Aellyssa

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1. Any Suggestions for a 1st time Clinical Instructor???

   Aellyssa replied to nightingale's topic in Educators

   hi, one of the hardest skills that a clinical instructor has to learn is patience. this means waiting whilst students practise slowly and keeping your hands behind your back. yes, they are slow and as the student above has stated, going through al...

2. need help for severe depression

   Aellyssa replied to needs help's topic in General Nursing

   hi rhonda, this article just came in to me today http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/502535?src=mp it certainly advocates cognitive behavioural therapy as a good way to help you overcome this. blessed be, aellyssa

3. need help for severe depression

   Aellyssa replied to needs help's topic in General Nursing

   hi rhonda , depression is a world wide disease, it is estimated by 2020 it will be the 3rd biggest disease in the world! let no-one tell you that it is something you can just get over. i have just emerged out of an 8 year tunnel of depression and fo...

4. Debate Topic of "Wearing Uniform Enhances Nursing Profession?"

   Aellyssa replied to VEVINA's topic in General Nursing

   sorry vevina, didn't mean to be obtuse :imbar could also be cultural and idiomatic problems. (damn where is that kangaroo smiley?) i mean the word cost not in monetary terms but in personal cost. let me see if i can clarify it. when a patient sees ...

5. Debate Topic of "Wearing Uniform Enhances Nursing Profession?"

   Aellyssa replied to VEVINA's topic in General Nursing

   actually when i use the term uniforms, i don't mean white - i mean any type though white uniforms are the most stereotypical. as for scrubs, my gut reply is yes and worse anonymity. there are many uniforms these days that don't look like a stereotypi...

6. Any Suggestions for a 1st time Clinical Instructor???

   Aellyssa replied to nightingale's topic in Educators

   hi, the suggestions here are great and very much with what i have done over the last 20 odd years. i would add: 1. praise in public, scold in private. 2. have an interruption phrase. i have always told my students that if i was supervising them doing...

7. People/Patients you don't like

   Aellyssa posted a topic in General Nursing

   this really comes out of the care for/ care about thread. i lecture in nursing, and one of the tenets i teach is, of course, professionalism and how we should all be able to nurse all people. but then i add a caveat - if there are some people whom...

8. Debate Topic of "Wearing Uniform Enhances Nursing Profession?"

   Aellyssa replied to VEVINA's topic in General Nursing

   ah uniforms. what do they do? they pros - identify you as a member of a group and thus foster a sense of belonging - free you from the the fashion police so you don't have to decide what to wear to go to work. - can take all the dirty work so that ...

9. Alcohol Withdrawl

   Aellyssa replied to zambezi's topic in General Nursing

   Hi Mama Val, The Clinical Guidelines could tell you the most of how we treat it. The DASC Website is a fount of knowledge plus there seems to be a number of really good ATOD websites in Australia. I can't answer your query about the frequent fliers i...

10. Alcohol Withdrawl

    Aellyssa replied to zambezi's topic in General Nursing

    hi, let me make it quite clear where i am coming from. atod (alcohol, tobacco & other drugs) is a clinical interest of mine and an area in which i teach. one of the first things that i say to my students is that they are never to use the term a...

11. Why Are Nurses Given Such A Bad Rap Today?

    Aellyssa replied to live4today's topic in General Nursing

    hi, this is my first posting here so be gentle please :chuckle when i first started nursing (1970) i was told by my brother that i was committing intellectual suicide. now, of course, he realizes what a pompous ^%$#& he was and has since apolog...