beth38

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1. Senior Independent

   beth38 replied to beth38's topic in General Nursing

   Terri, Thanks for your help. I guess I will find out wednesday what she really is thinking. I am suppost to meet with her with my printed copy. I will let you know how it goes if you would like. Thanks again

2. Senior Independent

   beth38 replied to beth38's topic in General Nursing

   Terri, Hi again. I appreciate your input in this dilemma. I am currently finishing up with Med-Surg. And will be doing my Independent on a Med-Surg Unit at a different hospital from where we have been doing our present clinicals. I am just stumped wi...

3. Senior Independent

   beth38 replied to beth38's topic in General Nursing

   Terri, Thank you for your reply. Amazingly I wrote a few of those as my goals and my instructor said that I should have accomplished these goals in clinical, and that if I still feel that I need goals such as running the pumps, IV insertion, Wworking...

4. Senior Independent

   beth38 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all. I think my brain has decided to take a break. I have to come up with goals for my Independent rotation and can't seem to focus to get this done. Anyone out there able to help? Thanks.

5. Clinical help please

   beth38 replied to beth38's topic in General Nursing

   I did ask her and didn't seem to get a clear answer. Unfortunalely I can't go into to much detail on this post because I don't know if she reads this. I have one more clinical with her and then go back to a previous instructor who pretty much has alr...

6. critical thinking

   beth38 replied to bwpcicuube's topic in Educators

   Thank you for your response. I can understand if a student was in unsafe communicating this to another instructor. I have not told this instructor that I have a diagnosis of ADD and that I need that extra minute to think things through. I feel that i...

7. Clinical help please

   beth38 replied to beth38's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you all for the excellent advice. I think I take everything to heart, that is why I know I will make a great nurse. I care! I was initially thinking that maybe she couldn't find anything on her own so she read more into what the other instructo...

8. Clinical help please

   beth38 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Help Please. I will try to keep this short. I am in 4th semester in nursing, and in 3rd semester we were told that it was important to know our weaknesses. I informed my instructor that I felt that because I had been a nursing assistant for over 15 y...

9. critical thinking

   beth38 replied to bwpcicuube's topic in Educators

   Please help. I am a nursing student and have been a nursing assistant for over 15 years. I will make this breif. In 3rd semester we were told by an instructor that we need to know our weakness. So I proceded to explain that I feel that I was having a...

10. fellow nursing student needs help

    beth38 replied to beth38's topic in General Nursing

    In speaking with her last night, she said that last week she was reviewing her meds with the instructor before giving them to her patient and a particular med was to be given or held depending on a lab result. She had stated what the patients lab was...

11. fellow nursing student needs help

    beth38 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am currently in 3rd semester. One of my fellow students is having a really hard time with our instructor. I personally think it is a personality conflict, but the instructor has given instructions for this student to come up with a plan of action a...

12. family presence during CPR

    beth38 replied to beth38's topic in General Nursing

    I am writing this paper based on the professional issues that nurses face when a patient is in the beginning of or the middle of resuscitation and the family request to stay with their loved one. Is it unethical for a nurse to go over the request of ...

13. Spring Break!!!!

    beth38 replied to Chad_KY_SRNA's topic in General Students

    Hurray for spring break!!!! I have an exam on monday the 7th and then I get my break the week of the 20th. I am going to be happy to just sleep past 5:00a.m. I say all of the students out ther have more than earned a break. I know I have had enough o...

14. family presence during CPR

    beth38 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a legal/ ethical paper I am writing on this subject. From a nursing standpoint what do you think? Should family be able to stay in the room if a family member is in need of CPR?