spookygirl

Well to me it sounds like you have more than gone above & beyond to help this family member understand the facts & situation. Some people just can't deal well with death. The sister is more than likely projecting her own grief & regret on...

I am a new grad nurse. I got my license in Oct 2006. I work in a small rural hospital. My hospital is suffering some financial difficulties lately. We have been short staffed recently with no new prospects on the horizion. We have just enough people ...

I'm not sure if this is correct, but I'm sure I heard somewhere that someone is on the cusp of coming out with a portable dialysis machine. All the other ideas posted would be great also. There were many oooooooo's escaping my lips as I read these po...

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This sounds terrible to me. I applaud you for sticking it out a lot longer than i would have. :angryfire I would be furious if I were to be treated that way. I agree with many of the other posters when they say it is time for a serious discussion wit...

This sounds like WAY too much work. As an aide you should be utalized to care for the pt's, detect subtle changes, and keep them safe, not be a housekeeper/dietary aide as well. It sounds like you are in a bad place. As some of the other posters said...

We had to do a creative presentation for one of our urinary chapters a while back. My teacher called it the urinary olympics ..... lol I loved her. Well anyway Someone made up a 12 days of christmas song about UTI's that was hilarious :roll Some of t...

I am an ADN student due to graduate this summer. There was a girl in my class (we'll call her Liz) who was always friendly to me. Over the past 2 years we always joked, sat together at lunch, did a presentation together, and went out to eat once, but...

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Thank you so much for your reply! This is exactly what I am talking about. I knew someone out there had been experienced the same thing. As far as liz passing meds alone, she was supposed to have gone over the meds with the instructor first, but the ...

You obviously misunderstood me. When I said I wondered if anyone ever heard of such a thing I meant doubling a heartbeat not getting kicked out of a program for this paticular mistake. I appriciate the advice. Others on here obviously think diffe...

ummm...... Perhaps you took me the wrong way. I have absolutely no intrest in the "gossipy" details of this story. I never went to an instructor or anyone else in the program dying to know the details. The only reason I went into such detail here was...

I once did a safety teaching on a an ortho patient with a knee replacement. To remove all the throw rugs from the home, have adequate lighting throughout, have signifigant other do a safety check of the home. I've also done teaching projects on antih...

Wow I feel very lucky. We have several clinical groups. usually 2 Wedensday groups and 2 Friday groups. We have one 8 hour day per week of clinical. If you miss a day you can make up another week and have 2 clinical days for one week (wed & fri)....

I agree with everyone else on the vicks. But also Bath and Body Works (if you have one nearby) sells a peppermint temple cream for headaches...... it also works great for those not so fresh patients.

WOW!!! you summed that up quite beautifully.......thank you

Wow, I couldn't believe this as I was reading it. What a TERRIBLE instructor. My advice to you is to go to the head of the program. I agree with the others as to having proof, but I would personally stick to the grade issue only. You already have ...

:uhoh21: ummmm I'm feeling a little underqualified here. Ours is only 40 hours to be completed in 2 weeks!!!! We do get to pick the place though..... I will be in E.R. Mine will be the last 2 weeks of April. Our instructors actually added a half hour...

I love the "incredibally easy" series!! I.V therapy made incred. easy was actually a required text from our program. Personally I think these books explain in a way I can understand.....easily. I would also suggest checking out half.com if you can g...

:chair: lol I agree with you there.

In my school we are allowed to start them if an instructor ar nurse is present. We also have off-site clinical days where we are alone with a nurse preceptor for one clinical day. One of my offsite days was starting IV's in the pre-op area for half a...

If I were you I'd talk with my instructor about it first. I'm about to graduate this summer and throughout my clinical experiences I've had nurses gripe at me when they shouldn't. Once this nurse kept accusing me of having a chart that I never touche...

I am soon to be a new graduate this summer. I plan to work close to home at first but I would like to try travel nursing sometime. My question is do you usually get to work with a preceptor or have a training period when you travel? If so, for how lo...

I am also a NA and a studert RN due to graduate this summer. I feel exactly the same way you do. I think sometimes we don't get enough of a report on our patients before we take care of them. When someone new comes up to my floor it seems to take for...

I have to say thank you to the wonderful and intelligent members of this site. I would have chosen C at first also, but only because I read right past "call the unit to report...." and I only saw abnormal signs and symptoms. I completely agree with t...