Bblessing2u

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1. How many residents can use safely care for as full time wound care nurse

   Bblessing2u replied to americanTrain's topic in Wound

   I am the new WCN at a 190 bed facility. I have all the floor nurses ( LPN and RN) doing the treatments for me unless I am doing rounds. If I am doing that I will have her come with me ( early on the shift) to watch me or to teach her/him. If there is...

2. Wound Care

   Bblessing2u replied to txdon's topic in LTC Directors

   Hello, I am a one year RN, have recently gone to a WCEI wound and skin care weekend class and am working on getting my preceptor hours in to be certified. I was just offered the position of wound care nurse at the LTC that I work for as a shift nurs...

3. Foam Dressing

   Bblessing2u replied to jmn126's topic in Wound

   Hello, I am on my last interview today for a position at a wound clinic. I am a RN with 1.5 yrs of LtC experience. However, I am wondering about what I am really going to face working there. Any heads up?

4. New Grad RN's in nursing homes

   Bblessing2u replied to SunshineRN79's topic in Geriatric

   I started to post here about my job in a LTC as an RN, and it made me feel once again that I need to decide if this job is worth the stress I have over it.

5. How to explain how hard you have to work in nursing school

   Bblessing2u replied to guest10's topic in General Students

   I have just a few weeks left until I begin my new career as an RN. It has been a hard but rewarding time. I do not regret any of the times that I stopped studying for an hour or so to celebrate birthdays, grieve at funerals, stop in to see a new baby...

6. Lament of the White Clinical Pants

   Bblessing2u replied to cogath's topic in General Students

   We wear all white at school and the NH I work at. I use cheap hairspray for all the ink stains. Let it sit for a bit before washing. I also use BIZ to soak with for stains non blood related, peroxide for blood. And to make them whiter I use bluing...

7. Failing Nursing School

   Bblessing2u replied to nurseangel78's topic in General Students

   I agree with Mi Vida. The trouble is that some instructors think that they are "weeding" out the weak ones or ones they deem unworthy to graduate. In our case, our instructors have test failures of 70%. There are a lot of us that are excellent st...

8. Nursing instructors and heart "palpations" ???

   Bblessing2u replied to MumblesMahoney's topic in General Students

   I am going to comment and then hijack your thread :-) ( forgive me!) We have two teachers that have trouble pronouncing words. It does make me cringe. I have tried to help one of them out in a nice way...explaining that I used to teach myself :-) S...

9. NOT going to the pinning ceremony

   Bblessing2u replied to CaliforniaRNnow's topic in General Students

   I am going to the ceremony with the intent of looking at the instructors and giving them the best smile I can with a bit of a smirk :-) I fought hard to succeed where they did their best to de-rail me. Barking, biting comments, tests that were not e...

10. I am one of THOSE students!

    Bblessing2u replied to crazytonurse's topic in General Students

    I am worried that if this trend continues I will be walking myself out of school.. I only have 8 months left of my RN program! Several of my class mates did about the same, so I am scared for all of us. If the teachers continue to throw us curveball...

11. I am one of THOSE students!

    Bblessing2u replied to crazytonurse's topic in General Students

    I am close to being one of those too. Today caught me totally off guard... I studied and studied for my lytes and acids test. Totally confident until the first question. Blew it. Second question... are you serious?? WHAT does this mean.. WHAT are...

12. Anyone else on a 7-point grading scale?

    Bblessing2u replied to Mommyto2and2's topic in General Students

    My school has 85% to keep going on to the RN bridge. An A is 92%! The minimum is 79% to get the LPN. EVERY semester you must have a 79% to even go on to the next unit. Since you say you just started, I hope you don't mind if I give you a few point...

13. Tired and Burned out

    Bblessing2u replied to Dandy Girl's topic in General Students

    Look at how far you have come!! I have 6 weeks left... WHOHOO! We are almost finished.( for this part anyhow!) Yes, it is so draining... I have found that taking a few hours to do something totally non- nursing school related helps me to unwind and ...

14. was i wrong?

    Bblessing2u replied to Lissacheer87's topic in General Nursing

    You are absolutely correct... My post (Bblessing)was that of my OWN experience. Bblessing

15. was i wrong?

    Bblessing2u replied to Lissacheer87's topic in General Nursing

    Cheerybreese, I apologize for the dig. I did not mean to imply that you were not a great nurse. What was meant as a note to say I appreciated the nurse who goes out of her way to help a student has turned into something I did not mean it to. I am so...