AliNajaCat

AliNajaCat

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  1. IV HELP

    AliNajaCat replied to XXXX5's topic in General Nursing

    Also, please calm down about air bubbles in veins. Where do they go? Remember your anatomy class... vein to vena cava to right atrium to right ventricle to pulmonary artery to pulmonary capillary bed,...

  2. New RN/inexperienced nurse considering nurse externship

    AliNajaCat replied to MarshaRabbit's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to be a nurse you have to do the same thing. School is just the beginning of lifelong learning. I still buy books and take courses. If more schools are pumping out weak NPs who still have...

  3. Are fibrinolytic agents and thrombolytic agents the same thing?

    AliNajaCat replied to IJ_606's topic in General Students

    No fibrin, no clot, so the answer is yes, from a functional standpoint. I learned the clotting cascade a dozen times and still can't reproduce it all, but reviewing the graphic depiction will help you...

  4. Book that outlines common disorders/diseases? Any suggestions?

    AliNajaCat replied to weiny4089's topic in General Students

    Two suggestions: Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications, by Joyce Lefever McKee, current edition 5-Minute Clinical Consult, current edition Both available at your favorite online...

  5. Applying to Stony Brook Accelerated BSN Program

    AliNajaCat replied to anlm93's topic in General Students

    Any other programs you're applying to, or just the two you posted

  6. Applying to Lehman Accelerated BSN Program, HELP!

    AliNajaCat replied to anlm93's topic in General Students

    Any more programs you'd like to ask about, or are you only applying to the

  7. A Year After Graduation

    AliNajaCat replied to DereklRN's topic in General Students

    Advertisement? Another one-post wonder? Clickbait? So

  8. Nurses Just Need to Learn How to Say NO!

    AliNajaCat replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Nobody is going to give you power. You have to seize power, starting with your own personal power. Get on

  9. Should Obama care be repealed?

    AliNajaCat replied to luv2's topic in General Nursing

    Trump, well, who the hell knows what he is. HE doesn't even now what he is-- a less self-aware person would be hard to find outside a day program. But the GOP has the House and the Senate, so now...

  10. University of Washington DNP Program

    AliNajaCat replied to xnv30rn's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Got my MN there a hundred or so years ago. It was a fabulous program then, excellent faculty, connections for research all over one of the best research medical centers in the country (thanks for a...

  11. Ready to tackle MSN-but want the easy way

    AliNajaCat replied to FLGirl2000's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Dangitol, I'm getting tired of these clickbait "threads." I call B.S., by which I do not mean "bachelor of

  12. Looking at possible new job

    AliNajaCat replied to AvaRose's topic in General Nursing

    It isn't uncommon for new hires to say at the time of offer, "I have a vacation the last week of next month that we booked six months ago. Would you like me to start asap after I give my notice, or...

  13. Preceptor From Hell-Need Advice

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

    Take a vote. Lessee now, bunch of nurses, all positive, you liked them, you were feeling good. One nurse, jerk. And you let the jerk win? Blow it off. You're doing

  14. Med/Psych

    AliNajaCat replied to sunlight1's topic in General Nursing

    Some of you have heard my story of when I got called at home by my registry to go to the locked psych ward at the big city hospital to give a couple of units of blood. I wasn't doing anything else...

  15. Peri-operative Nursing/OT

    AliNajaCat replied to M37m's topic in Operating Room

    My first job out of college (BSN) was in a 17-bed PACU, but I had had three summers of full-time experience as a Central Supply, ER, and OR/PACU aide while I was in late high school and early college,...

  16. Should Obama care be repealed?

    AliNajaCat replied to luv2's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the ball is squarely in the GOP court now. Let's just see what they do. I'm betting.... not much. They're already backing off majorly on the "repeal, repeal, repeal, it's a disaster"...

  17. Pre-reqs class(Anatomy and Physiology)

    AliNajaCat replied to Olusubomi's topic in General Students

    They're not that expensive. Get the highest-rated ones, or get a couple of them and see which one works best for

  18. New RN/inexperienced nurse considering nurse externship

    AliNajaCat replied to MarshaRabbit's topic in General Nursing

    Wuzzie has nailed it. There's a reason for that. Which has, overall, summed up all the knowledgeable replies to this thread: an advanced nurse practitioner role requires, well, advanced practice in...

  19. Getting all 50 US Licenses

    AliNajaCat replied to Shineyfam's topic in General Nursing

    Going back to the original OP message, I agree. It's both expensive and a royal PIA to get licensed in other states -- I used to have 8 (I'm in a position to start letting most of them expire and go...

  20. Getting attached

    AliNajaCat replied to guest5122016's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Learning to set personal boundaries is an important thing when your work requires you to break so many. We touch and look and ask and do so much you'd get arrested for if you tried it on a stranger...

  21. I have a "Nolle Proccess" charge on my background . . .

    AliNajaCat replied to SoonToBeNurseDani's topic in General Students

    We can't give legal advice here. Look up the local TAANA chapter for a nurse atty who

  22. A day that will live in infamy

    AliNajaCat replied to Esme12's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend whose brother went down on the Juneau in 1942, the ship where there were several (many) sets of brothers serving together. The famous ones were the 5 Sullivans, all lost all at once....

  23. Nursing care plan HELP!

    AliNajaCat replied to nursingforme2's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hints to get you started: Assess ________ Q _________ for ___________ Patient teaching: Have patient report

  24. Nursing care plan HELP!

    AliNajaCat replied to nursingforme2's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    OK, let's stop and take a deep breath here. "Risk for bleeding" is a perfectly good nursing diagnosis to make if your assessment identified at least one approved risk factor (it sounds as if you...

  25. Help! Med surg

    AliNajaCat replied to NursesRule44's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Fluids and electrolytes will always be with you. Make sure you know them cold-- what they are, how they work, what body systems are most affected and how, common tests, common treatments, and making...