 Hey guys, welcome back to this video. So it's been a while. It's been a while since I have done a Q&A So I asked you guys questions on my Instagram make sure you're following me on Instagram because I try to do these I Wish I could do it more often, but really they're kind of labor intensive I love doing them, but you really have to be like like on your phone a lot and I've got a baby She makes things a lot more complicated if you're a mom like you just know kids just they just complicate things They are time suckers. They're life suckers. They really are, but they're so cute. Anyways, I digress first. I want to just say Thank you guys for sticking with me. I know as I became a mom and everything my channel has changed I have not been Cranking out as many videos as I used to and that doesn't mean that I'm not super passionate about being a nurse or this channel I love this channel. I love being a nurse. I just have so many priorities in my life right now And I'm thankful that I can put my eggs in multiple baskets, but sometimes I have to pull my egg from my YouTube basket because I'm busy doing other things. So I appreciate you guys sticking with me and I have so many ideas It's just I gotta sit down and do them. So thank you and let's just get into this Q&A The first question I got is is it possible to work full-time and go to a nursing school full-time? Yes, it is. Is it ideal? I guess it really depends on your situation and your life I know many people that had to work full-time and go to nursing school full-time I know a lot of people that they didn't need to work full-time where they took out student loans or whatnot So that's what worked for them personally when I was in nursing school. I worked about 20 ish hours a week it was quite a bit between going to nursing school full-time and Working part-time and I even made my own schedule. I taught piano lessons So it like wasn't that like stressful or strenuous on me but it was just another commitment that I had to do but it worked I made it through and Honestly, it's possible, but every situation is different. Just remember nursing school is temporary This is not your forever. So when things get hard, you're just take it day by day and you're one step closer another person asked what I ever changed from ICU so I don't know. I love the ICU. It really really fits who I am as a person and What I like and love about nursing so I think I will always do something related to ICU whether it's bedside or Taking more of an educational position. I don't know since I'm wrapping up on my masters I really want to look towards the educational world But I don't foresee myself leaving bedside to do that So maybe it'll be an additional thing that I want to do. I don't know. I love ICU I don't foresee myself like going to tally or the ER or Psych or changing it up, but who knows? That's the beauty of nursing is there's just a lot of options I love this question Someone said how do I raise my confidence in clinicals and stop being insecure and feeling like I am incompetent Honestly, this is a feeling that every nursing student feels because let's be real You know some stuff, but you really don't know stuff and that's okay as a preceptor or a nursing instructor You know that and it's those few bad eggs of nurses that Make students feel like they're incompetent and insecure push those nurses aside And when you get someone that cares and is a good preceptor and educator, they're hopefully not gonna make you feel that way Yes from some tips, and I haven't given you any I'm gonna give you some tips One is before you go into clinicals Just have some general knowledge of the area that you're gonna be in so if you're going into ICU Maybe just kind of learn a little bit about ventilators or ABG's or cardiac rhythm strips Just a little bit of information so that way when you're there and you see that stuff You can show that you know that you're not gonna be expected to know everything and part of Gaining your confidence is going to clinicals and getting this experiences It's okay that you can't confidently walk into a patient's room and know everything you're not expected to I think that as nursing students We put so much pressure on ourselves to Perform at the level of a nurse that's been in the nursing world for 20 years. That's ridiculous So don't do that to yourself. Don't put that pressure on yourself. Just go to learn don't have I want to say Don't have expectations but also have some expectations when I have nursing students that come in and follow me And I say, hey, what are your goals for the day? What do you want to do? And they say, yeah, I just want to be here I just want to learn you're like Cool, but I kind of like soon so like I'd love to see an intubation or I'd love to learn more about ventilators Or I'd love to learn more about ABG's and I'm like sweet. I can do that for you I can help you with that have intentions when you go in but don't have Unrealistic expectations if that makes sense this person said that they're halfway through nursing school And now they don't know if this is what they want for their life help That's tough. It really is because I feel like there's there's a mixed crowd of people like going to nursing You've got the people that are like, I love nursing. This is what I've always wanted to do Whoo, go into nursing and you've got the people that are like, yeah, you know, it's I like the medical field There seems to be a need for nurses so I know I can get a job But yeah, you know and then there's the people that are like just I Don't know why they're there But if you're kind of in this middle crowd It can be tough when maybe you're in a clinical rotation that you absolutely hate and you can't really see beyond that You're like, I hate this. This is not for me and My best advice is there are so many jobs in the nursing field You just have to figure out what you're passionate about and the beauty of nursing is You can just do so many things so even if you don't like bedside nursing, but you love teaching you can teach You can be a teacher, but you're a nurse if you like the legal side of Nursing you can be in that area if you want to work from home You can work from home or if you want to be in a call center You could be in a call center