Nepenthe Sea

Nepenthe Sea

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  1. OH NO! the A & P classes are FULL!

    Just call some professors and explain your position. So many people drop out those first few weeks that the classes won't stay full for
  2. Yes, textbooks are great for helping with insomnia. When I start getting tired, I try to lift weights for a minute, or do crunches or something active to take a break and get some blood and O2 pumping...
  3. Can nurses have piercings?

    We can't have any piercings in during clinicals or lab check-offs or when we pick up our patient assignment the day before clinicals. We can have the retainers in as far as I know. The ones that I...
  4. depression & nursing school

    All of you just hang in there a little while longer and see how it goes! I know it's stressful and overwhelming. The work won't get any easier, but you will get more used to the pace of school, and...
  5. Text Messaging During Lecture

    I completely understand what you're saying. It's just rude. And I can't believe how few people seem to get by a few hours without texting anymore. Like you said, I guess I'm just "old". Oh
  6. Try doing a search on here, because I have gotten LOTS of good ideas from the geniuses on this forum :). I take me stethoscope, pen light, non-gel ink pens, fine point sharpie marker, tiny notebook,...
  7. And yes, wash your hands with soap and water, instead of using the hand
  8. Yeah, right! I took care of a C-diff patient that wasn't mine, so I didn't know he had it until I had been helping him out for awhile. HE had to tell me he had it because it was not posted on his door...
  9. I'm just curious about this. I know that NS is different from the real worls, and that we will see nurses doing things that we were taught differently and all, but....I did my first four week rotation...
  10. Anybody else seeing this at clinicals?

    Well, I don't think she said much. She was present for the dressing changes where the nurse stuck her hand inside the trashcan, and she knows about all the other stuff. She agrees that it isn't right,...
  11. Do you actually wear gloves/gowns/masks ?

    This I understand, and have done the same. But I am talking about someone who has MRSA and is on contact AND droplet precautions (pt. had pneumonia), and when I first encountered this patient, the...
  12. Anybody else seeing this at clinicals?

    I crossposted about this over in the general nursing forum, and most say this is not normal or right. But of course, there are a couple who say that it's not realistic to gown and mask up every single...
  13. Anybody else seeing this at clinicals?

    Yeah, a wound care nurse at the facility I mentioned previously was changing dressings, and would put her gloved hand INSIDE of a trashcan and pull it over to her, and continue to change the dressing...
  14. Do you actually wear gloves/gowns/masks ?

    Oh, and to be fair to the facility, I did wonder if it might be due to budget cuts. When we were there they kept having to get more gowns and I would hear them explaining why they needed more, as if...
  15. Do you actually wear gloves/gowns/masks ?

    Unfortunately, no, most of the time the nurses were not just walking in to check something. In fact, the first time I met my MRSA+ patient the nurses were in there giving him a bath, no gown or mask...
  16. First Semester Clinicals--anyone else need to vent?

    Yep. I felt like an idiot, too. And I happened to be sick the first week, so I was not even close to being at my best. Then I stayed up literally all night finishing my first care plan. The next...
  17. Looking for Amarillo College Students

    intro on mondays is a 3-hr. class, skills on tuesdays is 2 hrs. intro is morning or afternoon, and they didn't let us pick - they chose for us. skills is in four different sections, and once again,...
  18. In my city there is an ADN program at our community college, and a BSN program at the university. The university has been on probation for the last 3 years for having a low NCLEX pass rate. The CC...
  19. Looking for Amarillo College Students

    No, no nights or weekends. The first two semesters have classes Mon. and Tues., and that's all I
  20. Does anyone here like nursing school?

    I, too, was a honeymooner, until about halfway through the summer, and then I started getting anxious about starting clinicals. I LOVE school, and I don't mind being busy, but on a day like today,...
  21. How are you holding up with school?

    Oh, yeah, and as far as dealing with the stress...nothing makes your BP skyrocket like learning about hypertension and how bad stress is for that, etc. I'm trying to do alot of deep breathing,...
  22. How are you holding up with school?

    I'm doing well academically, so far. I made an 88 on the F&E test, which killed alot of people in my class. I passed my dosage cal test on the first try, and my med administration check-off. I...
  23. Looking for Amarillo College Students

    Of all stupid things...my kids actually DID come down with hand foot and mouth disease this week!! Luckily I didn't have clinicals. I kept thinking about this post after they were
  24. Looking for Amarillo College Students

    What a small
  25. What do you do in Med_Surg

    Its the same for us. Just three semesters of disorders of the different body systems and all that goes along with it. Then we have critical care, which I hear will be more complex cardiovascular and...