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What did you make it through nursing school without ever doing that you SWORE you would have to do?????

I am only one-day into clinicals but I met one 2nd year student who has yet to insert a foley catheter!

This can be fun!

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

Start an IV. I absolutely love them, but never got the opportunity in school. Now, I get my fair share of them each shift.

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I graduate in December and I have yet to cry or insert a foley. :)

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Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry.

I graduate in December too and I have yet to insert an NG tube. :D (I know this is not that commonly done, but it'd be interesting to do!)

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Specializes in Staff nurse.
I graduate in December too and I have yet to insert an NG tube. :D (I know this is not that commonly done, but it'd be interesting to do!)

...got ya beat! I've been a nurse for 5 years and haven't inserted an NG tube. Tried on one pt before he swung...

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

I made it thru 11 years of professional nursing practice without ever taking care of a sick adult! (And God willing, I never will:)

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Wow this makes me feel better. I also graduate in December and have never inserted a Foley or an NG tube. Never had the opportunity. I thought I would be the only student who hadn't done those by now.

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Specializes in ER; HBOT- lots others.

there are so many numerous things i havnt done. you are SO not alone. lots of us have not used the skills, thats what worries me too. i have gotten to see TONS of awesome stuff, but not that i could do..

-H-

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Specializes in NICU.

I went through nursing school without ever putting an IV in either!

First week in the NICU though I got an IV in ..... first try, first success. So I guess not having the opportunity in school didn't hinder me!

Lots of on-the-job training, you guys don't have to worry! :)

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Specializes in Cardiac.

I made it through nursing school without ever...

.......pulling an all nighter! I was fortunate that I never had to do this! Most of my tests were easy.

Also, I never had to start an IV on a baby, which I feared the most before I started NS. In fact, I really never wanted to even touch sick babies! Eeeks!

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Specializes in NICU.

Thank God we all like different things so we don't have to do what we don't want to! I'm like Jolie in that I hope I never have to care for a sick adult! :D

Just something about poking an IV needle into someone that can talk to me would freak me out!

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I never inserted an NG tube . . .and have only done 2 in 9 years.

I got my first IV in clinical in an ER. Very cool.

Yep, it is the luck of the draw, unfortunately.

steph

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