rhondanruss replied to Cilantrophobe's topic in Virginia
I completely feel your pain, I entered the nursing program as an LPN because I thought I would get into the program quicker and decided to work on my last 3 pre-requisites along with nursing, well after taking a trip to my counselor I was advised tha...
rhondanruss replied to rhondanruss's topic in New Nurse
Wow a book of any sort would be nice at this point..lol I have Saunders and of course all of my text books, its just frightening. I better get to studying the test is 10/30 ugh!!!! Rhonda
rhondanruss replied to rhondanruss's topic in New Nurse
Thanks for your advice, however we do not have any type of reference for ATI, I really wasn't aware of their existence:cry:. We were only told to study every thing we had learned thus far, which really bothers me that's a years worth of work and I am...
Hello I am currently enrolled in the RN program and in our program the LPN and RN work the exact same program until the LPN exit and the RN just continues on. Well I have 2 weeks left until the LPN class exits and we are facing an ATI test! I have ab...
rhondanruss replied to cokeforbreakfast's topic in General Students
Oh, I forgot to say.... we did start out with adults, children was much later in fact Peds is given towards the end of the LPN program so you get the experience before exiting because that is who gives all of the immunizations in clinics. But just a ...
rhondanruss replied to cokeforbreakfast's topic in General Students
Yes we did immunizations, but it wasn't like we were "practicing on them," we did many simulations beforehand and we had to tell the CI before entering the room every site and step, procedure, etc.We have to start somewhere or otherwise we would neve...
rhondanruss replied to cokeforbreakfast's topic in General Students
Wow that seems pretty harsh considering you are only one month into the nursing program and for you to begin giving 8 meds seems unreal! Just take your time and focus you will do just fine, and look at the bright side here, I BET YOU WON'T FORGET TO ...
Hello I am currently enrolled in the RN program and in our program the LPN and RN work the exact same program until the LPN exit and the RN just continues on. Well I have 2 weeks left until the LPN class exits and we are facing an ATI test! I have ab...
My suggestion would be to just RELAX! I can relate to those feelings of doom when you walk into a patient's room. I am in a program that every 5 weeks we change clinical sites, my first clinical was in the Nursing Home and I thought I would just die ...