Kiroppi

Yeah, I know. It's unfortunate that I have to get another set of vaccines, but that's okay. I was just taken aback that these came back negative. Is it possible to lose immunity just after two years? Weird.

Yes. I took a titer for school two years ago and it was positive. Now it's saying negative.

Hey guys, Just got my labs back today! Everything looked good except for my varicella titer. I got the vaccines as a child but couldn't find the immunization records for school so I just opted for the titer. Came back positive, more than 165 RLU! So fast forward today, for my pre-employment business (yay), I had to get another varicella titer. This titer came back negative saying it was less than 135 RLU. I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? Or if I should be raising my eyebrows worried that it came back negative two years later? Nursing school has made me such a worry wart that I have not been able to sleep because of this. Anybody got any word of advice? Yes, I know I have to get the vaccine again, but is this uncommon? Or does this happen more than I think it does? Thank you!

I am an upcoming senior nursing student and recently offered an interview for PCT/CNA position on a Med-Surg floor. However, I am slowly regretting or just extremely nervous about this. My first semester of clinicals sucked big time, and my second semester clinical hours in the hospital was cut in half because of Covid so everything was virtual. Even though I have completed my basic skills in lab, I am not confident in even my CNA skills. I enjoyed my second semester clinicals on the Med Surg floor and gained a little confidence. This hospital I am interviewing for is a different branch/campus, and the main branch is about 20 minutes away. I have a lot of worries. Apparently, their turnover rate is quite high. I talked to a few people who worked at this campus said they highly recommend me not working here since management always leave their workers hanging dry and one time when a tech was fired unjustly. Now, I do understand we are in a middle of a pandemic. Actually the entire hospital system furloughed half of their employees except for nurses, doctors, RT, PA, etc around April and May. Should I be suspicious of that as well? I am also terrified that if any unfortunate case (I get fired), I can never apply to work for this hospital system again which scares me senseless. Also, I do not know if this matters but I am EXTREMELY short and have trouble turning, lifting, and rolling patients (no muscle strength), so I often have to ask others especially the RN and techs to help me with basic patient care. There is also an uncertainty with us going back to school and our schedules possibly changing drastically. The PCT position application says this is a PRN weekend nights as needed. However, I received an email today (after submitting my application) of the possibility of schedule change meaning change of clinical dates. There is a possibility of having a weekend (Saturday) clinical. I'm extremely worried about the working environment as well. What am I supposed to do if my nurse manager sucks and everyone there is rude and doesn't want to help. I feel as though I can handle patients well enough but have a little trouble communicating with other team members sometimes (I'm just that shy). Also, I understand that Covid will not go away but there is still some worry as my parents have chronic health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, etc. I sometimes worry about bringing it home to them. I am very nervous for this interview and if I should even work as a tech at this point. I understand that having this experience will help me tremendously; however, I have been told one does not need to be a CNA/PCT in order to become a good nurse. Should I still go to the interview for practice? Or get the impression of the nurse interviewing me? Has anyone been in a similar situation lately. Anybody willing to give their two cents? Also, does anybody have a good tip on how to reject an offer from a company but still want to work for them in the future as a RN. Is that possible?

Hi all, So I am working in a GI floor. I am currently living with my father who has a history of heart and GI disease. My father has been having back and chest pain that never got better for 2 weeks. Kept trying to tell him to go to the emergency room if it is so bad for him. He decided to go when things got worse for him. They admitted my father due to his history and is only being observed. Due to COVID 19, no visitors are allowed in the emergency room nor my hospital in general. My father is from another country and has a hard time understanding English sometimes; even if he does not understand what is being said to him, he would just smile and nod and say he understands. Anyways, just found out that he is being admitted to the floor I work on. I actually have been texting my charge nurse throughout this whole ordeal, asking her lots of question like if I was allowed to stay with my father since I worked at the hospital (I wasn't allow anyways). I am not working until Tuesday, so I am off duty. My charge nurse told me my father was being admitted to my floor. I trust my coworkers and know he is under good care. After all this worrying about my father, I just started thinking of potential HIPAA violations. Does it count as HIPAA just texting my charge nurse what is going to happen to my father and telling her my father's name and history. Obviously, I am not going to access his patient chart. But I do however, have access to his personal MyChart since my dad just gave me his passwords to look over his test results and stuff like that since he does not understand. Honestly, just one look at our last names and appearance, she would already know he is my father. But I am just wondering and wanted to know your two cents. Thanks and stay safe

