An open apology

[2ndCareerRN]

It seems as though I may have ruffled a few feathers here with some posts I made to a particular poster.

Even though I apologized in advance to the poster in case I was commiting a faux paus, it seems as though that was not enough.

So, I will now apologize once again to sweet nurse and any one else who feels I was out of line in my replies to sweet nurse.

bob

[edited due to not wanting to ruffle even more feathers]

[wildhoney]

Originally posted by frann

I really don't think this is the proper place for research for students.

How would you know the answers are right? You don't know who these people are

This board to me is for the exchange of ideas, and to have fun.

I don't want to do someone's homework.

Just not fun to me:uhoh3:

Not the proper place? For questions?? I've seen plenty of improper posts from professionals here. Asking questions is a very small thing compared to some of the comments I've read here in regard to patient's they've cared for. To me- just because you don't mention the name of a patient doesn't mean you're maintaining patient confidentiality. I would never bring my personal stories to an online message board. I have come into contact with famous people through work, but I would never bring those stories here. I feel that is what's really wrong....asking a few questions is so minor in comparision. There are a few who have said some really nasty things about their patient's-- I hope i'm never their patient.

If you don't like people coming here to ask questions I have a simple solution for you-- don't read, don't respond. Problem solved.

Venting and "having fun" (as you say) is done here quite often. Asking questions is a form of all that.....talk.

Proper? I ask myself what's proper and what's really not proper? IMO, this does not fall into an "improper" category. Belittling patient's behind they're back is improper. Quite frankly that makes me a bit sick.

[micro, RN]

oh, i so much agree, wildhoney..........

credence given to where it is due...........happeewendy.....said it and it is sooo true........

if they bore, please ignore................there is a click on emblem for all...................please use................

other than that.....keep on postin because this is the best bb anywhere especiallty for health care and nursing............

[ArenRN, BSN, RN]

Why make a public apology? It would have been better to make the apology to Sweetnurse in the individual posts. Because there were several where she was chastised.

Or is this a way to rally support in not answering questions from what some think are nursing students?

I noticed that one person even pointed out that English is not the primary language of SweetNurse. Well...the questions she asked were in English in order for everyone to understand.

[Agnus]

Originally posted by frann

I really don't think this is the proper place for research for students....

This board to me is for the exchange of ideas,...

I agree, it is not a place for research.

It is a place for exchange of ideas and that is part of the learning process.

I have frequently presented student type (text book type) questions to nurses both as a student and as a nurse. To get the juices flowing. To stimulate thoughts sometimes others some times mine. :)

Getting the mind going this way can lead to reasearch, better thinking etc. So I don't think it is inappropriate for anyone student or other wise to post these here. I find them kind of fun to try and answer myself. Stimulates my thought process. The person on the other end is alone responsible for what they do with the info they find here wether it is a result of a question they posted or something else they just read.

Asking questions is good. It's the student who doesn't ask that I worry about. It is also the student who doesn't uses many paths to find answers that I worry about as well.

I had a couple of students this week. I threw out a quetion to them. What is the maximum amount of an opiate that you can give for analgesia?

When they did not know I told them with the rational. As I write this I am thinking that perhaps I should have just left them with the question to find out themselves. The exploration of this question might have stimulated all kinds of learning.

OK just by the act of writing this post. i think I have learned something. Thanks for stimulating my juices.

No kidding I did not plan to end this post this way.

[mattsmom81]

I would like to caution students reading here about putting too much stock in the info you receive on BB's.

NCLEX questions are not like they used to be....there were lots of data questions on my old board exam, and from what I hear the test is now geared towards good judgment and safe practice; which cannot be memorized by QA sessions on BB's. There really isn't any short cut to good judgment...ya gotta go through the whole learning process to get there, as other posters have pointed out. :)

That said, students...ask away but don't make BB's a major resource as you may be disappointed come NCLEX time.

I agree with those who say students should NOT be made to feel they CANNOT ask questions. Perhaps we should set up a forum specifically for students to post questions to experienced nurses, and that way the nurses who wish to respond can go to that area?? What's everyone think?

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

Originally posted by mattsmom81

NCLEX questions are not like they used to be....there were lots of data questions on my old board exam, and from what I hear the test is now geared towards good judgment and safe practice; which cannot be memorized by QA sessions on BB's.

Excellent point, mattsmom! I was shocked at how little factual and detail oriented questions were on NCLEX. It was all judgement and saftey issues, stuff I never could have gotten from a book or a BB.

I don't mind seeing questions from students on here. But there is a fine line between the questions we enjoy and the questions that make us feel like we are the ones doing the homework, and it's not a difference that can be explained. We just know it when we see it.

Now I had missed the original thread, but I came across it just yesterday. The question asked was practically freakin textbook. I hardly doubt those were her own words, or that she had worked on the question by herself at all before copying it to this BB.

It was big of Bob to apologize, but I don't think he needed to.

Heather

[Teshiee]

AND THEY SAY NURSES DON'T EAT THEIR YOUNG?

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

Originally posted by Teshiee

AND THEY SAY NURSES DON'T EAT THEIR YOUNG?

I don't eat my young...

don't spoonfeed them either though.

Heather