Asands

Ive been looking for a way out of nursing for awhile and I finally found a job where I can use my nursing diploma without being in direct patient care. I just got accepted to work as a dosis adviser for people who use anti-blood clotting medicine. I work with a team of 20 advisers and a few doctors. The selection procedure was really tough and I got chosen from a group of 20 nurses applying (was very surprised when I heard they were really impressed with me!) You have to do a seperate training but you get paid for the training and its on the job training as well. I will be working 24 hours a week, with 3-4 free days a week! Paid vacations and no working on holidays. Also I can even ride my bike to my work its so close by! Im staying up to date with nursing though by continuing reading forums and keeping up with nursing literature. But for my BODY and my MENTAL health I think this is the best choice.

One of the worse experiences I had was when I was falling in for another nurse. I didnt know my patient had dementia and I came in and she didnt look at me and had her eyes glued to the tv. I introduced myself and she pushed my hand away. I go quietly in the kitchen to look at reports. Ahhhhh i see she has dementia well that explains it. Then I had to check her bloodsugars. The only pen she has is a pen ive never used before. There are no directions anywhere about how to use the lancet pen. So I go to her and try to use the pen, lancet doesnt work. She gets so angry at me and calls me incompetent etc etc. I felt mortified. I had to look up how to use this specific pen on internet and i got it right the next time but it was defintly an embarassing moment...

Its nice to see that there are other introverted nurses as well and that not everyone has a higher calling when they decided to be a nurse. I honeslty dont know what drove me to be a nurse, i think my reasoning was that I wanted a career with good job prospects and a job that i could apply knowledge and my skils to. I have my ups and downs when it comes to nursing. Some days theres a thousand irritations that pile up and make you fed up with everything and then theres days when i can help people and realise im not so bad at this job.

Oh yes I totally agree with you on this one. I remember being shocked at what nurses said over patients when i first started working in a hospital and then caught myself doing it after awhile as well. Its a way to vent frustration at patients who are probably making things more difficult then it should be. It is important to remind nurses that there are bounds to their comments. for example, i had to remind me coworkers its inappriopriate to make jokes about a male patient who dressed in drag. nurses are humans i realise but we should try to remain professional

Im a student nurse (almost done!) from america living in the netherlands for my nursing school. Its pretty hardcore here when it comes to instructing students. First, instructors are required to as part of their job to instruct students. This is usually for a period of 20 weeks (we have 3 internships during the 4 year program, each being about 20 weeks long). Besides explaining things to students, theyre expected to give feedback and evaluate with the student every day and evaluate twice every period with their university teacher about how the student is doing. Instructors are also expected to check assignments of the students and correct these as well. Whats crazy is that students even have to prepare themselves to be instrctors in the future by taking other students and instructing them for a day. (As my friend jokingly said, even our interns have interns!)

I dont know how it is in america but we generally try to put all our meds on the same time, so you can expect you give meds at 6, 12, 2, 6, 10 and during the night, of course there are always exceptions. As for giving meds early, ive seen nurses give meds 30 minutes before and 30 minutes too late...I try to be on the dot when giving meds, but i think our system is a bit easier, less multi tasking.

LOL! i used to study and workout at the same time as a student, people thought i was crazy

Ive had the worse to the best instructors. I dont mind strict instrcutors if theyre fair and dont just go pointing out everything you do wrong. Ive had awesome instructors too who just want to help you and instructors whove made my life hell. Today was my first day as an instructor. I tried my best to be kind and fair and help out when needed and to teach everything to know and not be B/ch because ive got authority.

As a nurse who works at a cancer clinic, it doesnt matter if youre obese or anorexic to your patient. Cancer affects everyone and youll be glad to get good nursing from a obese or whatever shape in they come nurse. Love and care is the most important to a patient when theyre at their worse.. xx amy

I got my BS in management in 2008 and im now in my 4th year of RN nursing school, doing the intern program. I can tell you people are pretty ignorant about what nurse do or they have a very low appreciation of the work nurses do. My family (except my mom, shes an RN) thought i would be doing work below my level, but i can tell you ive never had to use my brain and thinking abilities like i do in nursing. there are some days that i just WISH i only had to clean butts, instead of dealing with worried family members, unclear orders from doctors and sick patients. I think someones in for a reality check!

Im an intern and I understand where youre coming from. You have to ask yourself if shes doing this just to be a nit pick or if shes doing this to help you so you dont get into trouble with your supervisor. Ive had a hard time accepting feedback from other nurses because it seemed like they were just doing it because i was still a baby nurse and they were more experienced. Looking back, i see most of the time they just had my best interest at heart. Its important just to hear out what they have to say and why they want it the way they do (most of the time they have a valid argument). Say you understand their point and try to remember that for next time. Most important is to remember is that you cant please everyone in this world and you cant keep track of what everyones expectations of you are. Just do your best and try to make use of the advice other nurses give you xx amy