keno138

For one, you would need to intervene with ADL's. Just use your brain for some others.

I'm not a CRNA. In fact, I'm still in the clinical stages of receiving my BSN, but I have shadowed CRNAs and done clinicals in the OR. Everyone always seemed like a big family and at times it was quite sociable. The CRNA had control of the IPOD.

Healthcare in general is a place where you need to be able to get knocked down and keep on going. If you can't handle all the frustration then you might just die young from stress. I enjoy facing problems that I am responsible for fixing. I have clinicals around some people like that and frankly I don't even like being around them.

I'm kind of in the same boat being a 22 y/o male nursing student. There are plenty of male healthcare workers out there in all fields. If something feels awkward, just keep a straight face and be professional. If you show feelings of awkwardness the patient might feel the same way. Just keep in mind that you are a healthcare provider and your scope of practice includes all areas of the male and female body.

I have to admit, I liked last nights episode of E.R. I don't know why I like House so much. The formula is always the same: 1. Random person doing something... boom syncope! 2. Can't figure out what is wrong with pt 3. House belittles people 4. Produce theory and give meds 5. Theory is wrong so meds cause pt to code 6. After tons of degradation House figures out what is wrong at last minute 7. Pt saved and loves house even though he hates them :bowingpur Same pattern, but it's so appealing.

I still think I would first get a visual of the man yelling that he can't breathe.

Do you think you would enjoy nursing? Becoming a CRNA doesn't happen overnight. This is something that only yourself can decide with more research.

You may think about it like this... Who will die first? Treat the respiratory problem first.

i actually see this happening a lot, not only on skills check-offs, but also on exams.

This is my first semester in the program. Aside from going from an "A" student to a "B" student, everything is okay. There is one teacher however, who really worries me. I'm not just flaming her because of something she's done to me, I'm genuinely concerned. Let me just set up a few situations that have taken place with this teacher. While helping students with dosage calculation, she herself could not do them. While writing them out on the board she made several mistakes, which students corrected, then she threw down her marker and yelled for everyone to leave. She told two different students who were having problems with the dosage calculations test that they were "stupid" and that they should get on anti-depressants for their test anxiety... She told us in class that we should never put perfume on an ulcer,despite how bad it smells... well duh! When she called my name out in roll call, she was amazed that I was male because she though Cameron was strictly a girls name. I won't say that she is dumb, but she is definitely a space cadet. I don't know how she got in the position to teach all of us, but I really hope I don't have her for future classes.

Somtimes when I tell people I'm going into nursing they'll say, "great, maybe you'll go on to be a doctor." Ummm... no thanks. If I had wanted to be a doctor I would have gone pre-med. It's not like my grades weren't good enough. Many people just don't understand how hospitals work. Any time my wife's family goes to the local clinic they talk about the "doctor" doing their assessment, or the physician's assistant. I just look at them and say, you know that's a nurse practictioner, right? They just don't get it.

I had the same thing happen to me when I was doing my first foley cath. I have to do things a few times before I lose that shaky feeling. One thing that helped me was cutting out caffeine from my diet. I couldn't believe what a difference it made.

You really may not know if this has an impact on you until you experience it firsthand. I'm a student and I was afraid that my wound care rotation would bother me, but it didn't. One patient had a stage IV ulcer so large and with so much tunneling you could literally stick your hand inside it. My fascination and urge to learn how to care for these patients overshadowed any squeamish feeling. You may feel the same way. Good luck.

This is what i'm wondering. As of now I give all my meds with my instructor. Afterwards, I notify the nurse and document it myself. Most of the nurses on my clinical floor love it when the students come in because we really handle our patient by ourselves. This is my first semester of clinicals and i've never asked the nurse to come help me, only the instructor. I don't know why this person can't do IV meds because with only about seven weeks into my clinicals I have given IV meds, done a foley cath, trach care, bed bath, ect., either on my own, or with the help of my instructor. This student may think they know what is best which is wrong thinking. I never go into clinicals thinking I know more than my nurse, or even a tech. Experience can't be learned by reading from a book.

I'm a student and we've actually been taught to multiply if there are no irregularities.