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Yeah I didnt see their post about not knowing the rights of med administration until after I had already posted. While not knowing a full assessment makes sense (at least compared to my own program) not knowing the 6 rights of med administration by now seems extremely strange.

Our school is set up similarly. We learn our assessment system by system, we arent cleared for a full assessment until the end of the first semester. As for your clinical instructor, I would discuss what happened with your lecture professor. Clinical instructorship is a side gig for most of them or sometimes they are "thinking" about becoming professors. Your lecture professor is still overall in charge. Ive been told our school has even dismissed clinical instructors at the end of their first semesters due to not being a "good fit" (ie competent) for the program.

This is going to happen. A lot! Dont sweat it. My gosh when I was still in the army and we were learning to give IVs we practiced on each other. By the end of the week, we looked like a support group for hemophiliac intravenous drug users. Frankly the fact that nursing schools have mostly discontinued the practice of allowing nursing students to practice on each other is sad and detracts from gaining needed competence.

We dont have a lot of info to go on. Are you in a ADN or BSN program? Are you in a public or for profit program? At our school clinicals are attached to a specific lecture course. While we have clinical instructors, they are generally not actual members of the faculty (most of them are either wanna-be professors or doing this as a side gig). Since they are not actual members of the faculty nor the lecture professor, they have a limited say in what happens. The lecture professor can overrule them if a disagreement arises. For example we had a recent DNP grad clinical instructor in their early 20's who wanted to play hard butt, and took it on themselves to assign weekly papers and extend clinicals from 12 to 15+ hours with pre and post conference. The lecture professor got involved and reigned it all back in. So my advice? If you dont feel you are getting a fair shake from your clinical instructor then make an office appointment with your lecture professor and discuss the issue professionally and politely with them.

For someone who keeps touting their intelligence I find it remarkable that you neither know how to use the quote button, nor type in grammatically correct paragraphs.

That they need to seek professional counseling, as this is a spectacularly bad idea and as you said they seem to be obsessed with it which can be unhealthy to this degree.

As a former cop whose been in lots of hospitals I can state, your facility should have a written policy for this.

I dont know what the nursing "culture" is but I agree with this. Nursing is a second career for me. However, the practice of listing your degree behind your name is generally tied to a career where you are licensed and the degree is part of that license, ie MD or BSN, RN. So I would not put MBA behind my name upon becoming an RN, anymore than I would have prior to becoming an RN. Having an MBA is in no way tied to your licensing as a nurse. Unless its nursing affiliated it appears a bit pretentious and silly to me. Edit- A friend once told me. The only people who put MBA behind their name got their degrees from University of Phoenix. LOL

Our faculty is 75% DNP to PhD. The only EdD is the admissions director.

Normally I'd agree with you but the amount of whining in this thread by professionals who are supposed to care for and protect the some of the most vulnerable of our population, calling children who are 5, 6 or 7 years old "entitled" or "snowflakes." Sorry but that frankly boggles my mind.

Oh I sincerely apologize that I wasnt here checking everyday for your reply in order to answer. I am a BSN student and abuse survivor. Oh yes thank you so much for correcting me on mistakenly advocating for abused children, so that you can rant about a child with a tummy ache. Blow off all the steam you need, I simply posted my concern about the potential of an abused child being ignored because you are just sooo frustrated with little Timmy. Again if a child and a fake tummyache are what you are "blowing off steam" over, then your life is pretty good all things considered.

If you parent your child based on information from Facebook posts, you should be stripped of your parental rights and be denied the ability to bear more offspring. We need to stop the stupid people from breeding and raising more just like themselves!

So because they told you they had a camera, you admitted to something you know you didnt do? With 12 years of experience on the job? Either you arent being honest or you have a spectacularly bad decision.

Im not buying that. That is the single most boneheaded excuse Ive ever heard.

Ever consider its an abused or beaten or bullied child using the easiest excuse they can think of to come to what they perceive as a safe place with someone who wont judge them and is supposed to care? These arent small adults who throw tantrums over Starbucks cups not being Christmasy enough. They are vulnerable children and the bellyache you seem to be so quick to dismiss maybe from being punched by a drunk parent the night before. Having been one of those abused kids, who never opened up to anyone because everyone always seemed to busy, I'd suggest maybe not being so quick to judge and taking the time to make sure there isnt an underlying condition. I mean if the worst part of your day is a kid faking a tummy ache, its a pretty good day in the grand scheme of things.

Nothing wrong with bashing anti-vaxxers. They place our entire population at risk through their sheer stupidity. Bash away. We had a nursing faculty member state last week that "there are many studies linking MMR and autism", also seemed to be completely unaware that Dr. Andrew Wakefield had been completely stripped of his medical license. I just keep my head down and mouth shut. Debate from nursing students isnt well received.

Maybe you missed my first sentence? I was not longer speaking in context of the question. But speaking in terms of real life practices. Hence my final statement that....

UMass-Boston is $12,682 a year. Worcester State University is commutable from Boston and its instate tuition is $10k a year. Fitchburg State University is commutable from Boston is $10k a year. UMass Medical School in Worcester offers a direct entry graduate degree program (for people with bachelors in other than nursing) that is $15k a year or about $43k in total....and that would give you your graduate degree as well.

I vote neither? 1. A ADN at a community college will take you just as long as the BSN at a university. And then you will still need to complete the BSN once hired. 2. Do NOT pay for a private school. $40k on top of already being $50k and THEN wanting to add graduate school to that? Is nuts. You will die of old age before you ever pay off your student loans. Apply to the local BSN state universities in your area, get your BSN at a reasonable cost.

Here are some relevant examples: People Are Freaking Out Over 'Racist' Nursing Textbook | Nurse.org These arent isolated incidents. Our current textbook has similar examples that are extremely derogatory to minorities and shows a profound amount of ignorance to any culture outside of the United States.

NCLEX questions aside. Im fairly confident, even as a student, that if the adult under your care is: 1. Fully competent 2. Not a danger to themselves or others 3. Not involved in an emergent/traumatic situation 4. Has not given you permission to contact family and has not involved family in their care thus far. And you decide to call a family member using a phone number from their emergency contact card, identify yourself as a nurse in their care (oncology for example), thus revealing a possible diagnosis to their family... that you will very shortly be looking for a job.

This is what Im curious about. I wonder if they just did the simple mass test or if they then sent the sample out for confirmation gas spectrometry testing.

You cant do triangle bandages, reductions or other techniques online. You have to build muscle memory. https://www.nols.edu/en/about/wilderness-medicine/medical-professionals/

I was joking! It was a joke. LOL Get some rest!

All great advice! But how does my curling up in the fetal position help a patient with dangerously low BP? Is that the universal "preceptor help me!" position?