NancyPie

My stance has always been a joint effort. We're all busy.

I wouldalso want to be oriented. I'd hate to need somethin in a hurry and not know where to go

Never would have thought to list my license on my resume, I guess I figured it's implied that I have one. However, you can look up anyone's first and last name and get their license number online so I don't understand the danger inlisting it.

OK, not an Alzheimer's patient... well it is one of his diagnoses but I really don't notice it in him at all. He's HOH even WITH his hearing aides & he had them out. I asked him if he needed help opening his banana. He acted like he hadn't heard ...

I have patients who get offended when I remind them to wash their hands, then refuse to do so.

Working in a nursing home, I've had to return meds for this reason. I always write Patient discharged. At least she was clear? x'D

OMH! OUCH ... wow.... GASP...

Is there a way to edit messages? I would like to clarify that as far as I know she's never been OFF antibiotics in the time that I've known her. If I can edit messages I'll add this to my other comment & delete this one.

I still get out my skills packets from nursing school & go over them. Perhaps not as much as I should. It will definately improve confidence to have them down.

As far as the CNA certificate goes... I really wish I'd done it. While our instructors said that CNAs actually were at a disadvantage as far as the schooling went, I think they've had an easier time finding jobs. Job market is really tight here right...

I know a girl who has been taking antibiotics for 5 years for acne. I think it's insane. I've never seen acne on her worse than mine as a teenager and I considered mine pretty mild. I had a pretty rough time finding products taht would clear up my fa...

This was just the inspiration I needed today. Life will get better. Thank you!

I don't know about Salt Lake, but St. George where I did my clinicals was about the same :)

Haha, don't know if I count as "local" just yet. I"m actually looking to MOVE to Salt Lake soon, I've been job hunting, I have an apartment lined up (it's on my sister's property) but I finally found a job opening I meet the requirements of (I'm a ne...

If a patient's blood were hypernatremic due to rapid water loss (vomiting/diarrhea, except doesn't diarrhea tend to dump sodium too?) adding a hypotonic solution (NA .45%) would dilute the hypernatremia by adding more water than sodium without just d...

I really don't have much advice, other than perhaps loan counseling and budgeting. A budget is essential. Do everything you can to save money to make sure you can make those payments. I feel scared over MY loans because they enter repayment in Novem...

Ever since my first clinicals, I've been getting told that I act as though I'm afraid of the patients, that I'm too hesitant, and that I don't have any confidence in myself. I'm close to graduating, and still getting these kids of performance reviews...

Thanks for the replies! I actually sought advice from some of my classmates and found out I'm not the only one who feels this way! I still need to overcome it, but knowing I'm not alone (though possibly still the worst) helps me feel less ridiculous....

Do you think Jesus would have tried to revive you? ?

That has to be the funniest thing I've read in a long time 🙂 I laughed so hard I started coughing! 😧 eep, hope I'm not sick!

That patient is going to suffer with, or without you. You, as a nurse, have skills to help alleviate some of the suffering, to make things just a little bit better than they would be without you. As one of my instructors likes to say "Who you chose t...

Does anyone know a good online resource for nursing theorists? I have to write a paper on something and incorporate at least one theorist into it, but I don't even know where to start for theory. There's a tiny table of very non-informational summar...

Yes :) It will pass! The only thing keeping most of my class sane right now is the week-by-week countdown we've got going on! Thanks for the encouragement! By no means was I intending to discourage anyone from starting nursing school. It has been, a...

Haha. First semester I laughed it off, I was like hey this isn't so bad, yes It's a ton of homework and studying, but it's no big deal! Second semester was about twice as much work. Third was about even with second, now I'm in fourth semester and I h...

I put some of my tuition and all of my books on a credit card, thinking I could pay it off completely throughout the next two months. Then I lost a significant portion of my hours at work! Plus I had to put new tires on my car, the tread was almost g...