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I was a cartographer, meaning that I used to draw street maps for a living.

I worked at a camp with 72 thirteen-year-olds last year. They kept me very busy. Many girls got their periods for the first time at camp. Since most of the children were undergoing growth spurts they weren't very used to their bodies and they seemed ...

Good luck on your exam on Monday, Jennifer

Nursing theories is a course where we study a selection of theories about nursing that have developed over time. To sum it up in a few words, a nursing theory seeks to answer the question, "what is nursing?". Over time, different nursing theorists ha...

Sounds like one tough exam. I would say that the toughest exam I ever wrote was Nrsing theories. I wrote for 3 hours and my pen hardly ever came off the page during that time.

I once took care of a pt on a medicine unit who was there for three days because nobody could figure out whether she had cellulitis or gout and they weren't letting her go until they knew. I suspect that the two dxes are frequently mixed up.

I also wonder what would move an employer to think that it is reasonable to be so controlling of staff. Please, do tell us what led up to all of these changes. Is finding work elsewhere an option?

I've heard many nurses say that nursing school is completely different from the real world of nursing. I myself can say that the senior years of nursing school (I am now in my 4th year of a bachelor's degree) are completely different from first year...

I sometimes iron them and sometimes don't. Depends on how wrinkled they are. If you personally like having ironed scrubs I don't think it would come across as geeky if you ironed them.

The University of New Brunswick has an advanced standing program that will let you get your degree in two and a half years (but it ends up being three once you do the prerequisites)

We do have oxygen at our camp. We were able to rent a portable tank from a local medical supply company for something like $20 or $30 a month. And no, the benadryl isn't IV, it's PO. As for who writes our standing orders, I really don't know, to te...

I work in a camp in Massachusetts. Our standing orders say the following about anaphylaxis: Anaphylactic shock reaction to bee sting insect bite/food / latex If any of the following conditions apply, administer epinepherine, oxygen, benadryl, call 91...

I think it would be important not to have preconceptions about people with mental illness and to view those who are afflicted as no less human than anyone else.

I also applied as a mature student after having gotten a college diploma. My OAC average was 85% and my college average was somewhere in the upper 70's. I'm in 3rd year now. One more year to go.

Well said, smkoepke

I am a third year student in New Brunswick, Canada, but have done a clinical rotation in Toronto. In both places I have removed JP drains, hemovacs, etc. The first few times I would do it in front of the instructor, but after demonstrating competency...

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I think the vials should be re-designed, not the needles.

We didn't do too much writing. Some, but not a lot. We did do a whole lot of reading. The course was difficult, but I don't think anybody flunked out because of it. Not that I heard anyway.

If I were an employer judging the situation, I don't think that I would hold it against you. Especially since you were in one position for three years just previous to this one. And I would also appreciate the fact that you were being honest.

That's horrifying!

I think it's really hard to watch people make decisions that we feel are bad. It's also hard not to blame ourselves when the obvious consequences of these bad decisions come to be reality... even though we know and understand that others have the rig...

I used to feel the same way you did. Without even knowing it I started to pick up the terminology. It happens unconsciously.

As a teenager, I used to be a volunteer in LTC at the hospital in my neigborhood. I asked the nurses if I could take one of the full care patients outside for a stroll in her wheelchair. They said yes, I put her in her wheelchair and away we went. So...

:chuckle Too true!!