We have all heard some wise advice on Allnurses, or the perfect quote, or just "the sentence that sums it all up" for you.
I think my favorite is this:
"You shouldn't have to learn your (nursing) job from youtube."
This statement was in response to a new grad who'd lost her first job, and was now trying to polish her skills - partly through youtube videos. This response just cracked me up!
How about you? What's the wisest thing YOU'VE ever heard on Allnurses?
Actually, I don't think JBudd was referring to you.
The OP was asking about the best advice learned from the posts and threads on AN. "You can't fix stupid" is a general quote used to refer to the people that have to/need to seek medical attention due to, ahem, foolishness or generalized inability to think clearly about the task they are performing, i.e using equipment while intoxicated.
As far as YouTube videos for skills, just make sure they are from a reputable source. To learn skills effectively, though, IMHO, it takes doing as well as watching. Maybe you should see if your local CC or Nursing Program can let you into their skills lab to practice.
I think this was meant to be a lighthearted thread.
As for the best advice I learned on AN...not to take my job too seriously, though it is one that I'm still working on.
On Youtube you can watch videos from drug companies-patient education- on the proper way to use items like Advair and Singular (sp?) as well as inhalers w/ w/o spacers, flex pens for insulin, etc. I found a whole explanation on the chest tube and physics. Many educators from universities have put up power points on various topics for nursing education (my hats off to a Canadian university that posted their power points on Lewin's Change Theory because my profs and program just were getting it done!). The internet and YouTube can be wonderful fonts of knowledge. Yes, look at the publisher of the info first. But, seeing a procedure done or a product used is priceless. They even explain all the parts to different products, something that is often overlooked in the real world. I find it helpful to look at more than one source on any topic.
People should not be discouraged from looking for educational videos on YouTube as being a low class education. The manufacturers and educators are posting items there because of the easy access to the information. Its one more tool available to supplement our education.
The OP was asking a general question, I'm sure, not directed at anyone in particular here. Unfortunately, some people took it that way. As for "you can't fix stupid," that's been said by more than a few posters around this site.
We have all heard some wise advice on Allnurses, or the perfect quote, or just "the sentence that sums it all up" for you.
I think my favorite is this:
"You shouldn't have to learn your (nursing) job from youtube."
This statement was in response to a new grad who'd lost her first job, and was now trying to polish her skills - partly through youtube videos. This response just cracked me up!
How about you? What's the wisest thing YOU'VE ever heard on Allnurses?
Disagree. Watching someone "access" a port using a Huber needle on a teddy bear on Youtube was instructive for me. (Not kidding; if it works, go w/ it.)
The wisest thing I have heard on allnurses so far was a recommendation to get a good NCLEX study guide like Saunders and start NOW (in my first semester of nursing school) doing the questions, reviewing rationalizations, and etc.
ClearBlueOctoberSky
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Actually, I don't think JBudd was referring to you.
The OP was asking about the best advice learned from the posts and threads on AN. "You can't fix stupid" is a general quote used to refer to the people that have to/need to seek medical attention due to, ahem, foolishness or generalized inability to think clearly about the task they are performing, i.e using equipment while intoxicated.
As far as YouTube videos for skills, just make sure they are from a reputable source. To learn skills effectively, though, IMHO, it takes doing as well as watching. Maybe you should see if your local CC or Nursing Program can let you into their skills lab to practice.
I think this was meant to be a lighthearted thread.
As for the best advice I learned on AN...not to take my job too seriously, though it is one that I'm still working on.