organichombre

organichombre ADN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN

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  1. Students who fight back at instructor feedback

    organichombre replied to SHGR's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Sounds like these are both lazy and close minded individuals. There is no place for this in nursing. Bottom line, we are evaluated all the time by fellow staff, management, families and patients...

  2. Assessments

    organichombre posted a topic in General Students

    Just making a comment about what I see occurring in nursing schools. When STUDENTS are asked to perform assessments on patients I get a varied response depending on the type of school ADN vs. BSN....

  3. Assessments

    organichombre replied to organichombre's topic in General Students

    The school is working on national certification and this has been identified as a priority concern. I am semi retired and work for both places and hope to facilitate changes in some small way. The...

  4. Assessments

    organichombre replied to organichombre's topic in General Students

    The ADN program I work for seems to focus on "tasks" that the students must do vs. doing a physical assessment and correlating that info with the dz process and how to care for the patient. The BSN...

  5. Passed Nclex the Fourth Time October 2014!

    organichombre replied to Jpinkney14's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Good for you...my wife took the NCLEX 3 times because of test anxiety. Sometimes I wish we did oral NCLEX exams but you can imagine how that would

  6. How to deal with a slacker coworker

    organichombre replied to sistrmoon's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Document your request, their response, staffing, acuity and any extenuating circumstances and let them know that you will be passing on this info to the supervisor. Let management deal with people who...

  7. Just when I decided it's time to find another job...

    organichombre replied to LadyMonteCarlo's topic in Cardiac

    don't you just hate that...just when you lose all faith in

  8. Dating a former patient

    organichombre replied to thepsychtech's topic in Psychiatric

    Really, you have to

  9. "bad" evaluations given by students of faculty

    organichombre replied to goingback's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Entitlement has reduced clinical instructors to gate keepers of the flame. Every time one of these gen x's or millenials get a bad review it comes down to why did we not stroke their ego in the proper...

  10. "Recording lecture reinforces weakness."

    organichombre replied to neverbethesame's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    If she cannot explain to you and your college counselor what exactly she means then I would completely dismiss her. I know someone has said that she has more credibility but nursing schools are highly...

  11. "Recording lecture reinforces weakness."

    organichombre replied to neverbethesame's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Have you asked her what that

  12. Non Nursing reading

    organichombre replied to CraigB-RN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    "Who moved the cheese?" A cute little book about..."mice" and what happened when their "cheese" was moved! Actually it's all about change and how we deal with it which in the health care field is...

  13. Trying to decide....

    organichombre replied to pphs2000's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    "The heart wants what the heart wants." I was at the bedside for almost 20 years before I decided I wanted to teach. Teaching has given me a second career in nursing after I retired from the bedside...

  14. March 2014 Caption Contest: Win $100!

    organichombre replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    "Her instructor makes her chart everything in military time. This is just her way of

  15. Educator "no buy-in"

    organichombre replied to Educators19761's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I have been blessed with my choices of education jobs so I do not have any real ability to relate. However, I do know that as a bedside nurse it was often frustrating to deal with nurse educators for...

  16. Nurse educator certification

    organichombre posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Hello folks, Got some questions!??? For those of you who are CNE how did you study for certification? Has it been worth it to becoming certified? I work parttime and they have recently changed the...

  17. Galen College not accredited? HELP

    organichombre replied to BrittBritt's topic in General Nursing

    As the above post stated, Galen is a accredited by the KBN now which is a good thing. As for the school itself I cannot vouch and it's too soon to see the product they've produced. Good

  18. Nurse educator certification

    organichombre replied to organichombre's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Thanks so much for the feedback. Yeah it's been since 07 when I got my MSN but I looked at the resources and saw a number of familiar ones. Oh and thanks for the links as well! And Tait the change I...

  19. Shift change and visitation in ICU/stepdown

    organichombre replied to opossum's topic in MICU, SICU

    In our small SICU (6 ICU and 3 TCU) we've had 24 h visitation for a little over a year now and it has worked out well. New staff are often unsure of themselves and don't like to get too nosey with...

  20. Thoughts on post-conferences

    organichombre replied to lansgrl123's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Post conferences for me are a chance to make sure that the student doesn't leave with a burden on their mind. Stuff happens, as they say and I have found out in post conferences what no one was...

  21. Clinical instructor with a BSN?

    organichombre replied to Tina, RN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Tina, I think you already know that you want to teach, and an MSN will allow you to do that. The class would be a confirmation of that. Good

  22. Not invited back to teach-are student evals given too much weight?

    organichombre replied to mystory's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    That is sad to hear especially in light of the fact that educators are needed everywhere. As a clinical instructor (parttime) I have been fortunate to have gotten good evals from my students over the...

  23. Are mittens a restraint at your facility?

    organichombre replied to in2ICU's topic in General Nursing

    At the Federal institution I work at we were told by administration that according to Joint Commission, mittens are in fact a restraint and needed to be documented as

  24. Spencerian students reinstated

    organichombre posted a topic in General Nursing

    My wife was attending Spencerian College here in Louisville back in the Spring when her and 12 other students were expelled from the program. It was near the end of the semester and they had a final...

  25. Dealing with ICU visitors

    organichombre replied to leesespieces's topic in MICU, SICU

    Our visiting hours were 1030a till 9pm and we let people come and go pretty easy and tried to keep only 2 or 3 in at a time. We didn't let little ones in because of both the trauma of seeing all the...