dakota0898

I totally agree with Pharmguy.....as a BSN student, about to graduate in 6 weeks, just because all of you claim to be A/B students, you dont want to be held down by someone who is struggling.... you are in for a rude awaking as a team player....and you will need help by someone at many points of nursing school and as a nurse. Patients rely on the nurses to be team players... Patients become very sick very fast and you will get swamped very fast and will need your co-workers on many situations...if you cant help out a fellow student who could be someone who has not been taught how to study effectively, maybe comes from a less fortunate life who didnt get the support at home with school work, it could be she just needs a very simple direction in effective study habits..who knows, but I will say....I am in a cohort of 50 students, we all have been together on this journey...... you will have to do plenty of GROUP papers, projects, and research together so you better learn how to play nice to each other now......you will be that new grad someday, and veteran nurses can spot a new grad a mile a way who is not a team player and they will eat you alive......your A/B means nothing on the floor taking care of patients, I have seen many C students in my class in clinical who ROCK when it comes to being confident and caring and able to handle a stressful CPR...... I saw another A student who froze in her shoes when a patient wasn't breathing and a doctor told her to do compressions.....on a CPR patient..... so take away.....be nice, helpful, and know that this person you don't want to help or maybe another one later on.....could be that nurse you end up working with years later, or someone who could help you get a job...... and she will remember you and how you treated her.....and I think you are being mean by all the attitudes who are so worried that it will hinder your studying or bring you down.....I have a 3.6 GPA and there has been a class where I went into a final and needed a 87 in order to pass my class.....I had a death in my family and was struggling to pull it together that semester......my class mates all came together to give me notes, and recordings three days before that exam.....I passed with an 87.5.......its all about team work in the nursing profession......get use to it now or you will be a lone warrior and probably not make it on your own.....in this profession.....

I am feeling so defeated and need help to put my goals back in order. I recently failed out of 4th semester with only eight weeks left. I had never been on probation/contract in previous semesters for clinical, but my 4th sem clinical instructor felt "I wasnt as good as I gave myself credit " I have been completely devastated. I spent 7 yrs as a EMT/paramedic, I nursed my paraplegic mother for 30 yrs of my life and always thought nursing was where I was suppose to be. After 2 yrs of preparing, I get kicked to the curb for something I really dont believe rated expulsion. I had a "near" med error that was corrected at the pyxis before ever leaving the med room, then I had a syringe of senna in my left hand while I was pushing IV protonix with my right hand and she claimed I was going to push it in the IV, on a peg tube patient. She never questioned me for my intentions, just waited for class the following week to dismiss me. Additionally, she claims because I wrote in my weekly journals that I was working on organization skills that all of this adds up to an unsafe nursing student. I was never counseled or given a contract to improve as some of my fellow students were given...... My question is: I have been told by some of my classmates that I can challenge the LVN NCLEX....Has anyone ever done this? I have researched other schools, but I would have to start from the beginning, including the "new" version of TEAS....that would cost me two years......Any recommendations out there??????

I was in my fourth semester with just 8 weeks to graduate. I had become sick with a sinus infection for a week. I got antibiotics onboard during the week, but I was still under the weather. Since I was so close to being done, I just didnt want to call of for my one of three clinical shift left. I had no write ups or reprimands up to this point at all. I passed all my previous semesters with no issues at all. I was exhausted and should have called off and do a make up day. But, I tried to be tough and push through because I was so excited to be so close to finish. I had a G-tube patient and had a 12 meds to dissolve in individual cups at bedside and push in the tube, plus an IVP of protonix and a syringe of senna. I pulled about 12 meds out of the pixis. a 4 I should have pulled two tabs, and I only pulled 1ea. Which was caught during my second/third check at the pixis, I had all correct meds when I left the med room. I walked over to the side of bed for patients IV and happen to have both the senna and the protonix in my hand. I asked her which med to be pushed first (meaning the IV or G-tube) Then when I pushed my protonix, I questioned her about the senna because I could see the syringe it was in, was not a locking fit for the g-tube port and I asked her if I should squirt it into the little cup like the pills that are in dissolving, she said no, push it right into the g-tube...so I had a puzzled look on my face but did it anyway. Later I gave a feeding bolus, and afterwards while doing my paperwork I asked her where in the computer was the feeding order listed, (I was just tired and in a haze from being sick) I would have eventually found it on my own..( I also wasnt too familiar with the system at this hospital).... So, she decided that at 4th semester, I should not be making a mistake in pulling meds from the pixis, and that she "ASSUMED", I might have tried to push the senna into the IV line because I had it in my hand while I was pushing the protonix, and questioned her on the route. Then she just "added" that I should have not needed to ask her where to find the feeding order in the system..........So, since they consider this Med error.....pretty much Im screwed!!!!!!!....I am not really sure what to do yet, but Im not a quitter. I spent 10 years and an EMT/paramedic and was a full time care taker for my mother from 13yrs old to 44yrs old and that included...IV antibiotics at home, indwelling catheter, meds, Groshong for 5 yrs...I was dismissed from the program and now having a very hard time trying to find any other program to consider me to transfer in a finish...........I just dont think this one day is enough to say I would be an unsafe nurse????? Someone please give me some in put????