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i think you should really do it. my mom started around 50 something too. and i think shes more responsible for the well being of the patients in contrast to the younger nurses who seem to live for the moment. now im not overgeneralizing things but such is what ive noticed. anyway i dont know about getting a job tho. good thing i have a backup degree cause i heard getting a nursing job is pretty brutal nowadays. but it is practical as you can use it in ur daily life (take care of a loved one, etc).

why would they bar jews from giving blood? that doesnt even make sense. its just a religion

yep guys thanks, it is the technician reusing stuff that would make bad things happen in terms of donating blood. we've heard of the nurse who reused tube and possibly infected a lot of people w/ hiv. will donate this weekend after my classes. thanks and have a nice day

oh systoly , i meant biased because shes always picked on me. everytime shes the cI i seem to make all these dumb mistakes..im scared of her and she knows it. i go all clumsy. and who wouldnt if someone yells at you in your face in front of a lot of people. maybe i should "try" to joke around w/ her and be her friend apparently you cant be just a student or a neutral person to teachers anymore or else they wouldnt like you.

Sigh ive been trynig hard for a while, have 2 mos to go actually. Today i made a mistake in terms of calculating the time due of an IV. She (our clinical instructor) yelled at me that the NOD looked at me, and my classmates said she was talking to me like i was a first grader. Then i made nurses notes and she said i was leaving too much spacing. To be honest i never have a problem with the other clinical instructors, just this one. I dont know how to deal with her. I spoke to my dean before and she berated me for not having the ability to be friendly friends with this clinical instructor. It was frustrating and i honestly wish i didnt have to be in nursing school. If i had a lot of money i wont finish the 2 mos left. IT was horrible what happened earlier. Really horrible.

these kind of posts are embarrassing and i apologize for the poster.

gosh mamamerlee. no, i am a student nurse. sorry that i didnt know. when i was younger ive heard of news reports about someone getting AIDS because she donated blood, through transfusion I suppose. im not the only one who has concerns about this though. anyway thank you for the replies.

Well I have been interested in donating blood for quite some time, I have heard some people needing ab+ for a while although our teacher said if you're ab you can get any blood. I am just concerned about the safety though, is it safe to donate blood nowadays (as opposed to the 90s)? Thanks.

wow, i honestly honestly thought i was the only one. i used to be in another batch before, but for some reason they all stopped. i had to stop at that time since i had to work, so i was transferred to another batch that had like 11 students (mine had 6 before). anyway theres this one really mean girl there, she isnt a girl anymore..shes 33 or 34. whenever i ask the teacher a question, she'd loudly smirk. like to imply i was stupid in a sense that "oh she didnt get it!". this would happen in the morning, and of course i'd be in a not good mood. she'd then tell people i was "bipolar". she also made jokes about my boyfriend's race at one point. i am friends w/ some girls at class and i would be trying to ask them about her, like, if shes really a bad person. shes done so much against me but i was still giving her space to maybe one day turn into a good person or something. they say shes ok and blah blah, they say shes judgemental. but that's about it, they never say shes bad or whatever. but it felt bad, the stuff she says, damn mighty tackless. she even said my high school had a lot of slutty and cheap girls. the other day i openly admired her for administering a shot properly, and i was like "thats nice cause i dont really know how to do it properly since i havent had the chance to do it yet, and i dont remember the steps" and shes like "that's because ur absent minded." i was so shocked like..for the first time in my life i looked at a person w/ my mouth open :imbar and i swear i wasnt able to at least hide the hurt in my eyes. she quickly said "oh, take that as constructive criticism". ever since that, i decided, darn..she is a bad person. i dont need to ask people if she is. shes a bad person to me, and i dont need to face her or be friends w/ her. i tried, but sadly its not possible.

damn i dont know what to say. if she said that to me i'd be like..uhh.. ok wont happen again.

ive been in nursing school for 2 years now, i been doing kind of well in classes since i love pharma and i really like being all near the blood and medicines and i have always liked hospitals. jsut today i was caring for a well behaved 2 year old boy and took his vital signs, and checked his IV levels and so on. his mom was adamant to leave that day so a few hours after meeting them i was assigned to discontinue his IV, and i did so with a lot of care but i was pretty nervous and shaky. i wrote down my nursing care notes in advance, 5 hrs before it was due. then the nightmare happened. the chart had a lot of sheets in it and i had a hard time looking for the nurses notes, i saw the date july 9 on a newsprint (newsprint or the gray sheet is the usual standard nursing care notes)..so i wrote like 7 lines in on there when my classmate looked over and said.."you're writing on the doctors orders sheet".. confused i was thinking ..this cant be, doctors sheets are yellow and usually in front of the other papers like patient info and prescriptions and cbc reports and so on. checking further i realized she was right. i told our clinical instructor about it and he didnt yell at me, he was upset at me of course and he told me the least thing that can happen to me is an "incident report.. its a report that goes to the dean at school and it means i am in big trouble that i have never been in my whole life in nursing school (although i have heard of others getting it but i dont know if it was just a threat to them or was really carried out).. the nurse on duty told my instructor that it was ok, so i was releived and went for lunch. when i came back my instructor told me i was really gonna have an incident report. then i went to take a bathroom break and noticed that other students from other schools were looking at me. turns out the nurse on duty told everyoen about it. we're gonna hve 5 more months working in that hospital and at this point i wonder..i am the only one who made this mistake and its supposedly the "Gravest" one in terms of legal issues. i am thinking of just stopping for now and think, this isnt for me. i havent made a mistake and medicines or dosages, and i havent made a mistake ever but this i am afraid i might even get arrested. can anyone help me, like has anyone heard of a similar incident or ..its just only me who has ever done this ? if not what punishment do people get? do they get arrested? thank you sorry if im writing like crazy i am trying to stop from crying