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We have to do this too. Every clinical. I know it sounds silly, but I am a sing songy type of person and have to group things together with either word association or songs/rhymes. I group it in the order of HEAD, Shoulders, knees and toes- and when I'm doing the head or neuro/PEERLA, I do it in the order of hair, and then eyes and ears and mouth and nose- like the song! lol it makes things a bit more interesting and I don't forget anything. When I do shoulders, I make that the heart and lung sounds..

What you NEED, is to worry about the context of YOUR OWN APA cited papers and NOT a blog, in this case that you CLICKED ON willingly- that I typed on a website that is hardly navigatable on my iPhone, while I attempted to post a post.. to have someone speak upon MY blog, that they willingly navigated and clicked on that was supposed to be for others to express their thoughts on stressful situations, and hopefully some insight would be added into an already stressful situation, but YOU on the other hand, choose to comment about the context of my blog posted, because you somehow needed to focus on finding a way to knit pick with me about the format of my paragraph.. YOUR life must be much worse than my own! So sorry to have posted my own- when there are people so dissatisfied and miserable in thier own lives that you go around commenting on the way I choose to format a blog while talking to text and driving down the road.. :) I however, will hopefully never see the day when I feel so inferior within my own life, that I have to go around picking with people who are very clearly upset, about minor issues that have nothing to do with my own life, such as formatting a blog online- and insinuating that I NEED them to change what they wrote because it is affecting me .. My life would have to suck wayyyy worse for me to EVER bring myself to make such a useless comment in order to superiorate myself to others on the internet! I hope you get well soon!

Hello everyone! I wanted to post to gather some insight on thoughts about stress. I have not had any major difficulties in NS until now. My programs clinical instructor and professor is starting to make me feel very stressed out to say at least. When I am doing skills evaluations with other instructors or In classes and lab with other instructors I feel happy and optimistic about the future, but any time I have to be in a class of hers or a clinical, I leave feeling the worst that I ever have out of three years of college. My other instructors make sure they are teaching the curriculum and are dedicated to helping students. This instructor that I will call Mrs. K I'd constantly verbally lecturing her students about how they should be stressed out, and says if they are not then something is wrong. When clinical first started I was happy and was excited about working with patients, and now I just can not wait until the end of the day so I can leave. She will send student nurses To do tasks and will refuse to help when she is needed. She tells us over and over that we should be stressing out and she sends out loads of information (5-10) emails with new assignments that were not given or knownprior, about every 3 days. She sent over 12 emails from Wednesday to Sunday this week and gave so much scattered information, and is so unorganized that it is making me feel like I want to cry every time she emails me. I have had to excessively miss other classes because she scheduled things over top of them without an option to reschedule. I feel overwhelmed because every time I get out of her class she bombards me with several emails with information that isn't important. Before class she will send a few unorganized emails about the lecture, and she won't use blackboard for announcements like other instructors. It is getting so bad that several people in the class are becoming stressed out as I am and are hoping to get a new CI. I feel like I am becoming increasingly stressed and as a result of constant stress I am having deprsssion as well. I know that this is not a result of NS itself because I have found nursingSchool it's so to be not challenging at all for me. The exams are very easy to me, this girl's evaluations have all been very easy, but coping with this instructor has been the hardest thing I have ever done. I am starting to feel sick from stress before I go into her classes, after a class with her I spend the next three days shutting myself off from the world and being pessimistic about the nursing profession it self. She Verbally encourages students to be stressed out and says beings all of the time to sort of rack you're nervous about things that are not nerve racking in all reality. The simplest tasks turn into horrid nightmares because she is so high stress and negative about everything. Another person in my class has started to call off And says that she also stresses them out. I want to feel happy and excited about nursing again, but this instructor makes me feel like the world is going to and every time someone needs a set of vitals. Has anyone else ever had someone who was very negative and high stress as a instructor? I am not used to having anyone around me that have constant anxiety and he is so totally negative. I think it has started to impact the other students as well. If anyone has anything in sight or any thoughts about how to manage this type of stressed please let me know because I am becoming what I feel is hopeless. When negative people are around me I cannot help but to feel the impact of what they are feeling, that is the kind of person I am. I always thought that was a good thing until now.

You do have a point there! I guess I didn't spend much time thinking that other students may have not been trained prior to nursing school . Good point!

