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1. Pharmacology vs Medical Terminology Class

   ImmerStudent replied to FaithnFocus's topic in Illinois

   Woh! No question! Take the pharm course! Take TWO if you can! Medical terminology will be included in your first (and all subsequent) nursing courses. I read my textbooks with a small nursing dictionary at my side. It's easy to just lookup the wo...

2. Parkland College in C-U, IL

   ImmerStudent replied to jv-thompson's topic in Illinois

   Yes, the LPN program is relative new (started in Jan 2008, I think), but it has some advantages over the RN program. o You get a full 3-semester hour pharmacy course, not just 1-semester hour in the RN program. o It is a much smaller program than R...

3. Advice for new student

   ImmerStudent replied to Bo Shoi Ming's topic in Male Students

   If you're mainly after the grade, then you'll have to contact the department or the instructor teaching the course, and get a list of structures (bones, muscles, etc) they want you to know. There might be 50 bones and bony structures, or there might...

4. Advice for new student

   ImmerStudent replied to Bo Shoi Ming's topic in Male Students

   Well, you could get an older edition of Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology, but it's much, much more than you'd need in A&P. Is your anatomy class taught as a separate class from physiology? If so, you should really ask the PHYSIOLOGY teac...

5. Most useful nursing pre-req course?

   ImmerStudent replied to Faye1's topic in Male Students

   A year of freshman chemistry is good; I think usually just one semester of chem for nurses is required. I've got all the prereqs out of the way, so I have time to take organic chem my first year as a NS. I'd rather take pathology, but it's not offe...

6. jealousy/avoidance of top students?

   ImmerStudent replied to queenjane's topic in General Nursing

   Then there are the people who study their butts off, but always in secret, so they can claim "Oh, I never study, I just remember what was said in class." ... Trying to impress everyone with their "natural" academic abilities.

7. jealousy/avoidance of top students?

   ImmerStudent replied to queenjane's topic in General Nursing

   There's usually not much interaction among students except in lab classes at my school. But when I walk into lab on the first day of class I can usually spot the "smart" students at a glance and arrange to be their lab partners/primary reference per...

8. What's your school's acceptance rate?

   ImmerStudent posted a topic in General Students

   I see a lot of mentions of nursing school entering classes of 40-50 students, selected from 400 applications, of which about 25 students eventually graduate. These numbers appear so often that I'm wondering if they are an urban myth? My public commu...