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1. Do you think it matters when a patient tells your instructor...

   This replied to Despareux's topic in General Students

   It depends. The opinion of patients is usually only important if you anger them. I managed to build great report with my patients yet when my instructor commented on the subject, she said I "charmed" them as opposed to given them good care. I did how...

2. what do you do if your teacher crosses the line

   This replied to amybear's topic in General Students

   I am currently facing a similar situation myself. I've never had an issue in clinicals and in the past week I've been faced with an instructor who has made a landslide of claims against my performance, some of which are provably false. My dean came ...

3. How long does it take u to read

   This replied to Darkpk55's topic in General Students

   The end-chapter summaries and quizing are excellent paraphrasing for key points, just be careful not to summarize the summary, or else your going to overconcentrate your concentrate, and then your kidneys will fail. Don't worry about how fast you rea...

4. Can someone explain how a study group is at all effective?

   This replied to bhanson's topic in General Students

   Study groups can sometimes reward what you put into them, other times they can indeed be distracting. I approach a well-organized group study as a compliment to come after self-review. I try to apply what I learn and teach it in my own words to my cl...

5. Betrayed by my Program

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   At the risk of gossip and staff alienation, my peers convinced me to join with about a dozen or more others who are having similar issues. We're all going to compose letters to the Dean of our nursing program with the intention of clarifying specific...

6. How do you study? I need motivation...

   This replied to Servingshots's topic in Student Assist

   For me it helps to turn facts into questions. I take the books and find the subjects I'm focusing on and attack the chapter questions. Take the best ones to a study group and talk it out. Don't try to lone wolf it or else you can get sucked down one ...

7. Betrayed by my Program

   This replied to This's topic in General Students

   I was actually looking for an answer to a critical thinking question that involved a set of exacerbating circumstances. I find it peculiar that you have found enough time to browse forums and demean others yet you lack the ability to read information...

8. Betrayed by my Program

   This replied to This's topic in General Students

   Thanks for the response, as stated before, its good to know that we're not alone in our endeavors. I did a quick browse using phrases like "nursing school impossible/hard/ridiculous" but it did not prove efficacious in locating something more recent,...

9. Betrayed by my Program

   This replied to This's topic in General Students

   That prev comment was directed to moorejulie, the header was lost when I sent it. Right so go ahead and explain that one to the working 40-hour week person minus two significant others IE dead, in the same week that you flunk out of a 3 year commit...

10. Betrayed by my Program

    This replied to This's topic in General Students

    Thanks for your input, there's always some release in universality. Some of us students have had sit downs before, heads in our hands, trying to find the point to all this. We all can appreciate the need to weed out the dangerously incompetent like t...

11. Betrayed by my Program

    This replied to This's topic in General Students

    I did the research and it was implied to me through all the career councilors, newspaper articles, and defunct statistics that this program was the greatest thing since sliced butter. The orientations I attended sold us on the idea that its very hard...

12. Betrayed by my Program

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    My ASN nursing program is two years long with LPN/LVN diploma after the first year, I'm in the fall term of my second year and I hold a license in nursing. I have come to the conclusion that my school isn't hard for the sake of being challenging, it...

13. Starting Clinicals, Hepatitis B Vaccine question

    This replied to nursegc's topic in Student Assist

    You may argue one way or enough that its unethical to force medical treatment on someone but as Nurses we all must hold ourselves to a higher standard of altruistic precautions even if it means a theoretically small increased risk to yourself. If you...

14. I failed Med Surg

    This replied to Unique87's topic in General Students

    Is anyone else from a school that doesn't have any re-takes? Fail and your dismissed. They *may* allow you to re-apply for the program next year but I know that a dozen students flunked last year and we did not gain any new students. I'm not looking ...

15. Best Nursing Diagnosis of All Time

    This replied to This's topic in General Students

    HAha I'm gonna add that one. Implement Extraterrestrial-Contact precautions.