Punkrocksn

I'm looking forward to reading an informed reply to your post. It looks like a huge conflict, hospice patients in ICU. Is it "safe" to change practice for a patient's comfort? I'm a student nurse, but having personal experience with hospice, I can't disagree with your decision.

Brief background: I have an underage dui at age 20 (zero tolerance in my state), and illegal use of 911 (charge dropped) tied to disturbing the peace by drunkeness. I'm 27 years old now, and these things were so distant to me that I never bothered to have my record expunged. I contacted my local board and hopeful school (that I now attend) and they all told me I'd have to apply and see what happened. Well, because I didn't clear my record, the board had access to not only the dropped charge, but the actual police reports from my arrest. They were not pretty. I received board clearance the day before clinical rotations started, with the provision that I was to appear before members of the board, explain myself, and hold to whatever they recommended for me. When I got to my "hearing," it was obvious that the decision had already been made. They apologetically ordered me to undergo an outpatient rehab evaluation 4 hours from my home for almost $2,000. After hours of interviews and tests, they asked me why I was there after so many years, and reported that I have no addiction issues. BUT they recommended that I undergo a year of monitoring "to prove" to the board that I'm fit for practice. This also meant that I have a formal complaint on my record, and was placed on probation for things that happened 7 years ago. I was given the option to have an actual hearing with the actual board, but would have to sit out a year and have that on my record as well. If I'd known all this when I started school 2 years before, I may have altered the path I took, but never the decision to go through nursing school. On the bright side, if anyone questions the record that WILL be cleared by the time I look for a job, there will be a year of documented compliance with the board, and a year of sobriety from alcohol and drugs PLUS great grades, and exemplary performance in the clinical environment. It's scary, but every case is different. If I'd expunged my record, a lot of this probably wouldn't have happened. It just depends on where you live. There are many many nurses and students with dui's in my state and bouts in monitoring. If records are expunged or sealed in my state we don't admit dropped charges. However, we do have to submit narratives of the arrests. It's an embarrassing subject, but some students are straightforward in talking about their cases, and may have helpful information about how your local board deals with criminal records.

I've posted this one before, but it still makes me laugh. A new student was watching WC change a vac dressing for a fresh amputee. The nurse asked if she had any more questions, and she said "Wellll, she's got this... wound in her perineal area.... I don't know how to describe it as anything but... coral?" (like the sea creatures) Pt had external hemorrhoids I was taking care of an alcoholic cirrhosis geri pt, in report was told L mastectomy. So for 2 weeks, she'd only been getting bp, everything in R arm. The woman had two natural breasts, and no hx. The RN was visibly angry that I figured that one out. Her ascites was pretty severe, with umbilical hernia. When being wheeled down for ultrasound, she told the intern "I can't wait to see the baby." Baby? "Yeah girl, can't you tell I'm 11 months pregnant?!" The staff thought the pt was confused, and she found the fact that she could say whatever she wanted hilarious

At my school students like this have to repeat the semester. And that takes a full year

A fellow student was watching her first woundvac on her patient with WCN. Before wound care left, she asked if the student had any questions. The student says, "I noticed something in her perineal area... I don't know how to describe it... CORAL?" The patient had external HEMORRHOIDS

Oooooooh I am dying laughing!!!!!

lmao, I was about to say something then realized you were talking about NICU baaa ha hahha!

First day at clinicals I had a partner. She was very shy and had a sweet voice, not wanting to raise her voice for an older pt. We were doing a head to toe, she asks to "peek in his mouth." This man yells at the top of his voice, "NO YOU CAN'T PEE IN MY MOUTH!!"