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It is your obligation to report your employer if you believe they are using dirty instruments. This is seriously frightening!

I'm sorry but it is simply NOT TRUE that ADN/ASN grads have more clinical time or clinical experience than BSN graduates. The state board of nursing has specific requirements pertaining to the number of clinical hours in order for accreditation. Alth...

I don't think exams should really be timed at all, within reason. I have never come close to running out of time for any of my exams, but for those who take longer it is just more added pressure to an exam. I remember a statistics instructor that ...

I can totally appreciate what your stance.

People rant about failing all the time and most of the time I understand why the instructor did it. Your situation on the other hand is really not very fair situation. It is pretty serious.... but it was just air! It's pretty likely you will NEVER m...

No, I have never had a tutor tell me "not to try to be" a Rhodes Scholar or professional athlete, just as I have never told anyone what they should "not try to be". But, as I stated before, I have suggested to a few students that they may want to rec...

If you said that in my program you would be OUT.

No, advising your patient about health issues is your job! You are the main source of health education and promotion for your patients. It has ZERO to do with your person life or your personal habits. All you are doing is disseminating information. ...

http://nursing.goivytech.net/nclexrn3500/mainMenu.do;jsessionid=EFDA9D19C45240964FE3152D512A7EAD this one works. ;)

A little advice. You made your 1st nursing diagnosis is risk of infection r/t chronic skin disease. That is definitely a problem, but not a priority. What is the priority for this patient when you learn about their diagnosis/interventions?? When I r...

It doesn't make a difference in any state you are in, you can only restrain a patient if it is believed that they are an immediate threat to themselves or someone else. So if the drunk guy says he doesn't want a specific treatment & wants to leav...

Yay! My pinning is the 18th. Spent all day getting my application for my license together. I'M STOKED.

You got a C+ average your first semester-- so it's not the end of the world as long as you didn't get any D's or failures. Careful with your prerequisite classes. To get into a BSN program they must be very good. I took all my classes at a commun...

I received the IM injection. No pain at the site at all, in fact i thought that maybe they didn't get it into the muscle--but other students told me that they didn't experience any pain either. Like 0 pain in the days following. I worked with the...

um, this rant is ridicules. so a nurse that is over weight should just omit patient education on diet because otherwise she would be a hypocrite ?? god, hope the patient ins't diabetic.

I worked as a biology tutor for a local college for many years. I had students come semester after semester, many retaking the same prerequisites many times. There were many times that I posed that question to a student: do you think that maybe nur...

... When you use bandage scissors to wrap your holiday presents. :gift:

Integrity is something very important in nursing, so naturally academic integrity is a pretty big deal. As student nurses and RN's in the profession we are expected to be responsible practitioners when caring for our patients. This includes reportin...

. One of the most important things in choosing a program is how many years it's been established. I just wanted to pass this on to you only because i live in southern arizona and a PMI program opened up just a year ago here. New programs have a bil...

I finished my preceptorship in October. It was 150 hours, that is 3 12-hour shifts per week for a little over a month. By the end, I was almost completely autonomous caring for 4 patients. I would still need my preceptor to take out certain meds, b...

why don't you just suck it up and study?

We were taught that 30mL is a CRITICAL value, meaning that the patient is surely is or will be in kidney failure if the output drops below 30. We were taught to look at the tend of the patient's urine output as the best indicator, such as a pt's uri...

Our Care Plans were always graded. I am in my final semester and don't have to do them anymore. My 4th semester the Care Plans were a majority of our clinical grade for our 8 week ICU rotation. There were over 30 pages and due every week. I didn't ge...

I cried a little reading all the ideas you guys came up with! They all sound great!

I have a nice fade from the barber shop. Sometimes if I'm feeling wild I'll put a little gel in it.