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1. New to HH, Recert... Not feeling right, input needed.

   OnTheRoad replied to OnTheRoad's topic in Home Health

   Thank you both for

2. New to HH, Recert... Not feeling right, input needed.

   OnTheRoad posted a topic in Home Health

   I got a job with a HH agency and have had exactly 1 patient whom I have been seeing for 8 wks. I was supposed to discharge the patient tomorrow because patient really isn't homebound ( functions quite...

3. 4 weeks 2 go

   OnTheRoad replied to PEBBLES1's topic in General Students

   Pinning on Dec 18th here. Or at least I hope so. Over half our class failed our first med surg 2 exam, so every point is needed now. I am thinking positive though

4. Frustrated with Clinicals Feel like Giving Up

   OnTheRoad replied to live&love&heal's topic in General Students

   How many semesters in are you? Skills present themselves as they present themselves. Personally... I am almost done with my AS and still have not inserted a foley. It isn't that my instructors haven't...

5. Suicide

   OnTheRoad replied to OnTheRoad's topic in General Students

   Thank you all so much for your responses. It helps so much just to be able to share and to realize I am not alone. I know I will see many horrible things in my career and there will be I am sure many...

6. Suicide

   OnTheRoad posted a topic in General Students

   I graduate in a few months and this week while in ICU I had a new admit that had overdosed on tylenol (like 50 ES tabs). I worked for hours with the nurse and doctor doing one on one care keeping the...

7. Points Away From Failing Out

   OnTheRoad replied to SamanthaSN's topic in General Students

   I am in your shoes. I have always done well on tests, but my exam today means I basically have to be perfect the rest of this semester and I don't know what happened! I emailed my instructor to ask...

8. How to not look so nervous at clinical

   OnTheRoad replied to MOLLBEE's topic in General Students

   I graduate in December and I remember like yesterday how nervous I was my first clinical ( can we say ready to pass out?). I am still nervous with each new challenge or situation that comes my way....

9. Why so many fail out of our program?

   OnTheRoad replied to lizzyberry's topic in General Students

   I honestly don't think there is a better way. Depending upon how you are being taught or required to do them or how long you have been doing them will affect how much you learn from them though. When...

10. Nursing Dx for DKA patient

    OnTheRoad replied to MB37's topic in General Students

    I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but in my program we have to go the night before clinicals and gather information about labs and diagnosis (medical) etc. We are not allowed to go near the...

11. Help With Physiological and Psychosocial Nursing Diagnosis

    OnTheRoad replied to Joni's Mom's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think for most of us, when we first start writing care plans there seems to be so much emphasis on the diagnosis part of things that many of us fail to simply start basic and look at what is going...

12. Why so many fail out of our program?

    OnTheRoad replied to lizzyberry's topic in General Students

    The thing about care plans (which I used to hate btw) is that they really do teach you to think critically and to know what to do for your patient and why. You can train just about anyone to do...

13. Terrified for clinicals because...

    OnTheRoad replied to MN_NursingStudent's topic in General Students

    We have to look all that up and do all the work, but we are not required to be able to recite things verbatim from memory. We will be required to be able to tell her what is going on with our patient...

14. Getting Organized!!

    OnTheRoad replied to shannonFNP's topic in General Students

    I personally like being able to refer back to previous lectures whenever I want to, and get right to them without alot of searching through my binder. I bought write on tabs and label them with each...

15. Tearing my hair out Postpartum Diagnosis

    OnTheRoad replied to OnTheRoad's topic in General Students

    I asked my instructor the last day of clinical about the care plans. It seems to me that she really doesn't like care plans in general. She really wants our OB clinical section to switch to clinical...