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  1. New Job in postpartum/advice?

    I know this thread started a year ago, but to help any newer viewers looking for tips: I recently started as a new grad on a mother/baby unit. Remember that culture dictates raising of children. There are so many different ways families take care of ...
  2. Dizzy during circumcision

    I actually had the same thing happen to me, I didnt realize it would hit me so hard. I wouldnt say I am not "cut out for that kind of nursing" though.... I would say I had an unexpected reaction and will have to work on it. In school I have watch man...
  3. ATI Fundamentals

    Yes the focused reviews helped. I did the practice assessments and then was able to narrow down what I needed to study based on the assessments.
  4. ATI Fundamentals

    There is an ati app in the play store as well. Honestly read your book word for word. I had to remediate for fundamentals and every question I got wrong was in the book word for word. I have taken 4 ati tests now and the last 3 I have received level ...
  5. Stratford University need advice and feedback please!

    We have our clinicals in hospitals. If thats what on site means. And yes the two programs are completely separate and have their own accreditations. Good luck to you as well :)
  6. Stratford University need advice and feedback please!

    Speaking on woodbridge campus program only......Yes the program is very new and not regionally accredited. Those are the two major downsides to the program. However...... the program is ccne accredited and is good and strong and prepares students to ...
  7. First day of clinical rotation - your experience?

    I have the hardest time with alzheimers/dementia/confused patients... I am not sure how to respectfully and effecivelty communicate with them. Those have been my most challenging moments. I wish I would have had more confidence to just deal my first ...
  8. Can't we all just get along??

  9. Growing Up Unvaccinated

    There is a poison ivy shot?!
  10. Why do some choose to pursue BSN over ASN first?

    They might be out there but I havent heard of any asn programs being 18 months prereqs to finishm like a pp mentioned many/most have at least a year of prereqs, sometimes three semesters, then an additional four semesterd of nursing core. In many BSN...
  11. I'm a terrible patient now...

    Yeah thats not what was happening.
  12. I'm a terrible patient now...

    This is exactly why I tend to struggle with saying something or not. And hand sanitizer is considered washing hands from what the hospitals have taught me. So even some hand sanitizer!
  13. I'm a terrible patient now...

    Youre absolutely right I am definitely going to need stop worrying about not offending people when standing up for stuff like..... immediately.
  14. I'm a terrible patient now...

    Suturing. I wasnt sure if it was surgical or medical so I didnt know when/if the way he was laying everything out was contaminating a sterile field or even if it was sterile or not. I havent studied that in class yet so I just didnt know. Plus.... re...
  15. I'm a terrible patient now...

    I struggle with some ocd stuff and figuring out what is normal germ awareness and what is hyper obsessive germ awareness (im talking about in therapy once a week for this) so my experiences since starting nursing school have been real confusing and h...