I think it’s pretty funny that as nursing students, we start giving a nursing diagnosis to everything. Here a few that I have made up in the past couple weeks while talking with some of my fellow classmates:
- Fatigue related to studying effort as evidence by falling asleep during class and baggy eyes.
- Imbalanced Nutrition: More than Body Requirements related to inability to cook food b/c we’re always in class and the professors are always giving us candy and sweets after exams aeb weight gain of 20 pounds in one semester.
NOTE: These nursing diagnoses should not be applied to every nursing student and, if diagnosed, interventions can be completed promptly and problems should be cleared within one or two days. :D
On a better note, nursing diagnoses that we see more often include:
- Effective thought processes r/t physiological changes aeb being able to complete a head to toe assessment on assigned patient, give medications and actually know why giving them & achieving an A on Adult Health Nursing exam.
- Self-confidence related to assurance and assistance from peers and professors.
If not understood now, once you are a nursing student, you will COMPLETELY understand these diagnoses.
Now back to studying for my Peds exam… HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Hi all! My name is Beverly. I’m a Traditional BSN (first degree) student here at the JHU School of Nursing. I graduate in May 2009….very soon, which I’m pretty excited about. Sooooo…I’ve been meaning to blog actually for the past YEAR now and I now I finally have a chance to. Since everyone has missed out on many of the things that happened during my first year of nursing school and my 1st seven weeks of my 2nd year, I think for some of the blogs, I’ll add a random flashbacks or event, as you may call it, of the past year.
So a little more about me…
I was born and raised in Baltimore. During my first two years of my undergraduate program, I attended the JHU's School of Arts & Sciences at the Homewood Campus (I’ll refer to the Homewood campus a lot since I still live near the campus and have a lot of friends that attend the School of Arts & Science and the School of Engineering). I was originally a neuroscience major, but then by the end of my freshman year, I decided to go into nursing. I considered nursing throughout high school but I didn’t really think about it until after some of the experiences that happened during my first year of college. I knew I wanted patient interaction and wanted to affect lives. I could do that as a doctor, right?! No, not exactly the way a nurse does it….
You can do all that, but I realized it’s the nurse who has the most affect on patients' lives. It’s the nurse who knows the patient and how they're feeling. It’s the nurse who is just there to listen sometimes. That’s what I want to do. I want to affect lives on a more personal level, not just from writing a prescription and doing a couple of assessments.
One thing that really made me make my final decision on nursing was working with Hopkins Organization for Pre-Health Education's (HOPE) Project Prevent, which is an annual health fair in the Park Heights area of Baltimore where agencies offer FREE health services (i.e. lead poisoning, HIV/AIDS testing, etc.) to the surrounding neighborhood. It was a great experience where I got to meet so many people from the community and just have a one-on-one conversation with them. A lot of them have a bad perception of the people who work in the medical field due to experience, but when they saw that an African-American going into the medical field was helping them, I saw that they began to change their perceptions…just in that day. It is definitely a great feeling just to know that someone thinks differently…just because of something you said.
Diverging from academics, I also have a social life (and yes, you can be social while you are at the Hopkins) and I am very involved in groups and organizations. I’m really outgoing, as you can ask anyone who knows me pretty well. I enjoy just being in the presence of other people (I’m SUCH a people person). Random fact, I am random. I think randomness is what makes life interesting…and that’s how I make a lot of new friends.
I’m President of the Black Student Nurses Association. We’re just starting off on a clean stale so we’ll be up and going with events and activities soon. I’m also still involved in some of the Homewood groups too. I’m a part of the Mentoring Assistance Peer Program (affectionately known as MAPP) and I was on the Student Admission Advisory board, working with the Admissions office with recruiting, blogging, and talking on the message boards on the main JHU website. I still help out when I have a little time on my hands. I’ll talk more about MAPP and BSNA in other blogs. There’s sooo much to say!
By the way…nursing students CAN get involved in activities at any of the Johns Hopkins campuses. I know many students who have joined groups there. Here’s a link to a list of the activities: JHU Organizations
Check into ALL the links because there are many things that you can do. I just joined a cooking club last week (but we'll see how many times I can actually make it to a meeting). I know a few people at the School of Nursing who have joined Capoeira …if you don’t know about it, that’ll be something interesting to look up.
To finish, there is ALWAYS something happening in my life. This is where I begin to share it with you all. :D