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  1. Spring graduates...what are you doing?

    Pinning - May 13th Graduation date - May 16th Do you have a job lined up? Yes What department? L & D When do you start? May 27th at a Tech and when I pass the board I will transition to staff nurse.
  2. Senior Nursing students graduating in May 2003

    I am like you, can't believe it is this close to graduation. I too only have 5 more clinical days. My Final is is May 9th, Pinning is May 13th and Graduation is May 16th. I am taking the Sylvia Rayfield review course May 19, 20 &21. We are ...
  3. Circumcision Debate

    I agree with Heather, I thought as nurses were supposed to give our patients information so they could make their own informed decisions, not give our opinions that may sway their decisions. Lucky for me, I only have 1 daughter so I was never force...
  4. Can anyone recommend good drug cards?

    We had to write our own, our school would not let us use purchased drug cards. They said we would retain more of the info if we looked the drugs up and wrote them out ourselves. I put mine on Note cards and then bought a index card box and alphatiz...
  5. Aspirating with SQ injections

    kimmicoobug, I had this same discussion come up this week in my preceptorship. I have a daughter who is diabetic and takes insulin injections and was taught even before nursing school not to aspirate when giving SQ insulin. When I started nursing ...
  6. Bad news...

    I agree with everyone, don't give up. I was notified about 3pm the day before Classes started, that I need to be at class the next morning at 9am. There is always a chance that someone may change their mind and not stay with the program. We had 2 ...
  7. Problem with NCLEX CD-ROM....HELP!

    Kristy, I have also had problems getting some of my programs to run in XP. But I have found that if I go into your help and support menu, There is a section for trouble shooting problems, one of the options is "programs won't run in XP, but worked ...
  8. Opinion re: managing low blood sugar?

    This is my first concern, is why the insulin was not adjusted for a pt who has reoccuring hypoglycemia. I am a nursing student in my final semester so I don't have alot of nursing experience on this subject, but as the mother of a 12 yo with type 1 ...
  9. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones!

    Our A & P teacher had a great way to help us learn the Bones. She gave us photo copies of about 150 bones, we had to cut them out, and attach them together to make a 6 foot skeleton. All of the bones had to be labeled. After spending so many h...
  10. graduation invitations etc.

    We are only allowed to invite 5 people to our pinning, but graduation is unlimited.
  11. 2nd career people: nervous about switching?

    mastiff38, I was very nervous about switching careers, I had worked for the same Finance company for 14 1/2 years. It was like giving up my safety blanket to leave my company. But I had always wanted to be a nurse and when my then 9 year old daug...
  12. Senior Nursing students graduating in May 2003

    Our pinning Ceremony is May 13th and Graduation is May 16th. I will be doing my Preceptorship in March and then we have clinical rotations in Home Health and ICU during April. Several of our class is taking an NCLEX review course the week after gr...
  13. "(luckily my husband is still very supportive... i know he gets tired of eating pizza and easy quick dinners... gets tired of the laundry getting done like once every 2wks (or until he says "im out of underwear) .... he knows that it is gonna benefi...
  14. Hey everyone, I was just wondering when your last day of class is. At our school our final semester was split into two 8 week sections. The first 8 weeks were our class and lectures and the last 8 weeks are our clinicals and preceptorships. Tod...
  15. Test Question

    Hey everyone, I have a question. I am a 2nd year, 5th semester ADN studant. At our school we have 2 different campuses, 57 students in my nursing class. We had a new instructor last week, new to our school and to teaching. She taught the lecture...