5 lies you make in the hospital as a student

1. Vital Signs. Especially those at the end of the shift. It's not that your busy with other paperworks and other endorsements. It's just that you can sense that the patient is already annoyed by your endless sphygmomanometering. Tip: Just have an average value. It's just a lie, don't let it ring a bell.

2. Nursing Diagnosis. Those one writes in the NCP*. These are supposed to be the actual problem of your patient from your assessment where you will base your plan of care. But not all patients have problem that you can, like, do something (as a nurse). There goes YOUR problem. So you assume. Perhaps from the patient's case and some ideal problem that he should have. It's better than to end up writing the problem of the watcher. I've seen a lot do that mistake.

3. Paraphernalia. Some CI** check them, some CI don't. But even if they do, they won't check it ONE BY ONE. If you have forgotten your smock gown or drug handbook, you can still say that you have it all complete. At your own risk. Since you are most likely to commit this sin let me give you another tip. The most effective trick here is to be firm in saying that you have complete paraphernalia EVEN IF THE CI ASKS YOU REPEATEDLY. Otherwise, you're busted.

4. IVF and I&O*** monitoring. NO. Seriously, you can't lie here. Patients are put in this order because they are CRITICAL patients. So just check the IVF and IC**** levels every hour and record it honestly and accurately. It's very stressful but it pays when the patient didn't die on your shift.

5. Log in time. Make up duty is the most uncool thing in our world. Spare time on sem/Christmas/summer breaks will be compromised as well as your spare money. You pay and you get exhausted. But a minute could save you! So you won't write such thing as 7:31 in you log in time, or else you go for another 16 hours of make up duty. You write 7:30 instead.


*Nursing Care Plan
**Clinical Instructor (pitcher pitcher)
***Input and Output (mamam at wiwi)
****Indwelling Catheter