monkeesilly

hm a couple things.. I understand what you are saying, and trust me, if they are seriously that stupid and asking questions they clearly have the answer to.. they won't make it too long in the nursing program.. BUT on the other hand, some people like ME, have always worked my ass off... I study constantly, didn't work during nursing school and basically always had C's.. I was like that in high school also... I can explain stuff but for some reason I can't test for crap! Which is obviously a serious problem in this profession and what I am working on.. just stating that everyone that gets C's isn't stupid, and everyone that is stupid, doesn't continue through nursing school all the way because it will be too much.. just a food for thought is all..

ironically, I just posted a similar post.. half of that happend to me and to people I know, and also, the people on your post were in a way talking to me.. I guess I know what I need to do, just need to do it. Thank you all for the push..

I am so stressed out! I was in school for the Associates degree, it took longer than expected due to kids, financial problems, etc. So I was in school for 3 years. The school I was attending made me sit out for a year due to the policies if one takes longer than 3 years, they have to sit out a year. I only have one class that is called the "NCLEX review class." It is NOT required by the city, state, or BON to get your license or to even graduate to sit for the boards. I had too much going on and I ended up dropping that class so they made me sit out a year. Now that I am trying to go back, they are trying to tell me that their nursing credits expire after 2 years.. That would make me have to go through the beginning of nursing school courses all over again!! Not only the time but the money, and the way their school is.. I CAN'T work while doing that big of a class load. Essentially, even if I did give in and retake the 1st semester, by the time I was done with that, the 2nd semester credits would expire.. and so forth.. Not only have I never heard of this before, it is NOT in anything that I signed etc. So now I have to fight just to get back into school for a course that is NOT required in any other college, or for the BON to qualify me to sit for the boards... I have had it with this school!! I just want to take the stupid class, to get it done and move on. Now I have to save money to sit for my LPN.

In the hospitals around here (New Mexico) Jevity is concidered a medication... anything going in the body should be don by hospital staff, i.e. RN, LPN.. is your mothers doctor part of the nursing home, or is he/she a private doctor?? If he/she is part of the nursing home staff, then the doctor would be best to talk to the staff because his/her orders are not being brought out. If I were you, as a daughter I would look for any other means to change nursing homes if you have looked at your options and other things are not getting done. If the nursing home does consider Jevity as a medication they should have to administer it within a certain time frame just like "regular" medications.. If your mother needs something like a feeding tube and the staff is unaware how to use it etc, I would not leave her there for the reason that is how she is going to live.. If I may, if you and your sister are staying there all the time to watch the incompetent staff, then why not just take her home?? You might be able to have a home health come in and it be the same price?? not sure, right now I am doing home health and I do tube feedings for my client.. so if you wok full time, maybe you could get a home health company in just for that time. It doesn't have to be a nurse. I am a home health aide. Maybe you should try something like that??

Don't remember all of mine but I have felt and still feel the same way... we had Fundamentals, Pharm 1 and Med/Surg 1 with clinicals and careplans administered meds Then we had, Med/Surg 2, OB and Psych. We had Clinicals, administered meds then we had Med/Surg 3, Peds, and an NCLEX prep course (which sucks!), had clinicals administered meds. I never once put in a cath, did a couple of IV's administered PO and IV meds.. don't feel I got much experience.

I was always taught ammonia would be the first thing to check.

How many do you need to choose and you need a CBG reading to state any problems with the pts DM.

I agree that they are correct. In my program we also have to state what is the acceptable pain level for that person. Skin integrity is your priority because that is the reason she is having pain, and there are multiple wounds.

Uhh totally! This happend while I was in a class today and I was just studying, not actually in the class itself and I wanted to scream SHUT UP!

Two totally different things here, and moneys come from different areas. Also I believe that Obama was the one that said we were getting troops out of war, yet haven't.

I'm sorry, I missed something. Can you please explain how it will create jobs and decrease taxes??? Won't it increase taxes because the money has to come from somewhere?

interesting thought. I am in nursing school myself, yet every time I have had a patient with extreme anemia/ iron deficiency we always did blood transfusion. not sure if they have the iron one you are talking about.

wow! they told us in school that when we graduate we have to say I am a graduate nurse, just like we say, I'm a student nurse. until you have that license you are not a nurse

I agree 100%. My school has a really good pass rate but at the same time they fail out people and make it extremely difficult for people to stay students there. They make extremely hard unreasonable stimpulations on people that have a life outside of school. I wouldn't only look at a passing rate but other things as well. We have a few classes that are not required by BON but are to graduate from the college. Something I was unaware of until I got far into the program. Good luck!

sorry we have people at my school to help us with our resume. I do know that you should only put your high school diploma or GED, not where you went to elementary school or anything because if you graduated then you obviously went through the rest.

I think that everyone that has had no experience by being a tech or medical asisstant ect, felt like that. I thought I would never stop feeling like that. Now I feel like I know half of what I am doing ha!