2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
I understand that skills do not encompass thinking as a nurse. I never claimed to think like a nurse. I was just answering a question regarding my experience. There's a lot that goes into thinking...
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
I've worked the past 4 years as a tech. 2 years M/S and 2 years Trauma ICU in a Level 1 trauma center. We do Foley insertions, lab draws (with a butterfly or a VAMP if they have an A-line), trach...
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
I have, and I disagree. I don't see anywhere in this post where I've been disrespectful. What I do see is, a lot of people being disrespectful towards me, and towards nursing students in general. I...
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
I don't expect anything to be handed to me. I work hard, and actually have never had anything handed to me. And, I am open to advice as well as criticism, I look at both as learning
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
Is it necessary to be so scathing? And to answer your question "You truly think that you know better than this pt's nurse where her attention should be?", no I don't. But to assume I'm not looking at...
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
Thanks for the response. I appreciate your honesty as well as everyone else's. I have realized that I shouldn't be quick to blame the nurse, and as many of you have stated it's the instructor's...
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
How is it that I have a superiority complex as a student? I don't believe that I am better than anyone, just as I don't believe a nurse is any better than I am. I believe in equality. Also, I can't...
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
Excuse me, but I'm not sure where I have been out of tone at all. Furthermore, I am far from being an idiot. You don't know me at all, and I've done nothing but ask a simple question. I apologize you...
2bNurseDR.T replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing
Sorry, it's difficult to respond to each comment. But my instructor, well she's not very reliable. She tells us to be at clinical at 0600 and we get there at that time, and she strolls in around 0630...