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  1. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I think debating is useful. It helps me to gathering information and opinions and form questions and think about things. I do not consider that a waste of time. I have two kids who are well looked...

  2. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Last week I helped hold a retarded woman down and stick an NG tube down her nose. It is the exact kind of thing I have issues with, but it appeared to be necessary. It actually wasn't as bad as I...

  3. Ooops. Dropping pills.

    firstyearstudent posted a topic in General Nursing

    I dropped a pill during clinical today and my RN was really nice about it and just went and got me another one. But last semester my CI dropped one and picked it off the floor and gave it to me to...

  4. RN's and the dreaded clinical experience...

    firstyearstudent replied to Emma123's topic in General Nursing

    I try to stay out of the way and not be a pest but also aggressively look for opportunities to endear myself to my own nurse and others. I offer to do grunt work like answer call lights, calm...

  5. Is Nursing School Hard?

    firstyearstudent replied to BecomeNurse06's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am finding nursing school very challenging but I am trying to do the very best that I can in class and in clinical. I also find it stressful and emotionally taxing. But I am not regretting it at...

  6. Business casual

    firstyearstudent replied to LadySugarBug's topic in General Nursing

    One of the gals in our psych rotation wore stilleto heels every day with her slacks and then complained when one of the patients took a liking to her footwear. My suggestion is to dress

  7. Nursing care plan?

    firstyearstudent replied to sn07's topic in General Nursing

    I am glad to see the risk for hyperbilirubinemia mentioned. I had a very sleepy newborn and the nurses kept telling me not to worry about it and just let him sleep. A day after discharge he was back...

  8. Ooops. Dropping pills.

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I'm glad I posted this. Since my CI did it, I thought it might not be a big deal, but you've convinced me. I'll never give a floor pill again -- scout's honor. That CI is really great and has...

  9. Ooops. Dropping pills.

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh. Double

  10. How early do you need to come to the clinicals?

    firstyearstudent replied to mmr2's topic in General Students

    You might want to make sure your hand lotions are compatible with the gloves you use. (Oil based lotions can make latex gloves

  11. How early do you need to come to the clinicals?

    firstyearstudent replied to mmr2's topic in General Students

    It really depends on your school and your CI and your hospital. I've had CIs who insisted on punctuality. Other times, the offfical start was way before shift change and then the CI would turn a blind...

  12. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I would question the order in my mind before presenting the treatment to the patient. Why does he need it? Does he really need it? What might happen if he didn't get it? Are there other, less invasive...

  13. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Frankly, the mother/child analogy doesn't work for. Patients aren't children and nurses aren't mothers. And I wouldn't want to treat patients like children unless they were in a state where I felt...

  14. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I've never worked in retail. I guess it's just a personal thing with me. I don't like to be touched, poked or proded by strangers who don't ask permission first -- even if I'm in the hospital and not...

  15. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I think you've hit the nail on my head (heh heh). This is what is getting to me in clinicals. I'm just not used to it. Hopefully, I'll grow to have more faith in the medical...

  16. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses shouldn't be permissive (for want of a better word). If a nurse believes a procedure or treatment is in a patient's best interest it's probably a duty to continue to argue for it. But,...

  17. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely this is what "You have to" means in some emergent circumstances, and I don't have a problem with it. But I suspect "You have to" can also mean "I don't care about your issues and your...

  18. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the instructor wasn't being funny, which is the weird thing... But, anyway, yes, I do think it would be worthwhile to critically think about why a patient would require an NG tube in the first...

  19. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    You cut off the rest of my post. What I thought was interesting was that the instructor thought it was perfectly fine to do do things against a patient's will for their own good -- unless, of course,...

  20. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm starting to get the feeling that posters here feel I'm somehow unfit to be a nurse because I'm turning these ethical issues over in my mind... And I do ask my instructors questions. I asked my...

  21. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I would think that the more acute and complex the medical situation, the more the nurse would question accepted standards and feel the need to keep current with evidence-based practice, and, possibly,...

  22. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    The patient could know before he or she is critically ill that doctors and nurses don't have all the answers and are only doing the best that they can with the tools that they have. One way we could...

  23. Is it just me, or are nurses pushy?

    firstyearstudent replied to firstyearstudent's topic in General Nursing

    It's also about responsibility. Some part of me doesn't want to take it all on. I want the patient to assume some of it. I wonder how the nurses who prepared patients for and assisted with lobotomies...

  24. Problem: Abnormally large feet.

    firstyearstudent replied to Ausculapius's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    They should make concessions to students with issues like this -- just ask (or don't, just get the white tennis and let them know why you are wearing them if you are called out on it -- you'd be...

  25. To cap or not to cap!

    firstyearstudent replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Students

    Didn't monks used to give nursing care? Maybe the men could wear monk wigs with the bald patch on top and the hair at the