VenaKavaRN

I'm glad you're having a good experience! I'm also a new grad and am loving my unit, but being a new RN is just tough sometimes. I find the First Year in Nursing forum helpful for those moments, just in case you didn't know about it :) Happy Nursing!

Get everything in writing in the future from this manager! E-mail if you can, make her sign something if you can't. Not to be trusted!

Well, considering a couple letters sometimes means the difference between one drug and another very different drug, I think spelling drug names, if nothing else, is vitally imporant. HOWEVER, I get that this is a discussion board, not a hospital, so ...

No such thing as hypernutremia. I'm guessing hypernatremia is the diagnosis. What are the patient's sodium levels? If they are high, you have your answer for sure. Think about what the word means: Hyper(too much) nutr(food/nutrition) emia(in blood). ...

First of all, congratulations!! Secondly, you might want to consider contacting the nursing deptartment to see if you can set up a meeting with the dean or one of the instructors to go over the material with you since you didn't get a chance to go t...

I think that, to a point, compassion and empathy are things that can also be learned along with the theory. I think that an important part of the clinical experience we get in nursing school is that we get to put faces with all these disorders that w...

I've worked as a CNA in two different nursing homes, and now have been working for 3 years in a hospital. There is a world of difference. I'm not sure what it is, but in my experience nursing homes just aren't for everyone. And I'm not one of the peo...

I'm sorry you're having a bad time I think previous poster is right: just take things one day at a time and you'll make it through in no time. Are you 100% sure you can jump right back in at the end of a year? For my program you'd have to go back on...

I appreciate that you have a busy life outside of work. But do you really need to be on your cell phone right now talking about what soandso said to soandso? I think the last HOUR you were on the phone should have been enough. Oh, and stop looking at...

"Please, for the love of all that is holy, go home and take a BATH!" "It makes me want to vomit when I see your barefoot kids running around on this nasty carpet." "About those barefoot kids, could you possibly take them somewhere else so they don't ...

The amount of excrement is inversely proportional to the amount of time you have to clean it up.

I have a 5-week dry-erase board calendar I use. I get overwhelmed when I think of more than 5 weeks at a time, so it's really all I need to get by. I just erase the week completed, get my syllabi out and put in the necessary information on a rolling ...

I would speak to the clinical instructor as far in advance as you possibly can. It may be possible for you to piggyback on another group for a day to make up the hours. You'll never know until you ask, and most clinical instructors will work with you...

What are you being told to chart? If it's vital signs or intake and ouptut, objective stuff like that, then I'd see no problem with a nursing student doing it. It's if you're being told to do nurse's notes I'd be a little concerned. If you're being e...

I get mine through a program my university has. It's $15 for a year, but I assume that's a special rate. You might call the nursing office and see if they can give you any suggestions on who most of the students use or if there's one they prefer. I t...

Doable, yes. Will you survive with sanity intact? Probably not. Is there another class you could possibly do? Personally I find pharm a LOT easier when I have someone teaching rather than being self-taught.

Google the numbers and see if they could be from the hospital. Usually larger hospitals will all have the same first couple of numbers. Were they both similar numbers? It also depends on how often you give your cell number out. If it's your primary n...

We're learning how in MedSurg1. I think a lot of it depends on your program. You might ask your instructors if it's a concern.

For every disease/disorder, know: Etiology / Risks Pathophysiology Diagnostic tools and labs used, and what values to expect Signs / Symptoms Nursing Management (biggie), this is your assessment, diagnosis, planning, interventions, and evaluation Me...

Well, you can go to school for 8 years if you want to...but I don't.

Yeah, but those are also the ones that look the most tired No really, nothing wrong with getting up 5-10 minutes earlier to make yourself look nice if it's going to make your entire day better. Personally I get a big confidence boost if I know I loo...

Heck of a lot better than my first Care Plan LOL The only thing I can see a problem with is your intervention to administer Dilaudid. Since that's something only a doctor can order, my instructors wouldn't count that as a NURSING intervention. Otherw...

That sounds like stuff you could really only get from the textbook :/ Different textbooks all have different opinions on concepts and elements and things like that. Is there a competing bookstore in the area you could buy the book from? Two weeks is ...

I felt exactly the same way my first semester. I felt like I would never get everything done and that I would fail every check-off. But, I made it, and I did very well grade-wise in the class as well. First semester is the hardest because you haven't...

It takes a lot of practice to feel confident in a clinical setting. I had a problem with being extremely shy around my patients and was really bad at just chatting with them, much less getting their health information. But, I watched what other stude...