Chimio

There is always or two on call during the evening for all of the hospital for any kind of emergency.

When you say RT is that for respiratory therapist? That would make a lot of sense. I think I'm going to review this situation with my clinical instructor tomorrow when I meet with her, to see as a student, all the interventions that I could have done beside of my assessment and immediate interventions.

Thank you so much for your answer! I would never thought of this and I can connect more dots in this patient's clinical situation!

Around 100 from what I can remember

Hey everyone, so I had a patient in clinicals who had a prostatectomy and after the surgery he had two Jackson-pratt drains. There was an order for creat labs from the blood of the left and the right drain so we sent the 2 distinct samples to the lab and the creat level of the left drain (who was draining a lot more than the right) was 127umol/L and the right one was 327umol/L? I was wondering what could be the cause of two so different creat levels? thank you so much!!

Since I am still a student I don't think it is possible, but this summer if the hospital hires me, that could be really helpful indeed!

Wow that actually helps a lot! I'm starting a new med-surg rotation tomorrow and we will probably have to do a lot of these techniques so I'm definetely stressed out, just hoping I can finally get my first IV!

Hi everyone, im writing here because I'm a bit discouraged. im in my last year of a third year program. And I SUCK at everything related to veins! In total, I had 5 opportunities to draw blood and start IV's. And every single time I missed the vein and/or my clinical instructor had to help me replacing the needle. I have no problem finding a good vein, it's really about sticking the needle right in and replacing it after.. I have never been able to do one of these things by myself and I feel very behind from all of the other students of my clinical group are comfortable with those techniques. Anyone was in a similar situation? Did it eventually got better?

Thank you so much for your answer!! It really gives me a better idea of what to do!:)

This may be a dumb question, but I am in my last year of nursing school and we were never really taught this. It's normal, since it is mostly about judgement but I was wondering (in general) what experienced RN were doing before allowing a patient to leave the floor?

Don't worry too much about it!

Hi everyone! I previously made a topic about my new LTC job about a month and a half ago, and I must say, everything was going perfectly and I love it so much. I only got good comments on my evaluations about how well I work, how great I am with residents and everything. But tonight, something terrible happened. I work the evening shift so when my coworker went on her lunch break, I dressed some residents for the night. But I have a lady that has a belt on the chair she is in all day, and I forgot to put it back on her!!!!!! Result: the lady fell on the floor right when I came back from lunch Luckily she was not armed, but I still feel awful about it. The last 4 hours of my shift were really hard to finish since I kept thinking about that, but my coworkers were really reassuring about it. The charge nurse still wrote on my evaluation sheet that I'm doing great work, but that I should be more careful about not forgetting anything for residents' safety. I am scared since I am still in my 90 days probation period, is it possible that I'm going to be fired over this? What do you think is going to happen for me? I love the residents and this job so much, I just hope I did not ruin this:(

Thanks for taking time to answer!! Actually the lady of the bath that didn't go really well really likes me now and I consider her an easy patient! :) I'm already faster and the nurse in charge told me today she only had good comments (except that I'll need to be faster but that will come with time) about me so it's a big stress off my shoulders!:)

Hi everyone! I am a nursing student and today was my first day as a CNA in LTC, but it didn't went really well. I got on the floor and asked a very sweet nurse for some advice about my patients. She answered my question very well and even gave me the order in which I should bath my residents. I washed and dressed my first client and everything went really well! The breakfast came up so I helped one of my other clients to eat his breakfast. As soon as I got to my second patient it got bad. She was hemiplegic and very difficult to handle alone (but I was supposed to wash her alone). I mobilized her on her side (still in the bed) to change her brief that was dirty and she told me my hand was hurting her so I put her on her back and tried again another way, but it still hurted. She started to tell me how incompetent I was and that she wanted one of the girls that have been here for a long time. So I got helped and we got the lady up in her chair with the hoist after 30mins (she was difficult + we had a loooot of problems during the procedure). WELL, it was bad but what's one bad bath, right? I enter in the room of my next patient and he seems really sweet, but as soon as I try to wash him, he becomes agressive and doesn't want me to touch him (staff told me he was considered an " easy " client). Even if I was calm and tried to negotiate with him, I had to get help in order to get him washed up and dressed, but I felt really incompetent The only positive thing about my day is that my last patient was considered very difficult to handle during bath time a nurse even told me that we may wash him with 2 other people this afternoon if I wasn't able to do it alone this morning, but I did and it went really well! I was kinda proud :) Overall, the staff was really comprehensive and nice, but I feel like I was sooooooooooooo slow all day and that I asked for too much help. Normally bath are supposed to be over by 11am, but I finished at 12am (with A LOT of help), when the lunch arrived. The nurse told me the guy I'm covering for normally finishes his bath at 12 too... but I think it's only to make me feel better. Anyway I just had to vent, thanks to anyone who took the time to read about my first day. Was your first day as a CNA tough? How long did it take you to become comfortable with the job? Do you have any advice?

I decided to post here because I am encountering a problem. I'm 18 years old, I live in Quebec and here, the nursing program is 3 years long. I am in my second year of this program. This morning, I received my clinical evaluation and I must say, I almost cried. My clinical instructor has the reputation to be the most severe and demanding teacher of the school and she said that my clinicals are going well, but she felt I was not giving my 100%, that I could do more and better and she would like to see me more focused on the nurse's role, and become more of a leader because I certainly had the knowledge to (I have really good grades). I can't seem to be able to develop that because of my lack of confidence which is a problem that was reported to me by all of my previous clinicals instructors. The fake it till you make it thing helped me because this semester my clinical did not notice that, but I know it's the reason of my lack of leadership and almost everything else that is a problem I was wondering if any of you had the same problem and how did you overcame it? Maybe I just don't have the personality to be a good nurse