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Just to let you guys know i found out today that i passed.............WEHEY Congrats!!!! :yeah:
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Smiling blue eyes, sorry can't take the credit for that, found it in an old post, and just brought it up to current, thought it may have been missed by some.
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Listen, Patient I know you are hungry and cannot feed yourself. I will assist you as soon as I finish suctioning this trach in the room next door and getting a pain shot for your roomate. I did not know that dietary left your food tray out of reach. I am sorry, thank-you for being so patient. The doctor wanted me to push fluids, but my nursing assistant called in sick and I haven't had time to refill the water pitchers, yet. I would get written-up if I tell you just how short staffed we are today. I will get to it as soon as I can, I promise. I hear that you are having financial difficulties, but they just eliminated several social worker positions and we have no financial consultant at this facility. I will try to find out what other resources are out there to help you. I am a well educated, well spoken nurse, but when I speak nobody seems to listen. You would rather wait and see what the doctor has to say. Another of my patients died today. No family was present. I stayed to hold her hand, so she wouldn't have to die alone. I want to cry, but I have to get home to my kids and get dinner on the table. I hope you don't mind my wrinkled scrubs or the fact that I haven't been to a beauty parlor in months, but I had to work another double shift last night. I want to help you and take care of you, but sometimes I am tired, lonely, and afraid of what is happening to our healthcare system. Caring for you is the reason I became a nurse, but it is getting hard. I hope you understand. RN
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Embarrassing, yet not my most. When I was an LPN in and an RN student I was working nights (going to school in the day) How do we ever get thru that anyway? So I am charting (you know that stuff you do at 0530 when you are sleep deprived and sometimes you write right off the page cuz you dozed off?) Well...... I had a patient expire and was charting that "postmortem care was given", but I charted "postpartum care was given" I was called into a meeting and asked why? and how?? Oh my GAWD, I had OB on my mind... Go figure???
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It's not really gross in comparrison to the others yet depends which end your on. I was working outpatient clinic and the doc was doing a PAP on a very obese woman. tipped the scale at 400. anyhow, one of the tricks of the trade with the speculum to hold some of the adipose in the lady partsl cavity is to put a condom on the speculum, cut off the tip in order to view the cervix. Still with me? Ok, so we are in doing the exam and the vag light quits working, the doc instructed me to hold the speculum in place while he went to get another light. Somehow the patient repositioned and tipped the exam table over, so when the doc walks in, I am under the patient, my head resting nicely in her crotch. YUK!!!! Guess I over responded to protect the patient.
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What an interesting topic!!!! zumalong you and I have an almost identical experience and I could not agree more. One point I want to make is that nurses deserve the best in their education and I am not sure that this is understood by all institutions. There is more to teaching than the degree, yet nurses deserve both the competent and experienced instructor. How can you teach about geriatric care, yet never taken care of a geriatric patient? Yet how do you write a lesson plan without the know how to? Even at the CNA teaching level the instructor must have 1 year experience in adult teaching in state funded facilities. In reality a bulk of the learning takes place after completion of the program. This is true. I was fortunate enough in my education to have the effective instructor both in experience and in effective teaching skills. I am very concerned about some of the nurses I have worked with recently who are new graduates and do not understand the basic principles of infection control and patient care. Now is this the individual or the nursing programs fault? If you were not taught it, can you expect to know it? This absolutely does not apply to all new grads, just making the point that teaching/learning should be effective and this involves prepared instructors. I am going to stop now, because one thing I do know, is that the longer to post the less likely it is to be read thru. :stone
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Hey new here, hang in with me, I'll get it. Believe it or not I could walk to work. I live approx .5 miles from where I work, but do I? NO:chuckle Should I? well.... maybe, but why?