nursingstudent317

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1. A nurse with Aspergers

   nursingstudent317 posted a topic in Disabilities

   I am a student nurse due to get my BSN next May. Although this isn't something I would undertake immediately, I've been pondering whether my own experience with Aspergers could play a role in consulting parents or teens with the condition. I'm not in...

2. Holistic Certification Helpful or Harmful?

   nursingstudent317 replied to nursingstudent317's topic in Holistic

   I know that holistic nursing isn't just about complimentary medicine. In fact, while our program is defined as being holistic in focus we learn nearly nothing about complimentary medicine. But it seems to me that the general population hears the term...

3. What do community health/public health nurses do/where do they work?

   nursingstudent317 replied to RN BSN 2009's topic in Public/Community

   My BSN program makes me eligible to be certified as a PHN when we graduate. I have this fantasy of becoming a maternal-child PHN and doing postpartum visits, as well as other duties which are heavy in teaching, advocating, referrals. I also think it ...

4. Holistic Certification Helpful or Harmful?

   nursingstudent317 posted a topic in Holistic

   My BSN program has a very holistic theory/practice base. When we graduate we are eligible to get certified as a holistic nurse. I feel passionately about complementary medicine and what it has to offer but it will probably not be my primary focus as ...

5. Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

   nursingstudent317 replied to VickyRN's topic in Holistic

   I felt that this was pseudoscience and insulting to the nursing profession for a long time. When I learned Reiki, I had to let go of my entire paradigm. I still feel funny talking about it, because it sounds so crazy unless you have actually experien...

6. "Holistic" - What does this mean to you?

   nursingstudent317 replied to VickyRN's topic in Holistic

   This is what comes to mind when I think of a holistic approach: When you ask your patient how she's doing today and she replies that her abdominal incision isn't hurting as much as yesterday, you repeat the question ("great, how are YOU doing today?"...

7. What sort of personalities make good nurses?

   nursingstudent317 replied to goldenscroll's topic in General Nursing

   I would agree that there are many personalities that seem to make very good nurses. The things about my personality that I have found to be most valuable in nursing are: 1) the maturity/humility to be very honest about the scope of my knowledge base-...

8. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

   nursingstudent317 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Yeah, I'm most likely going to be starting at a hospital in a different area entirely. The hospital I did this clinical is in the "big city" (a joke, it has 30,000 people, but it is the major city for over a hundred miles around) in very rural county...

9. Shift Times

   nursingstudent317 replied to steelersRN's topic in General Nursing

   This is a subject that makes me nervous about becoming an RN next year and getting my first job. I hear that the only ones available are night shifts. I have a sleep disorder and I fear that if I must do such shifts, especially in the beginning, I wi...

10. New OB Nurses, Grads and Students, Please Feel Free to post your questions here:

    nursingstudent317 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi, this is my first post here. I have just finished my senior year of nursing school and am trying to find my niche. I found my OB rotation exhilerating. I especially enjoyed the postpartum teaching and the smaller patient ratios. I one major probl...