Chandra Lancaster replied to Chandra Lancaster's topic in General Nursing
I am not understanding where the "tooth brush" vein is, sorry I should probably understand what you are saying but don't quite. Thank you all very much for the input! I do need more practice and often feel people's veins just to try to get a feel for...
Chandra Lancaster replied to Chandra Lancaster's topic in General Nursing
I'm sorry to have made it sound rude, it was just something that I have noticed as a student. Many complaints have been made that nurses who smoke get more breaks than the ones that don't. I think that if there is a complaint about the ones taking mo...
I see nurses smoking quite often. Do you think that patients see this and wonder why we are telling them to quit? Should nurses not be allowed to smoke? I understand that nurses are stressed out, but we know that smoking is harmful. Also, do you thin...
As a nursing student, I try to take every chance I get to practice IV's on patients, I still suck at it. Every time I start one, I get kind of nervous that I won't find the right vein, or that it will blow on me. My last clinical I got 3 out of 5 in,...