AllieRat

Started my psych rotation yesterday and the home we were assigned to was staffed by one RN and six Psych-Techs. The staff seemed very unprofessional and untheraputic towards how it treated its patients. One even got argumentative with a patient ove...

I'm trying to figure out how to pay for all of this since it needs to be done by the beginning of August. How generally do you have the vaccines done? IE should I have the TB test done before any of the vaccines? Also does anyone know how much tit...

We had our vital signs clinical today I could get everything but the freaking BP. I could do the technical part (putting on cuff, positioning stetho, palpating for brachial pulse) and according to my instructor I had that part down pat but I'm havin...

I did the syringe jello shots, I made up Hazardous Waste buckets for a game, I got these darts from a dollar store and made up a dart board showing a MD's BUTT, and made a pinata out of my old ATI books that we beat to all heck.. I ordered some bloo...

I do the same thing.. If it's not my patient I can think when it's mine I go into shut down mode..

At my old hospital I was post-grad newbie at six months and was placed in charge.. Then was subsequently in charge afterwards because of the fact I was the only RN on staff during that shift.. I HATED it and still HATE doing it but it's part of t...

Almost to my first year... I too worked my way up was a nurse extern (basically a CNA but was shown helped out with nursing activites) before getting my RN... Kudos on the aides comment..

I have had a few deaths I've assisted with as an extern going through nursing school but it was never the patient I was caring for or that I had developed a bond with through providing care for days on end. Well yesterday morning I came into report ...

Per day or week? Man I've had one hell of an orientation.. my original preceptor got put with an extern whose in her last year. I get whoever wants me which means I'm doing their job and learning on my own instead of them showing me how to do thin...

OMG I never thought I'd wish for an ATI exam. Mine shut off at 75 questions I lost track of the number of SATA's but they seemed to come one after the other which is either a good or a bad thing. I had two drug calcs and about four pharm questions ...

I Passed!!!! Whoo Hoooo although I could pay the $7.95 for the unoffical results my license number popped into the state site this morning. After nearly suffering a nervous breakdown and dealing with three years of nursing school drama it is offic...

~~~YES~~~ Major Senioritis going on here Course it could be because I'm in the last fifteen weeks :w00t: of my program and clinicals don't start for me for another week and a half. Finding it really hard to stay motivated and being called off from...

Yup always lead with the yes I've done it before since mostly it was done in the clinical setting on each other or on dummies. For instance this semester we are going to be doing alot of venipunctures in the clinical setting for home health. In ord...

Our university requires it every year. Luckily we only have to pay $7 but its a pain in the butt to have to do it every year.

That has the steps based on the problem the pt comes in with? Our assessment final is next week and although we know how to do a complete head to toe assessment I'm still nervous that I'm going to forget something so would like to run through some s...

LOL I blame my brains which are currently recovering from being fried... I bow down to the CNA's though that is some tough work.. my poor bod is still sore I just don't know how they do it and I for one will remember what I go through as an aid so ...

LOL almost sounds like last night. I'm an extern on a renal med-surg floor and due to my education I am constantly abused ie:nurses know what I can do so they know I'll volunteer to do it. Last night the nurses had me doing their dressing changes b...

Wow good job! I've only managed to raise about $100 which is short from my goal last year of $250 but I figure every dollar they get helps :)

LOL right there with you will be finishing my fourth semester in a week and am now just starting to feel confident. I think I finally found the specialty I want to work in which is ICU. I'm planning on upping my hrs during my externship over the su...

I've only done it for my clinical instructors and its always a group gift. If the individuals want to chip in they are welcome too but I've never gone over $10 mostly its just a basket filled with goodies that are a particular fit to the instructor....

I had a similar experience watching a thoracentesis.. almost passed out.. even the dr. said no one passes out on my watch.. LOL needless to say my instructor was worried about me the rest of the day. I think I just got overheated and dehydrated s...

We're required to purchased them direct from ATI through a special purchase code so they make sure we bought them or we don't get access to the exams which means we get an Incomplete in the class. IMHO I did not find ATI helpful as it was not even r...

It will get better, my first clinicals I felt totally lost. At the start of the med-surg clinical I still felt lost having not x-terned over the summer like the rest of my clinical group had done. So far this semester I've done wound assessment and...

For giving me encouragement and support a week or so back. Final diagnosis from my Dr. is that I don't have Lupus which means either I'm a normally positive ANA person, or that I have a different connective tissue disorder. He said given that my ...