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Has anyone else every come across this? Today we were in a different hospital so we were on "observation" only protocol for a L&D Hospital. We were each assigned a nurse to follow and then followed them to do their assessments in the morning. I ...

Just curious how other schools are handling ATI? Every semester we use ATI and we have to take these exams and score an 85% on material we haven't covered but will be covered by semester end. The difficulty is we have ATI books from 2013 to review of...

On her facebook she was extremely vocal this weekend about her opinion. Since Monday though nothing - can't help but wonder if she was terminated over her post. There's no take backs on social media!

It depends on my mood honestly. A lot of times I'll eat dinner foods before going to bed (my system says it's dinner time). Which can vary from a salad to soup to any sort of meat. If you're looking for more breakfast type foods I use the carnation ...

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I think it depends on the program/person. For example: 1) Our school refused to accommodate a fellow classmate who had cancer - she needed the cancer removed - urgently. She took two tests three weeks before the semester was even over, only for the p...

I wanted to say I am sorry you are going through this hard time. However, please know that this mountain is not unclimbable. I was a single mother, my son's father left when our son was about 6 weeks old. I was working as a 911 operator (which was a...

I work in a very busy ED, my husband works in another hospital in our area that is also a very busy ED. While we were talking something he said caught me off guard. His hospital searches their patients pockets if they are a psych/trauma/intoxicated p...

Bingo.

Thank you for this. We also give back all belongings at discharge regardless of whats in them. The links were helpful - thank you for the detailed information. Heron, it really is a "bucket of stinky worms". I know if I were a patient in the hospita...

Honestly a head to toe takes me less than 10 minutes, usually around 8 minutes give or take depending on the patient severity. When I did med surg in school we would have 4 patients assigned to us and their full care was ours and ours alone. I always...

Life is life.. you are going to get terrible instructors. Unfortunately this will happen. I had an instructor that had it out for me because I reported her for unethical behavior (she made me take patients who didn't want a student nurse and then whe...

Pretty sure this is going to be all the costume rage this year...

I am so sorry for your loss. My husband and I have had multiple miscarriages and one ectopic. The hardest part about the ectopic was after years of trying to conceive we had to willingly terminate the baby we spent so long to conceive. We've undergon...

Although I don't camp out in the breakroom this has been a huge issue in our school. I've had to leave the OR during an active procedure because I had to go to post-conference, I've missed out on cardio cath's because if I went it meant not completin...

Our school recently had a change in the attendance policy for clinical. We have more clinical days for an associates program than any other college in the area. We used to be able to miss 24 hours a semester for illness. Now they backed our time down...

Windsurfer - I care because I'm on a committee that students give feedback to the college on policies that are developed each year. Several of us were handpicked from the beginning and we have made a huge difference in the current practices/policies ...

Ours also discourages working. However if you work at the hospital affiliated with them you get a 90% discount off tuition so -- why WOULDN'T you work with that discount? I work for a different hospital in an ER as a tech and I love it. I think my ho...

In the ER I always hate to see a child die. It just makes me feel so bad even though I know we did everything we could. Recently we had a three month old that had been abused and neglected by his parents. I had to go to the bathroom and cry after tha...

In my own experience I can say once I got married I felt so much more secure and confident in my life. It was a huge step for my son and I. I felt like as long as I could go home at the end of the day all my emotional needs were met and that gave me ...

1) Often times students are so busy studying, getting to class, handling other obligations, etc that sitting down in class is the only time they can eat. 2) Some students stress eat. It isn't healthy but if they are managing they are managing. 3) Pe...

I'm currently an ER tech, soon to be graduating from nursing school. I took this job to get my foot in the door because I will get a job in the ER after graduation, which is where I'd like to be. This has been my first year at this particular hospit...

I understand where your husband is coming from.. I really do. Maybe he's sad or depressed about his job and it's hard to hear about your job and all those responsibilities that he wishes he could have. Recently a coroner job came open in our county....

I knew this would be hard before I started this journey years ago. I've been going to school part time for a few years, the past year included having A&P I AND A&P II. Through this process I have a three year old, I work full time, and I have...

I'm so sorry you've gone through this :hugs:. As health care PROFESSIONALS we should ALL teach each patient with empathy and compassion. That means treating the inmate on your stretcher who has raped and killed four women with the same amount of prof...