love for nursing

In May, I graduate with my BSN. I have been offered two positions, which are working on the telemetry floor or the cardiac unit step down floor. I do not know which one I should choose. I want to take the postion that will give me the most experie...

I have a friend, who just found out that her 16 year old daughter is pregnant. The concern is the parents found out from the family physician. The pregnant teen went to the family physician by herself. The doctor then called the parents and told t...

I have found out that the doctor did violate HIPPA. The teenage girl is now mortified to see any doctor/dentist, etc. I am trying to talk to my friend's daughter and let her know not all health care workers are this way. All I know to do is talk ...

I have not started yet, since I do not have my temporary license in hand. I am hoping that I receive it this week. I am ready to start work. It sucks that I can not even sit through the classroom orientation on blood borne, HIPPA, etc. until the h...

I am a senior student nurse. This week in clinical, one of my patients had an ICD for about three years, he was in the hospital for pneumonia. The patient was laying in bed asleep with the side rails up. All of a sudden his ICD went off and patient...

My school does not allow gifts for instructor, it is mentioned in the student nurse handbook. We can only sign a Thank you card.

I took the step down unit. Once I have my temporary license I can call and get on the schedule to start orientation. I just hope I do not have to wait long to take the NCLEX.

Thanks for the input. I have decided on the step down unit.

I did not like my psych clinical rotation either. I guess I just hated the idea of being on a locked unit. I did learn a lot while there. I really loved the idea that we did not have to wear our student nurse uniform. We wore a nice shirt and dre...

I also found this weird and crazy. If I had not seen the siderails still up, I would not have believed this.

Thanks for the input. What freaked me out was the patient going from the bed to the floor.

I agree go in sequence.

I finish in May. I was terrified until last week when our clinical instructor met with us after clinical and let us discuss how we were terrified about boards and getting our first real nursing job. I was so shocked that everyone else in my clinica...

For clinical, I do a pony tail and then pin the pony tail around the base of the pony tail (kind of like a bun). We are required to not let pony tails hang.

Good luck!!! I have found out that I love the 12 hours better than the 6 or 8. The day sure does fly by.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come May 2008, I am burning my white scrubs and apron.

I was in a class where we had our Spanish teacher fired about half way through the semester. I took my Spanish class along with some other prerequisties at night. The teacher would only half show. We only had class for an hour. The class was supp...

I am just a student also. How about talking to some one in a doctor's office near where you live(preferably an LPN) to get there ideas. I know the doctor's office I go to only hires LPNs and all of them seem to love their job.

Most of my class is on something. We joke and refer to our antidepressant as a B@*&$ pill.

My clinicals officaial start at 7:00AM. We do not have preconference. We must be in report from the night nurse by 6:45 AM. Everyone in my clinical group beats the instructor. If you get there 1 minute late you might as well had stayed home in the...

We used manniquins for eveything except shots, vitals, bed baths. For bed baths we put on a gown over our clothes and when it came time to get water we would say running water in pan. Shots we used sterile water and gave each other a SC shot, IM wa...

I had the same problem. I told the so called friends that I was studying to be a nurse and was dealing with people where a mistake could mean life or death. Since then, they have not been my friends. I really do not care. The friends I have made i...

We leave everything but our pencil at the front of the room to take test. After we finish we had the insturctor our answer key and test booklet, pick up our stuff and leave until a certain time for lecture to start since we have class for two to thre...

I am a nursing student. For clinical today, I was required to observe in a busy family physician office. I got the feeling from some of the nurses that they truly hated their job. The nurses that hated their job have been there at least three year...

In my first clinical, when we were getting orientation, we were told to treat everyone like they were full blown AIDS and Hept. positive. I have given an injection to an AIDS patient. The patient I had was very caring and reminded me everytime I w...