Not looking to pick on anyone, just though one central thread under a catch all heading would help to serve perhaps as a reference point.
1 - Failed one or two classes, but only by "X", points, why are programs so strict?
Because they have to set a standard at some point, and if there is leeway for one there will be arguements for leeway for others. It is what it is...
2 - Don't like dealing with human bodily fluids and or waste.....
There are areas of nursing where this is not a problem.
3 - Don't understand why nursing math has to be so difficult. Afterall in the real world there are computers and caculators.
Calculators are only as smart as the operator...You have to know what you are solving for and how to go about solving...the calculator only calculates the answer, does not get you going on the right route.
4 - My life hasn't been entirely blameless, will that affect my chances of entering a NP or obtaining a license, and why should it make a difference?
Depends on the offenses. There again, there has to be a standard set at some point. That's why we try to teach our children that what they do now can have a huge impact on the future.
5 - Have allot going on in my life at the moment (work, children, husband, family, etc), but my instructors won't cut me any slack, is this fair?
Yes...lives will be at stake under your care some day and you may still be under a great deal of stress at that point. Gotta learn to focus and work through to get the job done, even if that job is school.
6 - Why to I have to learn nursing and or medical terms that aren't used anymore?
You never know what documentation you will come across that is written by physicians or other health care workers who do actually use those terms. Will be better for you to be familiar than have to keep running to look something up, or worse still...don't bother and miss something important.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
actually no,this topic does not belong on the section for working nurses,this thread should be moved to pre-nursing forum or student nurse forum.i really dont see the point of posting this kind of thread in the section for working experience nurses who share their experience.
how about want to be nurse, but
i dont know where to post topics like the one mentioned above.
again, i think you missed the point. and you're still missing it.
Actually no,this topic does not belong on the section for working nurses,this thread should be moved to pre-nursing forum or student nurse forum.I really dont see the point of posting this kind of thread in the section for working experience nurses who share their experience.
How about want to be nurse, but
I dont know where to post topics like the one mentioned above.
Perhaps should have made my OP more clear, but with all due respect disagree with the above.
Would point out that while graduating from a NP and passing the boards does make one a "nurse" by legal right, there is a bit more to it than that, IMHO.
Don't know how things are in your area, but from the front lines around here one hears everyone from charge nurses, to those responsible for hiring nurses a litany of questions, complaints and what have you from new nurses that really ought to have been taken care of sooner.
Nurses who do not want to work nights,weekends, or shift work for various reasons (mostly personal).
Nurses who do not know how to program pumps because they weren't taught so in nursing school, and or were told they would'nt have to bother.
Or, the flip side to the above, nurses who cannot caculate drips because they were told everything was done via pumps.
Nurses who aren't hired or terminated within several weeks of hire because they cannot caculate meds and or pass pharma exams with the hospital's score (usually >95%). When pressed these nurses often tell that their grades in NS were't the best when it came to pharma/MDC, but in the end they still managed to pass/graduate.
Nurses who arrive on floors thinking that CNAs are lackeys who will do all the grunt work and that they will not have to clean poop, change beds, assist with ADL or any of the other "stuff" that they think is beneath them as RNs.
>>9)I havent seen anyone I came across or on this forum wanting to get into nursing school being blind and deaf.
I am
Well, I wear glasses and hearing aids. (Am actually moderately deaf and somewhat short sighted). And I'm only one week away from my BN degree (and nearly two months till State (NZ equivalent to N-CLEX) and another month or two till I'm an RN)
P.S Can anyone tell me how to actually quote the previous message properly?
P.P.S On second thoughts, NOW I see the "quote" button
>>9)I havent seen anyone I came across or on this forum wanting to get into nursing school being blind and deaf.
I am
Well, I wear glasses and hearing aids. (Am actually moderately deaf and somewhat short sighted). And I'm only one week away from my BN degree (and nearly two months till State (NZ equivalent to N-CLEX) and another month or two till I'm an RN)
P.S Can anyone tell me how to actually quote the previous message properly?
P.P.S On second thoughts, NOW I see the "quote" button
Actually no,this topic does not belong on the section for working nurses,this thread should be moved to pre-nursing forum or student nurse forum.I really dont see the point of posting this kind of thread in the section for working experience nurses who share their experience.
How about want to be nurse, but
I dont know where to post topics like the one mentioned above.
Actually, this thread DEFINITELY belongs in the forum for experienced nurses. We're the ones who "get it.":lol2:
I did not mean to poke fun in my post. Well, at least for some items.
8)Actually number one is a very valid concern.
9)I havent seen anyone I came across or on this forum wanting to get into nursing school being blind and deaf.
Well, actually this one is referring to a thread I saw about a CNA student who was deaf. I sort of changed it a little. But still, there have been numerous threads that have asked whether their particular problem, be it a learning disability, sensory deficit, or a criminal record, will get in the way of their goal. I didn't mean to poke fun at this one. There's lots of encouragement in those threads.
10)People often question their career majors,selecting a major can be a very difficult process hence it is totally understandable.
This one I was definitely not poking fun at. I've had the same thoughts myself.
11)Yes a lot of nursing instructors are mean.
Now this one invites a little ridicule because so often people post that their instructors are picking on them. Sometimes it's valid, but sometimes there's more to it than just being picked on. One can't always trust an OP's vantage point.
12)Nursing school can be expensive so people worry they wont be able to pay the tuition.
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Not poking fun at this one, because I know how expensive school is.
13)People have different moral values,but they also can refuse taking care of someone who had an abortion.
I know. But there's been a few threads by people asking if their strongly held views will get in the way of them providing care, that's why I brought it up.
14)I never met anyone who is 65 years old and wants to go to nursing school.Learning never stops.
Some students here have identified themselves to be in their 60s either in a nursing program or pre-nursing.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i suspect that mean nursing instructors are like mean preceptors and bosses -- if you're always screwing up, they're everywhere. but if you're basically doing a good job (as defined by the bosses, preceptors and instructors and not by you and your peers who may not recognize a good job if it bit you on the nether regions) mean instructors, preceptors and bosses are not so prevalent.
i suspect that mean nursing instructors are like mean preceptors and bosses -- if you're always screwing up, they're everywhere. but if you're basically doing a good job (as defined by the bosses, preceptors and instructors and not by you and your peers who may not recognize a good job if it bit you on the nether regions) mean instructors, preceptors and bosses are not so prevalent.
well said, ruby. of course there are always a few "bad apples," -- but you find many more of them if you don't do a good job yourself.
I don't know about anyone else, but if the best someone could do in med dose calc was an average grade of 75% (which translates into a one in four error rate), or had to repeat a course or two more than once, and still couldn't do better than the said grade, I'm not sure I'd want you coming at me or mine.
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