LJoyW_27

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1. Debate Topic..Opinions needed PLEASE?!?!?

   LJoyW_27 replied to LJoyW_27's topic in General Students

   phew that is over. i argued that with a nursing shortage, what hospital has the funds to pay nurses NOT to work, but instead sit in on classes they have already had in nursing school? we worked our butts off in school, passed the test (even though i ...

2. Any Guys in school now?????????

   LJoyW_27 replied to Notanurse's topic in General Students

   guys in nursing school are great....gives us girls somethin to look at!! :p but seriously....i'm in a class of 35 and 3 of them are male..one is 19, one is mid-thirties, and one is 60. all three of them are great, no discrimination against them b...

3. Debate Topic..Opinions needed PLEASE?!?!?

   LJoyW_27 posted a topic in General Students

   okay...my perspectives in nursing class...bad we have a debate to do...we got assigned topics and our positions on them( which i don't think is fair because how canyou argue something you don't believe in??) but that's beside the point. okay. here it...

4. i need your opinion

   LJoyW_27 replied to LJoyW_27's topic in General Nursing

   i went to the MD's today...she looked at it and sent me right to the hospital for an xray to see if there were definate edges that meant it wasn't involved in the bone, and a script for a bone scan if they couldn't see that...well after an xray and a...

5. i need your opinion

   LJoyW_27 posted a topic in General Nursing

   ok folks..i need you experianced nurses out there (i'm just a student). a while ago i noticed a pea sized bump on my leg, just beneath the patella. well now it is much larger, reddened, and very tender to the touch, and there is another starting belo...

6. Va-ca-tion!!

   LJoyW_27 posted a topic in General Students

   Me and my 3 friends from nursing school just booked a trip to Myrtle Beach for spring break!!! something to work towards to muddle through the semester of phsychiatric nursing, maternity nursing, cardiac enzymes, and care plans. I love these girls i...

7. Care plans

   LJoyW_27 replied to essarge's topic in General Students

   do not worry....they are bad at first but they get better. i would NOT have been able to pass my careplans without a careplan book!!! I carry it with me to clinical and class...it's the best $50 i ever spent!! just remember, a lot of the stuff is com...

8. Blood pressure

   LJoyW_27 replied to teresab_2000's topic in General Students

   i had a TERRIBLE time with blood pressures....bad. I started out with a littman classic II SE...(HS graduation present :-D) i couldn't hear anything with that...too much residual was picking up. I bought a sprague for $12 and could immediately hear ...

9. SO close to home

   LJoyW_27 posted a topic in General Students

   today on a break from my nursing201 class, i found a large group of somber college students surrounding the big screen tv in our colleges' forum. after finding out what happened..i almost totally freaked. one of my very best friends goes to law scho...

10. Thoughts on Micro

    LJoyW_27 replied to MRed94's topic in General Students

    We had a lab where we took culture plates outside and cultured anything we wanted...most people headed right for the bathroom to culture. I, on the other hand..headed right for the tanning bed where i go tanning ( i know i know skin cancer etc. etc. ...

11. what year

    LJoyW_27 posted a topic in General Students

    what year is everyone in? how many do you all have left? this way the new ones know who to look to for support/ help! I am going into my last year of my program...one down one to go! 8 months from now (God willing) i'll be slappin that "R.N." title ...

12. I'm SOOO overwhelmed!!

    LJoyW_27 replied to Nurse2003's topic in General Students

    it's ok!! i promise. I'm enrolled in the ADN program at my local community college...and i know exactly how you feel. I just finished my first year...fresh out of high school i started these classes. My first semester i took nursing 101., with clinic...

13. Are you a commuter or live on campus?

    LJoyW_27 posted a topic in General Students

    From reading the posts here... i would assume that most of you are commuters, in that many of you have kids or husbands (or wives!) But some of you i just don't know about. I commute about 20 miles each way to my college...i live with my parents...c...

14. How many classes are you taking this fall?

    LJoyW_27 replied to moni rn's topic in General Students

    peeps...that does NOT sound fun taking Micro and Anatomy together! I had a tough enough time w/ Micro and Anatomy seperate! Good luck! I am taking Nursing 201, Perspectives in Nursing, and Soc 101....my nursing class is 15 credit hours by itself! ho...

15. Tell us about yourself.

    LJoyW_27 replied to Lauryn's topic in General Students

    oh man! am i the youngest one here, too? i'm 18 years old...(19 in 2 months!!!!!! i live at home with my parents and little sister...i'm enrolled in an adn program.... have no kids but a great bf.... i work at walmart over the summer and on the week...