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brrrrrringggg.... "Sacred Smattering of Hope Psychiatric Facility, this is Nurse Ratched, how may I help you?" "My husband, Mr. Wonderful, is a nurse there and we have a family emergency, could you please get a hold of him?" "Absolutely, Mrs. Wonderful, we will find him and if he is unavailable, we will have him call you right away." Something like that, I suppose.

No one is cut off from all communication from family. Your friend can give his famliy the facility's phone number and they can call in an emergency.

I certainly had no intention of discouraging her, and you clearly have no idea what my intentions are. In reality (in person, not online) I have tutored and advised more nursing, pre-nursing, and other students in many areas - including math, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and english - than you will ever know. I tried to be pleasant about it, I wasn't demanding perfect english, and soon enough the OP will be asked to communicate more competently. Regarding her original questions, there are also a bunch of sticky threads on the student forums she can peruse.

Since everyone and their sister has a camera phone, many that can, in fact, record videos, please take some pics and videos of the death angel and get an interview with him or her if you can. That would be so great. My favorite ghost story was told to me just this week. I have a friend who just graduated and started her first RN job working nights at an LTC. She has related quite a few ghost stories to me in the past and sure enough, just a week after she started her new job, she told me: "This place is haunted." I do a lot of hospice work and have been around dying people in hospice centers, nursing homes, and private homes at all hours of the morning, day and night. You'd think with the sheer volume of ghosts around and their unending proclivities for mischief making I would see SOMETHING. But nooooooooo..... Ghosts are jerks; they keep freezing me out and appearing for everyone else. Happy ghost hunting.

I would respectfully ask that you re-write your post and remove all the text-speak and inventive punctuation. It would make it much easier to address your perfectly valid concerns and questions. Smiley faces are ok. ;-P

Keep thoughts like above in the forefront and do your best to avoid dwelling on negativity. It will help.

Refresher BLS courses often last around 2 hours.

Sounds like heaven. You can decide for your own damn self if nursing is for you or not. Get started already!

I thought the exact same thing as a new CNA. Turns out I was one of the few aides making sure people were shaved, had their teeth brushed, were wearing their glasses hearing aids, had (their own) clean clothes on, was using proper transfer procedures, had proper perineal care, emptied foley bags, took out trash, replaced soiled linen, ensured needed supplies were available..... Keep doing your best, you will speed up. I sure learned a lot there and gained experience that allowed me to find a much better job, but boy do I not miss working at that horrible nursing home.

Some instructors get more nervous and high strung than students at clinical. Sometimes it is their superiors filling their heads with thoughts of "If one of your students screws up, YOU will lose your license, your job and we will lose a valuable clinical site!!" I've noticed that nursing school instructors, especially new ones, may be great nurses, but they aren't so hot at teaching yet. That coupled with the consequences of a misstep weighing heavily on their minds makes them act a little scooters at times. The best thing you can do is what you appear to be doing here. Admit your mistake, admit the reason why (brainfart), explain what you did wrong, what you would do to correct it and how you will avoid making the same mistake. I would definitely discourage you from trying to negotiate "how bad" or serious a mistake it was with your instructor. She really doesn't want to hear it. If she fails you, you can have that fun discussion with the dean. How many points you lose depends on how far from the ledge your wigged out instructor has traveled.

I'm not aware of any nurses who went 12-4 last year (while throwing 33 TDs and 7 picks) and went to the NFC Championship.

Even sadder for you apparently. I've never used "girls" demeaning term. "Guys" and "boys" is also used, even though we are adults and no one seems to get their undies in a bunch over it. The males in my nursing school class are not only called "men" or "male" and we definitely are not sad about it. The "calms" controversy is actually a bit hilarious. By the way, the first person I ever heard use the phrase, "Jam out with your calm out" was a female nursing school classmate. I actually can't wait to tell her about this. All that being said, the jambalaya comment was crude, but the subsequent drama over it is priceless.

You did what you could and doing those things will help keep your patients safe and make you a better nurse. A lot of fearful hand-wringing and endless obsessing over it will not help keep your patients safe or make you a better nurse. You choose.

I dunno, sounds like he got a little good out of it pretty early on.

I chose to go into nursing because of the infinite number of jobs, the fantastic pay, the glamor of the profession, and the great liklihood of having sex in the supply room with a cute coworker.