kloopRNBSN

I don't think anyone answered you about NCLEX and their testing so I thought I'd chime in. I don't know for sure, but it seems NCLEX is pretty standardized. Based on that assumption I will say I was never drug tested for NCLEX when I took it in 2013. However, your last concern should be NCLEX. You cannot take it until you graduate, they won't allow it. They do ask about your background etc. but drug test results are often kept between the lab and the entity requesting the test. They may not have access to your results, but you never know, often times you sign away many of your privacy rights on the form you're given prior to testing. Good luck with everything, I hope you end up where you belong, whether that be a nursing career or otherwise.

I work in an out patient clinic (one of the big two) and we don't even have anything like that in the building. The only pain reliever we have on hand is Tylenol, period. Honestly, after working in a rural hospital on med surg with plenty of opiate addicts for patients, this was one of the most appealing aspects of the job. However, if you're used to the pace of ICU nursing you might be bored in dialysis because there's actually downtime...hell you might even get to take a real lunch break!

I know it seems rough and you feel like you aren't retaining the info but you actually may find that you are retaining it, you just don't know yet. It seems silly but as soon as I graduated and started to encounter real life issues I knew more than I thought I did. I also found some things were easier to learn at the bedside because you actually got to see how everything works together to create/solve health problems. You'll be fine, just stick it out, nursing school is overwhelming for most people but if you can make it (and if you are lucky enough to ind a job...being a new grad is tough) you'll see it was all worth it. Good luck!

Things like, Maybe that's how people were raised and taught, but I wasn't taught like that." should be eliminated from your vocabulary. No one who brought you up was teaching you to be a nurse. In nursing you pick your battles or you crash and burn my friend. You'll learn.

Oh, wow, I know most of this has been said but I will respond with my thoughts (its long, sorry, I couldn't help it). First, the tone of this FB post comes off as very rude, and could cause you to have a very very hard time in the nursing field. I'm going to gamble and guess you're young, and you haven't learned the sad unfortunate lesson that you must pick your battles and speaking up and being headstrong is your last resort. I went to nursing school with some folks who said and did things like this, and although they had nothing but the best intentions, many of them never made it to the end of the program. I promise you, like, 25+% of your professor's opinion (a.k.a. your grades, how you are treated, whether or not they give you a harder time in general etc.) of you is based on your personality, what kind of people they like to surround themselves with in their life outside of nursing, and your ability to cope with this kind of situation properly. DO NOT FORGET they are not going to fit into the typical definition of the word "teacher" or "professor". They don't adhere to the same standards as say, an english professor. These people are NURSES FIRST who, for one reason or another are teaching you to be a nurse and if they don't "like" you they can make your life a living hell and they won't get in trouble, you might, and they will still have their license and an infinite supply of students willing to kiss their butt to become a nurse. Now, if safety is an issue, by all means, tell someone, but try to begin with the student/nurse who you think made an error. Imagine if you had done that first how differently things could've been for you. That other student would likely have done one of two things, fixed it, or found out they couldn't fix it and told on themselves. Don't ever go snooping around and digging for things you think were done wrong, it makes you look silly and it makes other students begin to do the same to you. Also even if you gave meds, looking at another nurse's patients' info is against every hospital policy I have ever seen so, if you were a real nurse, you would have been reprimanded for that. By this point in life I am sure you know people don't like being told on, especially if they could have been alerted first and they could've silently fixed their error and learned from their mistake. You know the saying, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."? If you don't know what it means you better look it up and learn it. They might be your best friend after you help them not screw up, but they might be your worst enemy after being told on. Seriously I know this is probably making you mad, but that is not my intent, I am trying to convey how serious this is. I think you should take this whole thing as a lesson. Its like if you go on to be an RN and you screw up, and since you made a minor mistake (insulin is serious, but it wasn't that serious yet or the guy would've been seizing etc. and everyone would've been in way deeper doo doo), your co-worker tells the nurse manager before even mentioning it to you. Then you get written up, or worse, you already have been written up a couple times and this is the thing you get terminated for. Telling on people before telling them you think they need to check their work is okay when the person is like, stealing drugs, or doing majorly erroneous things, but a small mistake should always be brought up to the nurse making the mistake. You will learn this (I pray you are in a program where you have to take an ethics course). Next lesson NEVER EVER EVER EVER ....EVER.......EVER EVER EVER post anything about school on Facebook. I don't care if it is something great. Just Don't. That post was totally inappropriate and I have no clue how you could look at it and think it was okay. If this were a nursing job you posted about and they got wind of it you would be fired, I guarantee that, 100% no questions asked. You insulted your professor, your fellow classmates, the employees at the hospital, and foremost the facility who was kind enough to allow you to do clinicals there. When you do that, they think about how someone else's opinion of them has been infinitely marred by your opinion (key word opinion, not fact). Bad, bad, bad, bad. Not to mention the implications you are making about your inability to maintain confidentiality. When your fellow students and instructors read this they knew EXACTLY who you were talking about, what hospital, what teachers, and what nurses and assistive personnel. If you do this about anything work related, especially a patient even if you don't say their name, if ANYONE can gather info from what you insinuate, and guess who you are talking about, even if you WEREN'T talking about who they think you are talking about, you can be in big trouble and it can be considered a violation of HIPAA. You may think I'm wrong but I'm not and I know this. You have to think of this in terms of real life when you become a nurse. Although your instructors may seem cruel and wrong now, they are right (even when they are wrong most times, they are going to be right in the end, I hope that makes sense). This field is different from anything else and I was appalled at first by the politics but I wanted it so I did it end of story. P.S. Be careful to check your own work now because as we all know cattiness is unavoidable in life. I hope they aren't, but your classmates may be foaming at the mouth to see you make an error so they can tell the instructor instead of you after this. Put yourself in their shoes, this is their future career on the line. If you don't get this right before you're a nurse you could lose jobs because of it. I've seen nurses at my hospital leave of drama (fires they started that they couldn't put out). I'm sorry if I offended you, please don't take any of this the wrong way, we are all trying to help you I swear, some of us have been in your shoes and its tough but you have to know who to say what to, heck, it'll even be on NCLEX.