NursingLadyQuinn

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1. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Med Surg! It was great. It was a transition from CNA work to Lpn work. I've given full patient care while starting IV's, d/c'g and starting foley caths, blood draws, wound care, and ng tubes! Ive done a little bit of everything and alot of IV's. I ha...

2. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   First day of I.V. Therapy was a full day of information. We went over everything, even acid/base. So much material leading up to the procedure of venipuncture, but it did help in the understanding. Today I went to my selected clinical site and attemp...

3. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Thank you enchantress! Ok so today was the last day of clinical in the geriatric site.Tuesday was our last day of geriatric theory. We had a final Tuesday and my overall theory grade was an A. Today I found out my clinical average was was a high B. I...

4. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Thank you Ivaiav. I truly appreciate it and I'm glad my experiences are helping others like you. That's why I wrote this forum because when I was making my decision to start lpn school there was only one other forum like this one and it helped me soo...

5. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Geriatrics clinical: It's fun! I finally get to care for patients and be hands on. And all the practice on our dummies really helped. So a day in clinical starts out in pre conference. This is were I get my assigned patients rm number and the drug in...

6. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   So we were tuaght med math on Thursday. Had test 1 on Friday..were taught even more math..then took our final that following Monday. Med math. I passed it! With an 92 % A. ME!..MISS BAD AT MATH passed med math. I was so happy as you can see. So what ...

7. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   ashleys: don't be scared!! It's really fun because it's exactly what you want to do. It's to the point without all that extra hoopla most majors make you go through before you can get to the meat and potatoes! Right now I'm in Nurtition. We went thro...

8. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Ok. I passed anatomy and physioolgy! Now on to nurtrition! So far we hav been learning about vitamins and such. Not too much on the first day but it is alot of stuff to remember. Clinicals start in two weeks. I have to pass nutrition and med math the...

9. My Year of Lpn School

   NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   I have made it to anatomy and physiology! It's hard. I won't lie. There just soo much more information in this section. We have covered all but 3 chapters of the book in one week. We have already had two test and our third is this Monday. Our final i...

10. My Year of Lpn School

    NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    FUNKYOOSTER: NO...I appreciate your higher knowledge. I think we all do! Thanks for writing...and please give more advise!

11. My Year of Lpn School

    NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    ADRIANE: I have been in college since i graduated highschool and I can tell you that nursing school is a bit different ...alot different..the material...the way its taught and the way you have to train yourself to learn. Figure out your learning styl...

12. LPN ATI

    NursingLadyQuinn replied to sandypalma's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    yes i just took my first set of ati modules for my course. it was..different. the questions were what i'm used to on the test we take in our course but they focused on more situational things. therefore if you don't know the processes or the backgrou...

13. My Year of Lpn School

    NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    hair 303... don't worry! I may make it sound hard on here because I am typically wrapping up days into one so you guys can get an idea of everything..don't get me wrong this is the hardest thing I have gotten myself into in awhile. But it's all about...

14. My Year of Lpn School

    NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    My program is 12 months long. What you can do to get a leg up?...I would get a nursing math made incredibly easy book and start looking through fractions and decimals if you have been out of school awhile. I have been in college since highschool but ...

15. My Year of Lpn School

    NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    No. I am taking an program at a local college in Louisiana. It's a 12 month program.