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Hi Just1girl, You're in luck, I was sent an email informing me of a reply. x) But umm.. could you enable private messaging to your account? Maybe I could answer your questions better through that. Or send me a private message.. if I have it enabled (...

Well I have been married for coming up on 4 years now, and have never been pregnant, HOWEVER.. I am also aware that no matter what protection we use and no matter how responsibly we use it, there is always a small possibility of an accidental pregnan...

Hi everyone, I'm a nursing student and I posted a little while back about being frightened to go to a 6-week oncology ward rotation because of the chemotherapy drugs. During the time I was there, I spent about 45 minutes in the pharmacy in the clean ...

Maybe you're right. Maybe I'll feel more comfortable once I actually start to understand the drugs better. I think a lot of my fear right now has to do with feeling completely vulnerable because I don't know what drugs are dangerous or how to protect...

Many chemotherapy drugs are known human carcinogens, as well has having other nasty side effects. For instance, here where I live pregnant nurses are not allowed to hang chemotherapy drugs, because of studies finding a significant increase in spontan...

Thanks. I have a very supportive family that I've talked to about this, I just wanted to talk to a few nurses too who would understand better why I'm concerned in the first place, who actually have some knowledge about these drugs. My family is great...

OCNRN63, yours was not a comment that offended me, nor were most of the others. I agree that if it's a fear I cannot overcome then hospital nursing is clearly not for me, that is what I said in my post afterall. Though the assumption that I need to g...

Are you serious? If a nurse is concerned about her own safety when dealing with drugs listed as hazardous by NIOSH then she is self-absorbed and shouldn't be in nursing at all? I'm sorry, but you don't know enough about me to judge me like that in a ...

I was in the oncology ward for 5 8-hour shifts a week for 2 weeks. And yes, I know it's irrational to obsess over getting cancer due to that minimal exposure. It still helps to hear it from others, even if you all think I'm a little crazy now. xD Lik...

Thanks everyone for your replies. I feel like what bothers me is that no one handles these drugs any differently than any other drug - no one even told me that they were hazardous drugs and no one used the extra PPE that I thought NIOSH recommended f...

Hi everyone, So I'm in my second year of nursing school and we have our med/surg rotation starting in just a few days (monday). For my first rotation I chose the oncology floor and it lasts 6 weeks. Unfortunately, we studied oncology after choosing t...

This is horrible! In Finland, whenever you get accepted into school you have like 1-2 years that you are allowed to take off in the middle of it if something unexpected happens like illness, pregnancy, etc. So if you get pregnant, you can leave schoo...

1. Making your tests so easy that people who didn't even read the material get the same grades as people who studied really hard is not going to make you a more popular teacher, it will just lose you respect. 2. Please prioritize our classes better. ...

1. I'll loan you my notes happily if you miss class occasionally for a good reason. However if you're too lazy to come to class so much that I only see you once or twice a month, don't you dare ask me for all of my notes. Asking a few days before the...

I have a feeling the OP is young and somewhat inexperienced or naive about men. And/or has had a very sheltered upbringing. Not to get into OP's personal life, just saying she comes across as how I would expect a 14-year-old girl to react, thinking t...

Didn't read all of these posts, but just in reply to the first post and first few responses.. I agree with NightNurseCarol. That isn't your job, although it's nice of you to do those things. However, I'm surprised you listed fixing the TV, cleaning t...

Men get erections. Period. It doesn't mean he was fantasizing about you or even thinking about you. Especially if he was washing himself down there. Haven't had it happen yet to me, but at school they mentioned that male patients may get an erection ...

My studying is time consuming, but it works for me. First I read through the book chapters and highlight everything important, then I go back and write my own notes based on those in my own words, preferably in as short terms as possible, and in list...

Okay, so my first week is over. I'm disappointed about their safety protocols in that ward. Though of course you were right - students are not allowed to give chemo at all. However my instructors who give it told me straight that they are supposed to...

Thanks for the responses everyone! It's actually really nice to hear from those with experiences as patients/family of patients. Though I hope I didn't come across wrong, as I certainly didn't mean to imply that I would treat the patients poorly. It'...

I agree with what others have said. Not even physicians do that, even though they do on TV. The difference between a nurse and a physician when it comes to that, though, is that if a physician wants a new specialty they have to train for years. If a ...

Honestly, I don't think any of that even matters. The basic fact is that if your heart is not in nursing, you will never be happy as a nurse. Period. And you'll be taking the spot of a nursing student who really wants to be there, when for you it's j...

Well I'm in my second year of nursing school now, and this is how I ended up here: I had always been interested in the medical field - mostly in being a doctor or a paramedic. I didn't know what nurses did, because on TV they show doctors doing the j...

I'm a couple of years behind my friends too, because I moved to Finland after high school and spent 2 years learning the language before being accepted into nursing school (long story)! Now my old friends from high school are all graduating this summ...

I'm a nursing student and like you, I considered for a time studying to be a social worker. The eventual conclusion that I came to was that social work is a lot of paper work and sitting at a desk. It would be great to be a social worker in certain f...