geneva007

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1. First Year

   geneva007 replied to geneva007's topic in General Students

   Best of luck with your test! I know you can do it. I'm sorry to hear your having a bad experience with the teachers. Hang in there, hopefully they'll come around when they start realizing who is staying in the class and who is not. Nursing school is ...

2. First Year

   geneva007 replied to geneva007's topic in General Students

   I'm loving school! I already took A & P as a pre-req several years ago. I managed an A in A & P I and II. I studied often and learned the body systems literally like systems. I became an expert in each body system and grew confident from that...

3. First Year

   geneva007 posted a topic in General Students

   How many out there are first year students? What do you think of nursing school so far? Any suggestions for studying or taking tests for others? I'm loving nursing school so far. I'm so eager to learn maybe this is because I have been trying for so ...

4. Help with classmate

   geneva007 replied to penaheather's topic in General Students

   We have one of those in our class too. She was kicked out last year for grades and is back again. As a class we ignore her outbursts and make sure to direct our questions to the instructor. I talk to her but not about her life working in the ER, rath...

5. working while in nursing school

   geneva007 replied to alexis87's topic in General Students

   I am a first year student. I have several friends that are having a hard time budgeting working full time and nursing school including clinicals. Clinicals take up much of your time when you get further in school. A few of my friends are going part t...

6. minorities in your program

   geneva007 replied to teamojonj's topic in General Students

   My school accepted 40+ students for my program. 3 are males, about 10 are Hispanic and 2 are African American. Pretty diverse for southern Colorado.

7. How hard is nursing school for the student who is average or below at math & science?

   geneva007 replied to kelkel587's topic in General Students

   If you are passionate about nursing anything is possible. I am horrible at math but great in the sciences. We have to take a calculations test and pass with a 100%. You have 5 tries and 6 weeks to complete it. I passed it on my 2nd try. I was so worr...

8. Clinical Vent

   geneva007 replied to bri2012's topic in General Students

   Hang in there. It sounds like something I was similarly faced with a few weeks ago at clinicals. A CNA took over feeding my Alzheimer pt so I could eat lunch with the other group of girls doing our clinicals. I marked off for it. Totally stupid and u...

9. Clinical suggestions

   geneva007 replied to geneva007's topic in General Students

   Thank you for your response! We have about 14 papers to fill out concerning skin integrity, cardiovascular assessment, respiratory assessment etc. Basically assessments Subjective/Objective of all the body systems including neurological and ADL's.

10. Clinical suggestions

    geneva007 posted a topic in General Students

    Hello everyone! I start my clinicals tomorrow morning and I'm wondering if there are any last minute suggestions to help it go smoothly. I will be in a nursing home and assigned one patient for the day. The part I am dreading is all of the paperwork ...

11. Being prepared for the RN program

    geneva007 replied to slangley's topic in General Students

    Hello! Yes I am in the RN program. My first semester for my first year...3 weeks in. I start clinicals tomorrow morning, gotta wake up at 4 AM to go. Sounds like you did good on your NIN! I feel you should brush up on anatomy and pathophysiology. Th...

12. What is your school's dropout rate?

    geneva007 replied to Dre2416's topic in General Students

    Hello there. My school dropout/fail rate is kind of high. For example the year before me had 40+ students and their class is down to 14 now. My school doesn't have a waiting list however they have clever ways to gently let you out of the program. Fir...

13. Has anyone started studying for medical dosage calculation test yet?

    geneva007 replied to RNinthemaking1986's topic in General Students

    You're lucky you have to pass with a score of 90%! My school it's a 100% and you get 5 tries. Just passed mine yesterday, it was my second attempt. I like the formula you use for dosage calculations vs. dimensional analysis. Good luck in school!

14. How long did it take you to get into a program?

    geneva007 replied to willowita's topic in General Students

    Some schools that do have waiting lists can take a semester or 4. I had a choice between a 4 year BSN program with a really long wait-list. Another choice was 3 colleges a 2 year degree with a wait-list and finally a college that had no wait-list but...

15. Being prepared for the RN program

    geneva007 replied to slangley's topic in General Students

    Some important things you should know getting into a nursing program: 1) Study your pre-reqs such as biology/A & P/Patho/Chem it is assumed you have retained knowledge from these courses to apply later on in nursing school. 2) Take every test an...