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I am a nursing student. What does this mean: "F rate to TKO" The F had a arrow pointing down plus I know that TKO means to keep open. Thank you

I live in Oakland, California all my life...Children's Hospital is one of the better hospitals in the area...As for Oakland, it is a city..In some parts the crime is very very high..In some areas it is not safe to walk in..It is like any other big city in America, high crime, poverty in some areas, etc..Your best bet is to live in the cities surrounding Oakland which are quite safe..I am not bashing Oakland in no way..It is just that you have to watch where you go there and be familiar with the areas..

My last patient had a diabetic foot ulcer. That was his diagnosis and that is why he was in the hospital. I suppose to make some nursing diagnosis from that patient. Like what can I do to figure some diagnosis out thou?

I am a first semester nursing student. I having trouble with trying to figure out how to come up with a nursing diagnosis. Can you explain a simple procedure to learn how to do this. Thank you

You can practice on yourself. Make sure everytime you get the correct figures when you do it yourself.

The patient has aspiration/swallowing problems and his head of the bed needs to be up 30 degress at all times. Nothing happened to the patient. The instructor came up to me and said something like a person died before when a person turned on a feeding machine. The food got into their lungs or something like that. She said that she told the class that at clincial orientation which was 5 weeks ago. I do remember vaguely about it but it did not stick into my mind. Anyway, most of my other classmates turn it on by themselves. Today was also a clinical day, I know that she wrote the lists of improvements that I have to do like knowing how to do some nursing skills without constant supervision. Anyway, I was giving oral care to the same patient that I got into trouble with and she was like supervising me all the way to make her point that I needed improvement and supervising and I could not work alone. The thing about it, is that giving oral care is so friggen easy and I know I know how to do it by myself. Like I was suctioning the patient's mouth with a suction and then I dipped it into a cup of water to wash it off. She asked me, did I put it in the cup of water to wash it off? Of course I did. She was there. There was also other cases today that she constantly supervised me to do some simple stuff that I could do alone. :crying2: She even got me on washing my hands, and not using a towel to close the handle. I think I am screwed. I do not know what is going to happen to me. That is why the probation is there also, she thinks I need one to one supervision on doing nursing skills. But I do not. I am just new and sometimes, when I am unfamiliar with things, I need time to learn. :crying2: I do not know what is going to happen. :crying2: How many times have you washed your hands in clinical without using a towel to close the handle? :crying2:

Thanks for the encouragement. For some reason, I did not put up an argument on why she put me on prabation for a rookie's mistake. Geez, it is going to be hard now. Everything has to be done perfectly without error. That will be a very hard battle. I was not hostile to the instructor. If she wanted to put me on probation and end my future career goal, it was up to her. :crying2: I would have problems anyway in the future clinicals if she seen me as incompetent. But maybe, she does not like me or it is my personality that she does not like and that is why she done it. If it was that, that would be super bad... :crying2:

Today, my instructor tried to get me on something to put me on probation for 30 days. I am in my first semester of nursing school, and this is my third week of clinicals. I was never a CNA before so I am new in the hospital. My instructor chose something that I did wrong and put me on probation. The reason for the probation was because I put the feeding tube on hold because I was giving a bed bath to a patient. After the bed bath, I turned on the feeding tube by myself without notifying her that I would turn it on. There was no verbal warning for this, just probation for a rookie's mistake. For that reason, she put me on probation and she listed a list of improvements that I have to do in 30 days. If I do not improve, I am a goner.. :crying2: I did not feel mad at my instructor. Maybe, she knew that I needed improvement and had to pick something from me that I did wrong so she can list the improvements that I need done. I think my problems is writing a care plan with nursing interventions. Geez, I feel bad but under the circumstances that I was in, I did my best. Maybe I will be a goner soon since another instructor will evaluate my list of improvements that I need to make. :crying2: :crying2:

A nursing instructor told me that when a people are stressed, they smoke. Right now, I am smoking because the stress of exams and passing school. Maybe, it is not worth it going through nursing school like this and being stressed. Anyone have any insights on what I should do to calm my nerves.

no, i do not think you should quit. you made it through lpn school with clinicals and you passed nclex satisfactorily. maybe with another employer and work enviornment, people will teach you.

My name is sad because nursing school is not fun or to be happy about. I mean there are exams, and lab skills where everyday is a test if you can do the work. But the most worst thing about nursing school is the stress. I usually stress about failure. You see that is why my name is sad. School is not a happy place to be.

I thank you for the very informative post.

Hello. I am a nursing student. I start clinicals next week. I do not know what goes in a medication card when I start clinicals. The reason why is that the Pharmocolgy course at school suppose to teach me that but I did not have to take Pharmocolgy since I got it waived from the previous work I taken. I am a certified pharmacy technican so I took courses in Pharmocolgy. Please help me on the medication card for clinicals. I know that medication goes by the body system. And there is the brand and generic name, and side effects.