Lexnursingstudent

i also know some nursing instructors who are on antidepressants. that is a biggie to keep in mind. there are a lot of people all around us who are on psychotropic drug----oh yea honey! Why do you think that college instructors will not let you do the eye assessment part on them. HUH???????????? See, and if they don't quit failing so many students, they will be out of a job. Because the government, along with the nurse VISA, will outsource their job to some educational internet site to read the materials and take online exams. I am surprised that the university hasn't figured this one out yet. There does not need to be an instructor live lecturing to nursing students about growth and development, a student can read the information, do papers, and take online exams, that would save the university a lot of money. A lot of university are going this route, it is just a matter of time. the engaging part of clinical and labs are necessary though to get the training to be a nurse, but the lecturing part, just think of the thousands of dollars the university could save.

Some nursing professor are better than others. When this new Visa gets signed by the president to bring in outsource nurses from other countries to fill the shortage, not only will nurses here (US graduates) will have to take a lower paying job-because of the competition, ..but..nursing professors will lose their jobs. Case in point. There are some that legitimately fail nursing. There are some students who are picked on. There are students who bribe the professors---oh yea!!!! There are some student's parents who pay the president of the college/university--bribe. There are some students who hang with the instructors in their offices and the instructors actually hint to them as to what questions will be on the exams. There are some students who CHEAT!!!! on exams, in one form or another. EX: Knowing someone that works as a custodian and when cleaning the offices of the professors, get copies of the exam and give it to students. Even the custodian is making under the table money. There are some instructors who just do not like certain students, and this is really a shame, perhaps these are the area in nursing school to look out for things like discrimination-at best-otherwise it is hard to prove. Just go to class, participate when asked to, keep your mouth shut, act appreciative, document every move the instructor does, and says, record everything, for later defense, or studying, or exam quesitons. hey, get this we just had an instructor tell us oh, well if I give you different figures compared to the book, then use the book figures. now, which is it lady, for god sake, we are spending 10 grand a semester here. come on, and the text is ancient, where is the real updated stuff---makes a person wonder,, if some of the nursing professors really have any business teaching. any way, just go to class, keep y our mouth shut, study, smile, do not study with a study group if you make A's and B's. do you fair share of the work in a group project, always look clean, dressed neat when doing a presentation on stage. do not, i repeat do not, talk about your personal life to the instructors, i don't care if they do ask you, and you feel that you have to give information, if so, then tell a lawyer, your personal life may not have anything to do with you being a college or university student, you are not a nurse yet!!!!!!!!!!!!! get what i mean, and frankly it is none of their business, they ran a criminal background check on you, that is all they are entitled too---period, just keep your mouth shut in the classroom setting, the person sitting next to you may be failing, and you do not want the instructors to associate you with the failures.

How many medical errors have you made in you nursing profession? Tell us all that. How many time have you called off from work sick and it was a lie, and knowing you were creating a hardship on your fellow nurses, and there were people who needed you. How many time have you lied on a nurse report? Did you score 100% in your medication calculations? I do all the time. Do you? No, of course you don't, and that leads to nurses making med errors, FACT!!!

Why what kind of a workplace do you work in? A place where there is a lot of burned out nurses, a place that is short staffed etc....... I can speak for a lot of nursing students all across the country, of all cultures!!!!!! who are smarter than a lot of the nurses in the hospitals today. Teaching is not like it used to be. Well, there are even some nurses who are working in the hospitals who never took Pharmacology. There are nurses working in the hospital who never were required to do a research paper. Yea, RESEARCH!!! Hey, the world of nursing being trained is changing out here. Do not bash confident graduating nursing students, they are smart and will land lots of positions, and will be pushing out the 2 yr positions. Just because we are coming out after you, it only means we are fresh and trained for whatever, like just about everything. Yea, there might be a first time for a certain type of medical incident to experience, but that is for every nurse, no nurse before me has experienced it all, but I guess you seem to think so. Tell me one thing that I can expect not to know when I start my first day as a new graduate nurse? :chuckle

