKGs, ultrasound, portable CXrays happen in the room, but most everything else the transporters just come and...

  8. Morgellon's Disease

    LanaBanana replied to indigo girl's topic in Psychiatric

    I had a patient today who was dx'd with this disase. I remember seeing the documentary on it last year. I kept hearing a lot of nurses this weekend saying that the pt is crazy. Kinda

  9. Newbie with questions

    LanaBanana replied to 2bRnKim's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I was a CNA while in the LPN program. We have lots of aides who are nursing students and most managers are pretty flexible with schedules. Come to St

  10. ATI RN Comprehensive Predictor

    LanaBanana replied to pipersjo's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I got around an 80% on the ATI comp and passed the NCLEX-PN with 85 questions (the minimum for PN.) According to my teacher anything above a 65 or so is a good

  11. NLN PN-RN ACE Childbearing/Health Exam

    LanaBanana replied to espikey's topic in LPN to RN

    This sounds similar to what I have to take but my college has us take Excelsior challenge exams. I'm studying right now for the mental health one and hoping to take it in 2 weeks. Then will start on...

  12. Here comes the bride...

    LanaBanana posted a topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I wanted to let all of my Oklahoma Allnurses friends know that I'm getting married!!!!! Yes, I met the love of my life 3 months ago through a friend from school. We're getting married in 6 months -...

  13. Here comes the bride...

    LanaBanana replied to LanaBanana's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    Okay, the insanenous of all that I'm trying to accomplish has finally hit me! I'm almost off of orientation at work and had the busiest/most stressful day of work since I started as a nurse this past...

  14. Microbiology EduKan

    LanaBanana replied to luvmy2girls's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    Yes, I took it this past fall. I did the labs in person since it was only twice in the semester, but it was kind of annoying to drive. TCC transferred the credit without any problem. But FYI, they...

  15. Fingerstick Glucose Testing-Do Alcohol Wipes Interfere w/ Results?

    LanaBanana replied to PsychRN-Kris's topic in General Nursing

    As a phlebotomist in my former life, I was taught that alcohol should be used and allowed to dry. A lot of people use alcohol to clean and then either wipe it off or blow on it to dry. But it is the...

  16. >90 hr rule/college loans

    LanaBanana replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in LPN to RN

    I have 140 hours and was refused for financial aid from the community college. I appealed previously when I was going to do a medical assistant program but had already received an AA degree and was...

  17. Pt beds in the hallway

    LanaBanana replied to Nurse1966's topic in General Nursing

    Can't exactly have much patient privacy in a hospital... Turn over Mr. X, I have some cream for your hemorroids!...or What's that medicine for? Oh, it's for your genital herpes! Can't imagine having...

  18. Anyone interested in LPN to RN bridge starting May 12th?

    LanaBanana replied to dottimur's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    I have to take physiology so I'm starting in the fall - got my acceptance letter Wednesday. Are you done with school? Scheduled for

  19. Any LPN looking for a fast track nursing school

    LanaBanana replied to LuvWounds's topic in LPN to RN

    Go to the National League of Nursing accreditation website. http://www.nlnac.org/Forms/directory_search.htm If the school is legitimately accredited through them it will be listed on here. There are...

  20. Any LPN looking for a fast track nursing school

    LanaBanana replied to LuvWounds's topic in LPN to RN

    Be careful with the Platt program if you are considering going on for BSN or MSN. They are NOT NLN accredited, even if they tell you that. If you go to the Oklahoma forum you will see a few...

  21. Do you enjoy TV surgical/medical shows?

    LanaBanana replied to MSJ2007's topic in General Nursing

    i just laughed when on Gray's Anatomy last week Izzy shows up in the pt room with a phlebotomy kit and said she needed to draw some labs. WHAT? I've never seen a doc stick one of my patients. Heck,...

  22. New to Owasso/Tulsa...so need a haircut!!!

    LanaBanana replied to katieb1951's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    No more school for me until June when I take physiology and then should be doing the bridge at TCC. I don't even know what to do with myself when I'm not

  23. New to Owasso/Tulsa...so need a haircut!!!

    LanaBanana replied to katieb1951's topic in Oklahoma Nursing

    2 places I've gone are HairFX at 51st and Memorial and Regis salons in the

  24. friend taking weight loss pills, I'm concerned

    LanaBanana posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just found out that a friend of mine is taking phentermine. She's been on it a few months and had her dose increased last week because it wasn't having the effect she wanted. I'm concerned because...

  25. How often are you sick???

    LanaBanana posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Although I've been a nurse for less than a month, I've been working as an aide on the same floor I am now nursing on for 8 months. In that time, I've had a couple of colds, URI/bronchitis, stomach...