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  1. Quick Question From Student Regarding Hemovac

    mariedoreen replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, I know that this is true. I have a clinical instructor who is incredibly intimidating though and will demean you for asking anything you could have discovered on your own... And for some...

  2. Quick Question From Student Regarding Hemovac

    mariedoreen replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I guess that's what throws me off, because we have a separate area for "other tubes" (ng, ct... and i don't know what ct is either now that i look at that...) and anyway, they want foleys to go...

  3. The Know-It-All nurse

    mariedoreen replied to BETSRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    As a student I have an idea on how some of them may get started... we have an instructor who will ask you a question, when you answer it he'll say, "What?! You're going to do that?!!!" which...

  4. Clinicals: what was the biggest surprise or thing you would have wanted to know?

    mariedoreen replied to ER1010's topic in General Students

    Ours tells us to do what we need to do to appease the floor staff, but to not sacrifice time needed for learning RN skills to do CNA skills (we all had to be cna's to get into our program) and that if...

  5. Clinicals: what was the biggest surprise or thing you would have wanted to know?

    mariedoreen replied to ER1010's topic in General Students

    I started my first year of nursing school in September. I get more nervous and anxious about the clinical portion of school than I do anything to do with the lecture portion... but my biggest "I'm so...

  6. Intimidation Tactics as Teaching Tools?

    mariedoreen replied to Catys_With_Me's topic in General Students

    Sigh. Actually I think it's Babs that has hijacked this thread. When the gal said she had learned to fake her way through she didn't mean she was faking the material or the skills, she meant she was...

  7. Intimidation Tactics as Teaching Tools?

    mariedoreen replied to Catys_With_Me's topic in General Students

    Then I simply have to ask how long these chapters were. Because I'm sitting here looking at Kozier's Fundamentals of Nursing in which there are 50 chapters consisting of 1400 pages. That's a lot to...

  8. Care Plan Template

    mariedoreen replied to RainDreamer's topic in General Students

    Same here, for us it would be skin integrity related to immobility secondary to paralysis.. Which reminds me, I have a big one to get done tomorrow morning... Thanks for your template

  9. Intimidation Tactics as Teaching Tools?

    mariedoreen replied to Catys_With_Me's topic in General Students

    I've been in healthcare for 15 years and it's my experience that you will get far more out of an employee by treating them with respect than you will denigration. Intimidation is all about...

  10. Ever done a clinical rotation in a prison?

    mariedoreen posted a topic in General Students

    Hi all, I'm doing my community clinical at a minimum security prison this term. This is their first term to accept students, so having us there will be as new for them as it is for us. I was...

  11. ADN vs BSN My daughter and I having a heated Discussion!

    mariedoreen replied to NOIRLINCOLN's topic in General Students

    There's having a say and then there's running the show... For example, OP indicated in an earlier post that they were going to "have her take a college Chem class." It just appears that they are way...

  12. ADN vs BSN My daughter and I having a heated Discussion!

    mariedoreen replied to NOIRLINCOLN's topic in General Students

    Lol, I'm a mom of a teen myself so I understand how some of these disagreements arise and escalate but all I could think as I finished reading your post was "Back Off Mom, Back Off!!!" I know you...

  13. International Scholar Laureate Program??

    mariedoreen replied to Achoo!'s topic in General Students

    What is

  14. pins....what do you think?

    mariedoreen replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone see the movie Office Space? Lol, it's like FLARE for nurses...

  15. New grad not wanting to work. Finally got job

    mariedoreen replied to MSMCnurse2004's topic in General Nursing

    I remember your original post :) and am curious what kind of hours you decided to work? Full time or part

  16. Failed nursing for sure, Need to find another program in AZ help please!

    mariedoreen replied to therealnurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It seems like what you need to do is look for nursing schools in the area in which you're interested and began looking into their application requirements. Have you taken your final

  17. Tips to keep shoes white?

    mariedoreen replied to ameriarmybrattLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a hospital lab for 10 years and found the following worked well for me: I would buy a pair of shoes for work only and did not allow myself to use them for anything but work. I wore them...

  18. Eczema Treatments

    mariedoreen replied to prairiegirl's topic in General Nursing

    My daughter had a pretty serious case of eczema on her face from birth. Because the doctor didn't want to use any of the current medications on the delicate skin around her eyes we used vaseline to...

  19. When physician's act up/out

    mariedoreen replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    If I am directly on the receiving end of the tirade, I stay silent and just wait until it dies down. Then I give him my reply in a really quiet voice. He has to strain to hear what I'm saying and it...

  20. Anyone know anything about Robert Merton's Strain Theory?

    mariedoreen replied to Energizer Bunny's topic in General Students

    Know anything about Robert Merton's Strain Theory? No, and my apologies, but after 3 weeks of lecture on nursing theory, I don't think I want to... Margarita anyone? (kidding... just kidding... don't...

  21. Tests and Cheating Classmates

    mariedoreen replied to RNSuzq1's topic in General Students

    When I was in A&P we had an essay exam question where we were expected to go into detail on how the digestive system worked etc... we were told what the questions was before hand and I prepared...

  22. Tests and Cheating Classmates

    mariedoreen replied to RNSuzq1's topic in General Students

    In our program, if we are aware that cheating is occurring and we do not report it, WE can be dropped from the program too. It's facilitation in its own way. Why not report it? Be a gatekeeper for...

  23. A reminder to ALWAYS listen to your patients.

    mariedoreen replied to VizslaMom's topic in General Nursing

    This has turned into a beautiful thread.. My mother-in-law was only in her late 40s when she was given a terminal dx for her ovarian sarcoma. A beautiful woman, I have never known anyone so "pure of...

  24. What do you do to motivate yourself?

    mariedoreen replied to lil me's topic in General Nursing

    I have discovered that I have a breaking point. I can have chapters upon chapters to go through or skills to practice, but once I've been at it for hours and hours I hit a point where I can see that...

  25. Need advice: leakage for test questions

    mariedoreen replied to aruray's topic in General Students

    If you want to help the "failing students" then advise them to include the NCLEX test taking questions in their study regime... just like most other nursing students do. And the previous poster...