RNstudent13renee

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1. Spinoff thread-A or pass

   RNstudent13renee replied to Gottawanna's topic in General Students

   I work part time (20 hours a week minimum) and am entering my last semester of my program. No kids. I have managed to get A's so far in every semester. When I started I thought I would be fine with just passing, but after gaining acquaintances I have...

2. peeves

   RNstudent13renee replied to duskyjewel's topic in CNA/MA

   One of my biggest annoyances is when a nurse walks out of a room, sees you, and tells you a task needs to be done in that very same room, like they're urinal needs to be emptied, needs trash taken, etc. You were just IN there. Or when a nurse sees so...

3. Antagonizing dementia patients

   RNstudent13renee posted a topic in CNA/MA

   So tonight at work one as an aide at a hospital, we had a patient with dementia who was obviously confused and was the type to not realize it and get very angry and was paranoid about everything. Well, the nurse on duty was trying to give her night m...

4. How to chart I&Os

   RNstudent13renee posted a topic in General Students

   I work as an aide in a hospital, and here the aides will chart Intakes/output for all of their patients. What I'm wondering is when to chart them. To me it makes sense to chart the output or intake when it happens, like if a pt urinates and I measure...

5. Don't go into nursing school if_____

   RNstudent13renee replied to 2k15NurseExtern4u's topic in General Students

   If you don't know how to talk to people i.e. bedside manner if you are afraid to ask questions if you can't accept criticism if making a mistake makes you give up if being reprimanded causes you to give up if patience is not one of your virtues if yo...

6. Any tips for a newly certified CNA? :)

   RNstudent13renee replied to jennafurmartin's topic in CNA/MA

   The fact that you are a nursing student definitely helps. My clinical director actually will only hire those with no experience if they are in nursing school. That's how I got the job and nearly all of the assistants that work on my floor are in nurs...

7. I can't be excited

   RNstudent13renee replied to RNstudent13renee's topic in General Students

   I have always offered my help to my friends and others. Some aren't so welcoming of the help while others are. I understand that others do struggle and I have struggled as well, (I barely passed 3 out of 4 of my pre-req sciences) but I am not a br...

8. I can't be excited

   RNstudent13renee replied to RNstudent13renee's topic in General Students

   Thanks everyone! Its so different from my other coursework. Then, so many of the people I talked to made better grades than me so I've felt the way they feel, but when you are the one who finally made the A its hard to be humble about it. I've been g...

9. I can't be excited

   RNstudent13renee posted a topic in General Students

   because I made an A this semester and all of my friends barely passed, a few of them failed and I can't be excited to anyone except myself and it sucks. In nursing school it feels like you are the odd one out and everyone hates you if you made a good...

10. Another vent about nurse vs aide

    RNstudent13renee replied to RNstudent13renee's topic in CNA/MA

    Thanks for your insight. I am in nursing school as well and when I am in clinical it is opposite for me, I feel like the nurses are overworked while the aides are sitting around, but at work as an aide it is hard to see things that way when I can't g...

11. Have you ever had fellow students make you feel really stupid and incompetent?

    RNstudent13renee replied to futuresctRN's topic in General Students

    That has not happened to me, but I know how you feel about being rusty in fundamental skills. I have never done a foley and at the moment couldn't tell you exactly how but I can draw blood great and know the steps to an IV like the back of my hand, b...

12. Another vent about nurse vs aide

    RNstudent13renee replied to RNstudent13renee's topic in CNA/MA

    All of the nurses I have worked with on my floor, which is ortho, rely on aides to get vitals. I have had them ask me to take it manually as well, and most of them expect you to do it if the numbers are crazy taking it with a dynamap. I assume they w...

13. Another vent about nurse vs aide

    RNstudent13renee replied to RNstudent13renee's topic in CNA/MA

    I've never heard that the RN has to do the vitals...at the hospital I work at the aides are the ones getting them most of the time. Hmm. You're right, I did feel like it was obvious that I needed help since I was running up and down the halls constan...

14. Another vent about nurse vs aide

    RNstudent13renee posted a topic in CNA/MA

    I just don't understand nurses that are so utterly oblivious to all the work that aides do. I understand that meds need to be passed and you have to call the doctor and do a million other things but when you are sitting at the nurses station for 30 m...

15. Concept Maps

    RNstudent13renee replied to Stephalump's topic in General Students

    Me too. I don't feel like they help me much.