Do you remember everything from nursing school?

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Was nursing hard when you first started? Like right after you passed the NCLEX? What was assessing and diagnosing like? What were you thinking?

was nursing hard when you first started?

you realize, fairly quickly, that school did not prepare you for reality!

like right after you passed the nclex?

as with all traumatic situations it's a big blurr!! (kinda like labor, i know there was pain, and alot of screaming,the nurse should have never told me to squeeze her hand if i felt a contraction) i remember feeling panicked, scared, overwhelmed. not really sure when those feelings left me.

what was assessing and diagnosing like?

assessing was kinda easy, you did a body check, take vitals, contact the dr if anything was out of normal limits. as a lpn we don't diagnose

what were you thinking?

what in the name of all thats right did i get myself into!!!!!!!!!!!

lol thats funny

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Specializes in med-surg, psych.

I am sorry to hear that nursing schools are not using nursing diagnoses. Nursing is a science so different from medicine and we should be seen as a unique profession, separate from medicine. I realize that our care revolves around the patients' distress and disease symptoms, but we go beyond that to include their spiritual, emotional, environmental, and social factors, while medicine focuses on their physical condition. I strongly believe that nursing should have its' own criteria for assessing the patient's total needs.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

Good heavens, no.

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I remember tons from nursing school. It was an exciting time. I felt like a sponge. I just could not soak up enough knowledge and information. I wanted to do all the dirty jobs...I did not care what it was..if someone wanted help and would teach me, I was there. That was a long time ago lol. Now I need to sit at a desk, look at data and interpret it. Good luck.

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Rns do not diagnose either. We provide care. We make care plans. Which nowadays are called pathways and someone sitting in an office somewhere makes them.

Remember when caring for a patient we are also caring for thier family.

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Specializes in Telemetry.
Rns do not diagnose either.

We do diagnose : Nursing Diagnosis.

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