triciac

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1. importance of prereqs?

   triciac replied to simplyVy's topic in General Students

   I agree, these pre-reqs are important especially later in the program. Plus it's a good time to develop strong study habits.

2. Most Challenging Class/Moment

   triciac replied to MLS619's topic in General Students

   Had a similar experience with not being able to print a 20 page paper. After that I never waited for the last day to print anything-too stressful.

3. Looking for advice from "older" students--up

   triciac replied to robpritc's topic in General Students

   45 and graduating this year. I'll share my sisters advise to me when I had the same doubts. "In four years you'll be four years older whether you go back to school or not-might as well be four years older with a BSN". I'm glad I listened. Good lu...

4. Liability Project, Help

   triciac replied to afaulknerSVN's topic in General Students

   Meds. are a great idea, you could also try patient confidentiality or safety (both big legal hot spots). Good luck.

5. For those that wanted Drug lists.

   triciac replied to Thedreamer's topic in General Students

   Thank you for the great information-very generous of you to share!

6. Head is spinning....

   triciac replied to KMP77's topic in General Students

   Make sure all the classes you do at a different college transfer to the nursing program you want to be admitted to. Several senior level students in my program are having to retake classes that didn't transfer. The Admissions office at the nursing ...

7. ABSN and young kids

   triciac replied to np_wannabe's topic in General Students

   These are really difficult decisions to make. I began my BSN program when my son was three-he will be seven when I graduate in December. Although it wasn't an accelerated program, it was very competitive and time consuming, especially for a single ...

8. Rules for Nursing School

   triciac replied to asgirl's topic in General Students

   Just another note about group projects: Remember you may be with this group for quite a few semesters. If you slack off and don't do your part of the project you may find yourself out in the cold when people are allowed to choose their own groups.

9. What age were you when you went to nursing school?

   triciac replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

   42 when I began, will graduate at 46.

10. 4th day of school :-)

    triciac replied to FirstYear2005's topic in General Students

11. Want to move to Spring, TX, please help

    triciac replied to Born2Nurse's topic in Texas

    Conroe Regional Medical Center is about 40 miles north of Houston (appx. 15 miles N of Spring). It's a fairly large hospital with a trama center/hyperbaric dept/cancer center...plus your traveling in the opposite direction of all the traffic. Anoth...

12. autologous blood transfusion

    triciac replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    Here is some information I found on the AABB website (http://www.aabb.org) Preoperative Donation The most common autologous donation is the preoperative donation of blood for possible transfusion back to the donor during elective surgery. For exampl...

13. IV tips and tricks

    triciac replied to kloock's topic in Emergency