literally you could do every single job in the world But as a nurse so when you're a nursing school, they just show you the basic acute care side of clinical So they don't really show you a whole lot of outpatient Or they don't show you a whole lot of like the other miscellaneous nursing jobs But just because that is maybe not what you're passionate about. That's okay Think about something else that interests you and then I'm sure there's a nursing job for it You may need to get some experience in the hospital setting beforehand But what you get a year you get to and then you can go do your dream job I think that's worth it. This person said they're debating on an iPad for school to be more paperless What are my thoughts? I think it's awesome I'm all for the like trying to be more electronic But you have to do what works for you if you learn best by hand writing things out Go for it. I will say it's a little bit quicker to be typing and doing things electronically Copying pasting making your notes as you go along in nursing school But if you hand write things and that's how you learn better do it if you want to be paperless do it You have to do what works best for you It's a nice to be paperless because you're trying to save the environment sure But if you can't be paperless, then maybe like do some more recycling at home It's all about balance my dad asked me how did I make such a cute baby? I mean just look at me. I'm just kidding I don't know. She's but she is she's really cute time management tips how to know what's important versus what's not so important what to focus on this is a great question because as as Nursing students new grad nurses you feel like everything is important everything so I actually saw a tip on Instagram And I forget the page that posted it But it would gave a tip about at the beginning of your shift write down the things that need to be done within an Hour the things that need to be done in four hours and the things that could be done by the end of your shift So that kind of helps you prioritize a couple other tips is see your most sick patient first I take that back you want to see all your patients right away just to get an idea of making sure there's no safety issues Making sure that they have their call light things like that But you want to assess and detail your most sick patient first my other tip is to Delegate if you need help doing a blood sugar or someone are getting your patient up to the bathroom Delegate that to your tech if it's appropriate the next tip is to take the pressure off yourself You are one person and one human being and you physically cannot always do every single thing all by yourself Take away that pride as new grad nurses You guys want to do everything on your own because you feel like you need to like be up to the standard of Whatever you're imagining in your head, but you you can't do everything on your own I can't tell you how many times I ask another nurse like hey I'm super busy Do you mind just checking and seeing what my patient in room 18 wants? I call the tech and say hey can you page this doctor for me use your resources and the last tip of that is Take a step back and look at the bigger picture of things It's easy to get overwhelmed with all the tasks you have at hand Especially when you work a medical surgical floor or tell you when you've got four five six seven eight patients Whatever it may be. It's easy to be like. Oh my gosh I have so many things to do but really take a step back and think about bigger picture Is it okay if the patient in room five gets their tile and all Ten minutes later. Is it okay that the CT scan that's been ordered for four days gets done in four hours Probably the nomad nurse Crosby steen asked will you please do a video on how much better ER nurses are than I see nurses? Thanks Yeah, I'm just kidding I just want to answer this right here because I'm gonna get people that worth the ER or want to work ER And I'm gonna be like you're such an ER hater. I am not an ER hater I think your nurses are awesome and do awesome things I think every field of nursing is necessary and important What the ER finds important is different than what the ICU finds important and we know that every job is needed And you should respect the nurses in every position last question is what is the hardest part of being a nurse? I think this is gonna be different for everyone. I think the hardest part for me Two things two things this would be four two things One the social drama when you come in to do your job and you have a super super super dicks I don't think I said a super super super sick patient come in and you're like Running your tail off just trying to take care of their medical needs But then you've got the social drama of mama doesn't want this Baby mama doesn't want this they're fighting in the room and you're like having to deal with that while also taking care of your patient That is a really hard part about being a nurse I will say as you get more experience you get better at handling that and also Talking with family members and a respectful way to let them know that like as much as you want to Break up their family drama. I'm just kidding. You wouldn't say that but you're there for the patient Most of the time people respect that so that's that's difficult the social drama the second thing that's hard for me And everyone's gonna be different about this when we're keeping people alive that clearly have No quality of life and it's against the patient's wishes as the patient Wants to be kept on life support traked pegged sent to a facility. That's fine That's their wish we respect that but when the patient said clearly don't intubate me Don't keep me on life sustaining measures and then we have family members who are revoking that that's that's hard for me I'm not saying I don't treat people with respect regardless But that is a difficult part about being in in the ICU specifically but in the medical world in general Hey guys this video is super long. I still have more questions So I will try and do another Q&A at some point in my life whenever that may be But I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did give it a thumbs up If you have any more questions drop them below. I'll see you my next video. Bye