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Mostly it is important to know what you expect from the medicine before you give it, pay attention while you are giving it and if it says slow IV go sllloooowwww. As a brilliant instructor of mine once said "You can always give them more but you can't take any back!" (some things can be reversed if there is any patient left to reverse it in) Always better to be safe than sorry, and by the way be careful of where you are standing when Charcoal, enemas, or anything that a patient is likely to barf is given:) Particular

I can stand pretty much everything, I have worked in the ER for quite a while and was a paramedic before. The eye and nail injuries are nasty but that reallllly high pitched screaming little kids do ( you know sometimes you aren't even near them yet) is really nerve wracking. :stone

I was petrified of this class too, almost as bad as Algebra! What I did was to pick a friendly face in the class and only made eye contact with them, I looked around but only made eye contact with the friendly face Remember this is one of the most common fears, the rest of the class is probably not any happier about it than you are. Also try to identify any bad habits you have and try to prevent yourself from doing them ( I had a bad habit of putting my hands in my pockets, so I picked a topic that required me to wear my Air Force uniform--no putting my hands in those pockets:) ) another time I spoke about how to do CPR and wore my paramedic uniform it was comfortable and I was "dressed for success" In other words it may help you to put the focus on your subject and not on you by using some prop (such as a costume or uniform) or try to use a subject you know intimately for a speech at first.

You are probably right in that shoes don't fall into patients, I never lost my cap in one either. But anyway, I think the real concept here is to look as sharp as possible. I think I look sharp in my white, or white and navy. I know nurses who wear different colors of pressed, or permanent pressed scrubs that also look sharp. If you are wearing grungy uniforms then whatever color of style they are won't matter, the same with shoes. I do live in fear that someday the other nurses will all vote while I am on vacation that we all have to wear orange or something. My bottom line is that you should look and be clean in what ever you wear, including all your accessories including shoes, stethoscopes, coats etc. Particular

I think caps are fine. And I never minded wearing mine. And while it is possible that there are germs on your cap, they can't be much worse than the shoes I see everyday. I don't have any problems with nurses wearing sneakers, I wear white New Balance, but they should be clean. I also think they should be left at work, and not worn in and out. Same thing with the jackets people wear over their scrubs, sometimes the ones our ER docs wear are gray to put it mildly.P

I am in RN to MSN at my DL school and am happy with it. It is not state run though. It is private, and I would not have been able to go to graduate school any other way. I have gotten impatient with people a few times but I understand that everyone has their challenges and perhaps I wasn't being clear enough about what I needed. I have been "going" to this school for a while, and I have never had anyone be rude.

I have been a nurse for 12 years, I work in a small hospital and do both ER and Med-surg. I am and ADN, within 4 classes of my BSN-MSN. I am from Missouri. And I wholeheartedly love white. I wear blue and white in the ER, and white in Med-surg. If you keep your uniforms up they stay white. I do it, it can be done, I probably sound like a meany but I am not I am very proud of being an RN, and think we should do what it takes to stand out visually for our patients and each other. Everyone but admin, and maint. in our hospital wears scrubs, but only nurses RNs and LPNs usually wear white. While I am at it let me throw in my two cents worth about nametags!!!! Several nurses in our hospital (and other folks too) put all manner of stuff all over their nametags, if I didn't already know who and what they were I sure couldn't figure it out, and I have normal vision and am not ill. Imagine what trouble sick, injured people, or just mixed up people have figuring out what we are. Well ope that helps your poll and by the way thanks for letting me vent. Particular