should this girl pass nursing school?

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i'm in my 4th yr of bs nursing & i will be graduating this may 2006 (woohoo!) now my thread is: i have this classmate who has been passing our nursing subjects not with high grades but not so low grades either. and several instances during our clinicals, she would be asking me or some other groupmate some questions such as: (remember she is a graduating nursing student)

a. what is a diuretic?

b. what does dyspneic/tachypneic mean?

and many instances, she has been really incompetent and uncomprehensible when giving rationales or explanations on different diseases/cases. she doesn't even know what the normal range for fasting blood sugar is!:uhoh21:

i know she shouldn't be allowed to graduate and i, for a fact, would not want to be hospitalized and be under her care (i think i will die!)... :eek:

should she be allowed to graduate? should we (me and my other groupmates) bring this up with our level head or dean or someone concerned? i mean, poor girl she's worked so hard. but goodness, poor patients if she will pass the boards eventually (she loves memorizing, w/o understanding anything!). :uhoh21:

:rotfl: Don't you just wanta laugh when she's talking? How old is this chick? What do other students think of her? How do patients react to her? :uhoh21:

I remember when my Dad was in the hospital last year. He was very sick with a fatal blood disorder. (He eventually died from sepsis) He had been put in to have some teeth extracted due to absesses.

There was a nurse that he had - to this day, my mother and I STILL have no clue how she made it through school. My dad was in a chair beside his hospital bed - he was in a GREAT deal of pain. Well, this NUT of a nurse came in with pain meds. After finally deciding that since he couldn't swallow anything - due to mouth pain, and the fact he was packed with cotton, she would give him an injection, knowing that he would eventually need to be put back to bed, due to the fact he would be falling out of the chair, due to being knocked out from the pain med. We sorta mentioned that to her, but she says, "Oh, he'll be fine, I'll be back in about a half hour". Well, needless to say go old Dad was falling out to the floor as me an mom were trying to pull him up to the bed. Well, nurse quack comes back in and says, "Oh my goodness, he does need to get back in the bed". DUH! We never saw her again - o.k., maybe I was just a little harsh with her. :D

I have met so many nurses that I can't help but wonder how on earth they ever made it through nursing school. When I was doing home health as a CNA, the nurse came by. The client I was staying with was a diabetic and her feet were supposed to be watched carefully for sores, skin breakdown, etc. The nurse was packing up to go when the client's son spoke up and mentioned that her feet were supposed to be checked. The nurse reached down, jerked off the woman's sock, and exclaimed "Oh, her toenails look lovely! I just LOVE that color!" Needless to say, the son wasn't interested in the nurse's opinion on his mothers choice in toenail polish. After this little circus, she got up to leave again and the son had to specifically ask her to CHECK THE FEET! The nurse was like ....oh.... okay.... DUH!

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True Story:

Nurse: "I have to collect a nasal swab to check for MRSA, how deep should I go? Can I just go around the edge of the nostril?"

Micro Tech: "No, you have to go deeper than that."

Nurse: "To the brain??"

You can't make this stuff up.

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True Story:

Nurse: "I have to collect a nasal swab to check for MRSA, how deep should I go? Can I just go around the edge of the nostril?"

Micro Tech: "No, you have to go deeper than that."

Nurse: "To the brain??"

You can't make this stuff up.

My my. That's all I can say :uhoh3:

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It aggravates me how some people feel the need to judge other peoples nursing performance. JUST FOCUS ON YOUR OWN PATIENT CARE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. If the student has made it that far in nursing school then she has already proven herself and if she passes the NCLEX then she is safe to practice nursing.

I would rather have someone who is more unsure of themselves then the no-it-all nurse because the less knowledgable nurse is going to be apt to be more careful in her nursing care.

If you were to say "this girl left a patient sitting in their own poop for two days and sat on their butt the whole time" then yes, thats a pretty damning action. But if she doesn't know what a diuretic is... who gives a crap???? Knowledge can be learned and re-learned but compassion is something that needs to be ingrained in you and I question the OP's compassion.

Jeez, just step off your high horse and realize that everyone learns at different paces. Not everyone can be Florance Nightengale like the OP.

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

My guess--- nursing student who thought she was all that is selling Avon or Tupperware. Miss Clueless really wasn't and she's been happily working for the last 5 years completely oblivious to the meangirl takedown offered by the OP. Only a hunch.

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It's funny too because the OP said "oh, I just don't see the potential in this student" where, at the time... she wasn't even a freaking nurse!! How can she see the nursing potential in someone when she here self is not actually involved in the field? All she was at the time was a cocky student. If she truly "felt sorry" for this troubled student she would have just helped her along the way.

Jeez, when will people learn that no one likes a know-it-all.

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