Mike Huster

I work in an Orthopedic Surgeons Group. On of the younger docts was dictating in the exam room and said the patient "took a digger off his mountain bike". I still laugh about it!:)

Kudos to ALL whom have responded... I feel for ya. I am too sick of the "Customer Service". It seems we are always running and running and never to get the praise. I feel we should go back to the "old" day where there were wards (no such thing as a private room ) and only two familymemebers to visit at a time and no kids! Things were more calm and you could pay attention to the patients and get your work done. Now we have to cope with some much ancillary "stuff" it's impossible to care for your patients. Also I wonder how the administration arrive at the "productivity" scores. If I hear about productivity much longer I'm gonna explode! I'm working my rear off at neearly 50 hrs per week, don't see how much more I can give.

Sounds good! But if there is alot of drainage it could be a problem. We typically apply an ABD pad over the site on post op day two, when we remo0ve the surgical dressing. I usully check it alot to make sure we are not "leaking" all over the bed. Then I change the dressing at least daily.

Please keep your chin up! It is an expereince you will never forget! You have all of us here pulling for you, plus you made it through the school part!

Well this thread conjours up all sorts of clinical horros for me. I must say I did not like my clinicals. I remember my instructor stating during the final review for the semester stating "I did not think you would make it, you surprised me." That really took me back, and made me consider what I was doing in this nursing program. A year later in the final throes of nursing school we had to write up prep sheets on each patient. I wrote mine out, my handwriting is horrible. The clinical instructor took one glance at it and said this is crap, I can't read it. He threw it back at me and asked what I was going to do? I took it home after clinical rounds in the evening, and formatted the thing into my computer and typed it all out for clinicals the next day. I did all my preps this way and gradually had enough info to cut and paste to make it easier to fill out the form over time. I suggest you stick to it, get through it, and hopefully one aspect of nursing will be your calling. Mine is orthopedics. Take care.

Congrats on making through your program:yeah::yeah:I'd say take the job and do the best you can. Always keep your options open. When I worked in a hospital I was shocked at how many of our staff cycled through. It was taken as a given, and we all wished them well.

Congrats on the decision to go to Nursing School. It will be one of the hardest things you have done in your life. There will times of laughter and times of tears, but you have to love it- or be there for the patients and to have them get better, that is still what keeps me going. I will say that when I was in school all I basically did was study, prep for clinicals, study, and then in my second year got a tech job on the weekends to make a little money. I feel that going home to your parents would be good, it will allow you to focus- you will need that. And also take some of the daily pressures off. I was married at the time of my school and it pushed our relationship to the limits. There were also times when I did not think I had it in me to continue, but somehow you find that little spark in you to carry on. I wish you the best