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  1. Video Taping Nursing Students ?

    redtshirt replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    My college has this. We teamed up with our partner to do simple skills like moving a patient from bed to chair, or checking vital signs, or feeding. (It was first year). It was video taped and the...

  2. Palliative care in the elderly

    redtshirt posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    At the moment im working in an acute medical elderly unit. There are a lot of patients who on admission are discussed with family and team and decided how far interventions should go with the...

  3. advice ot break in shoes?

    redtshirt posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a new pair of black leather lace up shoes for work. I cannot break the dam things in. I have insoles in them, and a heel protector. I have tried two pairs of socks and alternating them with...

  4. Palliative care in the elderly

    redtshirt replied to redtshirt's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Sorry it took me so long to get back. We use the subcut fluids in people who we can no longer get IV access to, its a butterfly needle secured as you would with a clear plastic dressing so you can...

  5. nursing students' errors, malpractice and negligence

    redtshirt replied to papu's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    students should be supervised enough not to work outside their scope of practice. Ive only hear of two incidents in my course and those stupids are just st**pid one was suctioning a baby unsuperivsed...

  6. Palliative care in the elderly

    redtshirt replied to redtshirt's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Well a peaceful death is more what we are aiming for. It does make me feel better to know the patient is dying from a disease process instead of starvation though. She wont attempt a swallow at all....

  7. Help with Chest Tubes Please!!!

    redtshirt replied to Nursey103's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The ones i have dealt with have been attached to wall suction (using adifferent adaptor than the normal suction unit). This draws out the air/fluid whatever theyre trying to get rid of. The step...

  8. advice ot break in shoes?

    redtshirt replied to redtshirt's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    thanks! ill try

  9. Need help in time management in clinical days

    redtshirt replied to momreserve's topic in General Students

    One of the places ive been to is a very busy major surgical unit(vascular, amputations and GI. Every second day was theatre day. So if it was a theatre day youd get your theatre patients ready first...

  10. Nike Shox

    redtshirt replied to Julie_RN2b's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    nike shox are a bit of a gimic if you want nike go for something like vomero or structure triax muxh more support in

  11. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    redtshirt replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    we were told that we had to pay for our vacinations or we wouldnt be allowed train in our teacing hospital.......they dont pay us for our training and in total we do 48 weeks of 35 hours in our...

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

    redtshirt replied to stewiegriffin's topic in General Students

    We're in a job where we will never stop learning. Opportunities dont always arise when your a student and theres always someone you can ask if youre unsure. ( i feel the exact same as

  13. Sharing information

    redtshirt replied to miss_c's topic in General Students

    Theres no room for mooching marys esp if you did all the work and they didnt. Get over the guilt youve other things to focus on! If i was you id be very proud of my work...theyre all

  14. Going to have a student!

    redtshirt replied to ShayRN's topic in General Students

    your enthusiatic and dont run away from us students so youre off to a great start! If theyre senior they should have a fair amount of knowledge anyways just ease her into it let her know the routines...

  15. Wish me luck, please!!

    redtshirt replied to RNin10's topic in General Students

    Good

  16. Specialized Nursing - How decide before graduating?

    redtshirt replied to spudpatch's topic in General Students

    i wanted to to ED but i feel like i need to get my skills up first to my plan was to work on med/surg then move up to a busier surgical ward see how i handle the pressure and then decided if i wanted...

  17. lack of respect for students

    redtshirt posted a topic in General Students

    Hey all, Havent been here in a while. Ive just started my internship year for nursing so im staff but unregistered meaning ive to wear my student uniform. In the last two weeks theres been four...

  18. Procrstination/ Reflective writing

    redtshirt posted a topic in General Students

    So i have a research project, a portfolio and reflective practice to write. None of which i actually want to do but I dont get a choice in it. Has anyone else had the wonderful experience of writing...

  19. Procrstination/ Reflective writing

    redtshirt replied to redtshirt's topic in General Students

    dont have any english classes....its a nursing degree not an english degree they dont get that concept

  20. Looking for Research Paper Suggestions

    redtshirt replied to Rhody34's topic in General Students

    Im doing my thesis on diabetes very prevelant at the moment and more so prevelant in the future as it links with obesity. theres loads in it so your hardly going to get to a point of having no info...

  21. Need help taking blood pressure

    redtshirt replied to liladybug526's topic in General Students

    when you pump the cuff up and let it down slowly you should hear nothing then a noise comes in like a beat/throb and is louder at the start then it phases out until you can no longer hear it. It...

  22. Is it possible to be too compassionate to be an effective nurse?

    redtshirt replied to animal1993's topic in General Students

    You do all you can to help people get better and if you know theyre not going to then you care for them to allow them have a peacul comfortable death. A lot of nasty things happen, you can't turn...

  23. Update on Transgender nursing Student

    redtshirt replied to Transgender_n_TN's topic in General Students

    I don't see why this has any bearing on whether you become a good nurse or not. I dont see anything morally or ethically wrong with you wanting to make your own personal decisions about your own...

  24. really scared of my pt tomorrow

    redtshirt replied to picurn10's topic in General Students

    that poor woman but youll be able to juggle a caseload full of patients to that extent. We get report in morning, one side of my sheet is diagnosis, past medical/surgical history. the other is whats...

  25. skirts required for community health clinical???

    redtshirt replied to pinkiepie_RN's topic in General Students

    we have uniform for our affiliated hospial and anything that is hospital based we wore it for. for external placements we had to wear smart casual; I,D, Psych, community care etc. Its ridiculous that...