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I was in the same boat about a year ago and went ahead and took the INH. I had no problems with it at all other than the doc not telling me that it acted as an alcohol enhancher (hammered on two beers). I never felt any side-effects and am glad I did...

I must be just born lucky, our uniforms aren't bad at all. We wear royal bkue scrubs with a white t-shirt underneath (or long sleeves for me because of tatoos) and I have been wearing low top Chuck Taylors in clinical for the past year with no compla...

I've got large tats on both forearms from the Navy and just wear long sleeves under my scrubs. My hospital doesn't have a policy but I think it makes some of my older patients uncomfortable seeing some inked up guy walk into their room and say "I'm t...

Never had a problem on my OB rotation, I got to see 7 vag deliveries and a C-section and as far as I know was never turned down by anyone. OB was a fun rotation but I wouldn't want to do it for a living due to the fact that I like too see new stuff i...

I felt pretty much the same way until a few weeks ago. I'm in a 2 year program and even though I work as a tech I felt that I was shaky on Med admin and assessment until This clinical rotation (leadership). Our instructor gives us each 4 patients of ...

As a tech I can totally commiserate with the original poster, lazy CNAs drive those of us who do work hard just as nuts as they do the nurses. It not only makes the rest of us look like crap but it makes for more work for the rest of us when the RNs ...

I am slightly confused here, so please help me out. I have spent my entire life being told that women are just as tough and capable as men if not even more able due to women "having a higher tolerance for pain due to childbirth." But it seems that wh...

Maybe I am missing something and if so please feel free to point it out. It seems that all I hear about HMOs is how bad they are at providing care and limiting patient choice in favor of getting forms filled out but some people want to create a giant...

The OP is in the same position I am in, except I graduate in May instead of December, so this is a topic I've thought about alot. One thing that made me finally say forget Med/Surg for a year before the OR is that it seems all the nurses that were te...

There is a nurse on my unit that administers pain meds in a fashion that to me seems wrong. For instance the other day the order was for Ativan and Dilaudid q4 starting at 1400. instead of giving them both every 4 hours she gave the Ativan at 1400, t...

I am 3 weeks away from finishing my first Med/Surg rotation and was getting discouraged. I have never worked health care before and I know that just because I will be an ADN graduate in a year I won't be ready to be a nurse, so I have been applying l...

So far I've only been in class for two weeks and it has been the best two weeks of nursing school by far. I got to assist in a circumcision, give postpartum care to a severly mentally handicapped c-section mother, pass meds, care for a new born and d...

My rotation was great, I saw 5 NSVDs, 1 C-section and a tubal ligation. I was also lucky enough that every birth I attended was on a Wednesday so I was able to do the post-partum care on Thursday for the family from the day before. My best was a you...

Why is it acceptable to refuse to allow a nurse to perform his job because of his sex but unacceptable to refuse for any other reason? Why would it be any less acceptable to refuse care from blacks, Hispanics, gays, fat people, Muslims or any other g...

Just a thought, but I was wounded by a middle-eastern Muslim in Iraq. Does this mean that due to my "emotional reaction" to the event I can refuse to be cared for by a Muslim nurse, how about middle-easterners, or even brown people in general as "the...

I for one chose nursing as a way to help others and be well compensated at the same time. If someone truly believes that money should have nothing to do with becoming a nurse, more power to them. They can graduate and then just volunteer as a nurse f...

I realize that this is just blatant self congratylation but I had to share with someone who might care. I'm in my OB rotation and yesterday I had a newborn by c-section involving meconium. During my assesment I noted he was abdominally breathing and ...

Nursing classes seem to be run much differently than any other classes I've ever experienced. I realize it is a mainly female field and most students are rather young but the touchy feely way classes are run is really getting on my nerves. When ever ...

I have to say that I am willing to give the instructor a little slack as she went in twice to check the baby and both times mom was trying to breastfeed, (she was not real sure of herself and we wanted her to keep trying) and the staff nurse told her...

Got to attend my first NSVD yesterday and it was one of the coolest things ever. When my wife gave birth I was much to concerned with her to pay much attention to what the doc was doing, but this time I watched everything and it amazing.

Beer, I reward myself for doing well on exams and such with a night out at the end of each four weeks of clinical.

During our ECF rotation my clinical buddy and I were assigned to do neuro checks on a woman who had fallen. I gave my friend the thermometer to check temps and and turned my back for a minute to get a paper to write VS on. When I turn around I see my...

Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek here. Currently in my second semester of the ADN program.

Directly from the manual when I made BM2- when giving orders"explain why, share information, communicate the intent of actions". Seems pretty self-explanitory that using coercion to get a job done is not the way to do it. And if you have to use punit...

Then your MCPO sucked, It was his job to mentor his junior personnel. As a BM the best way for us to learn was OJT from senior personnel, they would explain an evolution as it occured so we would know why we were doing what we were doing. If you don'...