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Oh lord. There's an endless list. Panic over fluids being complete. "How much longer will it be? I have to be to work in an hour." Family members who treat me like a waitress. Patient who won't put down their phone while I'm in their room. Patient who interrupts me to answer my question with attitude before I've completed it. Especially when the question is pain scale. Patient who tells me how to push their meds. Giving me directions on pushing your pain meds guarantees I will hang it in a 50 bag and drip it. Patient who came via ambulance at 2am for toe pain x3 weeks because they didnt wsnt to wake anyone up for a ride and expects a cab voucher home at discharge. Drunks.

My family's support, coffee and hard work. :)

Well then, happy Sunday.

It's not just nursing students. It's society in general.

At our orientation in January, our director explained their grading scale: 80-84.9 C. 85-89.9 B, 90-100 A. She said that statistically, students who score less then 80 overall did much more poorly on the NCLEX, so for my program it is to keep their pass rates up. It works for them, but it does make it stressful! We just got our final grades for this semester: 89.94. I definitely shed a tear. Lol. So close!! It was a crazy hard semester though, so I should be proud of that very high B.

I've calculated mine to 0.24 shy of A and our program doesn't round either. It stings!! Lol

To quote Ron Burgundy, that escalated quickly.

I know that I would feel exactly as you do if I were in your shoes. No doubt. (((Hugs))) I would try to focus on the babies, not the moms. I know taking care of the moms is part of it, but I would rationalize it being for the benefit of the baby. And try to just focus on it being just a small portion of time, and power through it with as much disconnect as possible. IMO, there is nothing wrong with keeping your emotional distance. Keep it clinical.

I graduate next December. The idea is terrifying! I know I still have a ways to go, but I feel like I know nothing. I can't imagine learning enough in two semesters to feel remotely ok with graduating and working as a nurse. Yikes!! I can't wait to be finished though. We take the summer off, so I'm guessing I will be spending that time reading my NCLEX review books on the beach.

I don't.

Our school practices pushing air and checking pH. We did get the disclaimer, though, that evidence based practice shows pH is the more reliable test. They only taught us the swoosh (as they call it) because our local hospitals still have that method as policy. I've never seen that skill done in clinical, unfortunately, so I don't know how the RNs do it in practice.

B rubs me the wrong way too. That's what I'd pick...

I have a 4.0 also, and everyone who knows me knows my sarcasm knows no bounds.

Last semester was an amazing clinical experience. Our instructor was very intense, but she pulled us all over the hospital finding things for us to do or watch. We didn't stop moving the entire day. Neither did she! She graded our notes and paperwork super hard, and we learned a lot from her. She wasn't the sweetest and kindest person to interact with sometimes. but she cared about us learning and doing well and moving on. She taught us disease processes that we weren't even learning in our class, and expected us to know more than what we learned in our classroom, including lab values. it translated to having an advantage this term. This semester, our instructor was in the middle of her second masters degree. She spent the entire in the break room studying her notes. I gave an injection and passed some meds all semester. That's it. We spent our days trying in vain to find things to do besides answer call lights. We never saw our nurses notes until the last day, which she spent just grading them all. She's not looked at them all semester.