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1. I want to apologize to my instructor. Please help me.

   porscheXN posted a topic in General Students

   Today, we had a lecture with a faculty instructor. I raised my voice in the online classroom; I spoke furiously and reactively to answer a question the instructor asked. 15 minutes passed and my teacher's voice started to tremble. She was crying and ...

2. I hope this is not true about colleague violence

   porscheXN replied to porscheXN's topic in Nursing

   Thanks for the answers. I am relieved. We will discuss this article in Epidemiology class to make a statistical analysis. The thing is our professors emphasize patient safety and caring errors, but these warnings are a constant stream for us; errors,...

3. I hope this is not true about colleague violence

   porscheXN posted a topic in Nursing

   Our professor gave an article (published in 2005) to read. We will discuss it tomorrow. It is about colleague violence in nursing. There is a passage in it: Theories abound Researchers have proposed several theories to explain horizontal violen...

4. Meltdown at Work and Feel like a Failure

   porscheXN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   You may want to visit a psychologist to know your weak and strong emotional sides, to know yourself better. Pinpoint the causes of meltdown, discouraging situations, and improve yourself at those points. Observe yourself at work; are workload and str...

5. How do I trust my judgement after this? First Patient Death

   porscheXN replied to nurse54361's topic in Nursing

   I don't know how to cope with it. I am a nursing student. Make a 'my patients who are lost to death' chart, maybe on a pano, hanging on the wall while exiting your house to the occupation's daily occurrence. "Every physician has at least one los...

6. How many drugs should we know when we graduate?

   porscheXN replied to porscheXN's topic in General Students

   Thanks, Wuzzie, I assume that how includes drug reference books, smartphone apps, online sources, other experienced nurses, and the patient.

7. How many drugs should we know when we graduate?

   porscheXN posted a topic in General Students

   Those drug guide books are claiming to have over 3000-4000 generic drug names. Are they for the PRN reference or we better begin to absorb them now, while in the school?

8. Is it OK to study from older edition books (between 2010-17)?

   porscheXN replied to porscheXN's topic in General Students

   Thanks, guys, I will inspect what information they added to the last editions and also check my classmates' books. At least I can take photos/notes from them if I miss something important.

9. Is it OK to study from older edition books (between 2010-17)?

   porscheXN posted a topic in General Students

   2019-2020 editions are expensive. Such as Fundamentals, MedSurgical, A&P... If I buy cheap old books; will I miss so much important updated content of Nursing knowledge or is it just a little?

10. How to manage the fluid state of this patient?

    porscheXN posted a topic in General Students

    Hello guys, our professor asked this case: The patient (cerebrovascular illness, hypertension, diabetic, epilepsy, right hemiplegia for a long time, 70 years old) has 3 main and 3 snacks in his normal diet. He has a swallowing problem. He is fed by a...