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and maybe get yourself a nurse's pocket guide. It'll help you a lot trust me. :)

I'm really bad in making nursing care plans, I remember when I'm making mine for the first time it was really hard since I didn't know what to do, but as the time goes by, it'll be a piece of cake, not really. LOL. Anyway, birth trauma for the neonate is possible for a dx. Immunodeficiency, ineffective thermoregulation, for a neonate who has hyperbilirubemia, or a neonate who is premature. When making your self nursing care plan without patients, think of a possible medical diagnosis for a patient then determine the symptoms of this disease. You'll have tons of nursing care plans that you can do in one disease. I hope this helps!

If I was in your position, I'd go directly to the person and ask her nicely if she has a problem with me, tell her what I think our problem is. Yes, I think what she's doing is very unprofessional, since she's an RN, you have to look up to her and she has to look out to you, like being a big sis or brother, that RN should know that.

You're welcome! If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask :) When I was in my second year - second semester, we were given the chance to be exposed in the operating room without any idea what to expect, or going to do cause our rotation for the operating room is in our third year, I forgot what semester. It was pretty fun! and pretty busy too! We learned the do's and don'ts on the spot, I was pretty nervous since I was paired with a friend who pissed off our clinical instructor, but I got the hang of it, I assisted the OR nurse, they we're all pretty chill, listening to a song and singing. After that, Operating room was my favorite rotation. It's not too stressful but can be very tiring at the same time cause of standing. Goodluck on your journey to success!

It is! Money is a big deal here, even when you simply enter a appliance store or furniture store, there were times that no salesman approached us since we looked like we didn't have money to buy something in the store, but whenever a foreigner enters the store, well, they all wanted to assist the foreigner. Lol On your first question well, from what I've seen, no not really but they do know if their patient needs this or that and prepare it then ask the doctor or wait for the doctor to give a go sign for them to do it. We have a lot of religions or groups here, as for Christians, they rely on God when someone is ill, Mormons are almost the same, they do pray a lot. Jehovahs witnesses believe that blood transfusions are prohibited by the bible, people here are somewhat devoted, so I guess they rather die than to receive a blood transfusion. That's all I know, I have no idea for the rest. Thank you! I'm hoping it'll go a smoothly as possible! Haha. Since I wasn't the brightest kid in class and I have to admit, I've been very lazy for the past three years in Nursing when it comes to lectures, but not in clinical rotations. I must ask, what's your favorite clinical rotation? :)

Maybe applying for a medical assistant? Its better to have a hospital experience than having no experience at all.

Oh, i feel the same! There's so much to memorize! Anyway, maybe you can write it down in a small notebook. All the drugs that you know or remember by heart cause sometimes writing it down can help you remember the drugs and when you came across a drug that you have no idea on your rotation, ask your instructor about the drug and the side effects and write it down on your notebook. When you have nothing to do, browsing on that little notebook helps too.

I'm glad that I'm able to help! :) To answer your first question, I think our system is flawed. There's no access to quality care when you're in the lower class. I've seen a lot of my patients who couldn't leave the public hospitals because they couldn't settle the bill, leading them in debt really. Without money you're going to die. I think the government thought of this situation but never really paid attention, or maybe money going to their pockets is the priority(lol), so meaning more burden to the people. Some hospitals won't even accept you if you're dying unless you have their desired money for down payment, well I don't know if this is true but I've read an facebook post about not admitting the patient because they parents were unable to produce 10,000 pesos for the hospital to admit the child, and the child was dying. If you want to be admitted to a private hospital, again money's going to make everything move, and have to expect that its going to be expensive. Nurses in private and public hospitals are different too, some nurses that work in private hospitals are super nice, I see them always smiling, but in public hospitals well it's a different story (I'm not saying all of the public nurses, I encountered a lot), especially when they're busy, some are ill-tempered or irritated, no signs of smile and all, I do remember when two of the nurses asked me to go to that certain room and get something, I couldn't find it (cause trust me they're not all in place! and of course it's like i take things in that room everyday to know where everything is) so I returned to those nurses empty handed and told them I don't know where it is and they laughed at me like thinking I'm so incapable. After that I never greeted them whenever we're in that rotation, they just lost my respect for them. Yes we lack in primary health system, first of all in our health clinics doesn't really have a doctor in it, just a midwife, some may have but the one I went to doesn't. I guess they give the midwife a go signal to give meds. You don't have to worry if its a simple cold or cough, vitamins or sometimes give TB meds (prescribed by the doctor from the hospital) if they have it in stock usually they don't last.So the sometimes there's no point in going to a health clinic. Only the middle class to upper class have family doctors. Sorry for that lengthy response! haha

Hi crisscrosscat, *How many years is the nursing degree, and what kind of degree do you receive? -I live in the Philippines and the Nursing Program here is for 4 years, you can't finish it in less than 4 years, two semesters per year. If completed all those 8 semesters without failing grades, I'm going to get a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. *When do you start clinical placements and what are the specialties? -Since we have a lot of minor subjects and a lot of those minor subjects doesn't have anything to do with nursing, our clinical placements starts in our second year - first semester. The specialties are the same as yours. *Is there a particular health care focus in your education or country? -I don't think there's a particular health care focus here in the Philippines, yes we do discuss each specialty in this course, we do return demonstrations for the step by step for this and that. Though we have a poor primary health care or atleast on where I live. *How about care plans? Is there a big focus on completing care plans in clinical practice? -Yes! Sometimes we're assigned to a one patient(or three patients for each student! yikes!) and the clinical instructors gives us their current clinical history. We do care plans for every problem that they have, I remember one of my patients have a hyperthermia, pain and hypertension, I had three patients so you're not the only one! *Is the patient approach medical or holistic? -Both but more on the holistic side. Some patients do really engage with their student nurses, I think that is a good way of having a great nurse:patient relationship. *Do you find there may be a huge gap in the way they teach in school and how the real nursing world actually is? -Oh yes. I do think we are unprepared since sometimes some nursing students wants to have their instructors beside them when they're doing this or that just to be sure that they'ree doing the right thing only if you don't really know what you're doing. But if you're really confident on yourself, you don't have to worry about anything. *Is there a focus on learning about diversity and other cultures? -Yes. We did just that on our community nursing thought I'm not sure about the other culture part. I hope this kinda helps! :)

I'm on my fourth year. I completed all my major subjects in the philippines and yes my case loads are complete but not for US standards. Here we only need three for each case, but in the US I think its five. I don't know, but for me taking minor subjects like filipino or p.e are useless if I'm gonna go back to the states. Cause yes I'm just going to get a degree, but still need to study if I want to take the board exam.

I finished all my major subjects and almost all of my minor except for p.e and filipino. My mom became ill and I needed to go back. I graduated high school here in the Philippines, I was told that even if I graduated nursing here, I still have to study. So my questions are: *How many years till I complete my nursing program in the states? I know some colleges differ, but do you have any idea for how long *If I take those two minor subjects, will it change for how long I will be studying again?