QueenAnnissa

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1. List of level IV NICU's

   QueenAnnissa replied to guest769224's topic in NICU

   I believe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Boston Children's run neck & neck between the number 1 & 2 spots each year on the list of the nation's top children's hospitals. CHOP especially is well known & highly rated for it'...

2. Males working in the NICU?

   QueenAnnissa replied to cph1993's topic in NICU

   I think as a male you can help to relate to the dad's in a completely different way than the female nurses do during an overwhelming and stressful event like the birth of a fragile child. We were in the NICU for 69 days with my son. I know my husband...

3. Esme Needs Your Prayers and Well Wishes

   QueenAnnissa replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know you but I've read many of your posts and responses on here and find you to be a hugely valuable member of this community. Your thoughtful and intelligent replies to a myriad of concerns are always on point. Well wishes to you and prayers...

4. RN's & Nursing Students

   QueenAnnissa posted a topic in General Students

   I'm in my 2nd semester of nursing school and last semester clinicals were spent at a LTC facility. This semester is going to be spent on a med-Surg floor. After 4 weeks there (2 days a week from 7am - 1:30pm) I am feeling discouraged and am hoping fo...

5. First Day of Nursing School

   QueenAnnissa replied to sealford's topic in General Students

   I am starting my second semester in a week. I had a solid grade in my first semester and really grew close to my clinical group. We all pretty much studied on our own, but I think as we've learned to trust one another we may try studying as a group t...

6. Dosage Calculation Question

   QueenAnnissa replied to QueenAnnissa's topic in Student Assist

   Thank you so much for replying and helping me out! Although we began exploring IV calculations at the end of the first semester, it was just a beginning and we'll really dive into it next week in the second semester. I'm glad they gave us material to...

7. Dosage Calculation Question

   QueenAnnissa posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hello! I'm working on a review for my second semester of nursing school, and I'm stuck on an IV calculation problem. Here it is: "Your client has 1 liter of D5 1/2NSS infusing at 100mL/hr into a #22 gauge adapted angiocath via an IV pump. The IV was ...

8. Nclex prep-only read the correct answer?

   QueenAnnissa replied to lifewithkids's topic in General Students

   I know which post the OP is referring to...that poster had stated they marked the correct answers for practice questions and only read the review and rationales for the correct answers to understand the material and did not read the reviews/rationale...

9. First Day of Nursing School

   QueenAnnissa replied to sealford's topic in General Students

   Yesterday was my first day, a 2 hour lecture. First we were greeted by the program director who spoke for about 15-20 minutes, giving us a program overview, etc. Then it was handed over to the lecture team leader who introduced the faculty and then c...

10. How Not to Get Taken Advantage Of

    QueenAnnissa replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Students

    I don't think the poster is referring to any type of graded assignments. I believe this entire thread is in reference to class notes, calendars/schedule, and typed lectures from audio recordings as you mentioned, items that would not be handed into i...

11. First Day of Nursing School

    QueenAnnissa replied to sealford's topic in General Students

    I'm nervous, but not sure why, tomorrow is simply a 2 hour lecture and it will mostly be covering what to do, the syllabus, orientation, etc. It might just be because I know how hard it's going to be, and I'm concerned if we'll be able to balance fou...

12. A spouse that just doesn't get it.

    QueenAnnissa replied to megkat's topic in Pre-Nursing

    It is hard for anyone else to understand, especially if you are not a former college student, a current college student or in the medical field. One of the things that has bonded me to my fellow classmates is how we are all juggling life, work, famil...

13. Disadvantaged not being a CNA/PCT?

    QueenAnnissa posted a topic in General Students

    I have heard repeatedly by other students going into the nursing program at my school that those without CNA/PCT experience are at a real disadvantage in the program and won't do as well, especially in the first semester. Thoughts?

14. Audio summaries

    QueenAnnissa replied to BBB<3's topic in General Students

    I use Audible on my iPhone, and I've downloaded the Vango Notes for Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationales Fundamentals as well as the Med-Surg one. As supplements to nursing textbooks, they are great resources and I like having another way t...

15. Patient's responses to students during clinical days

    QueenAnnissa posted a topic in General Students

    Searching back a bit I didn't catch anything in reference to this, so I apologize if this was recently brought up... In general, current and former nursing students, how have patients reacted to receiving care from nursing students?