ruaalien2

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1. Am I over-thinking, or are these just bad test questions?

   ruaalien2 replied to chicken1's topic in General Students

   I over-think all my questions. I'm at the end of my first semester and I'm first starting to be able to stop over thinking them now. I can see why you came up with some of your answers for sure. Just remember not to over think. I take a colored pen a...

2. Should I tell my nursing school about my disorder?

   ruaalien2 replied to Harmony4All's topic in General Students

   My school also requires a drug test. I know other schools that require a background test....

3. Goodbye social life.

   ruaalien2 replied to Reach4theStars's topic in General Students

   I'm so glad my boyfriend is so understanding and supportive. It makes it so much easier to get stuff done. And when he's home and being distracting (and he really doesn't mean to)? I just go to Starbucks. I make time to see my sister weekly for dinne...

4. 30+ page care plans

   ruaalien2 replied to Boog'sCRRN246's topic in General Students

5. 30+ page care plans

   ruaalien2 replied to Boog'sCRRN246's topic in General Students

   That doesn't look as bad as ours. I'm finishing our first one now, it's a mock care plan and it's 25 pages. I'm dreading having to do a real one.

6. what textbook do you use?

   ruaalien2 replied to milksteak's topic in General Students

   Same here!

7. A time to reform nursing education?

   ruaalien2 replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

   I'm in my first semester of an ADN program and honestly, I wish we had more clinical time. I don't feel like we have enough time in the lab (we get 4 hours a week) or in clinical (1 shift of 7 hours a week, this includes pre conference, post conferen...

8. 30+ page care plans

   ruaalien2 replied to Boog'sCRRN246's topic in General Students

   We had to write a complete care plan on four major diagnosis We had to write out every single medication, understand fully, any side effects, possible interactions with other meds as well as medical condition. We had to fill out a complete assessm...

9. kingsborough NLN / MAY 2010

   ruaalien2 replied to Yazmin07's topic in New York

   I'm pretty sure we all do and we all take the same test

10. Is 50+ pages of reading a week "normal?"

    ruaalien2 replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Students

    For our first DAY of nursing classes we had 7 chapters assigned. 50 pages a week sounds super easy right now. I'm trying to do as much as the reading as I can but I'm studying for our first test (Monday) based off of power points, lecture notes, our ...

11. kingsborough NLN / MAY 2010

    ruaalien2 replied to Yazmin07's topic in New York

    Kumer, I'm taking it at night. There is a lot of reading but I'm actually ok. I love Prof. Kumer!

12. kingsborough NLN / MAY 2010

    ruaalien2 replied to Yazmin07's topic in New York

    How was everyone's first week?

13. Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    ruaalien2 replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    Exactly how I feel 100%

14. First day of nursing School *unleashed* post yours

    ruaalien2 replied to 9livesRN's topic in General Students

    my lj after the first 2 days... death & dying: . i had a blast in this class...which part of me feels is wrong but she's that good of a teacher. and it was a 9am class on top of it! she's one of two professors that i'll take anytime during...

15. usually, how long into the program do clinicals start?

    ruaalien2 replied to uglybetty1's topic in General Students

    We have a 2 hour skill lab & a 2 hour mandatory skills practice in addition to our clinical