stef77

stef77 has 2 years experience.

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1. Specialty shoe stores in Massachusetts?

   stef77 replied to Pavolga's topic in Massachusetts

   I live in Weymouth and the Clog Shop has a HUGE selection! Scruby's in Brockton doesn't have nearly the selection....that where my nursing school required us to purchase our graduation dresses from and I was expecting a bigger variety.

2. Where to look after less than 2 years experience?

   stef77 replied to stef77's topic in Massachusetts

   I would love to work per diem there. It's so difficult to get in and now that they have earned magnet status they "strongly prefer" BSN. Hopefully once I have mine I'll be able to get in there. I live less than 10min away.

3. Where to look after less than 2 years experience?

   stef77 posted a topic in Massachusetts

   I graudated in May of 2011 with my ADN. I'm 4 classes away from my BSN. I had been working on a med/surg floor at the hospital associated with my nursing school from Jan 2011 (6 month precepting program before graduation) until this past fall. I had ...

4. Need help to find an article in a nursing journal?

   stef77 replied to stef77's topic in General Students

   thanks for the links and suggestions. i'll try checking with our librarian!

5. Need help to find an article in a nursing journal?

   stef77 posted a topic in General Students

   We have a paper due at the begining of June and it has to deal with pharmacology in any aspect and the teacher said to "look online at the nursing journals and just pick one". I tried googling a few different things but I'm not finding any current ar...

6. Had my very first clinical today!

   stef77 replied to stef77's topic in General Students

   thanks. that's a good idea to let the charge nurse know what i'm assigned to do with her pt.

7. What is your grading/test criteria at YOUR school?

   stef77 replied to justme1972's topic in General Students

   for our nursing classes we have to have a 77 to pass and they don't round up. There are 4 people from last year that failed with a 76.whatever. It's tricky because there are only 3 exams and 1 final. The exams count for 60% and the final is the other...

8. Had my very first clinical today!

   stef77 replied to stef77's topic in General Students

   Thanks everyone I'm sure it will work out and I'll just have to be assertive and when the meanie nurse says "i don't need you to do blah blah" i'll say "well what CAN I do to help you". Since this is only my first semester we can't administer meds s...

9. Had my very first clinical today!

   stef77 posted a topic in General Students

   We didn't do any patient care, just toured the hospital and the floor we'll be on. Before hand the instructor did mention that some of the nurses are "less friendly" than others and boy she wasn't kidding!! It was 9 students and 2 instructors and ins...

10. Welcome nurses from Massachusetts!

    stef77 replied to Ted's topic in Massachusetts

    Another Mass native saying hi :) I just started my RN program in August and love it so far. I'm going to Brockton Hospital School of Nursing (in Brockton, of course). They have an excellent NCLEX pass rate so I'm sure I'm going to learn everything I ...

11. Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

    stef77 replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

    Hi everyone. My name is Stef (obviously, lol) and I'm married with 3 children. We live in southeastern Mass and I'm in week 10 of my first semester of school. It's a hospital based school and so far I've learned a TON! We start clinicals on Saturday ...

12. question on vitals

    stef77 replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in General Students

    I start clinicals on Saturday and we've been taught to count the radial for 30 seconds and then keep your hand on the wrist like you are still counting but count the respirations. That way the pt dosen't know you're counting their breaths and will be...