nursinggurl

No, she asked "what IS benzodiazepine". Not here nor there though. She spent all day yesterday crying I'm sure because she found out that the final exam can't pull her pharm grade up enough to pass. And rightfully so. I completely understand the type of person you think I am, I have some of them in my class now, But I was not speaking of "everyday mistakes" that all nursing students make, myself included. I'm was speaking of a young lady who falsely documented care, overdosed patients, and who was intentionally neglectful. I agree with you about humility and being humble, I learned that lesson a long time ago.

Seriously? If there is one thing that can be said about me it's that I've never had a high horse to sit on. I sold everything I own including my car to pay for this program. I don't think for one minute that I have it all figured out. What I do know though is that students who flunk out and overdose their patients should not be secretly given a retest and allowed to stay in the program. But I guess that's what happens when you're the Nursing Directors neice. What I didn't say in my earlier post is that an hour before the IV tubing incident I entered our patients room to find her crying, I assessed her pain at a # 8 and informed the student nurse who was responsible for her meds. I found her an hour later discussing the situation with the instructor. She had never went in to see the patient to assess her for herself and she told the instructor that the patient was crying and requested ativan. I am a true patient advocate, that poor women had been in pain for over an hour and her student nurse didn't have the common sense needed to at least go in and check on her. There is no excuse for that. That upset me, it also upset the clinical instructor. 3 people found out yesterday that they would not be pinned with us and I'm happy to say that she was one of them. It was no surprise to find out that her pharm grade was only a 69. This is a years's worth of frustration, from finding her patient under 2 blankets, unbathed, sitting in hours worth of urine, right after she documented bathing, to her doing false assessments so that she could make it to the cafeteria before they stopped serving breakfast. Trust me, in my evaluations the one thing that my instructor always tells me is that she loves how I am never afraid to say "I don't know". She wasn't making "New Grad" mistakes yall, She was intentionally incompetent and neglectful. Sorry if that upset some of you. In the mean time, graduation is only a couple of weeks away, woooohoooo!!!

Please tell me if I'm crazy, but my class will be graduating in two weeks and I am frustrated with a couple of people who are just not ready. They bug me all day at clinicals for help and are truely not ready for Safe patient care. One actually asked me today (while reading her drug book) "what benzodiazapine is". I mean really? We graduate in 14 days and you don't know? I follow her around all day trying to make sure she doesn't hurt anyone. Today I heard her telling her patiet to stop moving because her IV was going to come out. I go into the room and find the patient wraped in the IV tubing. I'm helping her get the pt untangled when "lil miss" "I'm not ready to graduate either" walks into the room (Great, now I stuck in there with two incompetent students) The phone begins to ring just as she walked through the door, she looks at me like I'm crazy and say's "aren't you going to answer the phone". I returned the look and nicely said NO. When all fails and you have no idea of what to say or do when you enter a patients room, always always fall back on the nursing process. ASSESS the situation, priority #1, get the poor little patient untangled from the IV tubing before you answer the phone. I MEAN REALLY? Sorry for rambling I just can't believe these are the people I'm about to graduate with.