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Would it be inappropriate to befriend a clinical instructor or someone who was teaching you? Taking into account the other students as a whole. Would it be fair to them?

You are a patient in the hospital. You are 45 years old and live a relatively healthy lifestyle. While you were jogging in the park this afternoon, you noticed a sharp pain in your abdomen. You went home, not thinking anything of it. The pain sta...

Hi. I'm new to this website. I wanted to know if anyone out there could please take the time to give me some advice as to what I could do about the situation I am having with my nursing department. I am a first semester nursing student. I have clin...

^this also makes a good dip. If ur having company...Buy some of those tortilla scoops and some shredded cheese and u will have everyone wanting u to make chilli.... lol

I have the perfect recipe for u then. This is my home made chilli. I don't know how "home made" u want to call this, because everyone makes chilli and I'm sure there is someoen out there who has made their chili like mine. lol Ingredients: Ground ...

Oh sweetie:crying2:, I'm so sorry to hear this. I genuinely send u my sadness. I worry about this all the time, so I definitely know how u feel. I am so sorry. Just keep ur head up and keep strong. Nursing isn't the only thing out there. There...

Ok, this is totally off topic. If u go to an online nursing school, do u still have to do clinicals at a hospital??

^lol...:chuckle that's what it's called!! I couldn't think of what it was called....lol..so I called it a pupil gauge...lol...is that even a correct term for a pen light???? lol:yeah: I'm such a dork!:chuckle

There's no need to put yourself below or above your instructor/nurse. Everyone is there for the same purpose. To plan better patient care. The next time you go to clinicals. Think about what u are going to do for the weekend. If u go into clini...

Keep on going over this this in your head. Talk out the steps with someone else. This is what really helped me. Here is how I prepared. You already know that it is common knowledge that all medications ordered are going to be in the patients MAR...

I'm really sorry that u are feeling this way. I can relate to u on so many levels too, because my semester started off kinda crappy too! My niece passed away, my original instructor resigned, and I am also struggling with anxiety issues. ^With this...

Oh, I forgot to put down the obsessive HANDWASHING routine that I go through everyday. I have to keep my hands clean. I mean come on, that's the one thing that actually does reduce the spread of microorganisms. And it really disgusts me whenever I...

1. I stay up at all hours of the night to study 2. I'm constantly talking to myself the day before a competency. 3. I drink A LOT of coffee. 4. I smoke like a chimney. 5. I get aggitated easily. 6. I think that it smells like a hospital, every where ...

First of all, I am really sorry to hear about the stress you are going through. Everyone goes through it in nursing school. As for the two cheating girls. Don't get caught up in it--stay out of it. They will eventually get caught all on their own...

I usually take cash or pack my lunch. As a first semester nursing student the only supplies we must have on us at all times while in the hospital are a stethescope, a pair of bandage scissors, a hemostat, a pupil gauge, a black sharpie, red pen, an...

WOW! That's a lot of classes. I took just as many courses and nearly the same ones u have posted and it took me nearly 3 years to complete all of them. It really just depends on your status (full-time, part-time, etc). A great deal of it also de...

In the nursing field, compassion counts more than being booksmart...

This might sound completely crazy, but I am starting to feel as though I am being "weeded" out by a few professors in my nursing dept. It's getting to the point where I feel as though I need to talk to a lawyer. Do u think that would be a good idea?...

Words of encouragment. To some of us nursing school is our whole entire life. It's what will make us whole in the end. Visioning becoming a real nurse is something we think about before we even get accepted into nursing school and when we finally g...

I am definitely going to take what u said into consideration. I have went over that email several times and some of the things she said in it is just bogus. It was like she was making things up as she wrote the email. I also spoke to my other clin p...

good luck! i hope your clins go better than mine. to give u some general advice though....hmm. just stay calm and try to get along with ur instructor because some of them can be very mean

Well, first off, congratualtions on ur first new bundle of joy! Having a child is such a wonderful gift! I think ur family should come before anything... I know how u feel. I am also getting very discouraged. My advice to u would be to keep going...

I think that just talking about this is getting me all worked up. I might be over-reacting. Does anyone have any advice for me? I know that my clinical instructor will be giving me a patient who needs total care this Friday. Does anyone have any ...

Well, actually, it kinda is coming from the assistant chair. He obviously doesn't care either way about what I was emailed or about what has been going on. The only thing he said was that him, my new instructor and my lecturer might come up with a ...

I know. It's just hard when the people who are suppposed to be there to help--don't care if u suceed either way. I am definetely going to the chair tomorrow morning. I just have a hard time expressing myself, without getting all worked up. I don't...