I'm a first year RN student in an A.D,N program. I've got a wonderful husband and two beautiful kids. My nursing journey has been a long time in the making and I'm so excited to finally start working my way towards an RN degree!
I agree with the previous comments, take it one semester at a time and ALWAYS have a back-up daycare. I'm married with 2 small children (5, 2), my husband leaves the house at 6am and my school is a 72 mile one-way commute. I also spend the night in ...
I took anatomy online through EduKan (I already had taken phys.). My school accepted the online anatomy without a problem. EduKan is a kansas based program that links a bunch of Kansas schools together and offers the classes online. I'm in Oklahoma a...
I take notes during lectures, then two days a week I spend A LOT of time (read 8 hours/day) in the library reading the chapters, making flash cards, relistening to the lectures, rereading the lecture slides, using my Saunders NCLEX review book and th...
Yesterday was my first clinical at the nursing home. I observed a contractured bedbound patient being given a bed bath. The aide bathing the pt, did a quick bath and had some difficulties bathing the patients contractured hands without causing a sign...
Kaychell replied to latebloomernurse's topic in General Nursing
After working at a university and now going into nursing, I agree that both should be paid $50/hr. Nursing and educators both have to deal with a public that is less than pleasant at times. Kids with an attitude or families that are a bunch of crazie...
Kaychell replied to queenjulie's topic in Student Assist
Now we haven't done any dressing changes or anything like that. The week before last we learned how to put on sterile gloves, isolation techniques, restraints, bed baths, bed making and handwashing. Last week we learned pulse points, BP's, temperatur...
We had a quiz yesterday and one of the questions was a definition and we had to state the word that belonged to that definition. When was studying for the quiz I was so focused on being able to spell the words in the definition correctly that I forgo...
I got an 86 on our first exam and a 90 and an 86 on our first and second quizzes. Don't over study Get at least 8 hours of sleep the night before Eat a good breakfast (protein and carb, not snicker and diet coke) Don't hurry through test Go with you...
Our prof. told us that it was patients, then went to clients, and now it's patients again. I think I read in our text that it went from patient to client because patient sounded like people were being included as an active participant in decisions re...
There's a ton of websites that have review questions. www.nursingcrib.com www.atitesting.com (if your school uses ATI) http://caring4you.net/tests.html Do a YAHOO search for NCLEX practice questions and a bunch of websites should come up. Also if ...