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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
gillytook replied to scrublifenurse10's topic in General Students
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...
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...
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...
gillytook replied to kingwoodhopeful's topic in General Students
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...
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...