nurseshanti

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1. Purchasing Textbooks? Best ways/cheapest?

   nurseshanti replied to cherokeesummer's topic in General Students

   Another option too, apart from all the great ones suggested above, is to check around and see if students from years ahead of you are planning to sell their old textbooks. If you buy a used text directly from another student, instead of through a boo...

2. What is the grossest thing you have encountered in clinicals?

   nurseshanti replied to julieftRN's topic in General Students

   I'm not positive, but I think breathing throught your mouth instead of through your nose should help get rid of yucky smells. Bypasses a lot of the olfactory receptors. Edited to add: Last week I saw something that topped my grossest thing seen so fa...

3. What is everyone taking this fall?

   nurseshanti replied to PCGrad06's topic in General Students

   There's such a wide variety of classes that people are taking! I'm going into my last year of my BScN in Sept. and it's going to be a tough one. In the fall I'll be taking: Advanced Communication for Nurses Nursing Leadership Community Health and Co...

4. how much time do you actually study?

   nurseshanti replied to Mika8's topic in General Students

   It depends on the semester. For e.g. during one semester in 2nd year of my nursing degree, I was only taking 3 classes but putting in about 20 hours of lecture/lab/tutorial time a week and then another 20-25 hours on top of the of studying. Thank goo...

5. Which specialty/area is your externship in?

   nurseshanti replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in General Students

   I'm doing my "externship" (we call it a co-op job here) on the Detox unit at the local psych hospital. It wasn't my first choice of positions but I was number 58 on a list of 60 chosen nursing students and so I didn't get my first couple choices. My ...

6. What is the grossest thing you have encountered in clinicals?

   nurseshanti replied to julieftRN's topic in General Students

   Some of these are really gross!! The only thing I've encountered so far in clinical that I've actually gagged over (and had to leave the patient temporarily to busy myself at the sink cleaning something out because I didn't want to gag and retch in f...

7. Is it possible to work while you in nursing school?

   nurseshanti replied to rasa26's topic in General Students

   Yes it is possible, but it does make it a little harder. I've been working part-time all through my degree program out of necessity (gotta eat somehow!!) and it's certainly been a challenge at times. I think it really helps if you're an organized per...

8. What specialty do you aspire to?

   nurseshanti replied to HisTreasure's topic in General Students

   I'm graduating in Spring of 2005 from a BScN program and after a few years of honing my med-surg. skills and working as a clinic nurse for low-income and under-served urban populations, I want to work internationally. I have done a fair bit of intern...

9. Are you allowed to give IV push meds at clinicals?

   nurseshanti replied to twintoo's topic in General Students

   At our school, we are not allowed to do IV pushes at all. My understanding of the reason is that a number of years ago, when students were allowed to, a student from the school made a MAJOR med error when doing an IV push. I'm not going to say the na...

10. Are you allowed to give IV push meds at clinicals?

    nurseshanti replied to twintoo's topic in General Students

    At our school, we are not allowed to do IV pushes at all. My understanding of the reason is that a number of years ago, when students were allowed to, a student from the school made a MAJOR med error when doing an IV push. I'm not going to say the na...

11. Planned Parenthood and nursing

    nurseshanti replied to rhiannonwolf's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, :) I think it depends on what services the PP offers and what type of volunteer program they have running. At the one where I volunteered they had 2 volunteer positions. There was a clinic position which involved labelling specimens and making s...

12. Palliative care for spiritual distress along the diasease trajectory

    nurseshanti replied to nurseshanti's topic in Hospice

    I am aware of the option of seeing a chaplain or her pastor. I am hoping though that there is something that I myself can do to help support her through this. It's hard being far away. Plus, her very fatalistic outlook on life is very influenced by h...

13. night before clinicals-going to the hospital

    nurseshanti replied to carlalogan's topic in General Students

    Like the previous posters, we are required to go in to our unit the day before clinical to get our patient assignments and read their charts. Basically our instructors expect us to get their admitting dx., any past medical hx or co-morbidities, what ...

14. Palliative care for spiritual distress along the diasease trajectory

    nurseshanti posted a topic in Hospice

    Hi everyone, I'm putting this question here because I believe it does relate to hospice/palliative care, but if someone feels it is more suited elsewhere, then totally feel free to move it. My best friend's father has had Hep C for several decades an...

15. Planned Parenthood and nursing

    nurseshanti replied to rhiannonwolf's topic in General Nursing

    I totally echo the previous posters responses and advice. Volunteering at Planned Parenthood can do nothing but help your career. It certainly isn't going to be any kind of black mark against you in terms of getting nursing jobs in the future, especi...