Catty Ann

Thanks ladies for the advice. Yes I'm getting help with a DR. and therapy. Trying the no pill rout first, if need be I will take them. Oh sorry on the fainting issue, did it before lab exam, I aced it! Just putting me on the spot at times makes brain freeze. She was like a Drill Sargent. She had given me 8 clients to research on Fri. and changed them on Mon. to be ready for Tuesday. A little back ground, I'm not making excuses. I know I have to expect the unexpected. Just getting a lot of pressure from hubby to get it done. Just still a little shaky from that experience. It was a good learning experience. Thanks again!:)

i dont want to sound like im whining or anything, soo here goes.... i failed my pharm clinical in the 2 year of my two year lpn course! i cried for two months and lied to everyone about it till i could talked about it without crying again! everyone was giving such praise for doing so well in school and being brave for leaving a ft job at a ltc i had been working at for 20+ years as a cca. i told people i had dropped out for family reasons and i felt ashamed for that too. i made the honors list in marks and yes i know that good marks dont necessarily make a good nurse my clinical instructor had said to me," that if she hadn't seen all the work i had done for my med pass prep, she would have thought i had read an other text." oh! crap! i knew nothing!!!! i froze, i blanked and my fave expression "i don't know" when i think about it i still feel like i dumb ass:mad: and mad at myself. i had thought that my testing anxiety passed with each test and exam, etc. it was bad i threw up before tests and exams and passed out with physical assessment final . however my fellow clinical mates complained to our pharm instructor on the belittling treatment they saw towards me from the clinical instructor. i only know this now, after the fact and i wondered why my pharm instructor showed up one day:confused: asking how things are going in a post clinical meeting. i always felt so small, inferior and stupid around her?! our class did two rotations in different clinicals; mental heath and pharm. my only real gripe about the school was/is that they knew about my testing anxiety why couldn't they arrange my pharm clinical first so in case of me freezing i could repeat the pharm clinical. i had time to do this in the school year as the mh was a preceptor-ship and no cost to the school. they did it for one of the other students! maybe instead of just puking and fainting in a lab test ill just up and die!!!!!!!! ok, now i'm gettin' mad! well enough of this...... i'm trying to get back in for this year. i was told by the enrollment department that they have to ask for permission form the health services department head if i can get back in!? im second on a wait list and i had asked a pn student who works with me a ltc facility about her class first year pass rate. i felt good for me and bad for the students who had failed, cusz i know what that feels like to have gone that path. what i need for you great nurses is some encouragement, a little butt kicking if needed, truth and hope. love to you all for all you do!

Hi everyone! I have been in the health care field for 20+ years as a CCA. Im on my way to become an LPN :) at my local CC, in a part time studies course and still working full time. I too am obese, at my heaviest I was 320lbs. Im now around 240-50, my lowest was 185 and believe me I wish I was there now. Your weight may not bother you now, but in later years it may and in your later years it will be harder to lose. So I would like to say keep at it, go slowly with the amount of weight to lose each week, break it down to small goals and watch out for stress eating triggers and have lots of veggies to munch on. I hate them but I lost some weight during school. Its all about health and not the scale. Good luck with school and your health goals!:anpom:

Just finishing up my first year in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia at the NS Community College, Waterfront Campus. Its been a great year and looking forward to the next!

I too am a large woman in nursing school and I feel bad that you are going through this. Your teacher is not worth giving another thought, however I would keep asking questions, others may have the same and are to shy to ask and my darker side would like to see her get fluster and my questions! {WEG}. This said the only person that you should be concerned about is you and your studies and if there is something that you are not happy with, find a way to change it. Just on more thing, I never said I was a nice person, others do! HEHEHEHEHEh Take care of your self. Toodles!

:hdvwl:I find that I don't get enough practice, one day in the lab working on mannequins is just not enough, is it?

WOW! Ive read a few posts here about nursing homes and I know that they are the exception (I hope) but those stories SCARE me. Ive worked in Long Term Care for twenty years and I have to admit I have seen and heard a few scarry things. How ever when there was there was swift movement to doccument and report, along with help and support for the staff member who commited the offence. I think that when there are for profit LTC facilities the clients and nursing staff come up on the short end of the stick, the pockets of the owners fill.