twois

twois has 2 years experience and specializes in Neuro ICU.

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1. Do most schools look at the last 60hrs?

   twois replied to kbl7td's topic in SRNA

   All of the schools I applied to looked at both my cumulative (which was honestly terrible - like a 2.9 - due to a lot of issues that are all very old now) and my last 60 credits aka my ABSN GPA (which was a 3.9). They also looked at my science GPA as...

2. The right BSN school? The right 1st job?

   twois replied to MeiLana's topic in SRNA

   Agreed with all of the above. I started in the ICU straight out of school and was glad I did; I would have been insanely frustrated with the low acuity of the floor. The ICU has a large learning curve, but if you're truly the CRNA type, you'll be hap...

3. % of people failing your program?

   twois replied to woahmelly's topic in General Students

   Wow. We started with 62 and ended with 62. I'd be shocked if we lost anyone along the way to graduation, to be honest. I don't know that our program ever has asked someone to leave due to academics more than once or twice. (Hooray for competitive AB...

4. Giving Thank you gifts

   twois replied to Hopeful3's topic in General Students

   Our clinical group all chipped in for a GC to a restaurant for our CI... I don't think it was that weird, considering the semester was over, grades were in, and it's really something to take a group of complete newbies under your wing in a patient ca...

5. LPN students have to give bed baths to classmates?!

   twois replied to Namine's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   I'm surprised at how many people are so offended by the idea. We just finished doing physical assessment and had to do our head-to-toe exams on each other in a sports bra and shorts (and will be doing bed baths in the same, or a swimsuit, in a week o...

6. Nursing career and Crohn's Disease

   twois replied to twois's topic in General Nursing

   That's true. What I'm going through now is a full-on flare that I ignored for days assuming it was something viral that would pass; hopefully in the future I can recognize this sooner and take evasive action if possible. I have to hope they won't all...

7. Nursing career and Crohn's Disease

   twois replied to twois's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks, guys. :) This was really encouraging to hear.

8. Nursing career and Crohn's Disease

   twois posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey, everyone. I'm wondering if any of you out there are working nurses with Crohn's disease. I am - get this - two weeks into my ABSN program, and just spent three days in the hospital culminating with a diagnosis of Crohn's. (I was joking with the...

9. How do you take notes for class, anyway?

   twois replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Students

   With the laptop thing - you can pick up a netbook nowadays for $200-250, and they're so small and portable that you can basically close it and toss it in your purse while running around campus. I still prefer my 15" notebook for working on, but if I'...

10. Duke ABSN Spring 2011

    twois replied to SandyH's topic in North Carolina

    It's RAD. I'm coming from FL, so I'm used to $200-300 in the summer and when it gets cold (like it did this January) we hit $450 in a townhouse because all anyone has down there are the heat pumps that work down 'till about 50 degrees then start runn...

11. Duke ABSN Spring 2011

    twois replied to SandyH's topic in North Carolina

    Just as an FYI for those wanting to live near campus... check out University Apartments (I live here, full disclosure!). It's just over one mile from my door to the nursing school, plus I'm on a bus route directly to there and two blocks from a free ...

12. The HRSA Nursing Scholarship

    twois replied to Rags2Riches RN's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Yeah, I know, I just didn't feel like calculating it. :)

13. The HRSA Nursing Scholarship

    twois replied to Rags2Riches RN's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Uh... not sure... whatever a 3.4 across 60 credits (my first degree GPA) plus a 4.0 across 20 more (prereqs) works out to be. Probably a 3.4 or 3.5ish.

14. The HRSA Nursing Scholarship

    twois replied to Rags2Riches RN's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I'm kind of confused as to how "never updated any information on the list" automatically means she may have screwed up. What if the person's an alternate? What if there's no processing and updating to be done right now? Maybe she hasn't updated any i...

15. Duke ABSN Spring 2011

    twois replied to SandyH's topic in North Carolina

    Chapel Hill is 7+ miles from campus and the main corridor between the two is a nightmare at anything remotely resembling peak traffic time. The rest of NC seems terrified of Durham but it's actually quite a fantastic little city, the crime rates are ...