Shibby3

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1. nursing diagnosis for hypertension

   Shibby3 replied to nursing2184's topic in General Students

   Decreased cardiac output causes hypotension not hypertension. I think this is why people are questioning how much research you have done.

2. Know-it-all nursing students?

   Shibby3 replied to magichospital's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Haha, I'd just like to point out that you don't have to be a nurse/nursing student to have this "know-it-all" characteristic. You will find it within any and every profession However I do also have an instance where I met a girl at a dinner who was a...

3. What do you WISH someone had told before hand about nursing school or a test?

   Shibby3 replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

   Why does it sound like American nursing school sounds so much more intense?? But the same applies to any country, here in Australia we have universities who accept the lower achievers.. such as myself! Yes, 2 days of university a week might sound gre...

4. Latent TB

   Shibby3 replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

   I believe through Chest xrays, quantiferon blood tests and or sputum samples Oh and I'm pretty sure there's also a vaccination... I hope you do realise that testing positive for TB in a Mantoux skin test, does not necessarily mean you have had TB. It...

5. One Of The Saddest Things I've Seen... Can't Stop Laughing

   Shibby3 replied to NewTexasRN's topic in General Nursing

   As much as it's not the ideal situation... I have had graduate nurses paired up with me for a day or two over my clinicals and although my teacher wasn't happy about it, these graduate nurses demonstrated safer nursing care than registered nurses tha...

6. 2nd day of clinicals & I feel like an idiot...help me gain some confidence!

   Shibby3 replied to pecanpies's topic in General Students

   My first ever subcut I gave rebounded and I was fairly surprised. Fact of the matter was, the skin integrity was clearly nothing like the sponge we practiced on. Embarrassing thing was, second subcut my clinical educator decided to assess me on it an...

7. Gloves or not for IV meds?

   Shibby3 replied to Shibby3's topic in General Students

   Thanks for all your responses it definitely seems to be a workplace/personal preference kind of thing. I think wearing & not wearing gloves both have their pros and cons and I guess just as with all other aspects of nursing, we need to assess the...

8. Gloves or not for IV meds?

   Shibby3 posted a topic in General Students

   So in my 3rd year of nursing we have a class simulation on how to be supportive and informative "buddy nurses" as nursing has the inevitable duty of educating student nurses. In this simulation I was to pretend to be a buddy nurse to a 2nd year stude...