Basically, everything you will bring will need to fit into your pockets. Alcohol wipes and hand sanitizer are on the units. Your stethoscope, penlight, permanent marker for dressing changes, a watch...
A&P is a knowledge based class. You mostly memorize stuff. I made my own flash cards because I knew I learned more that way. If you don't know what your learning style is, you can google and find...
You are wanting to go into a lesser program, so that you can get a certificate you don't want and have to keep going to school to get the degree you do want because you are tired of going to school....
hunydew2262 replied to brokenroads27's topic in General Students
Why are you afraid to tell you professors? They understand that some things are more important than nursing school. (Blasphemy, I know!) Let us know how everything goes.
hunydew2262 replied to Nursingstudent2188's topic in General Students
WOW, serious deja vu! I cried after every clinical for weeks. You've gotten so much good advice already, I can't think of anything to add, other than it is all SOOOO worth it! Maybe you can find a...
Absolutely. Using the excuse you were "intimidated" in a profession that is going to require you to stand your ground when advocating for a patient isn't going to reflect on you in a positive manner....
I'm in my final year of a BSN degree. For pharm, study the CNS and ANS, since nearly every med seems to affect one or both of these. As was stated, the hepatic, renal and gastro systems all play a...
Do you have an advisor for the nursing program? Our community college actually has a pre-nursing option and the advisor for the program let us know what we needed to take. We all applied at the same...
hunydew2262 replied to MarryingAnRN's topic in Nursing Career
One thing I've been told is that nursing degrees are priceless. Just about any field has a niche you can fill with a BSN. One of my instructors worked for an attorney for many years in an advisory...
By far the most difficult class I've taken is statistics. I think most BS programs require it, I'm not sure about AS programs. I had the hardest time with fluid balances. Lab values come with...
CO2 is going to point towards respiratory, since that is where the body throws off it's excess carbon dioxide. An imbalance in the bicarb is going to point to
I was wondering the same thing about the instructor. I had a nurse that sat in the day room for 8 hours, literally. When my cancer patient needed his PCA pump refilled, I didn't bother with the...