At the end of the day, the courses are pass/fail. If you achieve a grade above the minimum requirement, you've passed.; if you don't, you've failed. The only thing that pass/fail affects is your overall GPA. Many nursing schools cannot change their g...
Hi all, So, I'm full time faculty and recently found out I'm pregnant (yay!), due the end of November. When did you tell your dean/director that you are expecting? I'm thinking that I might be able to make it to the end of the fall semester before I...
I never did...opens you up to much liability. There are nursing interventions that you can use as a stop gap until you can get an official order. If it's a life-threatening event and you need immediate orders, that's why we have rapid-responses and c...
I strongly encourage you to *not* do this. You will most likely make some waves for yourself in your school that you don't want to have to surf. It's difficult to find clinical placements for students and a student calling to find out why they can't ...
Are you 100% sure that there wasn't additional assigned readings that were not in the textbook? Or that the instructor didn't mention it during lecture?
Caprica6 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth
My thoughts as well...what are you going to do when she gets disciplined, or denied her choice of specialty/schedule/vacation at work? There's no reason you still can't be her biggest supporter/confidant, but it's time for her to fight her own battle...
I always hated having my stethoscope round my neck, so I carried it in the cargo pocket of my scrub pants. Of course, this required me to ut only scrub pants with a cargo pocket...
I've always wondered how expensive having a horse is, can you tell me how much your horse costs or would the number be skewed as yours is a very high horse?
Caprica6 replied to SmallTownNurseSWL's topic in School
Question for all the school nurses: for those of you that need to go with the students requiring a med, does that leave the rest of your student population without a healthcare professional to administer their meds?