twins2005

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1. Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

   twins2005 replied to brownhairedgal's topic in General Students

   I think your instructor will understand the modesty part, but ask her privately if other arrangements can be made ahead of time.......don't make a big deal of it and I imagine they will be more than accomadating. Good luck! PS. It's really not that b...

2. how many classmates dropped in your first semester?

   twins2005 replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Students

   My class had 20 to start, 1 never made it to orientation, 1 where her father was very sick (he was the primary caregiver when she was working/school) 1 just a few weeks ago, 1 is in serious danger of failing. We are adding an LPN to the group after J...

3. Unreasonable family members in the nursing home?

   twins2005 replied to TreehuggerRN's topic in General Nursing

   Those people are the ones I hope end up being in a nursing home. I worked as a CNA for over 18 years and dealt with that kind of family all the time. I imagine it comes from the guilt of having mom or pop in a home to begin with, or maybe 'cause mom ...

4. I wish I had studied this before Nursing 101.......

   twins2005 posted a topic in General Students

   I will be starting school in the fall & want to plan ahead, so what do you wish you had studied a little more before you started Nursing 101? I am an older student, out of school for a while & have not taken any math courses since 1992. I am ...

5. Nursing School Acceptance Letters for this FALL

   twins2005 replied to GGT1's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I just got my letter from Ellis Hospital School of Nursing for the fall of 2009! I am thrilled!

6. Any Hints for Microbiology "Unknown"?

   twins2005 replied to twins2005's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Thanks a lot for the websites, they are very helpful! As for this, we only have lab 1 day a week, we only have 3 weeks to do it. We have to streak plate, and do all the other tests that have to be incubated, tonight-it's a 3 hour lab. Next week we h...

7. Any Hints for Microbiology "Unknown"?

   twins2005 posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

   We are starting our "unknown" lab this week and we each will get 2 types of bacteria that we need to identify on our own. I plan on doing a gram stain for each, then do streak plates w/selective media. Does anyone have any hints? I did find a websit...

8. Family crises and NS

   twins2005 replied to Hotflashn's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I hope his recovery is fast. I would try to finish out, you could retake if necessary. Good luck

9. Statistics prerequisite

   twins2005 replied to CAguyinMO's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I am taking Stats as my "easy A" class this semester. It really is not hard, as long as you can do simple math and use a calculator. Most formulas can be written down for tests, my proffessor just wants to see if we can get the placement of the data ...