So basically if this is your first time taking A&P send a text to you friends and family saying you won’t be seeing them till summer!! KIDDING! Well sort of..A&P is a lot of memorizing a ridiculous amount of information. But let me tell you the more retain from this class the more you will …
#nursesinspirenurses Today I received a text message from the American Nurses Association to email my local Senator and let him/her know that I support Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act. I love being a nurse, I love the challenge of thinking on my feet and at the end of the day the feeling that I …
-Focus Assessment. Always document your VS and the assessment that correlates with the body system that is the patient’s main complaint. -Keep a pad of paper to keep your notes on -Always give warm fluids, unless the patient has a fever -If you patient is over 60, CT wont take them until blood work has …
What to Get the Summer Before Your First Semester My little sister is going to nursing school in the fall so I started to think what can I do to help prepare her! Here is a list that I came up with! If you don’t have a laptop get one! Do some research into the …
I have 4 years under my belt which most of it has been in the Prison. I have seen stabbing, suicide, trauma first hand and let me tell you my first two days in the Emergency Department were CRAZY. I think the hardest thing so far has not necessarily been the acuity but how fast …
Part II- “Yes a swallowed two razors” It was one of the first times I was “Clinic 1” which is sort of a charge nurse position. I probably had been working corrections for a few months (also a new grad). I heard over our radios “Medical ICS- SIB” which means medical emergency self injurious behaviour. …
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Part I: Educate-Motivate-Inspire Working in the Prison can be mentally and physically exhausting. Seeing the same Inmates getting in trouble, purposefully harming themselves for attention can be discouraging. Most of my days were spent in the segregation unit (SMU). During one of my med passes I see and inmate in his cell doing Yoga! I …
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♦Med Surge ♦ Psych ♦ Maternity ♦ These subjects will be a whirlwind through your mind. Study, exam, test, clinical REPEAT! Here are a few tips to get you through CLINICAL! Save your medication research on your computer! I have almost 50 pages of meds saved! This will help you during clinical when making your …
I remember as a Nursing student and as a new grad RN, I would get so nervous calling the provider. My heart rate would go up and my palms would get sweaty. Here are some of my tips to calling the provider. I use SBAR! By using this I’ve had provider’s tell me that I …
Recently I had an interview for a local Emergency Department and did a bunch of research on how to nail this interview! My followers on Instagram helped out tremendously!! AND I LANDED THE JOB! Okay so finally you get the call back you have been waiting for! Before you go in for your interview… Do …
