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When I was a student, at the beginning of my 4th semester, I was assigned to a ward where one of my friends lived. Her mother had a stroke and was admitted to the same hospital I was at. I was not certain if she was in the ward I was on. I noticed my friend's mom's last name was on the assignment board and had to make sure that it was not the same person I knew. I had to let my instructor know if I knew that patient so I can avoid getting assigned to her. I made sure I was on the other side of the hallway in case she was there......and she was. Her other family members had seen me and started a convo, I must say, as a student, I tried my best not to engage myself too much with the family as it may seem to breach confidentiality. though they did indulged me a few details of the situation, it seemed rude to say "no, I do not need to know the details". I had to stop by and say hello because it seemed rude not to. They did request that I become the patient's nurse and I had explain why I could not. I think in the end, it is okay to talk to the family IF they approached you first, a smile and nod of acknowledgment is good enough.

Oh my, dating a patient....I definitely do not agree with dating patients, or patient's family/friends. First of all....where we work, it's nothing like "Grey's Anatomy". Nurses do not sleep with each other or doctors (well, not that I am aware of), or fall in love with patients and do not suffer the consequences. As much as it may sound appealing to have a "romantic love story" of how you met each other, "your mom was a nurse taking care of a sick guy"....or to put it more accurately "your mother was taking care of my foley catheter when our eyes met and I knew she was the one" it is not professional or ethical as a nurse. I am a new grad and the first thing they taught us was NO DATING PATIENTS. Do not accept personal gifts ie. money, cars, material items etc, but it is okay to take a box of chocolates and share with the ward. The legal of this issue, you just never know how the relationship will turn out. If it turns ugly, the patient can sue the nurse if anything should happen to him/her. They can say the nurse have access to their medical records, medications, and may want to harm them because they broke up. Too many issues to deal with....why put yourself in a position where your education, license, title, respect be compromised?

Hello everyone, I am currently in my last year of nursing school! My topic of this semester is change. I'm am writing a literature review on how to introduce changes and/or encourage RNs to utilize their resources. I'm looking for articles and I cannot for the life of me find anything on it! How is change introduced to your ward? what is the best way to communicate change without offending anyone? Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, I am a 4th year nursing student, (yay!!) I just started my final semester at school (double yay!). This term is about research evidence-based practices. My clinical placement is at VGH where I am to compile a resource package on procedures/prepping patients for radiology tests. I was wondering if your hospital have a information package/binder that you use and is very effective? what worked and what didn't? and how you would like to improve access to the information? your responses would be helpful and it would give me an idea on how to start working on a :easy to use" guidelines that RNs at the hospital can refer to. Thank you in advance!