I graduated from nursing school in the 80's and "the perfect nurse" was on of the topics in "Nursing Seminar" which was a course directed at graduating nurses and addressed reality shock and patient nurse relationships and many issues in the real ...
dnurse1234 replied to NursieSD's topic in Student Assist
Wheeew! what a relief to find this post. I haven't done calcs for a while [maybe 10 or more] and recently came across a heparin drip calculation. I actually forgot how to format them! Panicked and thought I had early dementia ...which BTW is possi...
I've recently been reflecting on the many years I've been a nurse and the nursing education I received many ( many many) years ago -1986 grad. At that time nurses were , as now, performing many "medical" treatments i.e ng tubes duo tubes cath's iv's...
dnurse1234 replied to AlphaPig's topic in Med-Surg
Gee, i felt this way before when i worked in home care as a visiting nurse, working 12 hour days and being paid per visit. Apart from that, education really is never a waste- nursing or otherwise, but the status of a degree or "open doors" don't ...