Well, so what. I believe in being perfect the first time. And don't tell me that there is everything I should learn from you. It goes both ways, there will be things experienced nurses will learn from new grads, and that goes for nurse managers as well. Research where it says that 4 year is considered a professions degree versus a 2 yr RN. I did not say that I had a problem with a 2 yr, now did I? No I did not!! You are wrong for saying that I said that in front of everybody, and you own me an apology. I have a right to speak my peace on this web site just as much as anyone. And I do not have to bandwagon. 2 year RN do not graduate with the full scope of practice as a 4 year, oh yes, wait a minute, a 4 year where I go leads right into the masters and Phd and nurse practitioner, and in this 4 year program we nursing students are being trained at a higher skill level. So, don't tell me that a 2 yr RN will not have to step aside ( it will be done becuase 4 yr students are trained in leadership skills) and let the 4 yr do it, because the 4 yr RN will have more training , a larger scope of practice say for instance in health promotion etc....... We also learn more on the theory behind nursing practice, and excuse me, but that is so very important to every nursing skill provided to any patient. Do you think that a doctor makes decisions just because? No, a doctors decision is based of scientific as well. The advantages to the BSN education are a broader educational base in the general studies, which is for decision making, and if the nurse is planning further education--which I am planning on doing. Another another is the additional courses, which allow the BSN RN opportunities for access to employment positions often not available to RNs with an ADN education. Additionally, some health care facilities and systems are requiring or at least preferring that all RNs in a supervisory position have a BSN or higher degree. Therefore, the BSN RN has a grearter opportunity to advance their career than an ADN RN. So, unless you want to tell all my instructors who have Phd in nursing, you will get a big suprise Yea, let's keep this "real" and peaceful, I am not attacking anybody, and I refuse to bandwagon with a few 2 yr RN who are not as educated as me in nursing. When I graduate, if it comes between me as a 4 yr RN and a 2 yr RN, yea, that is right , I will get the job.

no, like i said a few days ago, nursing is not going to get any special attention. saving the economy of the US is, whatever it takes. coal miners are just as important to the economy as much as nurses are. without coal miners there would be no nurses, so attention to the coal miners will come first. that only makes sense, right? look, we all know that nursing is not a promising job, and the money that we have to spend to go to a 4 year university is outrages, so yes the money stimulus will go to the universities with the BA programs, and everything will be based on the level of education.

No not of course not when applying for a position. And I not have bad beliefs / attitudes. That is what you call it, look behind you, is that all the better you could come up with.

no not yet. I already have a job when I graduate, making $30.00 hr. my sister is an RN for the Government, and I have already met with the safety engineers and I have a job waiting for me. She does the hiring and scheduling. I am so excited. She and another retired Army nurse spits the 24 hour days. 12/12. Sundays off. Only when needed. And it is a great job. I am going to just love it. I better not have to jump hoot and holler either, I will go to HR one time and one time only. Then from there, watch for things like discrimination hire.

yea :wink2: celebration time.:chuckle

I am not beating up the nurse manager, thank you very much for you insensitivity, and false accusation!! I am not that type of a person, and before you go accusing me, sounds like you are a professional at business hiring. I was not iquiring about your expertise perhaps in another are than nursing. Yes, maybe they NM ought to take a pay cut as well, it does not take 6 MN (one for each floor) to hire nurses to fill a hospital. Not more than it takes to hire someone with 3 years experience for the ICU compared to a new graduate, becuase they are training us really well here at the university, and there are a lot of us who are a lot more smarter than some nurses in the hospital now. Yes, that is right, we are being taught and are getting hands on the most updated nursing concepts and training there is. So, take that to your NM. We are good trained nurses while we are in college, and if anybody gives me a hard time as a new grad, I call that bullying, and will file a harassment law suit. Trust me!!! MN make too much money!!!!!

Sounds great, if you can make an A!!!! B second, and C if not possible to make a B or an A.

