Sheri257

Sheri257

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  1. Can you sue your instructor?

    Sheri257 replied to Phillygryl's topic in General Students

    You may think it's ridiculous but, in a somewhat similar situation .... a couple of nursing students just won their case against a college for failing them based on the ATI exam. Now, they're...

  2. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Sheri257 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    Good point.

  3. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Sheri257 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, that was my other question. Does the patient forfeit rights to refuse treatment after they call 911? Because I thought consent could be withdrawn at any time, even with emergencies. But, of...

  4. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Sheri257 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    So ... this is what I gather from reading the responses: Since the patient, more than likely, will be confused regardless of their current mental state, that overrides any right to refuse treatment....

  5. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Sheri257 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    But do those protocols override the patient's right to refuse treatment when mentation is intact? Overall, I don't have a problem with what the medic did in this case but, I don't see how they can...

  6. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Sheri257 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    Question for the paramedics: Does the act of calling 911 and low O2 sats which, may or may not be reliable, override the patient's rights to refuse treatment if mentation is intact? From reading some...

  7. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Sheri257 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yet, it seems that the case here was a paramedic ONLY looking at the pulse ox and ignoring the patient's wishes based on that.

  8. Chronic COPD'er, 1 lung, 02 @ 6L/min. What would you do?

    Sheri257 replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is an excellent point. I don't think anyone has talked much about O2 sat errors either. Setting aside the ABG's and the fact that the patient was vented in this particular case, just for the sake...

  9. Im not sure if I want to keep going to nursing school...

    Sheri257 replied to ShimmyMeli's topic in General Nursing

    I thought about quitting about a hundred times. I went through a major depression every semester. But, I had invested too much at that point to quit. Of course, now I'm glad I didn't quit. I'm not...

  10. Can you sue your instructor?

    Sheri257 replied to Phillygryl's topic in General Students

    Not only that but, I'd include lost income in the damages as well. Afterall, if you don't graduate on time, then there's certainly potential damages for that as well. That can run into the tens of...

  11. Posters that are not nurses

    Sheri257 replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    Not necessarily. As a new grad who's posted as a student on this board for a long time now, I have to admit that a lot of times they were right. Maybe we should wait until we're nurses. When I was a...

  12. Failed IV attempt

    Sheri257 replied to Achoo!'s topic in General Students

    I've missed my share of IV's. There was one day where I couldn't get a single stick. These patients' vasculature is shot and it can be really hard. But I wouldn't feel too bad about it. I've seen a...

  13. Can you sue your instructor?

    Sheri257 replied to Phillygryl's topic in General Students

    As someone who's successfully litigated four cases myself (although not against a school) I wouldn't dismiss the possibility. I've had lawyers who've told me I didn't have a case but, then I found...

  14. Posters that are not nurses

    Sheri257 replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new grad who's about to take the NCLEX. But I have noticed some pretty disrespectful posts from my fellow students. I don't know much but, at least I worked enough during school to get an idea...

  15. CA NCLEX results

    Sheri257 replied to kimora's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    We graduated in December but won't get our results until February. Our school is excruciatingly slow in getting our records to the board so, perhaps you are experiencing the same problem.

  16. States that have nursing unions

    Sheri257 replied to fuzzie's topic in General Nursing

    If you're looking for a union state, California is the best place to be. The California Nurses' Association is probably the biggest nurses' union but, there are others as well. From what I can tell,...

  17. Community College Selection Process-What A Joke!

    Sheri257 replied to Tim1957's topic in California Nursing

    Maybe you should check out the new grad forum ... a lot of them are shell shocked by the realities of the job. You'll often see comments like .... "this is nothing like nursing school." There's a big...

  18. Is LTC really this bad?

    Sheri257 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hopefully the moderators won't mind, since I did post this article on the California board ... But I was also wondering what you LTC folks thought about this ... Two-thirds of the staff in 1,400...

  19. Community College Selection Process-What A Joke!

    Sheri257 replied to Tim1957's topic in California Nursing

    And you know this how? From your posts, it doesn't sound like you guys have even started nursing school yet.

  20. Community College Selection Process-What A Joke!

    Sheri257 replied to Tim1957's topic in California Nursing

    Well ... this is over the top ..... (pun intended) . Look: I graduated NS second in my class but, I don't think A students are better than everybody else either, which is what you seem to be implying...

  21. Community College Selection Process-What A Joke!

    Sheri257 replied to Tim1957's topic in California Nursing

    Well ... it depends on how you define success. If we're talking about who's actually going to make it through nursing school then, there's little question that the A student has better odds of making...

  22. Community College Selection Process-What A Joke!

    Sheri257 replied to Tim1957's topic in California Nursing

    Yeah ... when we were quizzed on the cardiac drug dosages our instructor told us that lidocaine story, which had happened at one of the local hospitals, and he said we better know those dosages...

  23. Why does Nursing put up with short staffing?

    Sheri257 replied to elfinM's topic in General Nursing

    So I'm supposed to risk my license by taking a dangerous assignment on behalf of management and other nurses? That is ridiculous. Short staffiing is not a legal defense if you accept the assignment...

  24. Why does Nursing put up with short staffing?

    Sheri257 replied to elfinM's topic in General Nursing

    Why is staffing a problem? Money ... there's more profit in short staffing. The solution is what California did: implement a ratio law. The law forces them to staff properly and it works pretty well....

  25. Community College Selection Process-What A Joke!

    Sheri257 replied to Tim1957's topic in California Nursing

    Or somebody may be better hands on, but still kill a patient because they weren't booksmart. Case in point: a nurse failed to realize that the doc had ordered a lethal overdose of lidocaine during a...