Well we do not have to log into the computer itself. We just unfold the computer and the computer is already turned on. The only thing we have to log into is the EHR (CONNECTCARE). But it is not locked after we log in! I am starting to think I just left it up and logged in. I just can't stop worrying. I've been told to just let it go and not do it next time. Maybe nursing isn't cut out for me.

I asked a family member about this situation. They said that many nurses forget to log out and they have more pressing matters to report than something that every nurse does, Even today, I saw many nurses not logging out. However, today the nurses were very busy giving meds and a death occurred today, so everyone was a little frantic. I just feel like I'm a failure no matter what. I always try to better myself but it never seems to do me any good. I have been told mixed things whether or not to inform my instructor.

Hey guys, I really feel like nursing should not be for me since I am a failure and a forgetful person. SO I DID A REALLY BIG NO-NO! I think I left my patient records still up. What happened was, I went to a computer to fill out paperwork on my patient for my nursing class. I swore I clicked on LOG OUT. This hallway computer keyboard unfolds, will turn on and off when it is unfolded from the wall. Anyways, when I came back from lunch, the computer was folded so the computer was turned off. However, when I logged back on, I see that a ConnectCare tab (our patient record database), is minimized. It turned out to be my patient's and was logged in under my name!! I quickly logged out of it and did not say a word. During the rest of the clinical, my nurse or nursing instructor did not inform me of anything pertaining to the patient record. However, I am terrified of what is going to happen. I feel like I always screw up somehow in clinical, and this one is very serious. I need some opinions.

Hi guys, So I am a nursing student who has done her first Med Pass today. But now I am so worried, my patient needed insulin today. So when I was drawing up the insulin, my stupid self got nervous and slipped and got a NEEDLESTICK!! The thing is I wasn't wearing gloves, and my nurse didn't say anything about it. I was in the nurse's station when I was drawing up the medication. The needle was not used and it was clean. My nurse saw me stick myself, she said "it's a clean needle it's fine". I also informed my instructor and she said since it was a clean needle, I should not worry. However, I can't stop worrying. I wasn't wearing gloves when I was taking up the insulin but the needle was clean. I am so stressed and I feel like maybe I am not cut out to be a nurse. What do you guys think? What are your advice? Should I get my blood tested? Should I reconsider my career?

Well I did log out of patient records, so it was just a regular computer screen after logging out. I'm just worried that the hospital will see this and think I am violating HIPAA despite not showing any patient information.

Hi Wuzzie, I do not believe it is an auto-log in. Since in order to even use the computer is to put in our username. But I am just worried, what if the hospital catches this and thinks I am violating HIPAA. I do not believe I violated it.

Hello, So this is my first clinical at this particular hospital. The hospital gives you a username and login to access their computer (we are also under our clinical instructor in the system). So how computer access works for this hospital is to first log in with your username which gives you access to the computer. Then, you would have to click on the EHR vendor (let's say this hospital uses CARECLOUD) , and then log in with your log information again to access patient records. Anyways, when I was done with the computer, I would log out of CARECLOUD but not out of the actual computer. The reason why is when I asked my clinical instructor if I should log out of the computer itself she said "You can just leave it like that". I did what she said and didn't think too much of it until I spoke with my classmates. Many of them saying we should have logged out of the computer itself. However, from what I witnessed, some of the nurses at the floor did not log out of the computer itself and some even left it open on their patient records in the nurse's station and other logged out of CARECLOUD but still kept the computer logged in. So basically, I logged out of the EHR so no patient records were open at all. However, I did not log out of the computer because of what my instructor told me. I'm very scared and paranoid that the hospital IT will think I am suspicious or have violated a rule. Do you guys think I should worry this much? Should I speak to my clinical instructor about this?