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Post by malkieh on Mar 28, 2012 13:04:13 GMT -5
thanks medic it helped...
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Post by malkieh on Mar 28, 2012 11:57:27 GMT -5
My class is angry at me that I cannot participate because it's a friday night. My husband an I picked another day and drove home around the same time, and it took over an hour!
They feel as though I am not part of the group because I do not want to participate. But it's a friday night, the two other students that are frum are participating, but they live closer then I do so for them it's possible...
So that I would not think about it, we are going away on a family trip to celebrate.
Now my class is angry at me, because they "bent over backwards" so that we could attend (there are three of us that are frum). I am the only one of the three not attending, because the other two live closer.
So now when I try to set up other learning opportunities, it's like the undermine me and try to do it on Saturdays so that I loos the opportunity. It's so frustrating! I did the research I gave the entire class the idea of doing the extra education.. It hurts
But it also reminds me how immature this class is, which was another reason I was not jumping to graduate with them.
*sigh*
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Post by malkieh on Mar 24, 2012 22:48:15 GMT -5
This rotation so far is the hardest..
I have been on the other side of the table, as a parent with a child with a chronic disease. But I was suprised how overwhelmed I felt while standing beside the bed of an 11month old trying to keep him busy instead of him pulling on all the lines in him.
I was amazed to see this little boy smiling and playing and laughing and in his innocence grab at his IV, NG tube, etc.. Observing how after his dialysis his breathing was easier and swelling went down.
The quick thinking when his nares were flairing and he was grunting out of discomfort and unable to breathe. Just the simple adjusting his bed so that the head was higher, and the giggling and activity came back to normal
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Post by malkieh on Mar 1, 2012 19:47:29 GMT -5
So our graduation date is set for June 15th, sadly a friday night 6 pm.
The class got together and moved it back to 5:30, it was really nice
Today they did a survey about costs etc.. One of the people doing the arrangements for the graduation suggested that we do fundraising.
So I raised my hand and pointed out that while it's a great idea, we have to keep in mind that we all have exams and papers due. Plus a big senior project at the end of the semester. That it would be a good idea to be organized and take into account that it would probably be better to do it before our last class which includes two 12 hour shift preceptorship for 5 weeks.
This young woman looked at me like I had been the rudest person in the world and responded "you do not have to help with fundraising if you do not want too." I saw her after class and it looked like she was crying, so I tried to say I was sorry. But I cannot help it if I like to keep my life organized, she did not care.
My class is so immature... Making me second guess if I really want to do the graduation ceremony, but I want my graduation pin... I am torn
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Post by malkieh on Jan 20, 2012 13:09:24 GMT -5
same thing in LA, there are no jobs for ASN! They tell you to not even apply unless your a "bachelor in progress"
I think my frustration is not that people assume that nurses get paid well (yes sometimes they do get paid well), but that it's an easy job. It is anything but an easy job, and it's something you should go into because you love to help people not for money.
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Post by malkieh on Jan 7, 2012 23:47:38 GMT -5
More and more I am seeing people go into nursing for money, I realize the economy is bad. But this is a difficult job, both physically and mentally. Honestly, I know from my instructors and preceptor that it does not pay well.
Is this maybe a reality we need to be telling people about?
People think 2 years, oh yeah I will be a nurse. But you have to add 2 years of prereq/graduate requirements to that mix, plus that they are not hiring 2 year RN's anymore. They want bachelors nurses, and even masters nurses moreso!
The economy is bad for any job right now, and nurses they are cutting left and right making the ratio unsafe in some places.
Plus there are already to many nurses in the field just doing it for a job, and it's more than a job or I think it is more than a job.
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Post by malkieh on Jan 7, 2012 21:59:31 GMT -5
Actually this past semester I had a kind of eye opening experience..
The nurses at this particular hospital are over whelmed and not paid well. I had a patient that was very ill and kept going off the floor for tests to figure out what was going on.
