Nursing School Update Pt. 4

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Specializes in PCT, RN.

Onward to the last half of the first semester (seriously, already!?)

I passed my fundamentals course and was able to progress into Med-Surg and clinical!

  • I realized nursing school does not give instant gratification; you must wait to find out if you got in, wait for your books, wait for your schedule, wait for school to start, wait to find out your test results, and so on and so forth. Not to say it isn't like this in any other type of program.
  • Nursing students should never "call out" the nurses in the clinical setting for anything they may see or feel is wrong (not something I did, something I observed).
  • If I notice information I'm studying isn't sticking, I can make inappropriate mnemonics for myself that instantly helps me remember the information.
  • I discovered I have ADD.
  • I really freaking don't like NANDAs.
  • I also really freaking don't like careplans.
  • One of my nursing instructors came to the unit I work on (visiting someone) and told me the next day in school that she was impressed by how professional I looked at work, which brightened my day.
  • I have been viewing everything with a positive perspective and it's really improved my outlook on life and outcomes. Every morning when I am getting ready I tell myself, "I am going to be a nurse." It really gets me pumped for the day.

Anyways, running on 2 hours of sleep here; have a 16 hour shift at the hospital tomorrow and 12-hour clinical the following day. Going to stock up on the sleep while I can.

Tata for now.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Thank you for the detailed update...I am glad things are progressing relatively well for you.

I also concur with your advice to avoid openly calling out the floor nurses at your clinical sites. The only time this behavior would be remotely acceptable is if the patient was going to be killed due to the nurse's mishap. Otherwise, we praise in public and criticize in private.

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

I agree that calling out staff nurses isn't a student's place unless the patient is in imminent danger especially considering that a student doesn't have much experience to really be able to judge. One thing you will learn after school is that there is 49490930 ways to do any one thing. I do think that if you think you see something you think is not right, you should talk to your instructor about it. Not in a tattletale way, but in a "I saw a nurse do xyz this way. I learned to do it another way at school. Are both ways ok?"

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Oh oh oh to taste a female lady parts gives Victor a hard-on. My mnemonic for the 12 cranial nerves ha-ha

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I'm glad things are better for you. I also didn't like care plans. I didn't really get the hang of them. Luckily, theres a care planning for dummies book. Its good to know you have add so it doesn't interrupt your studies. I have bipolar & ocd so it caused me problems. Good luck.

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Specializes in PCT, RN.
Oh oh oh to taste a female lady parts gives Victor a hard-on. My mnemonic for the 12 cranial nerves ha-ha

Oh my god this is fantastic hahahahaha.

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Specializes in ICU.

Glad things are going well for you. Yeah, I can't believe only about 5 weeks left in this semester. I just registered for my very last semester yesterday!!! How sweet it is!!!

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Onward to the last half of the first semester (seriously, already!?)

I passed my fundamentals course and was able to progress into Med-Surg and clinical!

  • I realized nursing school does not give instant gratification; you must wait to find out if you got in, wait for your books, wait for your schedule, wait for school to start, wait to find out your test results, and so on and so forth. Not to say it isn't like this in any other type of program.
  • Nursing students should never "call out" the nurses in the clinical setting for anything they may see or feel is wrong (not something I did, something I observed).
  • If I notice information I'm studying isn't sticking, I can make inappropriate mnemonics for myself that instantly helps me remember the information.
  • I discovered I have ADD.
  • I really freaking don't like NANDAs.
  • I also really freaking don't like careplans.
  • One of my nursing instructors came to the unit I work on (visiting someone) and told me the next day in school that she was impressed by how professional I looked at work, which brightened my day.
  • I have been viewing everything with a positive perspective and it's really improved my outlook on life and outcomes. Every morning when I am getting ready I tell myself, "I am going to be a nurse." It really gets me pumped for the day.

Anyways, running on 2 hours of sleep here; have a 16 hour shift at the hospital tomorrow and 12-hour clinical the following day. Going to stock up on the sleep while I can.

Tata for now.

what is NANDA?

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Random fact(s). I happened to stumble across your name on another post I was reading and clicked on it just because my name is also Miranda. Then i saw the things we have in common....lol I'm also a PCT, eventually interested in flight nursing, hated care plans/NANDA, discovered I had ADD my second semester of school. I just thought it was funny reading this post I was like woah that sounds like me...and we have the same name. Weird. :specs:

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