mrs.captain.kangaroo

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1. Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

   To all except one, thank you for your supportive caring. To one in particular, you are a psychotic bully and need help, please see a counselor and take some meds. How you ever got a job teaching is beyond me except I guess through your contacts. Yo...

2. Cheating?

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to madampomfrey's topic in General Students

   Hi you may get a lot of crap for turning someone in, but remember the other person was cheating, not you and you deserve no one's condemnation. You were the honest one and did what you thought was right. In the long run, it may do that cheater a favo...

3. Nurses don't do anything!

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to ~FutureNurse~'s topic in General Students

   Obviously the people who make these comments have never been a patient in a hospital or had a family member in a hospital. I didn't know all that nurses did until my father was in the hospital and I saw who did all the work - it was the nurses. They ...

4. Terrible anxiety! Advice?

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to heavenly14313's topic in General Students

   Hi, I would still see a doctor as different medical conditions can cause anxiety. Do you think if you saw a therapist or sought out a sympathetic teacher to talk over the bad experience it would help since you are connecting the anxiety with it? I fi...

5. Why did I fail?

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to nicki123's topic in General Students

   If you want to be a nurse, try again. But it seems first you need to figure out why you failed on these tasks. Were you given feedback on what you did wrong the first time and given help/ideas to improve (it sounds like you were on the assessment but...

6. Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

   To my CI: 1. I understand if I am not doing a procedure correctly, you may need to step in. However, I would appreciate you doing it with courtesy as the patient was not in danger and not yelling 'let go of that right now' in front of my fellow class...

7. Should I reconsider nursing if trouble with hands-on proc.?

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to wannabenurse69's topic in General Students

   Hey you are not alone! I also have the same difficulties due both to lower than normal mechanical skills and high anxiety. And it is hard in clinicals because a lot of times the equipment in the hospital is somewhat different from what is in lab, a l...

8. Dumped On

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to Kynlee's topic in General Students

   Your instructor was really unprofessional. There is no excuse for yelling at you in front of others. Is this something this instructor often does or do you think she was having a bad day & taking it out on you? If this isn't her usual pattern, I...

9. Questions Fluid Restrictions Hemodialysis

   mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to mrs.captain.kangaroo's topic in Urology

   Thanks for all the help. It seems pretty difficult and would require a lot of monitoring day to day with your diets and fluids. 25 years! I didn't think anyone could survive much longer than 5-10 years on hemodialysis?

10. Dumbest thing a student/newbie ever said/did?

    mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to Abishag's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a student and I'm sure the dumb mistakes I've made so far won't be my last. I've made many so far and hope I get a lot out of my system before I graduate. My latest: opening pill package in patients room with gloves is hard plus I'm generally cl...

11. Questions Fluid Restrictions Hemodialysis

    mrs.captain.kangaroo posted a topic in Urology

    Hi, when dealing with a hemodialysis patient with fluid restriction of 1000-1500 ml /day, is the fluid in food consumed (esp. those w/ high water content such as fruit and vegetables) considered as part of the fluid restriction? I see recommendatio...

12. Do you have enough time to help yr patients?

    mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to mrs.captain.kangaroo's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks for all the replies. My therapist is a PhD in psych so I would bet he doesn't have the same experience a medical person such as an RN or LPN would have. I'll ask him though.

13. Are You Being Bullied in the Classroom

    mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to Jayfa's topic in General Students

    I was bullied in clinicals last semester by a fellow clinical classmate. Both she and I are older students, the younger students were great and a lot more mature. She was always full of put downs for my clinical performance but actually she wasn't...

14. Did anyone quit smoking when they stated nursing school?

    mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to misserella8036's topic in General Students

    That's great that you are quitting. Doing it before nursing school is good because I have several classmates who are smokers and did not quit before nursing school and they are having a hard time quitting because of the stress of nursing school. E...

15. Too little effort?

    mrs.captain.kangaroo replied to brittney140's topic in General Students

    Hey good for you! My experience has been very different as I have found nursing school very difficult and study for hours (I work part-time 10-15 hours/week also. I found first semester to be hard as nursing school was very different from other cl...