Jamie2887

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1. Calhoun CC Nursing Program

   Jamie2887 replied to SheltonBri's topic in Alabama

   As far as points, it changes every year, and I don't rememeber what it was for LPN/RN when I entered in 2006. I have heard rumors of the entrance exam, but dont know any truth too it. As for NCLEX scores, I just graduated in May, and we had 197 gra...

2. Hurst Review

   Jamie2887 replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in NCLEX

   The thing with HURST is they guarentee passing if you MASTER the content, meaning the whole book they give to you, simply going to the review does not mean you get the full affect, or even glancing through the book, you must study the book and withou...

3. Prioritization

   Jamie2887 replied to Nrsstudent09's topic in NCLEX

   It's called Prioritization, Delegation, and Assisignment, but Linda A. Lacharity....I bought my copy at Barnes and Noble, for $29.95, I'm finishing it up today, I test tomorrow :-D So far it seems to be very helpful for answering priority, has great...

4. New grads - how much are you studying?

   Jamie2887 replied to krenee's topic in NCLEX

   I LOVED hurst review, it's a good way of refreshing all of the content you've learned, you only do questions on the last day, which i enjoyed, our school payed for a review, and we did questions for 4 days...8 hours a day...she just read them to us, ...

5. What do your CNAs do ?

   Jamie2887 replied to poppy101's topic in General Nursing

   On my floor, as a nurse tech (and in my last semester of NS), I do VS's, FSBS, I&O's, baths, helping pt to BSC, toileting, answer call lights ect. We can suction with a yanker our trach pt's, I'm on respiratory. Help feed patients. We do not d...

6. EXCELLENT website for reading ecg strips

   Jamie2887 posted a topic in General Students

   Hello everyone, I am in my next to last semester of nursing school, we are studying the DREADED cardiovascular system right now...learning how to read EKG strips, our teacher gave us an EXCELLENT website for learning how to read them, and I thought i...

7. Tossing around a move to Alabama...any suggestions on where to live?

   Jamie2887 replied to justme1972's topic in Alabama

   No ones mentioned it yet, but I live in Huntsville, it was recently on the list for one of the greatest cities to raise a family. I've lived here all my life, and absolutely LOVE it. Take a look at www.huntsvillehospital.org that is my workplace, H...

8. This is not my job?!?

   Jamie2887 replied to Ally0981's topic in General Nursing

   A techs job?? From my understand YOU are the tech while you are the nursing student...I am also a nursing student, and in clinical, we do the Tech's job, we bath the patient, assist them with their ADL's...and I have cleaned many poop off floors, bed...

9. Do YOU answer call lights in a hospital?

   Jamie2887 replied to JHansen's topic in General Nursing

   I didn't read every single post, but so far I havn't seen anyone with a system like ours...so this "call light" thing seems odd to me. We have a central station at our hospital where whenever the patient presses their nurse button, it gets sent ther...

10. Is it possible to get married while going through Nursing School????

    Jamie2887 replied to TexasGirl24's topic in General Students

    I know 2 girls that are in my current class (4th semester of 5) and both failed out last year due to trying to plan weddings, and had to rejoin my class this summer. So I would advise against it, unless your planning something very small that wouldn...

11. ERI for Jeff State

    Jamie2887 replied to YGPHNM's topic in Alabama

    In Calhoun's program, ERI is not just one exam at the end, you take them your entire 2 years in the program, you take an online exam, much like a nursing school exam, multiple choice, its timed, and if you score poorely, you listen to lectures on the...

12. Calhoun Community College LPN Program

    Jamie2887 replied to Hanekins's topic in Alabama

    ktaylor, every year is completely different, depending on who applies, the total points flucuate greatly, I cannot remember the points accepted when I applied, but the cut off was pretty high for the RN program, and alot of people from my biology cla...

13. Calhoun Community College LPN Program

    Jamie2887 replied to Hanekins's topic in Alabama

    Hankins, I know school has started for you now, but still, if you have ANY questions at all, feel free to send me a message, I am in Calhoun's RN program 4th semester out of 5, due to graduate in May. I know i was really nervous this time last year ...

14. Calhoun LPN Reading?

    Jamie2887 replied to Hanekins's topic in Alabama

    I was in your shoes 1 year ago, we start our second year tomorrow. First off, if you ever have any questions, feel free to send me a message, i'll even give you my email, because i know how you feel, I was so nervous when we first started and would ...

15. Pathophysiology book recommendation?

    Jamie2887 replied to AtomicWoman's topic in General Students

    I recently bought "pathophysiology made incredibly easy 4th edition", you can find it at Amazon, and Books a million, its a GREAT book, and it'll help you understand things and be ahead before you start, lots of good colorful pictures and diagrams al...