bennettsmith

As a new nurse I have this on my mind. Most likely a new grad will at some point violate one of the patient's five rights. We all hope no harm is done if it does happen. Here is what happens in the hospital as a new grad. A new nurse violates one of those rights and say hangs a discontinued antibiotic. The new nurse tells the preceptor and the preceptor flips out, and tells management. management disciplines new nurse, and tells them to find another job. The gossip flies around to everyone about the stupid new nurse who made a huge mistake and is now without a job. The other new nurses find themselves lucky not to be the ones who screwed up. Until, one passes a PO beta blocker to the wrong patient who is hypotensive. The patient codes and almost dies. The new nurse plays dumb and gets away without reporting the mistake. What is wrong with nursing is that there is no one to fix the problem. By eliminating those who come forward and admit mistakes, management is silencing everyone else and creating more problems. I know I am not the first to recognize this. Is this how you think nursing should be?

Do you consider any of the other examples to be at a disadvantage on a test -considering the state of mind they would be in?

So you can choose your family? Just to stray from the original question even further -How would you go about choosing not to have those things?

I understand that the laws are in place to accommodate for those with a learning disability. The thing I do not understand is that in a medical program one has to meet a certain amount of criteria to get through. Everyone is held to the same standards and not everyone makes it through. Those students who give birth mid semester, have full time jobs and family to help stress things out ,or those who deal with family tragedies during the program do not get special treatment. In one way or another we all deserve untimed testing -it is true. So why is it fair to be selective?

Last spring, one student nurse who had seen her grades on the borderline, dropped her classes and came back the fall semester. This time she still found only one of her classes too difficult to pass. so, now,after dropping it for the second time, she is going to be retaking it next semester (these are still the first block of classes). She recently brought it to the teachers attention that she has ADD -she had known about it ,and had been taking her medication for it for a few years now. She said she would not had made the mistakes she had made if she had untimed testing. What do you think? Should the school of nursing allow for untimed testing for those with ADD?

Yeah, the kicker is that I have no Idea what the best response is. Our teacher is good at making us panic. We told her we would give O2 at 2L/h and she looked down and gave no response -which means this question is going to be on the test. PPV seems a little drastic unless we have more info on the pt, call the Dr. is always wrong on the review test, and everyone knows not to put a pt in supine position while they are in resp distress. I never got the reasoning for the time frame on the O2 administration. It seems to make that answer wrong. so, the next best choice would be to call the Dr. and let him/her know what is going on. The bottom line is that I know it is not put the patient in supine -sorry.

a patient dx with emphysema is currently going into respiratory distress. as a nurse you would? A.call the dr. b.give 2L of O2 via nasal cannula for 5 hrs c.provide Positive Pressure Ventilation d. put the patient in a supine position this was an example question that was given during class.

So we got our "study guide" for fundamentals. most of consist of answering questions as vague as "how to portray care ", and "fluid and electrolytes". There are over a hundred-twenty questions like that. So it comes down to test taking strategies. Anyone have any good ones? So far I have the ABC rule, perform the least invasive procedure first, and when in doubt the correct answer is always "c" -haha

I have my EMT-B and I am currently in nursing school. You need to graduate from a certified EMT-B program to sit for the NREMT. There are some similarities in both programs but the regulations are different -you wont see a nurse jump in the ambulance and start driving it around. It is expensive but it is one semester and the experience will be well worth it.

So we are in finals now. We have one teacher who is very ambiguous about what she wants us to do. We thought it was funny at first that forgot what she would tell the class . Now we are wrecked from the experience. She has lost test, given quizzes and then told us they were test scores, marked enough right answers wrong to make the difference between a pass or fail grade,covered mass amounts of material and told us it would be on the test -we never saw a lick of it, she is constantly giving us the wrong dates for exams and quizzes -we walk in studying for the test tomorrow and she gives it that day. We complained about her ,and had her audited. Nothing was done, in fact the students were told they were being disrespectful -not a big shock considering most programs don't want to go through the process of rehiring a new teacher. This teacher has her Masters, she can not be so light headed -at least I hope not. Could it be true that she is that diabolical? I wounder if any other program has that teacher, and what happened ? I just hope I pass her class.

books a million has great resources for nurses. It would not hurt to become familiar with medical abbreviations, basic terminology, how to give a shift report and how to write a care plan. Our first semester they expected us to know it immediately. do the best you can and Don't panic:specs:

Stick with it. You are going to have good days and very very bad days. I found CNA to be a very interesting job for the most part and you will learn lots

I took 100ml divided by 90min = 1.1111111. take the answer and multiply by 60 min to get 66.66666 ml/hr, or 67 ml/hr.

remember, choose you battles.