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   You Know You're A Nurse If...

   colta replied to Joe V's topic in Humor

   Not a nurse yet, just a student but.... When you're watching an abdominal surgery being performed around lunch-time and all you and your fellow student/nurse can think of is how much different pieces of anatomy look like weird versions of food. (Hys...
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   For those going to 2nd semester--what will u do differently?

   colta replied to UumiNurseX's topic in General Students

   What I had done last semester seemed to work out fairly well for me. That being said... there are a few things I would do a bit differently. -start studying earlier than 2-3 days before the test/final... while it did work out and I made excellent gr...
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   First Clinical - Feel totally lost.

   colta replied to colta's topic in General Students

   Thanks for all of the kind words everyone. I did speak with my clinical instructor, and she was really great in helping me set goals and answering questions that I had about how things work and what to do. I felt my clinical day today was much bette...
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   First Clinical - Feel totally lost.

   colta posted a topic in General Students

   Hey all, this is somewhat of a vent, but more of a plea for guidance. My class is currently in our first clinical. We're in nursing homes caring for geriatric patients and this is our first time out into the real world after a semester of theory and ...
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   Yay! First Semester is over!!

   colta replied to colta's topic in General Students

   Well, as far as this semester goes we were slammed with courses. We had six different classes a week, 8:30am to 4pm, plus lab... where we went over all the skills necessary for our clinical. So, I guess they just decided to lump our clinical all into...
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   Yay! First Semester is over!!

   colta posted a topic in General Students

   Hi all! I just wanted to celebrate a bit... I've finally made it through my first semester of nursing school! ... My exams are all done and over with and now we're on to two weeks of clinical! The clinical group I'm going with is going to a local se...
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   What's your school's cut-off for passing?

   colta replied to cobee's topic in General Students

   I'm in an LPN course and it's 75% to pass.
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   Nursing school requires projects, writing, research, speech???

   colta replied to Darkpk55's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Hi... I'm a current nursing student. I don't really know anything about the TEAS, as my school didn't require it. But as far as research, writing papers, speeches and doing projects go... yeah, you will get those in nursing school. I'm in an LPN prog...
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   For Fun--Kudos 2 Me...The "toot your own horn" thread

   colta replied to tammy1974's topic in General Students

   This is probably going to sound banana's but....... So far I've made 102% and 108% on the first two A&P test of my lpn program! (after bonus marks of course).... I've never, ever, ever, ever made that good of marks... I know that the grades don't...
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    Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    colta replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    Something I would love to say to a fellow student would be to stop grabbing my notes and knocking me out of my seat when you want to see what I've written... if you can't even make the effort to pay attention and take your own notes, you sure as heck...
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    Two Days in... and Overwhelmed

    colta posted a topic in LPN/LVN Students

    Hey all... I've been lurking around for a while now, and finally got to get a start on my end goal of becoming a nurse. My 18 month LPN program just started this past Tuesday.... and I'm already overwhelmed!! We received some homework for today, chap...
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    First Day Jitters

    colta replied to alwayschanging's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    I managed to fix up my student loan issues... so now, I'll be able to get my books before class starts on Monday (tomorrow!!). I'm starting to get nervous and excited and jumpy and all those other things. I've been driving my husband crazy from all m...
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    usually, how long into the program do clinicals start?

    colta replied to uglybetty1's topic in General Students

    I'm in an 18 month LPN course starting tomorrow... We start skills labs the first week of school and then our clinicals start the last 4 weeks of the semester.
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    First Day Jitters

    colta replied to alwayschanging's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    I start the same day as you do. I've been having first day jitters for the past week or so... It's been aggravated by the fact that my student loan won't be coming in until 3-5 days AFTER school starts... so, I've been kind of freaking out. I won't ...
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    What books did you have to get?

    colta replied to Kaychell's topic in General Students

    For my LPN course, these are the books we have to have for first semester. Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques - 7th Edition - Text and DVD Skills Performance Checklists Manual of Nursing Practice 9th Edition (freaking huge book!) Caring for t...