MissJulie

MissJulie

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About MissJulie

I'm a first generation college student. I already had a AS in Biology before going away for a year to complete my BS in Biology. However, I got burnt-out and returned to the community college I had previously graduated from to do the ADN program.

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  1. What do you ACTUALLY DO in clinicals?

    I take my nursing fundamentals final tomorrow (wish me luck) and during our clinicals, we did vital signs, physical assessments, bed baths, clothing and bed linen changes, med passes, catheters, d/c IVs. Of course, as we progressed through our skil...
  2. Can a Nursing student cover an MA?

    That is basically what I do, without the phlebotomy (we have an in-house tech that does all of the draws). I started out in reception, then moved to billing (in the beginning, the office wasn't taking insurance, then when they started, instead of hir...
  3. Why hire RN's when other disciplines can do the job

    The problem is that nurses have lost a lot of their/our skills. Someone actually asked me if a nurse was allowed to do an ABG because they're not respiratory! Of course, I've also had people ask me if nurses are even taught to draw blood at all anymo...
  4. How would you respond to this??

    Granted, this is coming from a student, but from my current view point, working with one patient at a time kills me, but when you consider that nurses have 5+ patients each, for 12 hr shifts, the thoughts make me want to run screaming from my clinica...
  5. so I found out...

    I say let it go! Think of it this way, since you were discussing something with the instructor, and I'm assuming that you were holding your own in the discussion, it's possible that he was jealous that you could have an intelligent conversation with ...
  6. Between school and work, I have no free time! I do manage to find time to keep teaching Sunday School, though, because the time studying the Bible and preparing the lesson helps to keep me centered :) Plus, the kids help me to have a laugh (I teach 1...
  7. nonparenteral v. enteral

    Nonparenteral is oral meds (pills, capsules, syrups, etc.), topical meds (ointments, patches like nitro), suppositories (vaginal and rectal), etc. Pareneteral is anything injected into the body: intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intracardiac,...
  8. No soap?

    Never heard of that... The LTC I was at for clinicals this semester had a "shower room" supply that consisted of body wash/soap for residents as well as shampoo and lotions, etc. Most of the residents had their own supplies, though. The hospitals ar...
  9. What does he do?

    I'm not a nurse, yet, but relying on the state to remind you of when your nursing license expires would be like the state reminding you to renew your drivers license, wouldn't it? It seems to me that if a person put in the work to become licensed, ei...
  10. Who actually ENJOYS clinical?

    I'm glad you had such a great day at clinical! I love clinical myself, just not my instructor But, we're changing instructors next week, and I'm going from LTC to acute on a med/surg floor. Even though I'm just a first semester, we're already doing...
  11. im injection

    I am currently a student in an ADN program, and was taught to aspirate on every IM injection. If I remember correctly, the reason that the instructors gave was because of the possibility of accidently hitting a blood vessel and actually injecting IV...
  12. Do I hate nursing school or just MY nursing school?

    So, I don't get along with my clinical instructor either, in fact, I don't think she likes me at all... But, the rest of the program is great. We have great lecture instructors, and our lab instructor is AMAZING, we buy a kit to practice with, so w...
  13. nursing student life

    That's what I was thinking! My life is pretty simple right now: class, work, study, sleep (about 4 hr); in that order, and sometimes I might actually get to eat a little bit...
  14. So, My Clinical Instructor Hates Me...

    Thanks for the replies... It's not that I truly care if she likes me or not, just that she grades me based on my work and not any feelings she may, or may not, have toward me. Granted, she could have been having a bad day, etc., but today was our la...
  15. I'm finishing up the first half of my first semester of an ADN program... I'm doing great in class (B+ average), lab is awesome, I get along with most of my instructors and classmates, but my clinical instructor seems to hate me! Now, I'm not trying ...