PlanetCaroline

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About PlanetCaroline

Attend Drexel accelerated BSN Fall 2003

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  1. Financial crunch. Need part-time job.

    Nursing type jobs paying 14-16 per hour. I would definitely work in a hospital for that kind of pay. :) My top choice for work was catering. I called a company that said they were always hiring... well, right now they aren't. Catering work has s...
  2. MCP Closing

    I'm a nursing student at Drexel & got an email saying that the closing of MCP will not affect med or nursing students & Drexel is committed to education, blah, blah. Of course the hospital closing won't affect med & nursing education beca...
  3. Financial crunch. Need part-time job.

    I need to find a job to pay my rent & food bill. Everything else is covered with my college loan & credit cards. I'm in an accelerated BSN program so it takes up time. My schedule is like this: Mon & Tues: Class 8am - 5pm Wed, Thur...
  4. Thread that might scare new students

    So....I'm breaking up with my S.O. & am moving in freezing February into a new place. That will be in the middle of my semester of accelerated nursing school. And I'm thinking, "The pain of the break up and chilly move will at distract me from t...
  5. Not a huge Will & Grace fan, but am loving Jack in nursing school. I love it for these reasons: Instead of getting dumb blond & bimbo jokes, the show using humor related to nursing. How bout Jack using his skills to get dates. "I'm Jack...
  6. Why can't I be a nurse?

    When I was 21, I ordered an alcoholic beverage and the bartender looked at me and gasped, "I can't serve you. You must be 13." At the time I was hurt and embarrassed. Now that I am over 30, I have noticed that people in their 20's look really young...
  7. Feeling like a number

    I went to college before Power Point & email, so maybe I'm behind the times & need your help. It seems at my school, the one-on-one individualized component to teaching is missing. Examples: 1) My 5-page personal essay on life history that ...
  8. Doing dishes

    I feel your pain about dishes. There were times I had to throw dishes out because they were such disgusting experiments in mold culturing. One thing does work for me... MUSIC Band: New Order Album: Substance (1987) I played the B side of this reco...
  9. I had a panic attack at clinical last night...

    See a psychiatrist to get treatment for your panic attack right away. I never got proper treatment for my panic attacks (started when I was 14) & as a result I have developed phobias of places where I often panic (on highways and airplanes). On...
  10. Nurse Strike at MCP/Hahnemann???

    Thanks for the info. I am a nursing student at Hahnemann (now Drexel University) and will try to talk to any picketers about the situation this week. After all, my nursing school is attached to Hahnemann Hospital. Talk about being on the front line...
  11. Nurse Strike at MCP/Hahnemann???

    Heard a rumor about a nurse strike happening at MCP/Hahnemann on Tuesday November 11th. Did a Google search and found nothing, so I am asking if it true and any details. Anyone willing to supply some info? Thanks. --Caroline
  12. First Clinical Day

    7:15 am, I meet my very first patient. She's paging the nursing staff so she can get off the john & that is how we meet. Over the next 2+ hours, we do am care together. I make mistakes in absolutely everything I did. Bedmaking (unoccupied, whi...
  13. Genetics problems

    Punnett squares, what fun. I have a genetics midterm next week. I remember learning this stuff in high school bio & the thing that I remember the most is.... Because most genetics probs use the Punnett square, most answers are in increments of o...
  14. Medical school/Nursing school

    I know I made the right decision choosing nursing over being a doctor. I wanted a profession that challenged me emotionally, physically, and intellectually & nursing fits the bill. Also, I like the idea that I do different things in nursing li...
  15. I missed the whole day of school today...burn out.

    I hear you. Remember you are human and have limits. School shouldn't be your number 1 priority-- YOU should be your number 1 priority. Marital strife is consider one of the greatest stresses in life, up there with the death of a parent. It sounds...