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I work part time (20 hours a week minimum) and am entering my last semester of my program. No kids. I have managed to get A's so far in every semester. When I started I thought I would be fine with just passing, but after gaining acquaintances I have...

This is a bit of a vent/whining post, so beware. I'm in my 2nd semester of my nursing program and while I feel like I've learned so much I'm also starting to feel like my critical thinking skills are lacking. I do great with tests and classroom stuf...

One of my biggest annoyances is when a nurse walks out of a room, sees you, and tells you a task needs to be done in that very same room, like they're urinal needs to be emptied, needs trash taken, etc. You were just IN there. Or when a nurse sees so...

So tonight at work one as an aide at a hospital, we had a patient with dementia who was obviously confused and was the type to not realize it and get very angry and was paranoid about everything. Well, the nurse on duty was trying to give her night m...

I work as an aide in a hospital, and here the aides will chart Intakes/output for all of their patients. What I'm wondering is when to chart them. To me it makes sense to chart the output or intake when it happens, like if a pt urinates and I measure...

If you don't know how to talk to people i.e. bedside manner if you are afraid to ask questions if you can't accept criticism if making a mistake makes you give up if being reprimanded causes you to give up if patience is not one of your virtues if yo...

The fact that you are a nursing student definitely helps. My clinical director actually will only hire those with no experience if they are in nursing school. That's how I got the job and nearly all of the assistants that work on my floor are in nurs...

because I made an A this semester and all of my friends barely passed, a few of them failed and I can't be excited to anyone except myself and it sucks. In nursing school it feels like you are the odd one out and everyone hates you if you made a good...

I have always offered my help to my friends and others. Some aren't so welcoming of the help while others are. I understand that others do struggle and I have struggled as well, (I barely passed 3 out of 4 of my pre-req sciences) but I am not a br...

Thanks everyone! Its so different from my other coursework. Then, so many of the people I talked to made better grades than me so I've felt the way they feel, but when you are the one who finally made the A its hard to be humble about it. I've been g...

I just don't understand nurses that are so utterly oblivious to all the work that aides do. I understand that meds need to be passed and you have to call the doctor and do a million other things but when you are sitting at the nurses station for 30 m...

Thanks for your insight. I am in nursing school as well and when I am in clinical it is opposite for me, I feel like the nurses are overworked while the aides are sitting around, but at work as an aide it is hard to see things that way when I can't g...

That has not happened to me, but I know how you feel about being rusty in fundamental skills. I have never done a foley and at the moment couldn't tell you exactly how but I can draw blood great and know the steps to an IV like the back of my hand, b...

All of the nurses I have worked with on my floor, which is ortho, rely on aides to get vitals. I have had them ask me to take it manually as well, and most of them expect you to do it if the numbers are crazy taking it with a dynamap. I assume they w...

I've never heard that the RN has to do the vitals...at the hospital I work at the aides are the ones getting them most of the time. Hmm. You're right, I did feel like it was obvious that I needed help since I was running up and down the halls constan...

Me too. I don't feel like they help me much.

I am doing really good, and I feel like I am never able to say that. All of my friends in my program are failing or very close to it and it is sometimes hard for me to chat with them while they are freaking out about failing a test when I just made a...

I'm kind of on the fence about it. I work part time as an NA and sometimes I wish I didn't due to having to cram studying in where I can, but then again I'm also the type to procrastinate, so as aubgurl said I think I would feel like there was enough...

Yes I agree, three shifts is not enough. It took me about 5 to understand the routine and then a couple more to do it myself within the time limit I needed to get things done in. I would observe for the first shift and help where you can, then once y...

They have to be solid white or black. They used to have us just wear white shoes but they changed it, thank goodness because the all white shoes looked really dumb with orange and black. I don't think it matters the type of material as long as it isn...

Well, I would do the same thing and follow what they say. But after first semester, the design of the pants and top aren't of much concern to the instructors as long as they have the patches. Glad you found out though!

I have many classmates with tops not bought from the bookstore...the orange is brighter and they bought the patches separately. I'll have to ask what brand they got.

I feel like each time I go to clinical I learn more and more about communication and how important it is, with patients and staff as well. It's so easy to misinterpret one little thing that will change a whole lot in your care/task.

Not odd at all. They will probably have them in school for when you learn and in the hospital you will usually use a dynamap if you have to take a BP. Not to say you shouldn't learn, and getting one to practice with wouldn't be helpful, but for it t...

Oh goodness no, actually I bought mine from Walmart because they were cheaper but now since I'm an aide and have a fondness for black I wear whichever ones are clean It doesn't matter what brand as long as they are black but as he posted before me I...