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Psychiatry-5 OB- 5 Religious values in healthcare-3 Legal aspects of nursing-1 Nursing research-3 for a grand total of 17 out of 18 credits possible I can take.

Thank you. I am tired of feeling anxious. I just want to live my life.

Yes I am on beta blockers. I think I may need a higher dose. This shaking is just really scary.

Every day I think that there is something wrong with my heart. I do have high blood pressure and I am being treated. I also suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. My heart always feels like it is really strong so much that my body shakes slightly. I am exercising to help myself but I don't see it working too well. I am most worried about my strong pulse. Please tell me there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Anyone else feel like this, like they are always dying?

Myself and other students in my program are having a problem with time managment in our clinicals. We get 1 patient each and five hours take care of them. First we assess and talk with the patients and parents (in peds), we then do AM care and give meds if needed. After that there is usually nothing else to do unless the patient has a lot of care needed (and usually that isn't the case). Usually the nurses on the floor get annoyed if they see that students are in the hallways, but usually it is to find the professor and ask a question and the professor is usually scrambling around helping give meds. Nurses also complain that we don't spend enough time with the patients but I feel like I would be bothering the patient if I came in too much or spent more than the time needed in the room. What can I do to satisfy the nurses and the patients without being bothersome?

does anyone work at Hackensack Medical?

In a hospital what is considered "part time evenings" is that all night or just from like 5 to 10?

Anyone on here who is currently a nursing student at seton hall? And what classes/teachers do you have?

3.67 I thought that was alright then I saw other people who had like a 1.5 and I didn't feel bad hahaha:yeah:

I recently had surgery and when I came out of it they told me there was a possibility that I may be put on the pediatric floor. I thought this was interesting because I am 19 and I am 6'1'. They ended up putting me on telemetry because of my heart rate and I barely fit in the adult size bed. I understand that they can put you in pediatrics until 21. My question is, is there a bed that is larger then the adult size one?

Screw that guy I want to be a nurse and when I make it higher up than him he is going to see me. It doesn't matter anyway, I want to be an NP so it's kind of different. Thanks for the comments by the way. I was on pain killers and I was very emotional, I hope that's normal lol. He thought I was a drama queen cause I was in extreme amounts of pain when they ripped the stent out of me also, which is why it is so disturbing to me.

I know exactly why you should get out of bed after surgery. If you don't a clot can form in your leg and yeah not good lol. I knew that coming in to surgery and I also knew that getting up helps heal faster. What gets me is that I was walking, I walked with the PT and I was pacing back and forth in my room cleaning my area up trying to make it nice for when my family came and he did not believe me at all, while the guy next to me lied to all of his nurses and did not get up at all but told them he did, and they believed him. I told my family 'I am stuck here and I want to get out asap, don't you think I would want to be the first one to get out of here, you can go home after this but I stay here for the night.' The other thing is, is that you are NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL THE PATIENT HOW THEY SHOULD FEEL. I actually had a good nurse that very night. I was up until 11 and she said "I see you are still up" and I told her that I was annoyed at the nurse and my family, and then I apologized for telling her my problems and she said "it is what I am here for." I swear it was a hallmark moment lol.

No not the nursing students I am with now it is the biology students who are questioning me.

Do patients talk to you like this also? Like instead of looking at your name tag they call you "doctor" automatically because you are a guy?

I stil want to be a nurse but man that guy was a jackass. I want to be a nicer nurse then he was. It just angers me that he took advantage of me in a way. Every time he did something, nobody was there to witness it. It is not like I was in good condition to speak up. I was not feeling good and felt vulnerable, which is obviously normal for a patient. I think if he pulled this stunt around my parents he would have gotten a mouth full. Maybe I do need to grow up but it is so hard to even want to do anything when you are exhausted after 4 hours of surgery.

The sad truth is that the second paragraph I wrote had to do with older people who should know better.

