prof joe

prof joe has 15 years experience and specializes in Critical Care, Administration, Education.

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1. What I have learned to HATE about Nursing

   prof joe replied to OhioCCRN's topic in New Nurse

   Congrats!! You now know that 1. there are good residents and bad ones:yeah: 2. Staffing will only get better by the existing staff having good attitudes:cheers: 3. A nurse a can do their own vitals on certain pts 4. You can prioritize:redlight: 5....

2. How Do I Help Them?

   prof joe replied to KatePasa's topic in General Students

   I would refer the students back to the instructors. There could be an area that the instructors need to review or change their teaching styles if the majority of students are not getting the information. The students may not have issues with the inf...

3. Drugs used on adult critical care unit

   prof joe replied to rn_yogi's topic in Critical

   Every facility is different. I would talk to some of the nurses or a CNS of the unit if there is one about the preferences of the facility or md's. Some classes that come to mind are paralytics such as nimbex, sedation diprivan, misc meds dopamine,...

4. My girlfriend is afraid that I might meet another girl in the nursing program...

   prof joe replied to ThePhilster's topic in Male Students

   Nursing school is very demanding and stressful by itself. School will take time away from your friends and family. Long clinical days and study group time will take a terrible toll on you. I have seen a lot of relationships consisting of jobs, mar...

5. Cheating ADN STUDENTS in lecture

   prof joe replied to prof joe's topic in Educators

   Certain students will go to extremes to cheat. Catching them is a different story. In todays technologically advanced world the cheaters are very high tech. I have found 1. texting in groups 2. taking pictures of exam and mms to someone to answer te...

6. Cheating ADN STUDENTS in lecture

   prof joe posted a topic in Educators

   Certain students will go to extremes to cheat. Catching them is a different story. In todays technologically advanced world the cheaters are very high tech. I have found: 1. texting in groups 2. taking pictures of exam and mms to someone to answer ...

7. Failing a student in clinical

   prof joe replied to Berkshire1995's topic in Educators

   On the very first day of clinical my students get the lecture of being part of a profession nurse and what it takes to be professional, therefore the students are professional (nursing) students. I would have failed the student earlier for nonprofes...

8. Prep-U

   prof joe replied to pamearls's topic in Educators

   I used it for Pharmacology and found a glitch in the system. The students login time was very delayed and sometimes did not show that they did an assignment. I found the questions and test bank to be very helpful in generating fresh questions for t...

9. So very very frustrated!

   prof joe replied to HelenaHandbasket's topic in LPN-RN

   It is good ot vent! I would look for an alternative program. Online maybe? Remember that no matter how the progam may treat you, you bring a lot of experience with you!!

10. Reporting Errors

    prof joe replied to Vespertinas's topic in Safety

    If you feel that it is a system failure that is setting up the situation to fail (creating a med error) then you need to call "Risk Management" ASAP. A root cause analysis will be done to find out where and how a mistake can be made and how it can b...