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A few months ago, I was asking the same question to myself. I came from a Pulmonary/critical care background, 5 years. After moving to a new state, I hired on at a hospital that was gracious enough to train me and I'm loving it. I can tell you tha...

Anyone dealt or heard of "alien hand syndrome"? Had a patient post-stroke that has this and I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it. Her hand was like it was possessed. It had a "mind of its own". Her hand has now become known as "THE HAND" t...

Yeah, we really thought at first that it was a psych issue. This was before the stroke was found. Someone came out of the room and said "that poor lady is crazy...she just pulled all the skin off her own hand!

Zosyn, Levaquin, Vancomycin, lots o morphine, Solumedrol or prednisone. I work Pulm.

I'm a Pulm nurse so mucous, loogies...doesn't bother me at all. I can suction a trach with the best of 'em all the while thinking about what's for lunch. But start talking about bugs....maggots, cockroaches, worms...that gives me the heebie jeebies...

I'm a 31 yr old newer nurse, mom of 3, and married for 10 yrs. The floor that I work on has a good mix from 20's up to 50's and we pretty much all tend to get along really well. One of the nurses on my floor is the mother of a girl I went to school...

Hi all, I just passed NCLEX on Thursday, 3 days after my 5 year old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Wow, I have studied diabetes in school, but I never realized how all of the changes affect your life. My daughter is such a trooper and...

I'm a brand new nurse. A few days ago I had a elderly patient who had orthostatic hypotension. He kept getting out of bed without assistance and nearly fell twice. I did the what I could think of: fall risk assessment; call light, phone, and remote ...

I think anything with some good pathophysiology in it is good. If you can really understand what is going on in a disease process it helps immensely, at least on exams. I don't know about real-life nursing because I just passed boards and haven't s...

I used Saunders to help review content. I did many, many Saunders questions. However, I think that my Kaplan course was so much more helpful in terms of the style of questions presented. They were written much more like the actual exam questions th...

Too bad has severe needle phobia, lol! :chuckle I thought he was going to hyperventilate the first time her gave her a shot!

I just graduated from school on May 9th and was scheduled to take boards this last Thursday. On Monday, three days before the NCLEX, I took my 5 year old daughter into the ER and she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. We were in the hospital with ...

I did Kaplan and I think that it really helped. I would say that questions on the NCLEX tend to be more like Kaplan questions than that of other review books I have seen. I have also studied both Saunders and Lippencott. Kaplan does help you to br...

I know that in my area the hospitals have already been hiring for positions for months. I was actually hired at least 2 months ago, and I just took boards on Thursday. What are your expectations in a job? Are you requesting specific hours or speci...

I'm a nurse tech. I was able to be one after my first semester of nursing school, although I didn't start until my 3rd semester. It is basically a CNA but I am able to do a lot of other skills that I learned in school as well. I can do Foley's, dr...

OMG, I have the same exact dream every once in a while. It is always Stats class, lol. Probably because in my young and stupid years I stopped going to Stats just because I didn't like it and never actually dropped. I ended up failing and had to r...

During our first year of nursing school, I had a friend who had been in the patient's room for a really long time doing an assessment. I asked what took so long when she came out. Embarrassed, she replied that she couldn't hear any bowel sounds so sh...

Possible...yes, easy...no! I don't mean to be a "Debbie Downer" but it is a very hard situation. The good thing in your case is that your children are older and a little more self-sufficient. In my case, I am in my 2nd year of nursing school and had ...

I just had my third daughter on October 9th, 2007. I was induced and had gone in that morning to get started on Pit. I'm in nursing school and had told my teacher that I didn't want any students taking care of me because it was a little too close f...

Yeah, I had to take it to get into the RN program. I just really recommend going the the study guide page by page if you feel that you are rusty on stuff. The study guide I have is called the Test of Essential Academic Skills: Pre-Test Study Manual...

Ugh, I had the exact same thing happen to me last year. The records office at my school lost my transcripts from my other school. It would have meant me not getting in if I hadn't been very persistent about getting the situation resolved. Luckily,...

I still remember my first clinical, being scared to even knock and go into the room. My first patient was an extremely large woman, over 400 lbs. I had to give her a bed bath and the whole time in my head I just kept repeating "this is so not like ...

LOL, I had a friend in clinicals who spent 20 min listening for bowels sounds- 5 min in each quadrant- because she couldn't hear any. Turns out her steth was turned to the bell side. I laughed sooo hard when she told me.

I'm currently just finishing my first year of nursing school. A couple of weeks ago at clinicals my patient (known Hep C), pulled out her IV as she was getting dressed and then stuck her bleeding hand in mine before I realized what was happening. So ...

Thanks for directing me to the CDC guidelines. I tried to call my ob today but he and his staff were not in the office so I was planning on calling back on monday. I call my general practitioner's office and talked to his nurse. She gave me basica...