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  1. Rough Night

    My last shift was the closest I have ever come to quitting in my life. I arrived on shift to 8 patients. The 9th came up while I was getting report. A patient who had been on the floor for two hours...
  2. Whats the deal with all the crying?!?!....

    I cried three times. The first was the second week of my first hospital rotation when my patient who had just decided to become DNR had a stroke. I told the nurse my findings (one pupil 7-8 cm the...
  3. Sad..lost another!

    We lost a student the day before graduation on the final. She came to pinning to pin a fellow student and we gave her a standing ovation. She is back in school this semester and since she missed by 1...
  4. 1. In the morning greet each patient with a smile and a warm washcloth. 2. Remember Maslow's heirachy. If you aren't meeting there most basic of needs, then it doesn't matter to them if you are...
  5. I am so excited. I begin my new job at a rural hospital Monday. They just added a new ER so instead of 2 rooms they have 8 rooms including 2 trauma rooms and 4 isolation rooms. There is a 27 bed...
  6. I used Saunders Q&A and Pearson. Saunders was great for focusing in on NCLEX style questions for each topic. However I loved Pearson's review materials. I got it late in my program and we studied...
  7. Catheterization problems

    Practise and figure out which side of the dummie works for you. I am right handed so I stand with my left hand toward the patient's head because it is the hand I am going to contaminate when I go to...
  8. Digital Textbooks?

    New textbooks come with a code and/or infomation about their online resource. Most of mine had full content online so could copy picture, illusrtations and charts directly into my notes. A couple of...
  9. What Helped you Survive Care Plans?

    Other than time consuming, they were relatively easy once as I understood them. Just remember what consumed the most of your time or was your primary focus while you were caring for you patient. That...
  10. Organization Help

    I had all my reference books on PDA. It was alot easier to carry to class, lab and clinicals. Plus I had it right at my patients bedside to look up any questions. All my reading, assignments, exams,...
  11. should a person work if they don't have to while in school?

    As a new grad of a ADN program, I just interveiwed for a staff nursing position and they counted my time as a PCS in the hospital as experience because it gave me the knowledge of what goes into...
  12. Can I get into Nursing school with a 3.47 overall GPA?

    Depends on the program and the competition to get into it. My local BSN program required a 3.0 but rarely admitted anyone with less than 3.5. The community college had a waiting list and as long as...
  13. What makes Nursing school hard?

    Most programs will not let you take just one nursing class at a time. In each semester they are usually all require to be taken at the same time. Even with all my core classes completed before I began...
  14. Drug Testing Question, new student

    Yes programs do test randomly throughout. Every week or so a handful of students would be held after class for random drugs tests. My name was never called. But it could have been so I was careful to...
  15. When a past patient passes away

    It would also be appropriate to give a donation in is name especially to an organization that he received support from. It is perfectly nature to feel to way you do. There were certain patients that I...