CeilingCat ASN, RN

I am in one of those less-organized, less-professional, less-sensible Nursing schools. We lose a good 10%+ students every semester. It's not that the material is impossible. It's that they don't seem to know how to teach it. Instructors read o...

Why is anyone still using their school's bookstore? Go to amazon or another online site. My textbooks are at least 1/3rd cheaper or more when I buy direct from amazon.com plus free shipping and no sales tax. Also don't forget: buying boo...

Only you can what is right for you. Do keep in mind there are many types of nursing-related jobs where you're not lifting patients or on your feet for 10 hours at a time. A few that come to mind include: traveling nurse (teaching a diabetic to u...

someone correct me but didn't the don just commit a violation? what right does your co-worker have to know what specific drug you're on? as long as the don is aware that you're under a doc's supervision and not working impaired, he/she has no bus...

Here's a good thread on them: Milk and Molasses Enema - Nursing for Nurses

Get a pet - just not a puppy. Get a tank of fish, a pair of cavies, or some mice. Get something that won't suffer from being away from human contact for 10 hr stretches. Dogs are social animals. Even the quiet ones becomes restless when locke...

Can you postpone joining the class? I've seen pregnant students join a class -- and I see them again the following year REPEATING the same class because they had too many medical absences. If you get a C-section, you're automatically done for the...

Why can't you work WITH the other nurse? Did you ever ask her with an open mind why she felt the paste was the more appropriate treatment? I am assuming since a doctor and other health professionals are monitoring her wound, if the other nurse was ...

Are you sure you're not attending my school? I don't know what to tell you other than find ways to keep from going nuts. You have 2 choices: suffer through it and try to teach yourself to fill in the holes -or- drop out of this school and perh...

thank you. If nothing else I feel better know that I am not alone in feeling like this. :)

Don't you mean proportions?

No thank you. In my part of the country there is just too much traffic to make riding one safe. Weather here is also not so good, between rain and ice. And with the cold winters, our roads are torn up with potholes until summer when road crews ca...

What a difficult topic. The first problem is who defines what a "race" is. And in the US, despite what "race" a person claims to be, almost all of them are mixed ancestry. African americans who were not born in Africa may have native america...

I'm still a student... but let me throw in my 2 cents worth: In some facilities the nurses are so busy, they barely have time to do the mandatory documentation. They sit down for 2 seconds to document, and another call bell goes off. Do they REALL...

Grades matter in the sense they're one yardstick with which to measure your mastery of the knowledge. In my school we get a letter grade for lecture, skills, and Clinicals. No, maybe employers don't care about your GPA. But they DO care if you ...

Today I had a bariatric-size patient on med-surg floor. CA pt comes in for BSO. Large vertical abd incision dehisces and resists healing. Her health is not improving after a month in hospital and a short stay in ICU. She is very high maintenanc...

I think Allnurses is currently the BEST nursing discussion site out there. To complain our board is full of "negativity" seems like an awfully negative statement itself. The way I see it: the nice thing about the internet is that the moment I see...

That doesn't make it ok. And if your nurse asked you not to, getting defensive with her probably won't help your relationship with her. There doesn't need to be a written policy about not calling people by nicknames, pet names, whatever: it's not p...

I disagree with this idea. The kind of people you describe : are clueless, don't want to do their homework, feel entitled, and/or whine... they are the SAME people who will sleep through a business-sense class because they "don't need it". And then...

It's a general overview of basic knowledge. If you passed high school, you should be ok. It's English (grammar, punctuation, definitions, spelling, etc). Then there are the sciences (basic math, basic earth sciences, into-level chem, etc). I...

I find it ironic the people who sell bariatric beds chose to bring not only food but junk food. Are they trying to tell your nursing floor something? Or just hoping they'll have a few of you as personal clients eventually?

How germy which is? I'd rather handle a gerbil than someone's sticky brown turd.

If a kid wanted to get into nursing and kept playing nurse, would the child nurse be a CURSE?

FGM in the cultures that use it often refer to it as "female circumcision".

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, why is it wrong for a doctor to nick a female's genitalia to satisfy parents' religious beliefs. But when the tip of the male penis is removed entirely to satisfy parents' religious/tradion, it's ok becaus...