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  1. Extremely frustrated @ clinicals!

    jjjoy replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    I think that it's simply not fair to EITHER party to assign student nurses to working nurses who are already maxed out and don't have time to explain, double check, etc. A student can appreciate the...

  2. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    I took the GRE and I thought the questions were much more straight forward than NCLEX style questions. They were still challenging, but if you knew the material, you would get the right answer. The...

  3. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    I was thinking that "Challenge the client to alter distorted thought patterns and view self and the world more realistically" was asking way too much of a late stage Alzheimer's patient. That sounds...

  4. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    My point is that questions such as this are testing a person's test-taking abilities more than their comprehension & retention of relevant nursing knowledge. Yes, nurses need to do more than just...

  5. Am I cut out for this??

    jjjoy replied to Britt711's topic in General Students

    There IS much to learn in nursing school, but you don't need to learn it all. That might help take some of the pressure off. Take advantage of opportunities you have as a student, make a pest of...

  6. Too old to stay in dorms

    jjjoy replied to dari98's topic in General Nursing

    My dormmates/co-op-mates were mostly 18-21, but there were a few older, up to over 40, who for various reasons chose to live in the high-rise student housing (convenience, to have a dorm-life...

  7. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    What exactly is this type of question really testing though? It's not testing one's knowledge of Alzheimer's as you're more likely to get the question wrong if you're aware of the difficulty and...

  8. On the fence, need some advice.

    jjjoy replied to WishWaylonWasHere's topic in General Nursing

    What about nursing interests you? What is motivating you to consider leaving the fire department? Just food for

  9. Clinical skills test failure - should I just give up?

    jjjoy replied to chiralgirl's topic in General Students

    Take a good look at yourself... do YOU think your clinicals skills or your performance that day are/were weak enough to merit to failing? If so, would more practice help? If you want to be a nurse,...

  10. What the heck do these people think?

    jjjoy replied to imn2nursin's topic in General Students

    My program had a lot of that (insurmountable amount of reading and self-learning). After awhile, though, I noticed that they didn't really test us on the content of all that reading or what seemed to...

  11. I'm a graduating nursing student...and I know NOTHING!!!!

    jjjoy replied to lostinreality's topic in General Nursing

    Look at it this way, worst case, your preceptor recommends that you not pass. If so, then you get the wonderful opportunity to do another preceptorship next term! That means double the clinical time...

  12. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    Chicookie and Yardbarbie - Would you concede that it's a poorly written question? And that getting it right has little to do with remembering and comprehending various aspects of Alzheimers and the...

  13. I dont want to do this anymore!!!

    jjjoy replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    I started my search at on-line sites like career-builder and looked up a bunch of jobs related to health care that looked interesting or do-able (I, too, was minimally looking for a tolerable position...

  14. Down In The Dumps

    jjjoy replied to wabashcannon's topic in First Year After Licensure

    From my perspective, you sound like you don't really want to practice nursing... and that conflict may be leading to depression. Or maybe not. But let me share my experience. I've struggled with my...

  15. Is Health Care Rationing Needed in the USA?

    jjjoy replied to Neveranurseagain's topic in General Nursing

    Or the limits of your and your family's financial assets? Bone marrow transplant for your child? Can you afford it? It's such a balancing act! At some point, it does have to rest on the individual's...

  16. I love nursing but hate NP school

    jjjoy replied to freedom22's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have your experience, Freedom22, but I feel where you are coming from and want to support you in your questioning of nursing education. While some programs ARE more clinically-based, it seems...

  17. Is Health Care Rationing Needed in the USA?

    jjjoy replied to Neveranurseagain's topic in General Nursing

    Medicare does control costs by underpaying providers. And that's a problem. But I don't know what the solution is either. Between the costs of developing, producing and running new technologios and...

  18. Is Health Care Rationing Needed in the USA?

    jjjoy replied to Neveranurseagain's topic in General Nursing

    A person can easily come up with similar anecdotes of Americans who couldn't access needed care because their insurance denied coverage or the like. I'm not saying that means their systems are better,...

  19. Is Health Care Rationing Needed in the USA?

    jjjoy replied to Neveranurseagain's topic in General Nursing

    The actual alternative isn't really any better, though, is it? Just a simple denial of coverage for the lung cancer drugs (since the chance of their substantially increasing the length or quality of...

  20. Why does nursing school cram the material?

    jjjoy replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Students

    Don't worry, you'll spend hours on bedmaking, explicitly documenting why you've diagnosed "self-care deficit" for a patient, and writing the rationales for getting someone up out of bed. Then you'll...

  21. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    Nerdtonurse - I think you hit the nail on the head. The fact that the instructor specifically noted that it was late stage Alzheimers is what can throw off an otherwise knowledgable student. But I do...

  22. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    To me this kind of distraction IS a trick. Why set up a scenario specifically with an Alzheimers patient only to test if, in general, a student is aware that humor is okay to use in some situations -...

  23. This was a question on our test today. What do you think the answer is?

    jjjoy replied to APRNReneeJ's topic in General Students

    Having the "correctness" of an answer hinge upon how a person interprets a word like "challenge" doesn't seem like a good way to test a person's knowledge of Alzheimers, nursing care, or critical...

  24. Care Plan Help for Self Care Deficit - Dressing

    jjjoy replied to nurseswearscrubs's topic in General Nursing

    I get that care plans help to break it all down and build it back up again... assessment of needs, appropriate interventions, rationales, goal-setting. That's great and useful. I don't think, though,...

  25. graduate in 3 months & I don't know anything?

    jjjoy replied to stewiegriffin's topic in General Students

    My school had similar restrictive policies about practicing skills on patients that weren't assigned to you and without the clinical instructor there. And with usually just 2-3 patients a week, it was...