AnxietyMaven

AnxietyMaven BSN, RN

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  1. Managing Impatient Patients

    AnxietyMaven replied to AnxietyMaven's topic in General Nursing

    Wow that's insane. I've yet to hear that thankfully. I had coworkers laugh and say I'm finally growing a backbone for telling a patient I can't help them find their

  2. Managing Impatient Patients

    AnxietyMaven posted a topic in General Nursing

    Not a new grad, but fairly new. 2 years experience and I still struggle to deal with the impatient patient. Little backstory: I work ER. We don't have rooms but rather we have bays that are...

  3. Giving Report and IV Access

    AnxietyMaven replied to thehipbonesconnected's topic in General Nursing

    In ER I insert what I can... Most of the time it's an 18 in the AC if I can get it. If it's an ICU patient it's 2 -18's (obviously again... If I can get it). This is important to keep my patient alive...

  4. Managing Impatient Patients

    AnxietyMaven replied to AnxietyMaven's topic in General Nursing

    ? That's the hard part. To be and look like the professional when they have worn you down all shift. Maybe it was me that just screamed "I'm exhausted" that had him more anxious. I'm grateful...

  5. Managing Impatient Patients

    AnxietyMaven replied to AnxietyMaven's topic in General Nursing

    Nope AOx4... Left AMA at another hospital because they weren't happy with the treatment received ? .... It didn't take long to figure out why. No family allowed in ER due to covid right now but......

  6. Inexperienced ER help

    AnxietyMaven replied to HospitalNurseIsOnThePhone's topic in Emergency

    You really have to ask yourself: Is it realistic to go from telehealth to ER in the middle of a crisis? Is there anyway you could work on an acute care floor instead of jumping right into the ER? I'd...

  7. How Much Time Do I Have?

    AnxietyMaven replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to say how moving this post is, and how grateful I am for reading it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on something that absolutely needs more

  8. What are they teaching?

    AnxietyMaven replied to egglady's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to attempt to answer this question from my perspective as a new grad, and from my experiences in my nursing school. I feel our instructors did a good job at relating the possible...

  9. How do I deal with clinical sites treating students like garbage?

    AnxietyMaven replied to PaulicusFrumkinius's topic in General Students

    I'm curious how you get time to sit down?? "If you're sitting down then you aren't learning or working" "If every single patient on the floor has had all of their vitals and ADLs done for that shift...

  10. School using Kaplan % as grade?!

    AnxietyMaven replied to FlutterBy417's topic in General Students

    Please don't think I'm bragging here: I got 99% for Kaplan medsurg. I went through the Kaplan practice tests and then the remediation for each subject. I read ALL of the information for every...

  11. Set up to fail clinicals

    AnxietyMaven replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    The professor is absolutely not to blame. The OP violated the rights of medication administration x3. Heparin isn't IM, but SQ (wrong med, and the med given the wrong route) And OP guessed at the...

  12. Dropped in Last Semester

    AnxietyMaven replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I know in my school if you don't pass their standardized test to see if you're ready for the NCLEX they will drop you from the program. It is to save the school from having a lower NCLEX pass rate and...

  13. Depressed and Disappointed in Myself

    AnxietyMaven replied to Samx3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm so sorry you feel this way. I felt the same way during medsurg clinical (I actually had to drop because my anxiety and depression was so crippling, and had to wait until the new anxiety meds...

  14. Took the HESI A2 failed my first time help! Vocab and Anat

    AnxietyMaven replied to 2024rngradhooman's topic in Texas Nursing

    I can tell you what I learned from my experience. You are going up against people that want to be in nursing school just as much as you do, and are going to present their best scores. No one that...

  15. Head to Toe Assessment

    AnxietyMaven replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Students

    Student nurse here! I feel your pain but I promise that it absolutely does get better after practice practice practice. Practice on your parents, siblings, friends, and anyone else that will let you...

  16. Baby vs no baby... help!

    AnxietyMaven replied to Abby_3191's topic in General Students

    2-3 classes in prereqs does not even come close to the same amount of work for 2-3 classes nursing school. I rarely studied in my pre-reqs. Nursing school is a different game. At the end of the day...

  17. I want a secure future - $22K for LPN school?

    AnxietyMaven replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Whew, $22k is more than my 5 semester BSN

  18. Not sure I can handle BSN School.

    AnxietyMaven replied to guest723's topic in General Students

    Scorio, Powerpoints are going to be a pretty good guide. I think you'll be okay if you base your reading off of them. The really big thing to trips people up is applying the information to the...

  19. Not sure I can handle BSN School.

    AnxietyMaven replied to guest723's topic in General Students

    If you read my original post I did say "skim the material and delve into the important stuff". I read slow, so I couldn't possibly read it all and still eat, sleep, shower, or veg out a little. I need...

  20. Not sure I can handle BSN School.

    AnxietyMaven replied to guest723's topic in General Students

    I don't know about other programs, but in my program if it's obvious that you haven't read you can be asked to leave. You have to come prepared. Besides if you pre-read you know what is being...

  21. Not sure I can handle BSN School.

    AnxietyMaven replied to guest723's topic in General Students

    First, no one can read all the chapters. There truly isn't enough time. So, don't beat yourself up. It is time to learn how skim the material and delve into the important stuff. How? Look at the key...

  22. Girl in my cohort is cheating

    AnxietyMaven replied to KitKat2019's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I reported another student for cheating on a test once. I was outraged and concerned that someone that cheated their way through nursing school might someday treat a loved one. My instructor basically...

  23. Math requirement for RNs?

    AnxietyMaven replied to llg's topic in General Nursing

    All if the BSN programs in my area/state required statistics. You have to have a decent understanding of what you're doing or you won't know what formula to use, or how to use it. We also had to have...

  24. Math requirement for RNs?

    AnxietyMaven replied to llg's topic in General Nursing

    My BSN program requires a dosage calculation test at the beginning and end of every semester. You get three chances to pass with 90 or above (basically missing 2 questions). If you don't pass you...

  25. What does your nursing career repair bill say about you?

    AnxietyMaven replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    Woah, there are plenty of people that fly through their pre-reqs just to get to the entrance exams and not be able to pass them. Not saying you have done this, but there are many ways to inflate a gpa...