Bblessing2u

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1. How many residents can use safely care for as full time wound care nurse

   Bblessing2u replied to americanTrain's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

   I am the new WCN at a 190 bed facility. I have all the floor nurses ( LPN and RN) doing the treatments for me unless I am doing rounds. If I am doing that I will have her come with me ( early on the...

2. Wound Care

   Bblessing2u replied to txdon's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

   Hello, I am a one year RN, have recently gone to a WCEI wound and skin care weekend class and am working on getting my preceptor hours in to be certified. I was just offered the position of wound...

3. Foam Dressing

   Bblessing2u replied to jmn126's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

   Hello, I am on my last interview today for a position at a wound clinic. I am a RN with 1.5 yrs of LtC experience. However, I am wondering about what I am really going to face working there. Any...

4. New Grad RN's in nursing homes

   Bblessing2u replied to SunshineRN79's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   I started to post here about my job in a LTC as an RN, and it made me feel once again that I need to decide if this job is worth the stress I have over

5. How to explain how hard you have to work in nursing school

   Bblessing2u replied to guest10's topic in General Students

   I have just a few weeks left until I begin my new career as an RN. It has been a hard but rewarding time. I do not regret any of the times that I stopped studying for an hour or so to celebrate...

6. Lament of the White Clinical Pants

   Bblessing2u replied to cogath's topic in General Students

   We wear all white at school and the NH I work at. I use cheap hairspray for all the ink stains. Let it sit for a bit before washing. I also use BIZ to soak with for stains non blood related,...

7. Failing Nursing School

   Bblessing2u replied to nurseangel78's topic in General Students

   I agree with Mi Vida. The trouble is that some instructors think that they are "weeding" out the weak ones or ones they deem unworthy to graduate. In our case, our instructors have test failures of...

8. Nursing instructors and heart "palpations" ???

   Bblessing2u replied to MumblesMahoney's topic in General Students

   I am going to comment and then hijack your thread :-) ( forgive me!) We have two teachers that have trouble pronouncing words. It does make me cringe. I have tried to help one of them out in a nice...

9. NOT going to the pinning ceremony

   Bblessing2u replied to CaliforniaRNnow's topic in General Students

   I am going to the ceremony with the intent of looking at the instructors and giving them the best smile I can with a bit of a smirk :-) I fought hard to succeed where they did their best to de-rail...

10. I am one of THOSE students!

    Bblessing2u replied to crazytonurse's topic in General Students

    I am worried that if this trend continues I will be walking myself out of school.. I only have 8 months left of my RN program! Several of my class mates did about the same, so I am scared for all of...

11. I am one of THOSE students!

    Bblessing2u replied to crazytonurse's topic in General Students

    I am close to being one of those too. Today caught me totally off guard... I studied and studied for my lytes and acids test. Totally confident until the first question. Blew it. Second...

12. Anyone else on a 7-point grading scale?

    Bblessing2u replied to Mommyto2and2's topic in General Students

    My school has 85% to keep going on to the RN bridge. An A is 92%! The minimum is 79% to get the LPN. EVERY semester you must have a 79% to even go on to the next unit. Since you say you just...

13. Tired and Burned out

    Bblessing2u replied to Dandy Girl's topic in General Students

    Look at how far you have come!! I have 6 weeks left... WHOHOO! We are almost finished.( for this part anyhow!) Yes, it is so draining... I have found that taking a few hours to do something totally...

14. was i wrong?

    Bblessing2u replied to Lissacheer87's topic in General Nursing

    You are absolutely correct... My post (Bblessing)was that of my OWN experience.

15. was i wrong?

    Bblessing2u replied to Lissacheer87's topic in General Nursing

    Cheerybreese, I apologize for the dig. I did not mean to imply that you were not a great nurse. What was meant as a note to say I appreciated the nurse who goes out of her way to help a student has...