mattdixon

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1. Almost passed out at clinical!!!

   mattdixon replied to got4babygirls's topic in General Students

   I've never gagged or anything like that with puke/BM/trach care/wounds etc., but they do get to me, I just try to turn the patient away from me when I'm cleaning them so they don't see me possibly cringe my nose or something like that, don't want to ...

2. Disabled Student Nurses

   mattdixon replied to MassLPN2005's topic in General Students

   I have sports/weightlifting injuries in my knees (double ACL tears, 2 surgeries for each knee so far, and hopefully forever) and I do start getting fatigue in my legs after a 8-10 hour shift, but I've manage to get through it by keeping my legs stren...

3. Dress Code for nursing students?

   mattdixon replied to NPTeacher's topic in Educators

   Summed it up perfectly. Most students that I know in our nursing program aren't loaded, or have free reign of their parent's pocketbooks so they can't wear 60 dollar button up shirts and 50 dollar slacks with a nice pair of patent leather shoes to c...

4. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   mattdixon replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   Well, this isn't humor, more along the lines of horror... My mother was telling me about one patient she had who was very schizo. and delusional, but didn't have a history of violence. One night they heard her roommate screaming and the schiz. pt had...

5. DUI and licensure in Texas?

   mattdixon replied to tamuqt1's topic in General Nursing

   Hrm, I guess Texas or maybe your school does it differently, but I think the lawyers right. The main thing boards are concerned with is not getting substance abusers in hospitals that will be a potential risk to patients or steal the meds. Good luc...

6. DUI and licensure in Texas?

   mattdixon replied to tamuqt1's topic in General Nursing

   More than likely you'll have a shot. Are you even in nursing school at the moment? You'll find out for sure if you are ok or not once you report these incidences upon applying for nursing school... that information is sent to the board along with yo...

7. Effectiveness of bleach against MRSA

   mattdixon replied to weetziebat's topic in General Nursing

   from my education on MRSA, I'm pretty positive that bleach is an effective disinfectant.

8. Nurses make their own drugs???

   mattdixon replied to hospitalstaph's topic in General Nursing

   we did this in I think my chemistry 102 class about 3 years ago... the Proff. didn't mention that nursing students would be doing it for years to come though anyway, here's a site that explains the process. http://www.kolias.com/science/aspirin.htm

9. Nurses and smoking......

   mattdixon replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in General Nursing

   I've been smoking less than a year, and it was mainly due to being very stressed out and depressed at the time. it started with just a few cigarettes a week but escalated to over a pack a day. I've been weening myself off of them, but I can assure y...

10. I'm Shaking in My Boots over Returning to School!

    mattdixon replied to Lovely_RN's topic in Pre-Nursing

    those pre req rules really screwed me up my freshman year because we're the last people to register for classes so I missed out on some labs therefore setting me back, but as long as I graduate before I'm 25 I'll be happy :)

11. Nursing Student W/ prior DUI

    mattdixon replied to Alternator81's topic in Educators

    I can try to help the best I can... I'm in my first semester of nursing school right now and when we applied we had to answer the same question. Upon answering the question I then had to provide documents of my records and such to the Louisiana Stat...

12. I'm Shaking in My Boots over Returning to School!

    mattdixon replied to Lovely_RN's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I feel the same fear as you do right now in my first semester of Nursing school. I'm 22 now and have been in college since I was 18, having to essentially make up my first year because of C's I made simply because I was naive and not ready for the t...