Nursing students on medication

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We had a conversation at work today about nursing students that take medication to stay awake for school. I have seen students come from the university so drugged up on things like adderol. Do these students realize that they are putting patients lives at risk and do I have the right to say anything to my boss????? Why do these so called #1 nursing schools allow this????? Does the nursing boards not see what is happening????

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What does, "Put on a board" mean? I asked that waaaaaaay back at the beginning of this thread. I mean, I was put on an executive board, and I serve on another board, but I don't think that's what you meant. Some kind of local terminology?

Oh, hell, I don't care. This thread has gone about as far as it can go, anyway.

I still care. The thread is otherwise nearly over, but I want to know what it means!

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She served on a board that consisted of her fellow classmates. Don't know how much more clear I can be?

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She served on a board that consisted of her fellow classmates. Don't know how much more clear I can be?

Board of what?

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Just a board that her instructors had came up with and they picked certain students to serve on this board. That's all I was told. A board of her fellow classmates.

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I understand they addressed issues they some were having individually or as a class as a whole.

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I understand they addressed issues they some were having individually or as a class as a whole.

Are you talking about the Student Nurses Association?

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@ Kjnsweets: If I understand correctly, a nurse at your job told you that when she was a nursing student she and other students on a "board" or "committee" were given power to decide whether another students meds were necessary or were indeed chemically cheating?!?!

/banging head against wall/

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@ Kjnsweets: If I understand correctly, a nurse at your job told you that when she was a nursing student she and other students on a "board" or "committee" were given power to decide whether another students meds were necessary or were indeed chemically cheating?!?!

/banging head against wall/

And if this is the case, why do students get to decide if taking meds (of one kind or another) is cheating? Nursing school is not a democracy. Having said that, it is the school's issue, not the hospital's/unit's issue--unless, of course, unsafe patient care is witnessed (which I don't think it has been in this situation).

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And if this is the case why do students get to decide if taking meds (of one kind or another) is cheating? Nursing school is not a democracy. [/quote']

Right!

Nursing school should not be a democracy....

/side note/ my private for profit school was! Rules were inconsistently applied. People with an in with the director tattled on some people and not others. It was ridiculous.

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Bravo countrymomma! Hope your son is doing well!

Now I'm off to sit in fear that some self-righteous nursing student is going to report me to my BON because I can't function on my shift without a cup or two of coffee.

THIS! U and country momma ROCK!!!

Anne, RNC

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