My instructor was on my butt to check his vital signs every time he came back to the floor.
One time she came in, "check his vital signs, now!" He had just gotten to the room with transport, and she was really getting on my nerves. I turned around and I looked at her and said very firmly not disrespectfully, "my priority is getting my patient safely back in bed with his oxygen attached because he is a trache patient and the RT told me to attach it asap. My next is his safety then restarting his IV because that is his only form of nutrition at this moment, and reattaching his EKG monitor, and I have a VS machine (i pointed to the machine) in the room, so that once these things are done I will take his vital signs."
She nodded and said, "very good glad to see you have it under control." And walked away.
it was nerve wracking, but also empowering! After doing everything I was supposed to do, I walked out of the room shaking. The transport people came back to take my patient to another test and I had to turn around and assist them to transfer him (bedbound). After they were off the floor again, one of the other students came up to me, and touched my shoulder and asked if I was ok. I told her what happened, and she smiled and said "sounds like u were a real nurse today." It really felt incredible.
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Post by malkieh on Dec 20, 2011 16:49:05 GMT -5
I got the rotation I want for 4th!!! I am so excited!!
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Post by malkieh on Dec 12, 2011 10:48:33 GMT -5
Actually I enjoyed my second day of ICU, I think it depends on who is the nurse they pair you with. The one that they paired me with on the first day kind of made my day miserable.
Second day, the nurses asked me a lot of questions like what are my skills what do I know and tested my knowledge. Then they were like we need you to do this, this and this... Like they trusted me to do accuchecks etc etc.. Check vitals, so it was like I was a mini nurse... so to speak so that experience was amazing.
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Post by malkieh on Dec 4, 2011 3:10:52 GMT -5
I have one more day in ICU, and honestly I did not like it at all!
I ended up with a very demanding patient and it wore me down really fast!! I am terrified to go back this week! B"H only have one day there, but omg!
It was also heart wrenching because one of my patients had been moved to ICU, and to see how far she had dropped killed me.
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Post by malkieh on Oct 18, 2011 19:34:32 GMT -5
omg I managed to pass!!!
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Post by malkieh on Sept 21, 2011 22:54:29 GMT -5
Third semester is a lot harder than I expected, I know people say that this semester is the breaker, but omg!! My health is affected
I got a 70 on my first exam that's a fail (btw the ENTIRE class failed), if he had not added 5 points then then the 5 that passed would not have.
76 on my second exam Quiz 9/10
So my average right now is 74 which is not passing (75 is passing)
If, g-d forbid, I fail I am scared that I will not get into another nursing program. I am going to focus, but this professor makes difficult exams that do not always make sense... So it's sort of luck if you actually pass the exam..
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Post by malkieh on Jul 2, 2011 23:51:54 GMT -5
So I have yet to receive my transcripts, that I need to send in the CNA paperwork... Maybe this week, then it takes 2-3 weeks for them to process my forms to take the CNA exam...
That is the 2 weeks I would be in Australia, so hashem has his ways of giving signs.
I am having an interview at UCLA for a nursing internship, so if I get that then I am not going to Australia, but other than that the CNA route is on hold until paperwork is in hand...
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Post by malkieh on Jun 28, 2011 23:37:55 GMT -5
So, my husband and I discussed it...
The reality is that it will take 2 weeks (if I am lucky) for the state to process my permission to take the CNA exam. So I am hoping that by the end of the 2 weeks, I can take the exam before leaving for Australia. Then while in Australia I can fill out applications, I am hoping that the nurse manager that knows me will hire me. She claims she will, so I am hopeful that by the end of the two weeks in australia I will have some interviews...
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Post by malkieh on Jun 28, 2011 18:02:50 GMT -5
I think Obama passed a law about insurance not being allowed to refuse pre-existing illness/injury..
My son has chrons disease, yes B"H it's in remission, but it's a life long disease. B"H so far no issues with insurance.
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