Well the first day I had him he was very cold to me after I had gotten a stent ripped out of my ureter. On the second day he was annoyed I was not walking as much (even though I was pacing in my room alot and sitting up). I asked him for a pillow so I would not pull something when I sneezed and he told my aunt as she left that I was a "drama queen". On the last day in the hospital he got mad at me cause the adhesive on my iv wore off and the iv slipped out. He had iv meds for me but said "you won't be needing this" and angrily tossed it into the bin. He asked me if I had water for my oral medication and got annoyed that I did not. This does not include what the nursing tech said to me when I got the stent ripped out. I was crying my eyes out and the morphine would not work. She said "that's morphine of course it works" She then said "it does not hurt." I told her I had a hard time breathing and she was like "well you are talking right? so you can breath." She wanted me to get up and I was like "I can't it hurts too much" and she said "you have to or I will get in trouble" She found out I was in nursing school and her last bit of useless advice was "you have to be stronger then this if you want to be a nurse" Meanwhile I was huddled over in pain. So yeah that's it.

I'm sorry if this sounds like I am complaining but I am tired of my former class mates (I switched from biology to nursing cause I really wanted to be a nurse) saying "Oh why did you switch to nursing, was biology too hard?" I feel like that type of talk is what starts the cycle of lateral violence, even in school. For one thing, I want to be a nurse, and two nursing school is harding then biology, I would know I have been in both. The biology students end up being the PA's PT's and doctors so I feel like what goes in school is brought into the work place. Another thing I thing is that I am tired of people saying "why don't you just be a doctor?" or "so how much more schooling would it take to become a doctor after nursing school?" (They talk like I should be a doctor) I want to be a nurse end of discussion. Any thoughts?

I was in the hospital a few weeks ago and to my surprise I had a male nurse in post-op in telemetry. I was so excited about this. I wanted to ask him so many questions but to my surprise, he was a jerk. He was mean to me and called me names to my relatives. He had the worst attitude I have ever seen in a nurse. My heart sank. I thought "wow, he knows I am going to be a nurse and he is setting this example for me?" Then I thought "wow they eat their young, maybe if he knew if I wasn't going to be a nurse he would have treated me nicer" I am going to write a letter of complaint with my patient survey but it just bothers me. I was even considering going into some other medical profession, it just bothered me. I may be over dramatic but I am just mad. If I was a nurse and one of my patient's was going to be a nurse (male or female) I would take them under my wing until they left at least. Any thoughts on this?

Thank you that was very informative.

How does an NP go about getting on their own? I heard that they can have their own practice. And I was also wondering if anybody knew then why PA's cannot go on their own.

I am nursing school and this is my first real semester of it. I switched from Biology and decided that I don't want to go the physician assistant route. I took A&P 1 and 2 over the summer and passed with flying colors. In spring of last year right before my finals I had an attack of Crohn's disease. I missed my finals and had to retake them. I was in the hospital for a few days and had excellent nursing care which really got me into it. The doctor gave me steroids to manage the pain and they worked but once he took me off them (I am steroid dependent) the pain came right back. He then put me on an antibiotic which worked for a while but now has stopped working. He is going to now have to put me on Humira. Even with medication I have my good days and my bad days. On my bad days I can't seem to get anything done and on my good days I am so exhausted from the disease I can't really do as much as I want. I remember last year at this time working a good 5 to 6 hours a day on homework and now I do only about 2 to 3. I am afraid that if this keeps going on I will not make it through Nursing school. It is stressful and stress sometimes brings it on. Does anyone else have a similar problem, if so how do you work around the pain? Thanks

Nr I go to Seton Hall and mel I wouldn't sell it, this book has everything.

^ what do you think about the program?

I am taking an introduction to professional nursing course this fall and I am very excited. I just got the book for the class and can't put it down for a minute. I was wondering if anyone else has this textbook and what they think about it. It is Fundamentals Of Nursing by Potter and Perry.