Flutemom

FYI -- In the second quarter the ncsbn is reporting 87.6% pass rate for first time testers.

I work as a hospital educator. We have had more failures this year than any year since I've worked here. We're looking at what to do next for these disappointed new graduates. :studyowl:

Thanks for the information! We currently have 6-7 schools that come to our hospital, so you're right, it does get interesting.

Thanks, pattchez. IT has decided to give them access to chart, but not to meds. Their instructors have to co-sign all their charting. Our students give meds with their instructors. We're using the McKesson system.

We use McKesson. We are currently going live on the computerized documentation part, having already done the barcoding. I was the lead educator on both systems. The staff has been great. It's taken a lot of "rethinking" of how we have traditionally done things, but they are troopers! Feel free to ask questions, however, I did not do the build. Good luck!:icon_smile:

Thanks for the reply. Currently, believe it or not, we have no travelers. IT already limits the students access. They basically have a nurse's aide access. What system do you have? You may e-mail me personally if you like. :)

Many of us have begun the process of starting computeized documentation and medication administration systems. My hospital will go-live next month on documentation having completed barcoding last year. I'm wondering how everyone is dealing with the students who are at your hospital doing clinicals. Do you assign them their own user name and password to pass meds or document? For one, we have found it to be a maintenance nightmare since the students change each semester. Currently, we are only allowing the instructors logins for meds and we haven't decided what we are doing for documentation. I would appreciate your input since this is a new area for staff development. Thanks! Cheryl :typing

I've been a nurse for 10 years, and I remember being a new nurse like it was yesterday. I spent many days questioning myself and thinking everyone's life was in my quite uncapable hands. Then one day a friend told me to stop thinking so much of myself. I thought it was a rather odd comment. But, then she explained that it wasn't up to me to play God and to think that everyone's life was up to me. You may or may not have been able to save that patient had you found them earlier. You can only do the best you can and apply the knowledge and skills that you are building on daily. Including the skills of coping when you think things should've gone differently. I'm teaching my 10 year old when she is overwhelmed with emotions to run or walk to get them out so she can think clearly. Find something that will allow you to "expend" those overwhelming emotions so that you can reassure yourself, logically, that you are doing the best you can, with God's help. Good luck and keep putting one foot in front of the other. Because you care, you're going to be just fine. :welcome: