Jenny67

I have worked in a group home relief staff for the past 6 years {that I absolutely love} as a MHRT-1, and while talking to a friend last night she told me that once I passed my NCLEX she didn't think I would be able to continue to work in the home. Anyone have info/or able to point me in the right direction for this information? THanks!!

WEll, my apologies for your feelings that I was classifying maternity as a lady parts, because that was NOT my attention, as I would never refer to any other studies as you described. I passed my exam, came home and realized we were done with our maternal section, opened my syllabus and almost fell off my couch when I saw that our cardiac unit for Monday has less than 55 pages to read vs the 250-300 pages for each unit that I have read for each of our 12 Maternity units and thought I'd make a funny post to see if there were any other students feeling the same way.

And thankfully we all have areas of care that we like. Actually Jolie, my expression was a 'joke' and nope, I didn't miss any aspects of reproductive care considering the past 8 weeks I have read well over 1500 pages regarding conception to postpartum. Have you begun/completed your maternity rotation? Or maybe you didn't notice that my post concentrated on: "Today was exam 3 of 5, and I have officially survived our Maternity lectures and now move on {happily} to dysfunctions of the child, beginning with child w/cardiovascular alteration on Monday. Looking at the syllabus I am not too sure what I am going to do, not having to read 250-300 pages/lecture." :) Jenny

{insert sounds of angels singing here!!} Today was exam 3 of 5, and I have officially survived our Maternity lectures and now move on {happily} to dysfunctions of the child, beginning with child w/cardiovascular alteration on Monday. Looking at the syllabus I am not too sure what I am going to do, not having to read 250-300 pages/lecture. I have to say that if I knew everything that I know now I am very doubtful that I would have had children God Bless our L&D Nurses!! I just couldn't do it.

does your school have its own library online? I used my online college library to find the journals that I needed for my research paper this semester.

I'm right with you. I was 40 hrs/week {in a Doctors office}, cut down to 30 in Sept and next week will begin 20 hrs/week {we work 10 hour days} related to increased stress, and the lack of time to study etc. My oldest son informed me this weekend that since I began nursing school last year I am like the "bi-Polar Express". Hmm... It's not easy, try to find that few minutes for you, and best wishes. Jenny

{Hugs} to you. You won't forget to use an alcohol swab or to put gloves on your hands again will you? And that's what matters in my opinion, especially since this was your first hospital clinical day. The professor was with you and reminded you of your steps. Don't compare yourself to the other classmates unless you were standing beside/behind them during the entire clinical {which I don't think you have time to do}. It sounds to be like your mistakes were related to nursing student jitters, hang in there, and learn from your mistakes. Jenny

I am desperately trying to finish up a tad bit over 300 pages of one unit today and want to rewrite the lecture notes that I took. I thought I had a lot of reading in 101, I am finding more reading in 201. I am thinking that I am ready for Thanksgiving break!! I never thought about printing my slides out on index cards!! What a great idea...not sure if I can figure out how to do it tho'. Hmmm...

walked onto the Med Surg unit this morning to find only one peer looking at me {15 total, but are schedules do not match up as we are doing Med Surg II, Peds, School Nurse and OB rotations this semester}. Found out that TWO more peers have left r/t poor grades on our past two exams. One of these two and I began this journey 4 years ago together. Funny how we didn't think that we would survive Biology, Anatomy and Physiology or Microbiology...looking back, little did we know we were at the top of the rollercoaster and didn't know it... I am just so absolutely sad. We've lost 7 in our group since last Fall. I should point out that we are a satellite center, I believe our class began with 125 total and there are now 73. Anyways, I'm just sad.

I wish she was in my class because I'd be asking the girl what her study skills are etc. Not sure what I would do with an A, I can't get above a B and it makes me crazy!!

raising both hands here. This is my fourth year, and I am as tired as you all are. I will be looking forward to the day when I can grab a book 'just to read'/'relax' with, and when my entire life isn't nursing school focused. Take care everyone!!

the ability to live with fatigue. :)

Hi, I am in my third semester also, and have found that my test results have gone up significantly. This semester everything seems to truly make sense to me. I joked to my husband last week that I {almost} feel smart this semester Of course I need to knock on wood quickly, because I don't want to hex myself or anything. You obviously understood the concepts from your first exam with such a great grade. My advice to you would be to {breathe} and try to figure out what happened on exam 2 and 3 prior to your next exam. I am sure there are many Nurses and Student Nurses here that will have some great advice for you! Take care and best wishes with school and the new baby!!

I'm with everyone who says they will wear whatever it takes to receive that pin, pink mumu--purple leopard print, I don't care! I am not sure what our class will vote, I have heard a number say they don't want to wear white etc. One of my classmates and I have already decided that we are going to have our pictures done together graduation week and we are planning on ordering caps off line and will be wearing white for them. I have a beautiful photo of my grandmother and mother, both wearing white and white caps, and I want my photo right beside theirs. :)

sherryberry, just wanted to let you know I am so sorry for you. Don't give up on your goal/dream, and best wishes!!

THank you for sharing the books, I just ordered them from Amazon. This is where I get confused. I was a CNA for 13 years, geriatrics. I was finally able to go back to school for Nursing and after 3 years on the waiting list I decided to switch to the ADN program for Medical Assisting. I worked as a CMA for 2 years in Family Practice and decided after 2 years that I would put my name back on the waiting list for Nursing School. That was 4 years ago, and I am finally in my 3rd semester of the ADN program. 1st semester we spent the entire semester doing CNA clinicals, and doing CNA responsibilities in a Nursing Home 16 hours a week for 7 weeks I believe. I cannot tell you what a RN does in the Nursing Home setting, because I was too busy doing care on my patients. 2nd semester on Med Surg we spent fifteen 12-hour shifts doing CNA responsibilities, with the exception of needing to be available to pass our meds, if the Nurse didn't do it first. I learned nothing related to being a RN on the hospital floor. As of this semester counting my ADN in Medical Asssiting and four years of attending school full time I am over $30,000 in college loan debt. THat is no ones problem but my own, but, I decided to continue on for my RN, and I am learning the skills of a CNA because I need to help their workload and the RN doesn't want to be bothered with a student. Personally, I think this is a little backwards. And it is very, very frustrating to say the least. I have only had one clinical situation where the Nurse was not happy to have a student. It was very evident, especially when she dispensed my medications to all three of my patients, because she didn't have the time to be held up. I learned absolutely nothing that day. All of my other Nurses that I have worked with have gone out of their way offering me tips and hints and most importantly teaching me, and being a mentor that I hope to be some day. I am not at clinical to waste a working nurses time. I am at clinical to learn to be the best floor nurse and patient advocate that I can be and A LOT of that can not be learned from a textbook or a lecture, it is learned from an experienced Nurse.

Ohhh...ours wasn't that long, but I can't even begin to tell you the number of careplans/meds that I spent 4-6 hours working on to either get a call at 6pm from my Professor telling me my patient was d/c'd or go on the floor at 7a to find my patient had been d/c'd. I spent a lot of Tuesday and Wednesdays crying last semester!! Didn't think I'd survive, but I did. Now, Med Surg II we are responsible for Concept Maps instead Now, not so sure I am so anxious to continue on for my BDN!!

see some titles here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=straight+a%27s

I found last semester that the Straight A's series have really helped me and have brang my grades up hugely. I personally have a problem of getting too far in depth. Once I read the unit in my textbook I then read the appropriate pages in the Straight A's book. It helps put things in easier context for me, and it truly highlights our syllabus almost to a T. One of my peers purchased Pediatrics and Maternal-Neonatal and she told me she feels her grade has increased because of them also. They are written by Lippincott Williams and you can find them on Amazon used cheaply. Good Luck to you!!

Last semester our Med Surg clinicals were pretty rough. We had to do complete care of 2-3 patients plus RN duties, and most of the time it was pretty difficult to get assistance from a CNA when needed. This semester we are doing Med Surg II and were informed what took place last semester was inappropriate and that it was not going to take place this semester. So, we are responsible for 100% of the RN duties and must follow our RN the entire 12 hours so we can see what they are doing etc. Two of us Nursing Students took break together mid morning per our Clinical Professors instructions, we signed off to our RN and left the floor a 15 minute break. While we were gone one of the patients that my peer had rec'vd some order changes and wanted them done as soon as the doctor left the room. When we came back on the floor a Nurse really went off of my peer about being off the floor and having patient responsibilities etc. She was not aware that our clinical professor was behind her and some words were exchanged that the Nursing student has a right to a break and in effect the nurse is responsible for the patient etc. Anyways, at post conference that night our clinical professor began to talk to us about the CNA's and the anger that they have with the Nursing students this semester as they have all been told that the Nursing students will not be providing personal morning care/bed making etc, that it is important that we know how to function as a Nurse this semester. Our professor told us that he works with a handful of CNA's that will refuse to make beds, do personal care etc and he has to try to fit it in between his responsibilities, and that he has a handful of CNA's that are so good to work for that he tells them to take a few minutes extra break, lets them take an extra break etc to reward them for their hard work. Is this normal? And please know, that I am NOT bashing the CNA's by no means, last semester there were two in particular that were wonderful to work with and helped me a great deal. I know in a nursing home a CNA is responsible for certain things, and I assumed that in a hospital setting the same thing would apply. I am worried that I will not be able to do my responsibilities as a Nurse plus 3 or 4 bed baths, etc while working on Med Surg.

I continued typing in various searches and found this site, with my flintstone mvi Hope it helps someone else out! http://www.prescribingreference.com/

Hi, I'm working on my first pediatric care plan, and my pt, 5 yo female takes a daily flintstone mvi. I need to know it's classification, action, major contraindication, major adv rxn, nursing implication, and client/family teaching. I looked up mvi in my prentice hall and there is no general mvi, they are all broken down into the various vitamins, I've done multiple generic searches on line, and went to the bayer flintstone website and none of the above info is listed. Does anyone have a site etc that may help me out? THanks!! Jenny

THank you so very much!! That is exactly what I was looking for.

Daytonite, thanks. I should've mentioned that, that is the first place I checked and the pediatric links are no longer available. I will search for VickyRN. Thanks.

Hi, does anyone have a Newborn Assessment form that they would be willing to share with me? THanks!