I don't know if you saw any of my other posts, but my major was pre-med for my first two years and I achieved a 4.0 in all of my prerequisite classes. I now have a 3.8 due to taking 19 credit hours for a semester and having to prioritize, but I established a strong background with some diverse volunteer work as well as assisting in a clinical trial. I spent years preparing for med school, and I decided that nursing was close enough for now, since I didn't have the financial means to spend another 3-5 years post bachelors in med school without additional income. I do not believe I am pushing the cart before the horse at all. I am very familiar with MCAT review, but still have 2 more semesters until I finish my bachelors degree and am able to apply. When and if I do apply, I won't be unprepared. I have belonged to the honors society in both of the two colleges I attended, and finished my associates of science with a 4.0.. I cannot say the same now, and will never have that GPA again, but I personally know a student at the same med school I want to apply to that had a 3.0 when we were in school and he is now a first year student.. so I am hoping that won't ruin my chances.. i don't know of any other extra curricular that I can do while I'm in school. But I will figure it out.

Surely I do need to take a look inside. I am not super young, but I feel I am definitely not as mature as I could be. Maybe a bit socially impaired as well. I can own up to that and work on it.. I don't have children, and everyone I go to school with does, and I am not married eithe . So sometimes I guess I feel like the odd one out since they have all his life changing events that have better shaped them to be more socially compatable around other adults.. I think I am still selfish and a bit inconsiderate.. whereas most of the people I work with have grown out of that, and have children.. I don't know, but I am not going to beat myself up over what other people think of me either.

This has been established. I agree with you that I am longing to be in a lab somewhere. I guess I just don't know what would interest me because I also enjoy the patient interactions I get. It is almost as if I would be happy in a nurse research setting. Maybe I sounded like I was outing the nursing career all together, but that is not it. It is the traditional clinical setting with the paper work and the way charting is that gets to me.. I mean if a patients chart says that they have chronic systolic & diastolic congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and COPD, I think it is common sense that the patient is also at a increased risk for decreased cardiac output, and risk for gas exchange impairment.. since the physician ALREADY diagnosed them with exactly that, why do we need our own set of diagnostics that are only the side effects of what the physician already diagnosed them with. It feels like sort of a pointless task to me.. it is the simple minded tasks like this, where I am basically putting a care plan together in clinicals, basically adding things on to the exact diagnosis that was already given... and this is supposed to be my assignments and they seem pointless/easy.. then when I go listen to the patients heart I can hear that she has fluid in her lungs and a cough, which could be from the COPD- but she also had a HX of pneumonia.. and I am thinking that could be a strong indicator, but it isn't my place .. at least in clinical to point those things out. I also noticed while auscultating that she has Pericarditis or fluid around her heart which is also present with pneumonia.. I just wish I could do more because i leave and she's stuck there coughing for who knows how long.. her sputum was not totally clear and there is just nothing that I can do for her. I can't tell them to send her for labs and a chest X Ray because that isn't my job.. but she is quicker to run out of breath lately as well.. these changes are minor but I feel I could catch so many things in people before they get too bad and are more difficult to treat because I have sort of spider senses for things that are not so obvious to others.. this about me, is what makes me want to be a physician, as well as the understanding of the bodies chemical process, cells and changes, and kind of a sixth sense for it makes me believe I could do this.. but I will finish my clinicals and graduate before I figure it out for sure.

Yes I have! Is the practitioners practice closer to nursing than anything else? I have not studied the curriculum of the practitioner program, o my the MD. I have my associates in general science because I was taking pre med and switched to nursing and had to declare a major at the school I was attending, and couldn't declare nursing as my major unless I attended their nursing program so it ended up being general science with some extra physics and chem classes. Now I am about to graduate next semester with my associates in nursing or ADN, Then I have 2 semesters left to complete my bachelors because I have taken the classes during my associates of nursing degree and finished the other pre-read for the ADN before starting the nursing clinicals and program. I think the transition to NP would be easier, but most of the programs here require that you practice for 2 or 3 years before being admitted into the NP program, so I am thinking about looking into a nurse research job.

