AliNajaCat

AliNajaCat

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  1. Failed a class by 3% my last semester of nursing school

    AliNajaCat replied to Trisherrz's topic in General Students

    It's always hard, but in every program there are people who somehow passed their first two semesters (of a two-year program), squeaked through third semester, and then just could not make the leap to...

  2. a nurses right to privacy as a patient??

    AliNajaCat replied to amyj23's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm curious as to why this thread has been resurrected by a new poster more than five years after it ran its

  3. case study .. Help !

    AliNajaCat replied to Saja Karaja's topic in General Students

    If he's losing blood, what is he at risk for then? Look up stomach ulcers in your med/surg book. You'll see that "acid" isn't implicated in in most ulcers (we haven't put people on bland diets for...

  4. Process of getting licensed after nursing school?!

    AliNajaCat replied to michellemortillaro's topic in General Students

    Send the testing folks (with whom you scheduled your test) a return-receipt-requested letter-- you get a little green card to put on the envelope at the post office for a coupla bucks, and when it's...

  5. I don't know what I'm doing

    AliNajaCat replied to syd12ney's topic in General Students

    I think neuro ICU is a bit too much for any new CNA; it's scary and sometimes gross. You ought to have started out in some nice quiet little SNF or even a general med/surg unit in a community...

  6. How Long is/was Your First Semester Hours?

    AliNajaCat replied to Shookclays's topic in General Students

    We had no clinical first year, then three days of 0700-1400 a week in clinical areas for the next three years, two per semester: peds/ob and psych/rehab; public health/medical and med/surg/; med/surg...

  7. Getting off track of my dream

    AliNajaCat replied to ashlynnt's topic in General Students

    A quick visit with a counselor can help you refocus and give you some very specific techniques to stay on the track you want now that you have sorta wandered away from it. Don't put it off. Your...

  8. Taking physiology during a 6 week winter session

    AliNajaCat replied to ana_96's topic in General Students

    It IS waaaay more complex, and will be integral to everything you'll be learning from here on out, so you'd better be prepared to really grasp and retain it because you will be held to having a good...

  9. Acute-On-Chronic nursing diagnosis?

    AliNajaCat replied to lindseyp2012's topic in General Students

    You don't choose a nursing diagnosis, you make it based on your assessment. Now look at him again. What do you see first? When you faculty asks you to make diagnoses and prioritize them, they're...

  10. heart failure question

    AliNajaCat replied to yelworc123's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Don't forget the abdomen-- it's peripheral for purposes of this discussion. What do you think might happen there if venous return is backed up d/t right sided failure? Hint: look up hepatojugular...

  11. wellness diagnosis for sickle cell client

    AliNajaCat replied to dthyme's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You're welcome, she said

  12. Nursing Interventions for Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation?

    AliNajaCat replied to mhingis's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    From anther thread (if you open threads that mention care planning you'll find a plethora of useful stuff to help you wrap your head round learning to think like a nurse, not physician appendage):...

  13. wellness diagnosis for sickle cell client

    AliNajaCat replied to dthyme's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If you have looked in your NANDA-I 2015-2017 you have found the definition if "Readiness for enhanced health management," which is, "A pattern of regulating and integrating into daily living a...

  14. Psych rotation and pregnancy

    AliNajaCat replied to Catarina82's topic in General Students

    Possible but quite doubtful, as if the site is experienced at having students there for clinical they know the law already (or should), and the school should clarify this for them if they have a...

  15. Hypothesis test results

    AliNajaCat replied to Shnkay1's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    OK, so now I'm confused. I recommended that you find the TA for your statistics class to help you, but that seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. Now, if I understand you correctly, you say you're...

  16. Psych rotation and pregnancy

    AliNajaCat replied to Catarina82's topic in General Students

    If they're "protecting" you, they're probably worried about their liability in the off chance you miscarry and then blame them. There are laws against this sort of discrimination on reproductive...

  17. Is A C in med surg bad?

    AliNajaCat replied to tflores's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Due to personal pressures-- working three 8hr shifts per week plus all vacations, running a household, paying for everything in my life except tuition, meaning food, clothes, books and supplies,...

  18. I need help with clinical

    AliNajaCat replied to PokoMan's topic in General Students

    Somebody told you to review more? Good advice from somebody who knew what she was talking about. This is why there's open practice lab. NEVER be embarrassed to read up on something and then go in...

  19. O2 sat on telemetry

    AliNajaCat replied to yelworc123's topic in General Students

    There is a way to swap out different accessories on most monitoring systems, but you'd have to get one of the nurses on the floor to show you how to use that particular brand. There may also be a...

  20. test bank questions

    AliNajaCat replied to julimom's topic in General Students

    Here's a news flash: Many people who are excellent teachers find writing valid test questions incredibly hard. Perhaps they didn't take education coursework in their graduate program; perhaps they...

  21. My NCLEX Experience: Preparations, Study Tips, and Acing the Exam

    AliNajaCat replied to lilmonsterkray's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    This is gonna go against the grain, but it's still true. Remember: NCLEX is designed to identify people who were competent enough to graduate from an accredited school. When I taught NCLEX review for...

  22. Strange stethoscope question

    AliNajaCat replied to Username invalid's topic in General Students

    I rode in a hospitalist's van once and saw about a dozen stethoscopes on the floor in the back. Another way I used to protect mine was by attaching a pen to the chest piece with a piece of plastic...

  23. Peers very Unsupportive

    AliNajaCat replied to Marieh's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I read a lot of threads here (not necessarily this one) where eventually somebody says something like, "If you think it's like this everywhere and everybody tells you the same thing, the problem may...

  24. Can I Explain My ADN Grades to Schools I Apply to?

    AliNajaCat replied to zoa190's topic in General Students

    Trust me, all the schools in an area are well-aware of both their competitions' grading curves, their NCLEX passing rates, and their risk of losing accreditation. Having had students that spent more...

  25. When to start administering "hospice medications."

    AliNajaCat replied to LPN9200's topic in General Nursing

    I had an epiphany like that once when I was a much younger nurse and got told to do CPR on an ancient woman who was so loaded with cancer that her lymph nodes were like buboes all over her emaciated...