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Kringe38

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  1. Thanks you guys for all the kind replies. I guess I'm kind of a germ freak anyway, I know I don't know ANYTHING, and some of the other students were saying, "Oh, no, I have kids, I can't take care of...
  2. I thought there could be spores around the room, depending on if the patient has not washed thoroughly and then touched things in the room, even just the bed rails, with dirty hands (if ambulatory) or...
  3. Yeah, that's definitely another possibility. I guess that could happen anytime, whether student or nurse. I think one of my instructors said something about having taken care of a patient for a...
  4. Oh yes, soap and water is what I will be using. I'm just surprised that the CDC site, which should be pretty reliable, has such a strange recommendation on there that partially contradicts everything...
  5. That's the thing. I am trying to be more informed so I know exactly what is recommended. I just don't see much on CDC's website about specifically what a nursing student would do. Seems to talk...
  6. What do you do with your stethoscope? Would there probably be one for use with that patient? I guess I'm just having a mental adjustment but I feel like I'm going to walk out of the unit with spores...
  7. Funny that I come to this thread and see this post right while I'm ticked about this very subject. I don't have kids (and won't ever) and seem to be in a class full of parents and it gets very...
  8. First Clinical This Week...Any Advice?

    How do you know when the patient would just like to be alone? We will be with them so much since we will only have one patient - how do you know when to just get out and let them be for a bit? Do you...
  9. 1st clinical day!

    I'm in first semester of an ADN program. No prior experience. We had pharm for the first 8 weeks and just did the final exam for that this week. Have to pass that to move on to clinicals, plus have...
  10. I'm sure every instructor and program was different, but I'm just wondering - my first clinical is coming up soon and I'm a nervous wreck. We will be doing a nursing home the first time out and will...
  11. What was your first clinical like?

    I'm at a community college too, a 2-year ADN
  12. What was your first clinical like?

    eeek, scary! i don't think i will be very smooth with those things. giving someone a bath is so private! i don't want to be too intrusive for what they can do themselves but also don't want to...
  13. Haven't been to clinical quite yet so can't say how it will be, but our ratio is going to be 1:10. However, one of our groups will be 1:9 and the group I am in will be
  14. How are you holding up with school?

    Ha! I'm not in an accelerated program, just in my first semester of a regular old ADN program, but I keep having similar thoughts. I asked to be put through this?! What was I thinking? LOL. Mostly...
  15. Patient or Client?

    I'm in nursing school now and our instructors refer to "clients." It sounds odd to me because I've been a medical transcriptionist for more than a decade and any nurses and doctors I've ever taken...
  16. Hepatitis B series problem (student)

    No waiver option. I'm going to keep trying but I'm kind of scared. I'm getting squeezed between the school and the doctors! One doctor suggested I go back to my doctor and get referred to the...
  17. I was accepted into an ADN program beginning this August. Got my acceptance letter in May. They accepted me knowing that I hadn't even started the hep B series yet. I've had my first two and now...
  18. Hepatitis B series problem (student)

    They are being very hard line about it after I talked to them today. I can't believe this is happening. They won't budge and insist that it isn't harmful to get it before the 6 months and that it is...
  19. I'm just not having any luck learning to take someone's BP. I'm not too smooth with counting pulse and respirations, either. Does this mean I am doomed or can I still learn? We're having vital sign...
  20. So...theoretically she should have been able to hear it with the larger cuff, which is what she was using. In the classroom, the students who supposedly couldn't hear it on me were using a smaller,...
  21. I haven't got an extra large cuff at home but the instructor had my classmate use one on me. Does cuff size make a difference in the ease of hearing it? It's my understanding that a too-tight cuff...
  22. I am going to get hold of some "victims" today and practice what you said. I am pretty obese so maybe this is why, but the instructor acted like she did hear my top number at least once but went...
  23. I've practiced on my parents and on some of the other students. I never feel confident. I was hoping practicing at home with my own cuff would make me more confident but it has
  24. Apparently a Single Jab Will Do Ya

    This at least is some good news.
  25. I'm getting better with the pulses and actually did that part of the check-off okay but did not pass the BP check-off. I'm so mad and sad at the same time. Someone will go over it with me one-on-one...