StrugglinStuden

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About StrugglinStuden

mother, student, army wife

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  1. More Strange Baby Names

    went to school with a girl named Wendy. Not so funny, but had brother named Sonny, and sister named Misty. Daddy was local weatherman for a radio station in dallas some 15 yrs ago. myself... Daughters named Kelly Renee , and Deborah Lynn. (Debora...
  2. the ya-ya sisterhood

    1) If you love something, set it free. If it comes > back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come > back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it > just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, > eats your foo...
  3. Nursing school and children....

    I am in nursing school with a 4 yr old and 2 yr old. Hubby works 16 hr days. What I find works, is to make dinner in the morning, (I have afternoon classes) and make individual plates put in fridge. That way, when I get home from class, I can focus...
  4. Are there any Oklahoma students on board?!

    I live right outside Tulsa Ok now. I guess I like it. Hubby active army, so its a big change from Hawaii and s. california. I go to Connors State and in my 2nd semester of RN program. Im origianally from Dallas, Tx, so this (Tulsa) is closer...
  5. getting deployed

    Thank you all so much for the touching replys. Makes me tear up reading all of them. So far, we have no idea where we are going. Got anthrax and smallpox shot already... (p.s. im certified to give the smallpox too, so will probley be passing those...
  6. getting deployed

    Ok folks... Im back for now. We just got processed for deployment. I got all my shots... Anthrax, yellow fever, ect. But then, they pulled us into a room, one by one, and asked for volunteers to go. Of course, I said HELL NO!! that dont mean that...
  7. relocating

    Im an army wife in Oklahoma. Germany is an awsome place!! While I was not (nor am I yet) an RN while there, they do have very nice Military clinics/ hospitals there. Working in a civilian one is not good if you dont fluently speak German. I sugge...
  8. How far are your clinicals?

    Since our nursing school is the only one in the area , there are 3 different hospitals that we particiapte with. We are allowed to pick which one we will do our clinicals in. Each one is about 30min to an hour from the school, in different directio...
  9. Dosage calc/math for meds question

    Our instructors encourage them to the point that they have extras incase you forget yours. Their rational... drug caluclation mistakes can be FATAL!!! Even during test we use calculators. We just have to know what to plug in where. p.s. made a 1...
  10. clinical uniforms

    We, also, must have white. However, there is a store in Tulsa that will take your old white uniforms and tye-dye them or color them however you want. (For those of us that are not dye experts). I just dont see spending all that money on scrubs for...
  11. Nursing in the military ...

    I am currently in the Army Guard and am working as a nurse. Its great because the guard pays 100% of my school tuition. Bad because my teachers yell at me because the guard does things a little differntly than the teachers teach it. Being in the g...
  12. Still not smoking

    Hate to admit it, but smoking and smoke breaks are the only thing getting me through nursing school.... Oh how I long for those breaks during those really long, monotone, circa 1970 films we must endure once a week.... I did, however, make a new year...
  13. Dx'd with Pneumonia

    Fortunatly for me my hubby is active duty army. We only pay $3.00 for all scrips, no copay on dr. visits, and $ 10.00 copay on hospital stays per day. Only problem is that we are not close to a military base, so the closest dr. in the network is al...
  14. Christmas Traditions!

    I grew up with many wonderful family christmas traditions. one of my favorites was mom allowing the kids to open ONE present under the tree on christmas eve... the one she picked out for us to open always was pajamas... (maybe because she wanted us ...
  15. Why did you become a nurse?

    I want to be a nurse because its a guarnted job. My hubby is in the army and we move every 3 yrs. I learned the third move that I needed a career that is easy to transfer. No matter what state the army sends us to, I know that I will have no probl...