ranidays

ranidays has 1 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg.

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1. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   ranidays replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   These ratios are TERRIFYING oh my gosh. I work on a 38 bed med/surg unit (focus on nephrology/urology pts and we take vents from ICU) in a mid-sized hospital in ND. Our ratios are 3-4:1 on days and evenings; 5:1 on nights (with the occasional 6:1 if ...

2. Level 4 stand up!!!

   ranidays replied to NSGstudent12's topic in General Students

   Just started out my last semester yesterday! Have public health and adult health III until the end of March, then practicum for five weeks! Graduate May 12th! SO EXCITED TO BE ALMOST DONE!!!!! Hope everyone has a wonderful and sane (don't we all wish...

3. Things You Know Now (And Wish You'd Known Then!)

   ranidays replied to x_factor's topic in General Students

   Some of these may have already been stated, but this is my list :) 1. As many people on here have already said, nursing school is EXPENSIVE. Let's just say when I first started nursing school (now in my last semester!), I was flabbergasted at the amo...

4. Do you remember???

   ranidays replied to K nurse-one-day's topic in General Students

   I was terrified when I received my letter... they straight out told us at an information meeting that if we got in, it would be in a big brown envelope, and if we didn't it would just be a letter....... so I check my mail, and I receive a small brown...

5. Nursing School Must Haves??

   ranidays replied to Servingshots's topic in General Students

   A planner, preferably a giant one because you'll take up lots of space:lol2: I personally LOOOOOOOOVE sticky notes. I'm obsessed. If it's not on a sticky note somewhere visible, I'll forget. I'm so unorganized so this really helps. Last, but not leas...

6. What grade is "passing" in your nursing school??

   ranidays replied to blessed2bfree's topic in General Students

   Ours is a 75%, but most professors will negotiate if it's a 74.5-75.

7. 700 pages of reading, per week, for one class

   ranidays replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Students

   I really get a kick out of how some professors think the excessive reading assigned is actually DOABLE. I have a prof this upcoming semester who seems pretty hardcore, but I don't think she'd do that to us, haha. I would seriously cry if I was assign...

8. Help with a Health Promotion Project

   ranidays replied to plumstethoscope's topic in General Students

   We just did a project like this too! We didn't have to do an actual presentation, we just did poster boards and set them up in clusters for people in the nursing/pharmacy building to come check out and ask us questions about. Our group did swine flu ...

9. What color are your school uniforms?

   ranidays replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

   We haven't actually gotten our uniforms yet, but I've seen a pic. White scrub top with the school logo, green scrub pants, lab coat. I was pleasantly surprised though, I was worried they would do something horrifically ridiculous since our school col...

10. Did your nursing program require letters of recommendation?

    ranidays replied to Ted D's topic in General Students

    My BSN program required two reference letters, which was basically a sheet with a checklist on it, rating the student 1 to 5 (1 being bad, 5 being superb) on our qualities, such as compassion, humility, yada yada. They could write an actual letter, t...

11. What type of Chemistry did you take?

    ranidays replied to laughoutloud8's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Tinediddy- My biochem book (which I still have cuz the bookstore didn't want it apparently...haha) is called General, Organic and Biochemistry (8th edition) by Bettelheim, Brown, Campbell and Farrell. If this is your book, it helped me a LOT for my b...

12. For all of you that have gotten accepted already

    ranidays replied to amandabrown23's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Our minimum for both cumulative GPA and the GPA of the prereqs was 3.0, but the dean of the nursing school straight up told me that they really only look into your app if you have higher than a 3.6 in your prereqs (I know, they're picky, haha). I had...

13. Taking A&P I Fall 2009?

    ranidays replied to Hoping2BeStudent2010's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Oh my, some of these schedules make me want to cry just looking at them! I thought my 15 credits of classes made me cringe, but yikes! But HEY, at least we got each other to complain to when we're crammin' last minute for that dang A&P exam, righ...

14. Who else is having fun with school supplies?

    ranidays replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

    HAHAHA, I thought I was a weirdo for loving the smell of new paper and books. YAY FOR FRESH PAPER SMELL!

15. Who else is having fun with school supplies?

    ranidays replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

    AHH! I found my homeeeeee in this thread! I once again went to Walmart today, sans money, as I currently have zilch in my bank account, and proceeded to wander yet again JUST to see if they had anything new that I missed a few weeks ago (they didn't!...