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In regards to discussing a med error at an interview- I personally don't think it is terrible so long as you can say you learned from it. There are very few nurses who haven't made a med error in their career. I wouldn't look at a med error as deal-breaker, and would appreciate the person's honesty. Especially when they can tell me that the error made them a better, more concientious nurse in the end. I agree with the poster who said a mistake is only a TOTAL mistake if you learn nothing from it. Med errors are bad because most are preventable and a serious one has the potential to cause great harm- so we are scared of discussing them and being labeled a 'bad' nurse, even though in reality, most of us have made at least one at some point. We are all human, we all make mistakes. Interviewers know this just as we do. I think our best hope would be that when we do make a mistake, there are no serious consequences and we learn from it.
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Thanks guys! And yes, I will be in a clinic within the hospital- kind of an odd setup, but whatever :) The hospital does have a l&d department, but the clinic is for non-maternity women's health and all the prenatal care and whatnot. YOur descriptions sound like what I did as an MA in a private clinic- so hopefully my past experience will help. I am super excited to start- my first day is July 9th, so I will spend my time till then getting day care and housing in line (we recently relocated from another state and are staying with relatives). Now I know where I am working, I can start looking for housing in the area!
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AKtome: Hi! I am so excited to see a feloow Alaskan here! I too, an going into ob/gyn nursing as a new grad. I just accepted a position at SouthCentral Foundation (The native hopital in Anchorage) in their ob/gyn clinic. I am an LPN working on my RN, but I too want to know what I can do to become more prficient and and advance in ob/gyn. I worked in the same field as a medical assistant, I am stoked to have landed a nursing position in it! I know I haven't answered your questions, but just wanted to say hi!
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I am a newly graduated LPN and I just accepted a position in an og/gyn clinic that is part of one of the largest hospitals in my area. Ob/gyn has been my main interest since I was a medical assistant in ob/gyn office. As a medical assistant, I did a lot of general nursing skills, but the providers I worked for always did most of their own stuff. I did vitals, roomed patients, took histories, the occasional EKG, FHR monitoring and assisted the providers when they needed. WHat can I expect as a nurse in an ob/gyn clinic? More of the same? I noticed a thread indicating that it is not uncommon for nurses to do pelvic exams. Is this just in the hospital setting? Office setting as well? Only RNs? So many questions! I know I will get them answered at orientation, but I am a 'need to know NOW' type gal. So tell me, what skills do you use frequently? Are you an RN or LPN and what type of setting do you work in? Thank you all for your answers!!!
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Ah. Thank you all for your responses, I see now that the situation is not unique to our school. And the two classmates I am most familiar with only owe money for this last semester. Our handbook does say that you cannot continue to the next semester if you have unresolved charges. I totally agree that paying debt should be a high priority- for me that is just a matter of being a responsible adult. It just seems counterintuitive to prevent people fromgetting the license that will allow them to obtain a job and be able to have the finances available to pay off the debt. Oh well, I do ultimately believe the responsibility is on the individual, I was just really hoping to learn something (anything) that might help.... Once again, thank you all.
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Hoping someone can help. I am in my last semester of an lvn program at a small technical college in Texas. We complete our program in august and walk in September. Just this week several of my classmates were notified that they owe money to their student accounts and that if they are not paid I full this week, the school will not schedule their NCLEX or let them walk in graduation. I attended a four year public school in the past (in another state). And they were not allowed to do things such as this. Student accounts were not in any way connected to graduating. Also, how can the school refuse to schedule a test that the student has paid for and completed requirements for? This effectively prevents the students affected from sitting for their license even though they graduated (completed program requirements even though they don't walk due to an administrative issue.) Can the students schedule the board themselves? I would really appreciate any direction on this matter. We have been through a lot together and I would hate to see us not all continue together on a financial issue. If anyone knows whT legal authority I can ask this question to, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
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Oh dear Lord. I usually hate complainers, but that is all I can think to do about my school. I go to a tiny little career college in Texas. Our first semester we took pharm, A&P and mental health. Not too bad there, except for A&P. Our instructor often taught things that were incorrect, but got upset if her mistake was pointed out (even if you could back it up in the text book). She also played clear favorites which was frustrating. Our pharm teacher was very lenient towards females and extra hard on males. It was even easier for the females who wore low cut shirts to his class. Second semester, fundamentals, teacher was great, lab assistant not so much. She taught an incorrect way of mixing insulin, when it was pointed out that the book contradicted her, she said it was a misprint and "I have been doing it this way for twelve years, if I am wrong, I have been wrong for twelve years and no one has corrected me". So we did it her way and everyone who checked off competencies with an instructor other than her failed that skill and had to retrain/retest. She made many errors that were similar to this one. Third semester, pediatrics and maternal/newborn. Sweetest instructor in the world, but way too much personal opinion. Said we should always try to deter our patients from looking into unconventional birthing methods (midwife/water birth/ home birth) as it is just not safe. Believed in C-sections for non-emergent reasons (just to be safe cuz you never know) and taught that we should be teaching this to our patients (that c-sections are safest). Taught to always discourage thoughts of VBAC- all around, I felt put way too much of her personal opinion into teaching instead of teaching us what our legal duties and responsibilities are. All that being said, I learned a ton from her and she was the sweetest woman in the world. This semester? Adult nursing. Teacher is great, scheduling and administration- not so much. Four days before start of semester email all students to say our 'day time schedule' has been changed to 1p-10p. Didn't even call the class reps to inform them. Come to find out, they couldn't find an instructor to teach our class in the morning and had been looking for several months- but didn't make any of the students aware of it so many of us had to struggle to rearrange daycare and other family responsibilities to accommodate new schedule on such short notice. Scheduled us for a 6a orientation and the guy running it never showed up. Clinical director gave us permission to leave at 7:30. Scheduled some of the 'day time' students (we have two classes, day time and night time) for overnight clinicals because they did not have enough day time slots. All this is really just some of the crappy things. Overall, most of our teachers have been great, but administration has been really crappy. I am not in my last semester and would love to go somewhere else, but because it is a career college, most of my credits would not transfer so it would be a complete waste of the last 13 months. I will be glad to be done with it.