Julie_Bean

you just use air to check patency

Start applying NOW!!!

You could also address the issue of non hands on health care workers wearing scrubs. Its discussed in another thread in here.

Wow Glad I read this thread! I'm sure I'll have to deal with this sort of thing sooner or later. I'll be a little more prepared for now!

It bothers me some as well. I'd rather see the office personel or secretarys in business casual dress and have the techs/cna/ma in a designated color as well. Where I work even house keeping gets to wear scrubs. WHen I first started there they had a housekeeping like uniform. That was MUCH better!

Thanks all of you! I feel much better!

this is today breakfast: yogurt smooth drink & granola bar Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and granola bar dinner: lunchable and one reeses peanut butter cup that is a crappy example of my normal routine. I usually eat better (just a little).

I agree its too much if you can still smell it after they left or you can smell any further out from them than 1-2 feet but I love it! Its a pleasant surprise after wiping stinky butts all day and dealing with the other gross smells.

last week at the hospital I work at because my doc is there. I was volume depleted from food poisoning and needed IV fluids. Anyway I was so embarressed going in there because I looked like total crap. that food poisoning REALLY whooped my behind. Right before going to the doc's I was trying to get out of my bed real slow because i had orthostatic hypotension REALLY bad. When i got to sitting position i got that quick urge that the diarrhea was on its way (again) and right after that the vomitting occured so yep, I sh*t myself, pissed myself and vomitted all at the same time and then passed out back onto the bed. Too add to the humiliation at that point I was at my fiance's house in his bed with him sitting next to me the entire time. (He would make such a good nurse but I can't convince him to go for it.) I got cleaned up and made it to the docs looking white as a ghost wearing an old t shirt, my fiances scrub bottoms (humongous on me) and no socks with my tennis shoes because I had puked on those earlier. And this is how I was admitted to the hospital also. I hoped so bad no one would recognize me but of course they did. Luckily it was only a few people. I was so embarressed seeing the people I work with looking so horribly and disheveled. I think the whole experience is going to make me a better nurse (I just graduated in Dec. and passed NCLEX in Jan.). Before this, had I been the nurse of a girl coming in looking the way I did I would have thought something that wasn't the truth about them. Just thought I would share my story. Maybe it will make a difference for some of the rest who haven't had the unfortunate experience of being a patient yet.

ok I got 75 questions. find out if I pass tomorrow woot!

my school had a fake hospital day where we wore shorts and tank tops or short sleeves to practice baths but we only did the extremities. We also had to feed one another and brush each others teeth. We had a lot of fun with it though. I can't imagine having to get completely naked or even down to underwear.... EEEEKKK! Thats priviledged or need to know basis only and my fellow students at the time were neither.

At my hospital only ICU has done this (thats where I work) I know of one other hospital that I had clinicals at where RNs were one color, techs another and housekeeping another. I liked it alot.

There is a gym available at my hospital from 7p to 7a. during the day it is used for cardiac rehab and other PT and rehab stuff BUT of all the people that are employed at my hospital hardly anyone takes advantage of this and there is plenty of room and exercise equipment!

I originally wanted to be an accountant when I started college after H.S. I worked part time at a sears call center for delivery while pursuing accounting and realized I didn't want to be stuck at a desk all day helping people get rich or low ball customers so I quite going to school and starting working full time in a different dept for a bit. Took about 6 months to goof off and figure out I really needed to get back into school when I started hunting around for another part time job. My best friend at the time worked as a PCT at a hospital near by in ICU and got me a job there PRN. It didn't take much longer for me to realize I JUST HAD TO BE A NURSE! I had never felt so good about myself and what I did at any job I had ever had before working as a PCT. It also made feel like I actually made a difference and what I did is important there and would be missed if I called in sick. I was excited to go to work because no day was the same and I never knew how things were going to go. Nursing was appealing because it would keep me in that same position and make me enough money to support myself as beind independent is also very important to me and to have independence in my work as well. So I just graduated from an ADN program in December, start my nurse orientation at the same hospital I've been working at as a tech for the lst 3 years next week and take my boards Jan 22nd. Wish me luck!

I was 22 when I started in the nursing program, 24 when I graduated.

found a good thread on the air thing https://allnurses.com/forums/f27/help-iv-not-properly-flushed-69692.html?highlight=bubble

lol ^ at leat they are learning delegation ...... j/k

ask for feedback, if you are doing ok overall etc. and the bubble thing.... we were taught that too but before getting out of clinicals nurses were teaching me ways to trouble shoot air in the IV line. I don't know for myself but apparently tiny bubbles are ok in peripheral lines as long as they aren't large bubbles and/or = more than 3ml. This is what I was told. But its not a good idea to disconnect it and let it run till all the bubbles are out, especially if its an expensive antibiotic. you'd be out money and the right dose.

11 any free time you have, use it to study because chances are something else will come up that will require your attention and you don't want to be stuck cramming or missing info for a test.

I took out private studen loans for my adn because I just couldn't live at home anymore. I am about 36k( for 3 semesters) in debt from it all and don't have my monthly payments yet as I don't have to start paying it back until 6 months after I graduate. I could have gotten away with less but I didn't want to live in the ghetto by myself so I paid about 200$ more or so on a nice apt per month. I didn't work much because it would have stressed me out having to be on the boarderline of pass/fail every time I take a test. A lot of people I was in school with played that game all through the program and a lot flunked out semesters because of working too much.

I take it the 22nd but everyone in that graduated with me that has already taken it passed after 75 questions!

Is it really super detailed? I wouldn't imagine that it would be. I didn't have to take the Hesi to get at the time I was applying, just that net test thing. Did have to take Hesi as an exit exam though.

O MY GOSH!!!!! WOW I'm stunned! That is so wrong to push your religion on some one else on so many different levels and especially in a nurse patient relationship! EEEKKK!!! I would be outraged and ask for another nurse if I had that issue with a nurse! especially now knowing that the teach very stictly against this in school and that it is our job to respect pt rights in this area and their autonomy. and I am one that would be likely to come across this issue as I am athiest but If i had a patient that was about to die and wanted me to hold their hand or something in prayer I would but not bow my head like I do any other time I am in this situation but still be there with them to provide that comfort and care to them.

Thank you! I graduated from El Centro, which has a really good rep around here. Lots of my classmates went to parkland ER and L&D and other top ER s in the area. Only thing I heard personally in regards to competition with other schools was from two classmates earlier in the program when they were applying for an extern at methodist dallas. He said they had to get checked off on a sterile procedure (forgot if it was just one or which one it was. think it was foley catheter or sterile dressing change though) and he said they did fine and weren't worried about it but the people he was waiting with that were from TWU were really freaked out and took a long time to do the procedure and that the two of them were done quick. El centro, brookhaven and northlake cram skills down your throat and prepare you REALLY good for hospital floor type positions whereas, and this is only what I have heard, the university students don't get as much emphasis on skills and get more nurse theory education and management prep.

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