Torchwood

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1. Medical Marijuana Opinions

   Torchwood replied to SL2014's topic in Arizona Nursing

   Meh, either way is fine with me. If people can handle doing drugs and be normal, more power to them. If they cannot and it ruins their life, oh

2. Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

   Torchwood replied to brownhairedgal's topic in General Students

   I feel it is good for the student. They need to have better ideas of what a patient goes thru. We had to bath each other. Thats all. In shorts and t-shirt. It should have been a full bath. We did...

3. My frustration with inconsiderate classmates

   Torchwood replied to Two Sheds's topic in General Students

   I was 35 when I went to nursing school. My mid-life crisis was to help people. The age of what I call "bad students" ran the gauntlet. Older people who felt to important to be bothered with rules....

4. Mind Boggling - Not going to graduation?

   Torchwood replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

   If I had not been a speaker at graduation I would have tried to not be there. I cannot stand all the pomp. I paid to be in school and did well for me. To those that feel it is important, thats awsome....

5. What would you have said to this CNA

   Torchwood replied to zofran's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I think I would have laughed. Then told her she could go home now. I understand being caught offguard and being run ragged all day though. The language and attitude, and refusal to follow directions...

6. Nursing and abortions

   Torchwood replied to breakinglightx's topic in General Nursing

   I think it would be rare to see, much less be forced to help with in most hospitals. I am pro-life, but if I worked somewere that performed abortions, I would do my job and assist if call on. There...

7. "LPNs should be done away with altogether"

   Torchwood replied to missjennmb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   There are LPN programs with a college education, and there are trade school RN schools. You can go LPN to RN with a couple of weeks of clinicals and online classes. I have met RN's who are not at a...

8. "LPNs should be done away with altogether"

   Torchwood replied to missjennmb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Not toss us out. Up the training, make PN's become RN's, up the training on CNA as well. Have two levels of well trained persons. How many people see CNA's doing lpn work, and lpn's doing rn work?...

9. "LPNs should be done away with altogether"

   Torchwood replied to missjennmb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Yes, lol, And I still feel that way. And my level of skill anywere I go seems to be, everything and Aid does, and half of what an RN does. Call me a CNA with better pay, or a RN with poor pay. Lets...

10. Nervous over possible termination

    Torchwood replied to funsizedliv's topic in General Nursing

    If you never make mistakes, your not really a nurse. That being said, for 5 days in a row of errors, you are either careless, or overwhelmed. It sounds like overwhelmed. To many, to much, of...

11. "LPNs should be done away with altogether"

    Torchwood replied to missjennmb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Mahoganybbw I agree, there are excellent LPN's, I would say most of them. My thought is, Do we really need 3 levels of Nursing, CNA, PN, RN. LPN's are often doing a combination of a CNA's job, and...

12. Now its getting outta HAND !

    Torchwood replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    I had an instructor that would wander off into herbal medicine talks and forget the Meds lecture. Same one who told us all mental problems came from the body being to acidic from fried foods. In...

13. "LPNs should be done away with altogether"

    Torchwood replied to missjennmb's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    The LPN is a better trained CNA that gets stuck doing RN level work at times. They need to increase CNA training and pay them better, cut out LPN like several countries have, and have CNA's and RN's...

14. Should a nursing instructor tell a student they are not nursing material.

    Torchwood replied to motivated2nurse's topic in General Students

    I remember an instructor telling one of my fellow students they would never pass the Nclex, or be a good nurse. Of course they let her make it till near the end of school before bothering to tell her...

15. Are Student Nurses Prepared for "Real Life?'

    Torchwood replied to paperdreams's topic in General Nursing

    School seldom makes you ready for the real world. I knew some poor students, I had some good clincal rotations, and some were I made a point to forget everything I learned at that rotation, for fear...