I think that if I were you and only had advice and suggestions to offer such as "you need a reality check" I just wouldn't say anything at all. Unless I was grumpy and having a series of bad days, only then might I offer advice that isn't respectable & hospitable. Then again, we are clearly different, and the way I worded this post the first time was not thought out, nor put together well- so your response is expected, and has been taken with a grain of salt! Take care.

I must be a crazy person because I didn't know that is how I came off. Lesson learned.

The reason that the answer is C is because of this in my opinion. they stated that the patient was African American- first thing that popped into my head is that she may have a religion that prohibits her from receiving blood transfusions or other emergency medical Interventions .. such as jehovas witnesses. Then the question stated that she was refusing any treatment, again making me think that her religion is keeping her from taking the directions of the medical staff since the question obviously stated her ethnicity for a reason.. When patients are having moral issues with treatment in regard to their religion often times their families will intervene. This was taught during the first week of our nursing program and is emphasized because you cannot under any circumstances force a patient to obide by any treatment measures, even if they are life saving- if religion does not permit the treatment. Since you cannot force or push a patient into treatment and it is their decision- saying there is something wrong does not suffice. Also, saying that there should be a social work is wrong because you cannot force a patient to get treatment, especially when religion is involved. Lastly, asking a family member who may be familiar to her religion if there is any traditional methods she may respond to is perfect because her family will know her religion, beliefs, and what has helped in the past.. You cannot just get social work involved because someone does not obide with treatment, and you are not going to work with staff to do that because you will be the one calling if you had to, and they would not allow you to.

I don't agree. If someone in nursing school feels that wiping butts, and cleaning clients is below them, they should not question their career choice. If that were true, everyone I am in school with should. That is CNA work and it doesn't take much training (2 weeks for me) or skill. STNA pay is substantially lower than RN pay. For someone taking all of the steps and time to go to school and dedicating them self's, aggravation is to be expected when you are stuck doing CNA/STNA work. BUT, it does get better- when you graduate I hear. Lol. I get to do the flu shots and stuff, but not actually practicing much of the skills besides assessment , and hand washing.. I get to do that a lot ! Lol

Thank you!

I do not think it is right or acceptable for the other students to have a heads up about which CI will teach the classes ahead of time. However, why can't you just stay to yourself and forget about them? They won't bother you if you don't think about it. Try to focus on your own personal affairs and hobbies. I know personally how frustrating nursing school can get, and it can become easy to place blame on others for things that wouldn't normally bother you. Try to remember that.

I agree with you on the fact that people are having trouble understanding me. This seems to happen a lot when I reference this topic. The professions are definitely related. Most of the nursing classes I had to take were also included in the first two years of my pre-med degree. Each profession focuses on the client in a different way, and I would like to focus on how to correct or treat the overall diagnosis. I want to find cures and know that I can, not treat the symptoms. I want to treat people who are having trouble and are rejecting their organs post transplant. I do understand not only the body systems , I also connect the chemistry, pathophysiology, connections of the body systems from one to another when it comes to the disease process in cancers and the way it spreads, the histology and the changes of the different cells and their behaviors in diseases, the DNA of cells and how to identify benign vs. malignant microscopically, I can practically look at person and tell when they are about to become ill with a disease. I know mostly every chemical within the human body and how to look for problems that might occur because of different lab measurements. I do not know how I became this way. I just know that I am. I do not think I will speak of this again, but just do what I think I should. I do not feel that my level of understanding will properly suite my patients in a nursing career because my scope of practice is too limited.

I found a cool tip on a RN website about the valves. When the blood Is coming in from the veins, it goes through the valves. First tricuspid, than bicuspid.. because you have to try it before you buy it... silly lol, but true. also remember the superior vena cava and the other veins are bringing in DEoxygenated blood to the heart. Arteries are taking away oxygenated blood from the heart and giving organs and tissues the oxygenated blood fang they need to survive.

I understand where you are coming from and believe that this is a genuine reply. I will take your suggestions into consideration. Thank you for replying.

I fully understand what my patients vital signs mean in connection to their diagnosis.. so much that I would like to be the one making the diagnosis. I feel that your judgement comes from a lack of knowledge of the whole situation. I suppose the immature part about posting what I did, was not considering that many nurses may not feel this way, because if they did, they would have continued their educations. I have studied everything from pharmacology, A&P, histology, chemistry of the body, and so on since the time I was a child, and then again in college. This makes a situation where now I am in nursing school and am understanding things beyond the year of schooling I am in. I understand things the way a second year medical school student could understand and identify things. This has come from my instructors who are constantly appraising my critical thinking skills and telling me that they believe I understand the overall picture. I do not think I am smarter than others, this comes from the studying of the disease process and body systems for many years before this because I have always wanted to become a physician. I thought that there may be someone else out there who was like me in this way.. the only person that I have actually been able to connect with in a mature way about my thoughts and feelings is one of my professors who is also teaching at a medical school and practices medicine, and another doctor at a clinical site. They understand my thoughts.. I have realized that I will not gain the understanding or connect with any nurses on this level. I am paying to get an education for things that I mostly already know and this is frustrating. Maybe I had fantastic A & P teachers, I do not know. When you speak of connecting the vitals to the diagnosis and understanding the body systems, I fully understand and that is what is so aggravating because I feel as if I am learning the same things over again- and am not going to be able to do much about the problems that these people are having since I am the one carrying out the orders and not making them. I know I will be better at helping patients if i go to medical school and become a doctor. Call me what you'd like, but it is super frustrating when one semester after another, you are given assignments and new tasks to carry out for things that are so far behind you.. you will not understand this unless you have been through it.. and tried to stick things out to realize that you have more knowledge than the career path you choose. That doesn't make me arrogant, that is going to make me a doctor. Good day.

Anyone know how I can delete this thread? The first responses to this thread were very disrespectful, incompetent, simple minded, and down right judgemental. I no longer want to receive notifications from rude judgemental people who presumed from my post that I was somehow "smarter" than them over the internet, and choose to belittle me to make their own selfs feel more adequate.

I agree with you! A two year nursing degree should not take two years. The first semester in clinicals is super boring and made me question if I could even live that way forever. Other nurses on this board seem to think they are superior to those that do not find Nursing as stimulating as they do.. all I can say is that you should advocate for yourself. Find out who the charge nurse is , or the RN covering your wing, and follow her around when she allows it, to see what she is actually doing. That is how I combat mist f clinicals.. because they are SO boring.

I meant that going into medical school directly following the completion of my bachelors would leave me stressed financially. Not nursing.

I am thinking about it now. I am aware of the prerequisite courses because l was originally pre-Med before switching to nursing. I switched to nursing because of financial concerns. I realized that going into nursing school after four years in college would leave me financially stressed. When I first started nursing I thought I could settle for the career and actually get into it and I am trying to .. I really am trying. But I am so anxious to learn more about everything, and am literally just obsessed with researching cures for cancer. I really love histology and biology, physics especially.. I guess you get what I am saying.. and with nursing it feels like I am scratching the surface, but I know there is more! I am not ever going to discuss my plans with my fellow students or colleagues after the responses I have gotten. Thank you for your reply and insight!

I have to laugh at this one. I could never claim to be the smartest person in any room! There are plenty of people who are smarter than myself! I would be foolish to say such a thing! I did not know a thing about nursing before I started, but I feel like everything that I have learned was sort of basic and very easy to apply to care. I suppose it Is tough being in school for something I thought was my calling, just to find out that TO ME- it does not take much thought and is so limited in the scope of practice. I honestly do not think it is stimulating to continuously carry out out orders and assess patients. I also do not like the way that all of the nurses attacked me on this post of speaking my mind. I suppose if all other nurses find schooling to be a challenge, than they will not respect my thoughts or opinions. This is why I asked if there were any other nurses who decided to study medicine specifically- and not if there were any nurses that disagree with me and want to belittle my train of thought. I suppose that I should expect such simple minded responses.. since this was t original complaint. I find it to be sad that this stigma that the members of this board demonstrated exists.. if my mind does not operate in one specific simple way - I am arrogant, among other things. I have picked up on the fact that nurses are the carerakers, but are also big gossips, and very quick to judge.. without hesitating... which further clarifies to me, that this will never be a long term career! Thanks for responses!

Wow, I didn't mean to come off that way. I am sorry you interpreted my thoughts about school the way that you did.

I found your reply to be very insightful and will apply this when I am in clinicals. All of the replies on this board seemed very rude and judge mental. I guess for me, it doesn't seem hard or stimulating.. the nursing program that I am in is supposed to be one of the best, but I have never been in another program to know what is better.