nikonos

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1. How much clinical time do you get?

   nikonos replied to S.N. Visit's topic in General Students

   Clinicals two days a week, first day 1:00-2:30 and the second day 6:45-3:00.

2. Hi (: who else is going to NSNA conference?

   nikonos replied to Twinkie1's topic in General Students

   I live in Louisville so I'll be there. Our instructors are making the convention "mandatory" since it is so close and full of so many resources for us students. The Galt House is a lovely hotel kinda steep on the rates though so you may want to boo...

3. Gen. Psych in Summer, too hard?

   nikonos replied to katie-did's topic in Pre-Nursing

   If I had a choice I would take it during the summer just to get it over with. Meeting 4 nights a week, I seriously doubt you will have to read several chapters a night because 6 weeks is enough t2o spread it out a bit. I'm taking an 8-week developm...

4. What do nursing schools want to see?

   nikonos replied to abe82's topic in Pre-Nursing

   My school looked at two things: a) GPA in only those classes listed as pre-reqs for the nursing program and b)the score on either the NLN or ACT. We had several EMT's and even more LPN's in the applicant pool that were not accepted due to their low ...

5. Scope Recommendations

   nikonos replied to agent's topic in General Students

   Adscope 603, I can hear bruits better overall than w/ my Littman Master Classic II. It is also half the price.

6. Statistics for nursing?

   nikonos replied to ERtraumanurse's topic in General Students

   Most BSN programs require a statistics course and most ADN programs do not. I am trying to take it online this summer if I can get registered in the course before it fills. I hate math with a sweet, sweet passion and I have heard mixed reviews on t...

7. Accepted to Bellarmine...but...

   nikonos replied to Nursing4Sure's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I went to UofL for three years so I cannot speak of Bellarmine's program. But there are two people in my nursing class who were accepted into Bellarmine's program and ended up enrolling at a state school due to the high cost of enrollment. I'm in t...

8. Somebody tell me how to best prepare!Please

   nikonos replied to Tweege's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Here you go: https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88629

9. Somebody tell me how to best prepare!Please

   nikonos replied to Tweege's topic in Pre-Nursing

   AP terminolgy will come into play a lot as far as describing the anatomical location of something so know all the inferior, superior, infra, supra - type of things. Just look into the really basic word roots and prefixes like hemo, pneumo, itis, oto...

10. Somebody tell me how to best prepare!Please

    nikonos replied to Tweege's topic in Pre-Nursing

    All of the supplies that you need will be designated by your particular program since each one is a little different than the next. We had to have a 75/90 hour CNA course under our belt before we could apply for admission into the nursing core cours...

11. SEC Basketball Games

    nikonos replied to Chad_KY_SRNA's topic in Kentucky

    Well said! I have to support UofL, I used to go to school there.

12. What's nursing school like?

    nikonos replied to Doug85's topic in Male Students

    It will be one of the more challenging experiences that you will ever have, and yet the most rewarding at the end of the day when you realize that you have conquered something that many of your peers are having a great deal of trouble with. I studi...

13. First stethoscope?

    nikonos replied to Mika8's topic in General Students

    Shop around, I'm now using a $40 Adscope that I can hear better out of than any Littman I have tried. It all depends on the specifics of your own hearing.

14. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    nikonos replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    scorpion, black widow, and brown recluse venoms

15. Grading Scale

    nikonos replied to ZootRN's topic in General Students

    A=100-90 B=89-83 C=82-78 Below 78.000 is a failing grade.