Flylik3abr1

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1. Failed Nur 114

   Flylik3abr1 posted a topic in General Students

   I should have seen this coming. I have never been the best student and I have recently been diagnosed with ADD. I have been getting by making the bare minimum in my nursing classes, and honestly, it's a miracle I made it this far. I always got raving...

2. ICU vs Medsurg

   Flylik3abr1 posted a topic in Technicians

   I am an ASN student going into my third semester of nursing school and have just recently gotten a couple of job offers at a local hospital for work as a Patient Care Technician. One is for a PRN position as a Medsurg tech and the other is a full-tim...

3. ICU approach vs Floor nurse

   Flylik3abr1 replied to Flylik3abr1's topic in Student Assist

   Well, I am in a training program in Alabama and as far as I can see we as students can essentially perform any skill that an RN is capable of doing so long as there is supervision and someone to claim responsibility for the students aka the Clinical ...

4. Got in, and failed ??

   Flylik3abr1 replied to misspy's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Oh I don't mean for you to misunderstand. This is definitely a field that I am passionate about. I may have originally posted my comment on one of my more broken days, but I didn't choose nursing for anyone but myself. I say "go back to computer sci...

5. Got in, and failed ??

   Flylik3abr1 replied to misspy's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Im sorry to hear that. Sadly im in a similar situation. I feel like all of this is too good to be true. I have support from my classmates but honestly, I didn't have the best grades and somehow got in through the cracks. My study habits have gotten b...

6. Is this nursing?

   Flylik3abr1 replied to Catalin's topic in General Nursing

   Be careful getting into CNA work as a student nurse. Not to talk poorly about CNA work, it is very important, but be careful with certain hospitals, nursing homes, and health agencies. They will work you to near death even as a student. Say what you ...

7. Grades when you were in Nursing School

   Flylik3abr1 replied to poliwag48's topic in General Students

   I won't say much for the first part of your response since I already stated in my first post that it mainly is boiled down to the RN population in your area and what type of position you are applying for as a new grad. However I will say that living ...

8. Grades when you were in Nursing School

   Flylik3abr1 replied to poliwag48's topic in General Students

   I think a lot of these nurses suggesting that grades matter during the hiring process have been in a position for a long period of time or just work in an area congested with RN's. My mother is a nurse, two of my uncles are nurses, and two of my best...

9. Is this nursing?

   Flylik3abr1 replied to Catalin's topic in General Nursing

   I have yet to become an RN but I am more cognizant of the harsh realities of nursing than my peers. My mother is an LPN, two of my uncles are RN's, and two of my closest friends are RN's. I have seen their quality of life have its ups and downs. Alth...

10. ICU approach vs Floor nurse

    Flylik3abr1 posted a topic in Student Assist

    So I seem to be always questioning things I see happening in the hospitals I do clinicals at. Between seeing blood products being thrown away in the regular trash and complete disregard of sterile technique for sterile procedures there is a laundry l...

11. Pain management in nursing

    Flylik3abr1 replied to Flylik3abr1's topic in Student Assist

    These are very serious allegations, almost to the point of abuse. Have you talked to your instructor about these situations Unfortunately I am not confident enough in my "official" instructors ability to accomplish tasks to bring this up to her, how...

12. Pain management in nursing

    Flylik3abr1 posted a topic in Student Assist

    ADN student here! I was curious to know how you as a nurse approach your patients pain management in the hospital. I have seen plenty of nurses disregard their patients pain despite their medication being past due. I even had a case where a patient o...

13. Red flag?

    Flylik3abr1 posted a topic in Technicians

    I am a student in my second semester of RN school and have been considering getting a tech job PRN. I applied around and haven't heard back (contrary to people telling me I'd get hired quickly as a student) from any community hospitals in my area. I ...

14. First clinical nightmare

    Flylik3abr1 replied to Flylik3abr1's topic in General Students

    @maggieellis Our clinical instructor at this hospital has never been on campus to do anything directly with the students. We have another instructor at a different facility who assisted with our labs and validations but I have yet to have a clinical ...

15. First clinical nightmare

    Flylik3abr1 replied to Flylik3abr1's topic in General Students

    @neonn965 For our Med Admin validation we essentially just demonstrated that we were able to properly draw up and administer different types of injections.