bgxyrnf

bgxyrnf MSN, RN

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  1. Santa Rosa Junior College Fall 2018 ADN Program

    Agreed. The desire for comparison is a fool's game... especially when followed by, "all my preqs are
  2. I couldn't agree more. If you're particularly computer saavy, I'd learn to make your cards electronically. If you check out my pharmacology cards, you might be surprised at how little time it actually...
  3. Is nursing worth it?

    You absolutely hate a job at which you've only been working for 2 weeks? Honestly, in that short period of time it's hard to picture how you could have had enough experiences to form any kind of...
  4. Older Student, Unprofessional Nurse During Clinical

    I'll go ahead and say it... Perhaps what you witnessed was a seasoned urology nurse's response to an overly dramatic, whiny patient who was perhaps the wussiest Marine ever. Was her response...
  5. I graduated in 2008 (from a direct-entry MSN program for 2nd-degree students) and we practiced on each other regularly after clinicals... at least some of us did. We were not required to offer up our...
  6. If you are a student, then you are *not* very strong; you are
  7. Math Help

    I prefer to think of all these problems the way that a chemist does, as dilutions, proportions, concentrations, and flow rates... that is really all that dimensional analysis does but it circumvents...
  8. Medical Insurance

    My program "strongly recommended" that students not work while enrolled. Most of us didn't but a few did so out of necessity or opportunity. The ones who did work did suffer some from lack of sleep...
  9. Right coronary artery infarct

    Dying.
  10. My longest week was 92 hours... during a stretch of 12+ hour days for 22 days. No, it's nothing close to sustainable and no, employers are generally resistant, but there are times when available OT is...
  11. Once you see how much money you can earn by pulling some 80-hr weeks, you may do so every once in a while :-) Having been salaried my whole pre-nursing career in high-tech, I was stunned by my first...
  12. Accepting verbal orders from another nurse?

    I stopped reading after the first 12 posts but to summarize for the OP: 1) You cannot legally or ethically take a 2nd degree verbal order through another nurse. Part of taking a verbal order is...
  13. There is a triad which I first learned pertaining to engineering project management but which can be broadly applied to all products and services: Quality - Cost - Time Pick two of the three and the...
  14. Pharmacology Flashcards (drug cards)

    Pregnancy
  15. I've been an ED nurse for 7 years, working at four different hospitals from a tiny, rural, critical-access hospital (as I call it, Level None) through a regional academic medical center (peds and...
  16. My nursing error; shame and struggling

    I've been there. I have few words of wisdom but I will tell you that I am smart, diligent, meticulous, thoughtful, and careful; I was and am well thought of by my colleagues in nursing, medicine,...
  17. Is nursing school realistic

    Well, here's some motivation. I just finished 6 days on (12-hr days) and am now in the middle of 8 days off. Eight day weekends are the
  18. Thinking about getting a gun for safety

    Here's the fundamental question that you need to answer for yourself before you even worry about your employer: Do you have it in your heart to kill someone? If the answer is an unequivocal...
  19. Pharmacology Flashcards (drug cards)

    Technically, it's not a triangle but rather the greek letter delta... which in science and mathematics is used to denote "difference"... I used it to mean
  20. Last shift I was assigned to monitor a patient getting a nerve block. My responsibility was literally just to monitor - pretty much just for the only emergent situation of lidocaine toxicity. As it...
  21. Pearson Vue Trick RN

    Selection
  22. Did CPR for the first time today.

    I read the who thing. It was not appropriate to initiate compressions on a patient with pulses. There is nothing in BLS that says
  23. Did CPR for the first time today.

    Um, if the patient had a perfusing rhythm, you shouldn't have been doing compressions. If the kid was so stable that EMS didn't see the need for transport, even more so. And effective CPR is...
  24. New grad: critical care float pool or ED?

    Here's the problem with the critical care float pool: You don't get much experience with the most critical patients. Generally, they'll give you the softer patients and double you up so that their...