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  1. Good Thinking Workshop

    jjjoy replied to my4helpers's topic in General Students

    I'd call it "test-taking strategies" or "prep for nursing exams" as opposed to "good thinking." In my experience, "good thinking" (or real critical thinking) sometimes seemed to make it *more*...

  2. Not Enough Clinical Experience

    jjjoy replied to b33again's topic in General Students

    i think we do mostly agree! : ) since i am personally much stronger in analysis than in application, i just tend to find the advice "oh, you'll pick that up in no time; don't worry about it!"...

  3. Not Enough Clinical Experience

    jjjoy replied to b33again's topic in General Students

    I agree that a unit secretary job, depending on the facility and exact job description, could be *very* useful for someone going into nursing. It's not hands on clinical care, but the exposure to the...

  4. Not Enough Clinical Experience

    jjjoy replied to b33again's topic in General Students

    heck, by that logic, why be so impressed with just about any skill or service out there? the majority of services provided in the world can be done by anyone with enough practice, can't they? much of...

  5. Not Enough Clinical Experience

    jjjoy replied to b33again's topic in General Students

    It's frustrating enough to get minimal quality intensive clinical experience as a student; it irritates me even more when given the assurance "no one expects you to be able to do all that" and "don't...

  6. Why are Nursing Programs so Cruel to Students

    jjjoy replied to soon_2Bnurse's topic in LPN to RN

    Get the frustration of it off your chest and then get going to do whatever it is you need to do to finish this thing despite the obstacles - which is what you are probably doing anyway. Why do some...

  7. New Grad Wanting....No NEEDING extra days, Am I wrong? (long post)

    jjjoy replied to jaznia15's topic in Nursing Career

    If you won't be able to pick up extra shifts right away, maybe you can come up with some other potentially-income producing activities for your days off? How about child care for neighbor/friends'...

  8. Why are Nursing Programs so Cruel to Students

    jjjoy replied to soon_2Bnurse's topic in LPN to RN

    My school was certainly quick to put a person on warning to fail status for what could seem to be very minor, easily correctable issues or contestable borderline grades (such as the example the OP...

  9. feeling frustrated by AN posts and second guessing myself

    jjjoy replied to jlpsu's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like you've had more exposure to 'real' nursing than many, even those with family in the field. It sounds like you've been right on the front line already and probably have a much better...

  10. feeling frustrated by AN posts and second guessing myself

    jjjoy replied to jlpsu's topic in General Nursing

    Volunteering can definitely be a benefit. I wouldn't discourage it at all. I'd still strongly recommend CNA training and hands on patient care as an aide if that's a reasonable option. That would...

  11. feeling frustrated by AN posts and second guessing myself

    jjjoy replied to jlpsu's topic in General Nursing

    It certainly can be disheartening. Can you get some first hand exposure to real-life nursing, such as working as a nursing assistant in a hospital? Even better if you can float as a CNA to see...

  12. Time to call a duck a duck?

    jjjoy replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Interesting perspective. To me it comes back to what *is* nursing care. As you note nursemike many nurses do something besides bedside care... are those other roles also providing nursing care? Is an...

  13. considering nursing, part-time, nontraditional roles?

    jjjoy replied to lauramomof4's topic in Nursing Career

    Best wishes to you as map out a plan! It sounds like you will work something out! You say you've been in MT, maybe also look into other areas in Health Information Management. Working with information...

  14. Major in nursing and minoring in Psychology?

    jjjoy replied to Kenanipel's topic in General Students

    In many US universities, one doesn't just "major in"nursing, they enter the "nursing program" which is a very structured series of nursing courses and clinical experiences that each cohort of a very...

  15. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Guilty as

  16. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    ADPIE is a problem solving process that works very well without the D. This particular format of problem solving works well for nursing. It also works for problem-solving in many other areas as well....

  17. Who is finding nursing school way easier than you were told it would be?

    jjjoy replied to SayNoTo DNC's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I kinda felt this way. It's not that more information wasn't in the official curriculum, but there was That is, somewhere in the thousands of pages of reading surely was lots of useful information....

  18. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for sharing! (and enjoy your 6 weeks!) Thing is, what is the difference between 'diagnosing' diarrhea and nausea and simply having made the observation of diarrhea and nausea? It sounds to me...

  19. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    msn10- question here... can you specifically identify which ND helped in this case and how it helped lead to an answer? I just reviewed a list of NANDA approved ND and I'm not seeing how NDs would...

  20. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    I appeciate the exchange msn10 and hope I'm not coming across as snarky either. My perception is that most people find NDs to actually HINDER communication between health care providers. If one nurse...

  21. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Again, what about the fact that the use of the term 'diagnosis' in ND only further muddies the water? A cancer pt undergoing chemo has thrown up after eating several times. ND: Altered nutrition (or...

  22. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    First off, thanks for the interesting & civil dialogue! Lots of food for thought! Are you suggesting, though, that nurses would have been more likely to figure out the cause of the illness? Are...

  23. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Many, many nurses work in settings where at least one known medical diagnosis is a primary reason for the patient's visit. Yet some instructors of ND would force linguistic contortions in attempts to...

  24. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    hmm... knowledge deficit is a nursing diagnosis. by that logic, does it mean that only a nurse can formally address this issue? and it kind of sounds unnecessarily exclusionary as well. maybe that's...

  25. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    jjjoy replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    I think you make some good points here. A nurse is informed that pt has PAD, they draw upon their knowledge of pathophys and then "diagnose" impaired tissue perfusion? That's how we were taught ND....