erint91DC

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1. Reporting unnecessary pain

   erint91DC posted a topic in Student Assist

   This week, one of my patients was in for compression fractures of the lumbar vertebrae due to osteoporosis. She had severe, "red hot searing" pain in her lower back whenever she attempted to move, even when we raised and lowered the head of bed. Desp...

2. Advice for Renal Preceptorship

   erint91DC posted a topic in Urology

   I'm nearing the deadline for my preceptorship application and I'm struggling with what to put! We have to choose 3 options for preceptorship: medicine, emergency, general surgery, maternity, prevention, orthopedics, mental health, neurosciences, or p...

3. Changing IV tubing with half full bag?

   erint91DC posted a topic in General Students

   I'm aware of how to change the IV tubing (primary or secondary) with a new IV bag. Say you come onto shift and discover that the IV tubing is 2 days past the date it should've been changed. Would you wait until the bag needs to be changed? Or would ...

4. Nursing Dx Help

   erint91DC posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hello, I'm a first semester student and I'm wondering if my NDx are correct. Sorry for the wall of text that follows! I recently had an older adult (>80 y/o) as a patient who was being discharged. They were in rehab after sustaining right hip and...

5. Nursing school stress

   erint91DC replied to Caleb_RN225's topic in General Students

   Like BusyBSN said, a lot to study with not enough time! You become a pro at time management and organization.

6. hand written class notes vs typed

   erint91DC replied to itsmejuli's topic in General Students

   I've always found that I retain more by handwriting notes! Instead of writing outline-style lecture notes, I tend to write all over the page with arrows, different sized fonts, colours etc. I'm already able to connect the information in lecture, and ...

7. Too much? 16.5 credits

   erint91DC replied to erint91DC's topic in General Students

   Thanks! This is pretty much what I've been doing, keeping a calendar with due dates and working on things ahead of time. I feel fairly organized but it never seems like enough in this program :/ I have found that moving helps :) If I'm reciting med...

8. Too much? 16.5 credits

   erint91DC replied to erint91DC's topic in General Students

   Yes, I understand that it will only get worse. I'm sitting for so long on my days off because there is a humongous amount of work to do.

9. What is your grading scale?

   erint91DC replied to smoup's topic in General Students

   The general school scale? I'm not sure about that one. However, anything below 65% for our nursing classes is a fail.

10. Too much? 16.5 credits

    erint91DC posted a topic in General Students

    I know credit hours aren't the most realistic thing to judge the difficulty of a program, but isn't 16.5 credit hours per semester really unreasonable? This is my first semester and I haven't really done anything other than school. I read on my bus ...

11. Repeating 3rd..not because I failed...is depressing

    erint91DC replied to lu2013's topic in General Students

    Sorry that you may have to retake it! I have a friend that finished the admission requirements for the BSN program a few years ago, but they had to postpone it to have a child. By the time she was ready to start the program, they had completely remod...

12. Advice Needed: Buy or Rent These Books?

    erint91DC replied to ltran's topic in General Students

    I wouldn't rent a textbook. You may need them in the future and if not, you can always resell them for some money back. I recently resold a few books that have been laying around and I made almost $400!

13. How do clinical placements work?

    erint91DC replied to erint91DC's topic in General Students

    Thanks! That's basically what I expected.

14. How do clinical placements work?

    erint91DC posted a topic in General Students

    As in, how do schools generally place you into your clinicals? Do you get any say in the matter? Do you need to have an interview or anything like that?

15. BP cuff not required?!

    erint91DC posted a topic in General Students

    So I just received my acceptance letter for the BSN program at Douglas College! The letter included the supply/book list, instructions, etc.. but a blood pressure cuff wasn't on the supply list? They only list a stethoscope, gloves, scrubs, shoes, bo...