herwitsend replied to Teacher2Nurse21's topic in Job Hunt
Also, CONGRATULATIONS and Welcome!!! I will see you at Power Up. I am one of the Peer Tutors. Peer tutoring will save your life (or at least your GPA)!!
herwitsend replied to Teacher2Nurse21's topic in Job Hunt
Hey! I will be a Junior 2 at BSMCON this fall. In order to get a PCT job, you have to either be a CNA or have finished your first semester of clinicals. I imagine this is why you are getting passed over. In the fall, there will be a job fair at the c...
I have always gone by ISBN and have always gotten the correct books. I think they update that and sometimes forget to update the rest of the listing. You will find little oversights like that are pretty typical throughout the program. Are you on the ...
I don't know where you are seeing a book list, so I can't speak to that. I have not had any issues with not being able to get books. When you are enrolled in a course they give you the current book list for that course. It is usually the latest edit...
It is a 5 semester program. Course load is fairly heavy, but I think it is going to be that way with nursing school wherever you go. You start off with only one clinical, a lab/ hospital skills course so you spend half of the class days in the skills...
herwitsend replied to scouteb's topic in Pre-Nursing
Before you get any vaccines, you could have titers drawn. Chances are you have immunity to some childhood diseases (like chicken pox since you had it as a child) and may not need them all. Once you have titers drawn, your physician can direct you as ...
herwitsend replied to hopefulmidwife1's topic in General Students
Every person with a bed sore or incontinence or disgusting wound (or whatever) is a person. Seriously, this keeps me going. They are a person with a story. They have lived and loved and borne children and grieved and they are living in this perpetua...