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1. Got my ATT!!!

   EyesForward replied to lilome's topic in NCLEX

   I should be getting my ATT any day now, and I am really getting the jitters. Did you select your own test date, or were you assigned one? I am hoping to schedule my exam around the first week in Feb., but no sooner, since I need the time to review....

2. NCLEX Review via MP3

   EyesForward posted a topic in General Students

   Does anybody know of a way to listen and study using an MP3 player? I would spend more time walking and exercising if I could be listening to an NCLEX review at the same time. I have heard of the MedStrong Audio NCLEX review, but would like to hear...

3. Can a 1st Semester Student work as a Tech?

   EyesForward replied to PickMePlze's topic in General Students

   It comes down entirely to the policy of the hospital to which you are applying. Here, some hospitals call them nurse interns, others call them nurse techs or nurse associates. Some hire after semester one, some after semester two. Either way, you ...

4. My first dead guy

   EyesForward replied to EyesForward's topic in General Students

   Jesus...that itself is haunting.

5. My first dead guy

   EyesForward replied to EyesForward's topic in General Students

   Hi Kathy! I hope your summer's going OK too! We are SO coming around that last stretch. I don't know about you, but I want the hat, the pin, works, and soon. See you in a couple weeks!

6. The Hospital - A Place of Danger?

   EyesForward posted a topic in General Students

   When I was a kid my mom gave us a bath before going to the doctor, and all she had to do was look at us a certain way for us to sit on the paper-covered table in quiet and reverent obedience. So, it never occurred to me the sort of barbaric behaviou...

7. My first dead guy

   EyesForward posted a topic in General Students

   Well, it took me this long (graduate in Dec.) to get my first dead guy. I am a nurse tech in PICU and ER, and yesterday a guy came in with EMS doing CPR on a 74-yr old. He died, and the nurse invited me in to remove his et tube after the family was...

8. My Aching Feet!

   EyesForward replied to TINAMARIE28's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I also have an expensive pair of Dansko's collecting dust in the corner. They were too hard for me too, but then my sister turned me on to Merrell's, and I have been floating on a cloud ever since. I have several pair now for all occasions, beach e...

9. is RUE a mistake?

   EyesForward replied to deegale's topic in Online Learning

   Two of you mentioned free study guides from Excelsior. Can you tell me where to get them? I have a friend who wanted the RUE study guides, but does not have the $$$. Thank you!

10. so...any pointers on decent paying jobs to fill up wait list period?

    EyesForward replied to AstrelONE's topic in General Students

    I took a phlebotomy course which took about 6 weeks, one night per week, pluse 40 hours of unpaid internship. It helped me immensely in being comfortable with the hospital setting, approaching patients, doing hands on work, and of course sticking pe...

11. kind of job for future nursing student

    EyesForward replied to carlarenee02's topic in Student Assist

    How about a job as a hospital unit secretary? It's a good way to get experience reading charts and adding orders, which you'll have to know how to do as a nurse. You've said you have clerical experience, so you probably can get a job w/o too much m...

12. Any nurses with plantar fasciitis?

    EyesForward replied to RedSox33RN's topic in General Nursing

    I also had PF and am a runner, until I got orthotics from my footo guy for my running shoes, and bought a pair of Merrell's by recommendation. I have so many pairs of Merrell's now for casual, work, beach, etc., and they are truly unbelievable comfo...

13. How To Say No

    EyesForward replied to EyesForward's topic in General Nursing

    OK, I see I need to toughen up! But...has anybody experienced any repercussions for saying no, such as negative feedback during evaluation time for "not being a team player", and so on? Thanks everybody whose answered so far. Cool answers, especia...

14. The "Teach a Student Something-a-Day" thread!

    EyesForward replied to agent's topic in General Students

    here are a few: once you've mastered basic skills don't let them slip away from you until the moment is critical. for example, a whole group of 2nd semester nursing students was crowded around a patient for wound care last fall. the student perform...

15. Please Recommend A Critical Care Book

    EyesForward posted a topic in CCU

    I graduate in December, and have heard the textbook we use for critical care is not too swift. Can you recommend a book that comes to the point and gives you the gouge on critical care nursing? I'd like to find something on the shorter, but more di...