I am being advised that when I graduate I can walk right into a RN position. Why am I seeing that I may have to hound or beg the HR for a position? I feel that the more you jump, hoot and holler in HR face, the more they laugh and get their thrills of saying "nothing yet, sorry". Maybe NM should be taken out of the picture all together. Why can't the director of nursing do all the hiring like in the old days. To me it is crazy to believe that I will have to beg for a RN position. Am I being ignorant about some fact here in nursing? If this is so, then I will have a professional do my resume, betcha dollar bottom I will. Now, I am scared of paying all this money for a degree and possibly may have to look at begging for a job. No way not me!!!!! Thumbs down on that.

what do you do for "daily" exercise? A 1/2 to 1 hour work out is a must. This should build up you energy! Have to keep it going. Check with your doctor to see what exercise you can tolerate first. Then, you must drink the daily recommended amount of water to keep healthy bowel movements. You know this stuff! Right? Okay, dear then get your sleep. 7-8 hour of sleep every day. Address your activity and exercise, sleep patterns and nutritional functions. Do you eat plenty of vegs and fruits? For me to cut out all the fats and sugars and concentrating on eating vegs and fruits---wholes of course----was hard for me to get used to. So, what I do is even if I look at a bananna, and think my gosh, eat the whole thing, I take two bites and dispose the rest, some with an apple, I take a few bites and forget the rest, and then go for the water. I know it is wasteful, but I just do not have the time to cut everything up. I am just too busy for that. If you are busy too, make everything adjust to you!!! Nutrition, exercise and sleep. I actually have lost a lot of weight. My favorite is my figuring out that I do take time to make my own Lattes now, like Starbucks, and you could do the same too. There is nothing wrong with a healthy structured schedule for yourself. In nursing school I have a very structure schedule for classes and notes, and places to be for clinicals. So, you can have a structured day too, a healthy one. What about vit and min supplements? Honey, I am 47 trying to nursing school, and have a 23 year old son, and in a non-marriage relationship, which is a taxi life for me, marriage would be so much better. Either married or single, women live longer, not a taxing skivish lifestyle. You know what I mean. Making things simple in your life on a daily basis, could be dressing the kids as simple as possible, but appropiately, do you have a mother or mother-in-law that can help, church women possible. I get the feeling that you need a simple life, to focus more, think of all your time during the day from interacting with your children, your husband, going to work and TIME FOR YOURSELF as therapeutic ONLY. Yea, the therapeutic living style. I did not have 3 children, one took enough enery out of me. I am with you 110% in you mental and physical well being. I have to go to class for now. It is early and I was glad to see that you are confident. Don't let that confidence in yourself down. Take a deep breath for today, one day at a time, therapeutic living, you, your children and your husband. Later girl....you can do this thing.

how? dear how are you learning about ADD? Listen to me! Go to work confident tomorrow.

Look, make sure you keep documentation of everything #1 You have three children. Does your husband do his share of the rearing the children? Or is he a male pig? Seriously. Men these days are not like the men our fathers were or are. You know where I am coming from. Listen to me. Women today do everything, especially when a man is around. Now, I am not suggesting anything here, like a divorce or whatever. I am just saying that if there is anyway you can really search within yourself and see why you are anxious; etc.....then address it! ARE you getting the recommended, proper amount of sleep. As an adult you should be getting plenty, and NOT DOING EVERYTHING. Is the husband depressed or anxious? You are a nurse, you know all the Gordon 11 funtions. Take yourself through them. I waa really concerned about you stating that you were being told at work that peers were saying things ie....hard to come to......are you inquiring who is saying what about you? LIBEL!!!! If you have to walk around with a schedule at work, then do it. I do agree, there should be no medication errors. When I attend nursing college, I have to score 100% on all my med math. The university do not graduate anyone who makes med math errors. I have a sneaky suspicion that you are doing all the work in your household, and your husband is getting bu with laziness. Because, a mother of three who is married, and claims to be depressed, and anxious is a sure sign of something wrong on the home-front. Know what I mean. Yes, ask your doctor about disability. Doctors can refer clients to attorneys, and vice versa. #1 can you work night shift. I know that night shift is hard for some people. Have your husband drop off and pick up the children from day care. When you get home of a morning, go straight to bed. Hubby and kids should already be gone. What is his shift? I am just trying to think of a way to get you calmed down. I feel that no doubt, you need a break from being mommy so much and not enough daddy input. post me again. I am here studying