jjg003

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1. What are the item(s) you need most for nursing school?

   jjg003 replied to rn2be2006's topic in General Students

   I am in my second semester and this is what I find important. 1. I bought a PDA and put Epocrates Drug Book on it that way I have my calender, planner, and drug book all in one. Very helpful in class to when a teacher starts talking about a drug I ha...

2. Girls Talking during class is making me mad!!

   jjg003 replied to scaredofshots's topic in General Students

   I like the idea to out them during class!!!!!.... It is your education that is being robbed by these inconsiderate people. DO NOT be afraid to stand up for your education!!!!! If calling them out in class doesn't work take it to the teacher. They obv...

3. How many don't make it out?

   jjg003 replied to LadyEJ BSN, RN's topic in General Students

   In my first semester of nursing school we started out with 62 and at athe end of the semster we had 35. A few quit but most of them failed out. The tests we took were all on the computer with questions worded like the NCLEX, they were timed and once ...

4. How do you handle getting "Bad" grades?

   jjg003 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Students

   I am in the same boat as you, I had great grades in my pre-reqs but once in nursing school they dropped, last semster I got a 84 but you had to have a 85 to get a "B". Don't get discouraged!!!!.... I talked to my instructors about it and they said th...

5. Transferring Nursing Schools

   jjg003 replied to NailaRN's topic in General Students

   I jsut transferred nursing schools. Your new school will want their very own, offical copies of everything. Before you transfer MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT TRANSFERS!!!!....I went through one semester of a ADN program ata satallite branch of a main unive...

6. Half.com

   jjg003 replied to nursecher's topic in General Students

   I have bought and resold all my books on Half.com. But, I decided not to chance it with my Nursing books plus we have three independent textbook bookstores that are very competivie and I could get the books there cheaper than Half.com. If you deicide...

7. new to the site; help w/diagnosis??

   jjg003 replied to ale_kat03's topic in General Students

   It depends on what type of Dx you are doing. RISK FOR: RT is your risk factors (etiology) ACTUAL: RT is your etiology (cause) You get your RT from Carpenito or Mosby's which ever one you use. Dont't forget to order your Dx by Maslow is Impaired Tiss...

8. Looking for Summer Nursing Internship

   jjg003 replied to jjg003's topic in General Students

   I have seen a few for Mayo and Mt Sinai in New York. I am figuring you are basically like a CNA or patient aide. Most of them require that you complete your Junior year and have two rounds of clinicals.

9. Starting job for pre-nursing experience

   jjg003 replied to Celticfaere's topic in General Students

   At hospitals where I have had my clinicals after your first semster of clinicals you can go thru a few days of training and become a patient aid and they will usually work around your schedule. Also see about a unit secretary postion, you will learn ...

10. Looking for Summer Nursing Internship

    jjg003 posted a topic in General Students

    Does anyone have a link where I can look for summer nursing internship programs? I am in my second semester and would love to travel somewhere great and get some much needed experience. Any help would be apperciated! Thanks, JJ

11. t-shirt ideas

    jjg003 replied to red426's topic in General Students

    FRONT: Southern Nurses BACK: Give Better Mouth to Mouth FRONT: Student Nurses Need Practice BACK: Anyone Want to Volunteer and a picture of a nurse holding a syringe. I love the Nurses covers Doctors behind idea I think I will pitch that for o...

12. Discouraged: Is EVERY public USA nursing program impacted?

    jjg003 replied to stillpressingon's topic in General Nursing

    I was in a Associate Degree plan for nursing but I have now transferred into a BSN program. The reason I did that was I already had all my prereqs and it was only one more semester more for me to get my BSN instead of my associate degree. Both progra...