Cmanursestudenta

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1. Feeling like a failure: maybe nursing isn't for me?

   Cmanursestudenta replied to Little_Mouse's topic in New Nurse

   The very first order I was given was for Warfarin. I wrote down the order but was written up for giving the previous dose. I gave the dose before I spoke to the doctor because the labs were very late getting back. I complained that nursing school did...

2. Feeling off about job

   Cmanursestudenta replied to Cmanursestudenta's topic in General Nursing

   I have a solution in that instead of working 24 hrs a week there gonna work 8 hrs. I am tired and at this point think I am gifted at finding bad jobs. The full time job I have I like though. I am getting wound certified and have decided to take a vac...

3. Feeling off about job

   Cmanursestudenta replied to Cmanursestudenta's topic in General Nursing

   The trouble is one very cheap patient. He refuses to use the pharmacy and insists on buying pills. Then he also won't let the meds be repacked. So we are left with 90+ pills to individually count. They don't have a lot of patients but a lot these pat...

4. Feeling off about job

   Cmanursestudenta replied to Cmanursestudenta's topic in General Nursing

   I flat out won't pass meds if they don't trust me. I honestly feel like if they need to make that kind of threat then well it's best if they have someone else pass the meds. It was not an individual threat but I still felt upset as 1. I do a double c...

5. Feeling off about job

   Cmanursestudenta replied to Cmanursestudenta's topic in General Nursing

   Well this happened when I was not around and I've not worked for almost a week as I work every other weekend and two Tuesdays a month. I spoke to a supervisor and it appears to have been an issue with the Morphine and not the meds that have to be cou...

6. Feeling off about job

   Cmanursestudenta posted a topic in General Nursing

   So I took a job working at a new LTC. I work there one day a week and pick up every other week. Just got an email about how they are unhappy about the narc count. Now it went out to all the nurses. Let me just say the Narcs there are difficult to cou...

7. Are you exhausted?

   Cmanursestudenta replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

   Yes but I shouldn't be. I work in a nursing home and we had Covid-19. As a RN there I test for Covid-19 and pass meds. The night before our major outbreak I passed meds to 45 patients because the LPN came to me and told me she thought she was contami...

8. Need Advice

   Cmanursestudenta posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work night shift so that I can take care of my kids without desperately looking for childcare. My kids both have Autism and are very nocturnal. We all go to bed around the same time and sleep during the day. I am also currently homeschooling them ...

9. Feel like giving up

   Cmanursestudenta replied to Cmanursestudenta's topic in General Students

   I have an appt with my PCP and I'm going to discuss my depression with him. I have begun writing down things such as food intake, sleep, and such. I have good and bad days the bad days are related to my sleep cycle having major disruption. I tend to...

10. Feel like giving up

    Cmanursestudenta replied to Cmanursestudenta's topic in General Students

    I feel like I am depressed and yet I think it is more situational than anything else. My nursing instructor told me to do better on my last nursing school careplan which I have this week. I have three weeks left of clinicals, in four weeks I have my...

11. Feel like giving up

    Cmanursestudenta posted a topic in General Students

    I got a needs improvement on my last careplan. In general I feel like a failure though. I feel like I can't do anything right. I am the mom to two special needs kids, I work full time, am in my last semester of nursing school and I feel like just giv...

12. I feel like I caused a patient's death and I can't get over it

    Cmanursestudenta replied to jane82's topic in Safety

    I have a similar patient I care for. Number one you must forgive yourself. It sounds like you have PTSD. You should get some help for yourself and number two. I work LTC and 40 patients is normal at times and you need to raise concerns immediately. N...

13. Mom takes forever to pickup

    Cmanursestudenta replied to stephrooth's topic in School

    I told the school nurse I am a nurse and gave her alternative phone numbers. I try to work 2 school days a week and be available most of the day. School ends at 3pm and my shift starts at 2.

14. If the government legalizes marijuana in the US...

    Cmanursestudenta replied to GlenwoodUSN's topic in General Nursing

    Alcohol is legal but that doesn't mean you show up to work having tied back a few. Benadryl and sleep aides are also legal but you wouldn't take that before showing up for work. I figure as a nurse you need to be SHARP as a tack. You get enough sleep...

15. Scared.....No Nursing?

    Cmanursestudenta replied to Name9335's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a nursing home too. Day shift is the hardest nursing shift I think. I go with the night or evening. Ask if you can change shifts and you know the work might be different.