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Fantastic and good for her! I wonder how her legal action was funded. Did her lawyer or legal team offer to do the work and get paid out of a settlement or did she have to muster up the money herself. Was there a union involved to cover the fees?

it's normal, go through my pre-req's with a GPA of 3.9, the first semester of the nursing program dropped me to a 3.4, and I went from barely having to touch my books to reading chapters multiple times. Nursing grading vs everywhere else is a contributing factor. Where I went and most programs in the area A= 93% B= 88-92% C= 85-87 anything below that was an F. The transition from rote memorization to theory is rough. Persevere and read your books over and over again because rarely will the crap they put on your power points cover or some times even be on your tests.

This is VERY rudimentary, but it's great for guiding yourself with the very basic essentials on the floor with multiple patients. I made it so you can fold it and keep it in your pocket and reference quickly. Used it for my clinicals then transitioned it to 4 patients for the floor. You can double side print it for overnights when you have more patients. Hope it helps, also I enjoyed the docs posted already, thanks for sharing! NH - current.docx

so frustrating when NURSES don't do any research before asking if they got the right popup, lol

finished at 1300, was on hold till 'bout 1800, now I got the "good popup" hooray!

Finished in 55min with 75 questions PVT shows my results are on hold :-( 1/4 sata, no order or calc questions. I think I passed, read somewhere that if you finish "too fast" that results will be reviewed manually so guess I'll have to be patient till Sunday for the paid results.

The amount of Nursing Diploma Mills is staggering. Make certain the program you're going to attend is properly licenced (NLNAC is the important one in my area) and Make sure that the program you're going to attend has their clinicals in a good hospital and do well in them while interacting with staff, then when you do your intern hours (whatever your program calls them, capstone was what mine was called) do a very good job and come prepared (Knowledge and Humility). It worked for me, I was hired directly as a result of my performance during my internship, the nurses(we never got a sole preceptor) on the floor were telling me to fill out and application and without my knowledge went to the floor director to recommend me. I am forever thankful!

I was on the floor this week in clinical, we had a Pt. who had a left total hip done 2 days prior. Apparently on this floor, the surgeon has historically done the first dressing change, the surgeon who did this one is new to the hospital and wanted the nurses to do the change. When asked what kind of dressing he wanted on it, the MD stated "I don't care so long as it's sterile" (duh). The nurse I was following seemed a little unsure of what to put on it but made due. The Pt was ambulatory and able to move around in bed. When setting up for the dressing change the Nurse did not have the pt roll over onto the right side so she had complete access to the wound, the pt held onto the ortho bar over the bed rotating the buttock up enough so the nurse could get at the tape in contact with the bed, thus making it impossible to create a sterile field for the dressing change. Am I being the annoying nursing student in having a problem with what seemed to be a non-sterile setting for this change. The patient did not have the abduction pillow available to put between the knees so they could roll completely onto the right side, thus keeping the wound away from the bedding. -Is it dangerous for a Hip fx pt to not roll on the non-surgical side without that pillow between the knees/legs (could the hip pop out?) Thanks for the response!

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In my experience in both having LPN students assigned to me at work, and being a RN student in clinicals currently, it seems Nurses I'm attached to enjoy having someone take a patient "off their list" for 6 hours more than taking an active role in my learning. When I have students assigned to me I'm always checking up on them, making certain they're in rooms I know patients don't mind them being in when doing my assessments, starting IV's etc... It seems a lot of nurses forget rather quickly that they were students at one point as well. Append that do staff being pushed into higher and higher patient loads, and the majority of Nurses I've been exposed to last year as a LPN student and this year as an RN see me as a nuisance. I've had 2 Nurses in my experience with over 20 take an active roll and do more than get vitals and assessment info from me and putting it in as their own instead of doing their own (it is THEIR license, i never got that behavior). Maybe it's my comfort level with high patient loads having worked in nursing homes/Alzheimer's LTC for 7 years as a CNA having passed meds the entire time... I notice I'm rambling now... All I can do is make sure that I handle my students well, I look forward to becoming an educator many years from now, teaching can be fun, some people just don't see it that way and don't see the merit in the idea of "push it forward" and forget their time in clinicals. /shrug

oooooooh! if only!

If by Mayo you are in the Rochester, MN area you do have the option of going to WSU and get your BSN within a year. Take whatever job related to nursing you can now, then after getting your BSN you're considered a "new grad" again I suppose if that's what you're worried about when you mentioned you don't want to get labled a LTC nurse good luck to you!

heh, have you read any of the questions in this thread, most if not all of them have been answered earlier in the thread, ppl don't like reading or noticing post dates for that matter (not so much here but in other forums)

Go Go Minnesota!