marjibme

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1. Research Project - Non-Traditional Students

   marjibme replied to KentuckyRN2Be's topic in General Students

   I'm pretty non-traditional too (50 - 2nd degree/career, etc.) and would be happy to answer the survey questions.

2. Springfield Hospitals?

   marjibme replied to jab3da's topic in Missouri

   There's also a couple smaller places in the area: Doctors Hospital in Springfield - Skaggs in Branson & CMH in Bolivar (both towns are about 30 minutes out of Springfield). As a student in the St. Johns program (May 2011), I'm a lot more familar...

3. Help understanding a diagnosis

   marjibme posted a topic in Student Assist

   I just got my patient assignment for in the morning. I need to write up a clinical prep with the patients diagnosis, a brief discussion of it (disease process, S/S, causes, possible complications, etc.) - a definition of the current surgery (if appli...

4. Moral of the Story

   marjibme posted a topic in General Students

   I just need to share this with someone (or several someones) who will understand. Earlier this semester, I decided to blow off a small, 5 point pharmacology assignment because I was feeling a bit crunched for time. I figured 5 points aren't going to ...

5. Urge urinary incontinence - etiology help??

   marjibme replied to marjibme's topic in Student Assist

   Daytonite (and all), Thanks again for your responses. Based on the requirements for the assignment, I felt that impaired urinary elimination was too broad a diagnosis. I did speculate on possible causes, but again, since we were limited to the data p...

6. Urge urinary incontinence - etiology help??

   marjibme replied to marjibme's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks for the reply. I went with idopathic causes since there wasn't any information in the data provided to suggest any concrete reason/cause. My brain has been at th epint of Information Saturation for a while now - but there's 2 weeks left in the...

7. Urge urinary incontinence - etiology help??

   marjibme posted a topic in Student Assist

   I could really use some help. I'm a first semester student & we're been assigned a case study (from the Evolve website - based on the Ackley Nursing Diagnosis Handbook). Outside of a mention of the nursing process during the 2nd weeks lecture in ...

8. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

   marjibme replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Humor

   We were visiting a good friend of ours, a pastor, who came down with alll the S/S of a terrible head cold on Saturday night. He decided to "medicate" himself with a dose of Nyquil and preach his Sunday morning sermon anyway. AT the appropriate time,...

9. Welcome to the Missouri State Forum!

   marjibme replied to suebird3's topic in Missouri

   Hi! I'm a "second career" first semester student in the Springfield area. I'm originally from Chicago, but have lived here in SWMo for close to 30 years - so this is definitely "home" to me now. Nice to meet you all! Marji

10. I've gotta figure out a way to lose weight while in nursing school

    marjibme replied to scrublifenurse10's topic in General Students

    Yeah - the "Nursing School Diet and Exercise Program" is not the best way to loose weight - in fact, I put ON almost 10 pounds just doing my pre-req classes. Mi Vida offered some really great advice about packing lunch and healthy snacks. I'd also a...

11. How Far Would You Go?

    marjibme replied to OCD_Mom's topic in General Students

    Honestly, I can't think of anything that would be worth sacrificing my moral convictions. Really good programs will be still be there when the timing is better. Millions of others have found jobs and passed the NCLEX even without a "guarantee" - and ...

12. How much math is in nursing school??????

    marjibme replied to spacecitygroover's topic in General Students

    Math, especially clinical calculations, will be with you all the way through nursing school, the NCLEX and beyond. For those who are "math challenged" there's a great book available "Clinical Calculations Made Easy" that walks you through learning ho...

13. Deaf/HOH Community

    marjibme replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    while i am still a student (first semester actually) i have worked for several years as a disability advocate & ltc ombudsman. i have several friends & clients who are either hoh, deaf or deaf, and have presented workshops and in services on ...

14. I "oopsed" my Skills Return

    marjibme posted a topic in General Students

    I had my first skills return today: PO med administration, IM, ID, SubQ injections and IV insertions. I managed to pass the IV insertion skill, even though my clinical partner has the smallest, deepest veins I (or my clinical instructor for that matt...

15. St. John's in Springfield-what do you think?

    marjibme replied to ShalomRN's topic in Missouri

    Cheap (err - inexpensive) is good. There's a place near my house that sells used sets, the Springfield craigslist has a bunch for sale and there's 2 or 3 shops in town where you can get new ones, along with good ol' Wally World and Dollar General. Yo...