Koala33

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1. School and Life

   Koala33 replied to ChaeF's topic in General Students

   What you have said is not entirely accurate, unless I'm misinterpreting what you are saying. My sister is a nursing student at Penn State. They have updated their facilities to include a state of the art simulator lab. This semester, she is taking Mi...

2. Nurses Going to Med School

   Koala33 replied to freakjojo06's topic in General Students

   I don't know that I was clear in my original post... so I'm going to go through this and clarify some things. No, these weren't the requirements at all. I'm not sure what you mean by 200 level and 300 level (my school didn't have them). Organic Ch...

3. Nurses Going to Med School

   Koala33 replied to freakjojo06's topic in General Students

   I was a pre-med who switched to nursing, not because the pre-med course curriculum was too much for me, but because I realized that the work and lifestyle of nursing suited me more than medicine. After 3 years at my first undergraduate institution, ...

4. How did you decide where you wanted to go to nursing school?

   Koala33 replied to Ted D's topic in General Students

   I applied to schools with ABSN programs that had high NCLEX pass rates in cities where I thought it'd be nice to live. I had about 5 schools on my list throughout the East Coast (mostly in the northeast) because I was paranoid that I'd be rejected, t...

5. Who's moving to another city/out of state for Nursing School?

   Koala33 replied to Cherish's topic in General Students

   I'm moving over 150 miles away from all of my family, my boyfriend, and my boyfriend's family, at some point in August, and I don't have a car. And I don't really know anybody in the city that I'm moving to yet (although eventually I will be joined b...

6. A&P in high school vs. A&P in college...

   Koala33 replied to nocheapones's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Bring colored pencils or markers with you, too! If you don't get Powerpoint slides and your teacher draws out a lot of diagrams, colorcoding will become a fast friend of yours. I was gently teased for the first few weeks of my A&P 1 class for bri...

7. A&P in high school vs. A&P in college...

   Koala33 replied to nocheapones's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I took A&P in high school, and now I'm taking it four years later in college. A&P in high school is definitely a lot more basic, with less emphasis on the chemical aspects. My class in high school gave me a great foundation in anatomical dire...

8. Nursing Tuition off the Chain!! Need Help!!

   Koala33 replied to JoI8815's topic in General Students

   Apply for outside scholarships. Trying looking at www.fastweb.com and http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/financialaid.htm. FastWeb has nursing scholarships, but you can look based on other criteria (such as race, ethnicity, gender, etc.) as well. Hav...

9. Reading alot of posts discussing "A" nursing students vs "C" nursing students

   Koala33 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

   There's nothing wrong with being an A student. Or a B student. C's across the board is a little questionable, especially if there's no effort involved. I wouldn't want somebody to be my nurse if they're not trying their best. Would you want an averag...

10. Reading alot of posts discussing "A" nursing students vs "C" nursing students

    Koala33 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Being an A student doesn't mean that one has a type A personality and/or health problems. One can have a type A personality and be a B/C student in nursing school. I don't really think that you can equate personality type with grades and mastery of m...

11. Would You Prefer a Male Nurse?

    Koala33 replied to djc1981's topic in Male Students

    I did not call you ignorant, I said that "this" ("this" being the statement, not you) seemed ignorant. There is a difference. The only reason I said that was because you said that you "don't have to worry about that with a woman", that = being flirte...

12. Reading alot of posts discussing "A" nursing students vs "C" nursing students

    Koala33 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Were you trying to be ironic here? You just stereotyped all of the A students by saying that all of them stereotype in a blanket statement. That's pretty ridiculous.

13. Being a dorm Resident Assistant while in Nursing school...

    Koala33 replied to Trilldayz,RN BSN's topic in General Students

    I was an RA for 1.5 years when I was doing all of my pre-requisites for nursing school with the intention to enter an accelerated 2nd degree BSN program after graduating, so my experiences aren't exactly like what yours will be, but I'm sure we can r...

14. Would You Prefer a Male Nurse?

    Koala33 replied to djc1981's topic in Male Students

    I find this a little ignorant. You are essentially ignoring the fact that a homosexual population exists in the health care profession by saying that you don't have to worry about a provider of the same sex flirting with you.

15. Would You Prefer a Male Nurse?

    Koala33 replied to djc1981's topic in Male Students

    I don't care about the sex of the individual, as long as the care delivered is professional, competent, and sympathetic to my needs. I can name health care professionals of both sexes that have delivered great quality care to me when I have needed it...