KentechRN

I have to agree with the posts here that the customer service based reimbursements are just a bad idea. I just got out of the tourism/entertainment business and I know what it's like when all focus is on customer service, it won't be pretty. Regards,

Make sure you don't flush so I can see your BM. Throw up in this basin so I can see it. Spit in this so I can see what color it is.

Perfect, that's what I carry and after reading this I'll have to be sure to keep it. Regards,

Just wondering which malpractice insurance you have. I do carry one but it sounds like yours really backed you up well. Regards,

I've only been a nurse for a short time and nursing school is still fresh in my mind. The nursing students on my floor are all from the same school I graduated from so I have a decent idea of what they're going through. I love having students working in my group and try my best to grab them for anything interesting and help them where I can. I'm also quite frightened that I will mess up in front of them because, as I said before, I'm still new to a lot of things too. I hope my desire to help students learn doesn't fade but it's true, having a student can be quite time consuming and even irritating if the student has a "done that, don't need to do it again" attitude.

I use a Littmann classic that I recently purchased. I like having the bell side and the tunable diaphgragm and I definitely hear a difference between it and my old prestige medical stethoscope from school. I think it's worth the investment especially if you're having trouble hearing and differentiating breath sounds.

I would want the extra PPE just for the flying bodily fluids. It has nothing to do with the patient having HIV or not. There is no need to expose yourself to these things regardless of what the patient has. It's not like this patient is HIV+ with no other issues. There is a risk of exposure to bodily fluids that I would want to decrease in this case.

I wouldn't require experience in patient care. Sure it's a good thing but previous experience does not guarantee they will be good and lack of it doesn't mean they will fail as a nurse. Many here may not agree with this but even without patient care experience in the past a nursing student can succeed and become a good nurse.

In my clinical at a BHU our instructor always told us that it was a just a fine line that stood between us and the patient. She believed, as do I, that any person can be pushed over the brink given the right (or wrong really) set of events. I think this is something for any nurse to keep in mind when caring for a client who was just pushed over that brink.

Needles, needles, needles, needles. Didn't really if I was getting stuck or not, the things freaked me out. When I decided to go into healthcare I realized that this might be a problem and started forcing myself to watch when I got a vaccine, blood draw, etc. Now I'm at the point that I'm almost volunteering to be stuck for a shot and it really doesn't bother me anymore.

If I was in that position I would jump at Hospital 2. It just sounds like a much more fulfilling and supportive environment, at least on paper.

I also was deciding between radiologic tech and RN. I ended up going the RN route but you may eventually want to consider doing both. In certain settings both licenses could make you invaluable.

I did a lot of practice questions from a Saunders NCLEX prep book but I'm not sure what the name is anymore. It came with a CD with 5,000 practice questions that I made a lot of use of.

A photographic memory or Eidetic memory isn't really something you can get. It's more of a natural ability to remember pages from books/photos almost perfectly with very little exposure to the material. However, since nursing involves a lot of critical thinking I wouldn't believe that an Eidetic memory alone would get someone the best grades in class although it would help.

I was in pretty much the exact same situation. Only had a couple rather unimpressive jobs in the past and had not worked in a while. I have an Associates and a lot of places want experience or just wouldn't give me a shot. I just recently got a job and I did it by networking. Try to get in contact with anyone you know who works in a hospital or other place with job offers and ask them if they can put a good word in for you. In the end, for a new grad networking is very important.