erica2117

Oncology nurse here who deals with ports daily. You absolutely have to reaccess, flush and heplock. It happens! We are all human

Hey everyone, my boss is non-clinical and doesn't know a single thing about anything remotely medical related. She even tells us we are "grossing her out" when she hears us talking about medical issues. I work in an outpatient gynecologic oncology office. One of my jobs is to do pre-op visits and sign the consents, go over pre surgical testing, how to prepare for the surgery and what recovery is like. I have been at my job for over a year and have done hundreds of these visits. Suddenly my boss has decided today she wants to sit in on my pre op visits so she can "learn more about the procedures". Honestly it made me VERY uncomfortable because not only is this a very personal topic to be discussing with patients, I don't think she has any right to watch pre ops to "learn" in fact I find it nosey. She interrupted my preop several times today, her phone was vibrating, she was flipping through my paperwork and just being a huge distraction. What made it the worst for me was that she introduced herself as the office manager and she was "observing" me today. I felt like it broke the trust between the patient and the nurse because to me it looked like I was in trouble and I had to be watched. Mind you I have never had any complaints, my physicians are happy with my visits and explanations. She asked to sit in on more with me this week. This doesn't feel right. Is someone who is administrative even allowed to do that??? Something just doesn't seem right.

I just took my NCLEX-RN last month, 93 questions, had about the same amount of SATA, about 3 med questions and what seemed like dozens of prioritizing questions. From what I know, that's an excellent sign for you! Because I passed! :) I did the PVT about 15 minutes after the exam, got the good pop up, and just because I was not trusting in it... i kept doing it about every few hours until I got the quick results. I think you did just fine

When I first started in nursing school and would start doing skills, my hands would shake and they even said I looked liek a little baby chihuahua... they just want to guide you and help you through it..they aren't trying to make you fail. If you can clearly show that you are trying, they will work with you through your skills

I had this exact same experience with my clinical instructor... are you sure you aren't in the program I graduated from?! haha! No this isn't acceptable and the higherups definitely do not listen. I was told multiple times I would be a terrible nurse, and she even gave wrong medications and told me it was my fault, when I was no where in sight to administer the medications. She wrote me up for things she did and threatened to drop me from the program. You need to stay strong and as the saying goes "kill em with kindness." Don't let it show her that it is bothering you, she's a bully, bullies get satisfaction on showing that it is bothering you. 3 more weeks left and you can totally get through this, just lean on the other girls in your program for guidance and take the best care of the patients you possibly can.

I worked full time during nursing school, did full clinicals, and had a boyfriend who lived an hour away and I still made sure I drove and saw him and stayed with him every Friday-Monday. I studied my butt off and got good grades and stayed on the honor roll. I went out with my friends, I went to the bars and enjoyed my life. There were times where I felt like I had no life and I had to occasionally say no to different activities if I had to study, but there were nights I was posted up on the couch studying during football. Multitasking and prioritizing is where it comes into play. study every spare second you have. Carry your notebook of critical notes around, do extra nclex questions in the waiting room before your doctors appointments or at the checkout at the grocery store... every couple minutes helps and then you can use that spare time that you freed up to do something fun :)

I'm hoping to be offered a job in a teaching hospital sometime this week... I'm pretty excited about it. Yet I can't help but be nervous at the same time. I keep hearing the first job be described as nursing school part 2

I always found I did much better in my fundamentals class by using the practice questions that come in the fundamentals book and make flash cards with important information

I work full time and of course a full time nursing student. I find myself definitely more crabby especially on high stress weeks. I'm just counting down the days til Summer vacation... spring break doesn't count because I'll be making med sheets that whole time