I had been with allnurses for the past 3 years. It has been a character building experience all through out nursing school, and Daytonite, I just want to let you know that your patience, countless assistance, and advice had been very instrumental in my success in nursing school. I just graduated last May, took the NCLEX this past Saturday June 21, and just found out from pearson vue website a few hours ago that I passed NCLEX.
I am filled with happiness, excitement, and relief.
Thank you Daytonite for everything. I actually made a copy of one of your advice in one of the threads, enlarged it and posted it in my study area so I can look at it while studying. It is about critical thinking and what exactly it is. It goes something like.......
...making the connection (this is the critical thinking part) between the disease, the treatment and nursing interventions and where on the sequence of the nursing process you are.....
I know that for many, this is probably something easy and just comes to nature, but for a bilingual student like me where I have to make some form of a mental guide to actually understand what is going on, this advise was a blessing to me. When I read this, it felt like a lightbulb just lit up and it has been my guide all throughout nursing school, nclex, and my work right now as a nurse intern in the medsurg unit at a local hospital. And now, I am not just making the connection within the nursing process but I am also making a connection to my patients, co workers and everyone else at the hospital. It is now time to give back for all the wonderful blessings I had received.
Thank you again for everything. I will be around. :loveya:
It is very true that a lot of bilingual individuals feel inferiority complex when it comes to going out there and tackle the challenges that they do not think that they can handle. I was like that for a long time so I can understand your best friend, Daytonite. I was lucky enough to find it within myself to actually challenge myself and find different ways of understanding materials my own way. It is a matter of trial and error and what has really worked for me was again, your advise, to get to the down and dirty anatomy and physiology of the body, how it should work and function properly, what happens when a disease strikes it, what tests, treatment options, nursing process, so on and so forth. Sometimes, I find myself obsessing about a certain topic, but it is only because I want to get to the bottom of it. Because if I move on without understanding the normal anatomy and physiology then, it feels useless for me to try to go on and apply interventions that I do not even know why I am doing it. This process has really helped me a lot and I apply it to any kind of challenge that I encounter - whether it is nursing or something outside nursing. In the process, I developed more confidence in myself, yet, like nursing process, I am an "on going evaluation" everyday. I tell you, you can almost use the nursing process in everything. I hope I am making sense and this does not sound discombobulated.
Thanks again for everything and I will be around. :loveya:
Kudos to Daytonite. When I first posted on this site, just diagnosed with breast cancer and not knowing if I could even continue my last year of nursing school Daytonite was one of my biggest cheerleaders. Well, as of 90 minutes ago I found out....I PASSED MY BOARDS. Yes, I am an RN. She has supported and guided so many of us. GOD BLESS DAYTONITE.
It is a matter of trial and error and what has really worked for me was again, your advise, to get to the down and dirty anatomy and physiology of the body, how it should work and function properly, what happens when a disease strikes it, what tests, treatment options, nursing process, so on and so forth. Sometimes, I find myself obsessing about a certain topic, but it is only because I want to get to the bottom of it. Because if I move on without understanding the normal anatomy and physiology then, it feels useless for me to try to go on and apply interventions that I do not even know why I am doing it. This process has really helped me a lot and I apply it to any kind of challenge that I encounter - whether it is nursing or something outside nursing. In the process, I developed more confidence in myself, yet, like nursing process, I am an "on going evaluation" everyday. I tell you, you can almost use the nursing process in everything. I hope I am making sense and this does not sound discombobulated.
Thanks again for everything and I will be around. :loveya:
it was frustrating for me in nsg school, since i had this need to understand everything.
and it was so very discouraging for my instructors to remind me that i wasn't going to be a doctor, and so, didn't have a need to understand.
yet i couldn't continue w/care plans w/o understanding all these "why's".
so yeah, i very much understand this thirst to make sense of it all.
i remember our first class where our instructor started teaching the nsg process.
and she indeed, did say that it is a process that we have used for years, and will use for the rest of our lives- in and out of nsg.
then she started w/an example of a messy room (assessment):
continued w/mom scolding child about having room cleaned by end of day (plan);
child cleans room (implement) and room is now clean (eval).
she just made it sound so simple.
and we carried that with us when it came to care plans.
finally, yes, daytonite has been one of my personal heros for yrs.
even though we don't talk, i value her professionally and personally, very much.
maurabartley
88 Posts
Daytonite is the BEST!!
I'm just starting this journey (start NS Aug 25) and I know I'll be turning to her threads throughout the rest of my life.
Thanks Daytonite for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!