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I have found that those that cheat usually end up failing at some point, either a class, a SIM, a clinical, or the NCLEX. Focus on yourself.

Let people live. As long as they're not violating HIPAA it's all good in my book. They're proud of what they do and It humanizes the profession. There are other social media posts to gripe about.

I came online to search for precasting tips and found this post. Everyone's comments will be helpful for me as I am struggling with my preceptee as well. Similar in nature, but he is a new, new grad. I will just have to remain patient when teaching and be honest with feedback. I hope things get better for you and your preceptee, OP.

As my manager says, "Planet earth is a red zone when it comes to COVID." As such, the hospital I work at will no longer honor "medical exemptions" and everyone was required to return to "normal" duties this past Monday. As long as you utilize proper PPE you should be fine. Do you avoid going out of your home? Going to the grocery store? Walmart? Anywhere else you may come into contact with COVID? It's just about everywhere.

Extroversion: 97% Emotional Stability: 87% Agreeableness: 67% Conscientiousness: 84% Intellect/Imagination: 91%

This is exactly what I am thinking. I'm often in a patients room and will have the tele tech call me in the room and notify me that the pt is desating. Or I will have another RN come in to tell me. I also do the same. The bottom line is, if I, or another nurse, needs help I want them to know I am there and am aware of the situation and available to help. Likewise, I'm glad to know others are looking out for my pt too. I hate to come out of a room and then have so and so tell me your pts sats are in the 70s and then I have to go back in. This is team work.

Where I am at the docs write specific orders to “bundle care” and “limit time in pt’s room”. We are allowed to answer call lights at the nurses station. We are allowed to call the pts room to check in on them. We are allowed to stand by the door to answer the call light and determine if we need to enter. When a patient is admitted we explain to them that this is what to will expect. I have PCTs or tech who are just plain lazy and others who are not. The ones who are not still go in and bathe pts and change linens. Others I have to ask to help the pt shower. But if we are in the room we can get the blood sugar, the vitals, and help shower. Especially if it can limit others going in and out. That all being said use common sense. If a pt is crumping you’re going to be in there despite those orders to “bundle care” or “limit time”.

I am going to start A MS in Health Informatics program in the Fall. Main reason is I have a BA and an ADN, no BSN. I want to get into the field but didn’t want to spend more money taking extra upper division nursing courses for an MSN w/ focus in Health Informatics. That’s my reason. I’m hopeful my nursing experience will be enough to get me into the nursing Informatics role once I’ve finished the program.?

And now this.... https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/white-house-CDC-house-testimony-schools/index.html From the article: More insanity.

I live and work in Arizona. I'm sure everyone has seen the news re. Arizona. I also happen to work on the Navajo reservation. Which, again, I'm sure you have seen the news re. these two areas. Well, I can say most days our COVID unit is full. ICU has been dedicated to COVID pts. We have only 9 rooms for COVID pt's on our floor, 5 in ICU. Most of the time we are full. Some get sent out to neighboring hospitals because we are a small hospital w/o specialists like cardiology, nephrology, or pulmonology. Others, who are fortunate enough, we can manage on our own. Current pt. ratio is 1-2:1. We have plenty of travelers to help us out, Thank goodness! Hope you all are remaining safe!

Oh yes. I submitted an application in April and got a call for an interview until August. Was offered the position after the interview but didn't start on the job until Sept. 30th. At my previous job I was working w/in 3 weeks. And I was already working at the facility. HR runs slowly. And all for different reasons. Good luck!

I got 33.33gtt/min. There are 20gtt/ml The volume you have is 100mL which has to infuse over 1 hour. So, there are 2000gtt/100mL. Next we need to calculate gtt/min. There are 60mins/hour. We will infuse the 2,000gtt over 60mins (2,000/60) This comes out to 33.33gtt/min.

I don't know how it is in Texas, but in Arizona every single one of my class mates (40 in all) graduated with their ADN, passed NCLEX and got a job. Some, while still in school, and others less than 5 months after graduating and passing NCLEX. Many went on to RN-BSN and RN-MSN programs. I chose ADN because it was affordable and I finished and had my ADN within 18 months. I am now working on my MSN.

Yes, it's common. Our proctored grades had to be above 76% before our non-proctored grades were added.

I just recently graduated (Dec. 2017) and have been working for a year now. In my program, during the final months, we were allowed to perform skills with just the assigned RN present. How can one instructor be there for every task, for every student? Seems like the students would end up missing out on so much. Not saying this is true for every student, but I know some purposely said those kinds of things, like needing the instructor, because they didn't want to do anything. They were basically there just to say they were.