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  1. Daytonite has passed away...
    I've been learning from Daytonite for years after her passing and only just discovered why she seemed to have disappeared from allnurses. RIP Daytonite, I appreciate your hard work for students and...
    Feb 4
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  2. Nursing Apps for ANDROID
    so far skyscape is the number one free app I've found for looking up drugs and procedures. I've used medscape, webmd, epocrates and a couple others. None of them compare.
    Apr 23, '12
    Forum: Mobile Apps For Nurses
  3. Clinical - A Place for Your Things
    Every place will be different. I always took my backpack to every clinical, and would leave my valuables in it. Sometimes I'd leave my backpack in the staff room, sometimes right next next to the...
    Apr 23, '12
    Forum: Male Nursing Student
  4. Married Male Nursing Students
    My wife and I got into nursing school during the same semester, so we've gone through our clinicals and classes together. It's been a pretty great experience, she's a very dependable study partner!
    Apr 23, '12
    Forum: Male Nursing Student
  5. Nurses see us coming for clinical and RUN away from us. Irritating!
    Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. We have had the opposite experience for our rotations which may or may not be due to the fact that it's a teaching hospital. All of the nurses, docs etc...
    Apr 23, '12
    Forum: General Nursing Student
  6. allnurses.com Android app is here!
    Ok thanks!
    Apr 19, '12
    Forum: Information Center
  7. allnurses.com Android app is here!
    could you please explain the reasoning for requiring the following permission? thanks!
    Apr 19, '12
    Forum: Information Center
  8. who's taken the teas v???
    My experience was that the math was exactly the same, they'd just changed the numbers. I got 100% on the math and I owe it entirely to the ATI study guide.
    Oct 29, '11
    Forum: TEAS Exam Help
  9. laptop for nursing school?
    I've found having my little netbook to be an invaluable resource during nursing school. All of our classes are taught with pdf slides, I can type out my notes right on top of them and then print them...
    Oct 14, '11
    Forum: Mobile Apps For Nurses
  10. who's taken the teas v???
    While I don't know anything about the PAX review book, I do have experience with the official TEAS Study Guide that I purchased from Barnes and Noble for about $30. I studied the guide an hour or so...
    Oct 6, '11
    Forum: TEAS Exam Help
  11. Nursing Central apps on two androids?
    My wife and I are both in the same Nursing Classes, and have been given a demonstration of the Nursing Central Android apps that has us interested in their use on the clinical floor. For the sake of...
    Sep 26, '11
    Forum: Mobile Apps For Nurses
  12. who's taken the teas v???
    Study harder on the material in that book. I spent a week focusing on that ATI TEAS V study guide and got a 99th percentile score. I didn't see a single thing on the test that wasn't covered in the...
    Apr 29, '11
    Forum: TEAS Exam Help
  13. I can't get into any nursing schools!
    My school only had about 120 applicants for 70 spots, but I was apparently on the bottom of the acceptance list with a 3.6 GPA (on ~10 core classes that they use for acceptance, my overall GPA was a...
    Apr 14, '11
    Forum: Pre-Nursing Student
  14. who's taken the teas v???
    I spent 4 days poring over the official ati study guide, took both of the practice tests that came in the back of the book, and then just went for it. I ended up with a 99th percentile score. I...
    Apr 14, '11
    Forum: TEAS Exam Help
  15. Student thinking about joining Army reserve / ROTC
    I don't mind being deployed to Afghanistan a couple times, but I want to know if I can guarantee it will be as a nurse and not as a soldier. If the government pays for me to get a BSN they'll want me...
    Apr 14, '11
    Forum: Government / Military Nursing
  16. Student thinking about joining Army reserve / ROTC
    Hi folks, I'm a first semester BSN student thinking about joining the Army Reserve and ROTC program. The picture painted by my recruiter is enticing, but I'd like some outside input. According to...
    Apr 14, '11
    Forum: Government / Military Nursing
  17. Ages of male nursing students?
    There are about 15 guys in our class of 70, most of us are 25-30, but there are a few that are around 20.
    Apr 8, '11
    Forum: Male Nursing Student
  18. Any time for Studying with kid(s) ...?!
    My wife and I are both nursing students and have an 18 month old. He's in daycare until 5 and goes to bed around 8:30, we just make sure to spend those few hours with him, and spend the rest of the...
    Apr 8, '11
    Forum: Health / Stress Management 101
  19. who's taken the teas v???
    No, but the questions on TEAS 5 are identical TYPES as the ones in the official ATI study guide. So basically if you understand the concept to ALL the questions in that study guide, you have no...
    Mar 14, '11
    Forum: TEAS Exam Help
  20. Best Anatomy Resources to use?
    http://www.wesnorman.com/ - found this link awhile back while trying to study up. It's got some good information and is worth bookmarking.
    Mar 13, '11
    Forum: General Nursing Student
  21. Does being a guy have any affect on being accepted into your schools nursing program?
    Perhaps it depends on the school. It didn't in mine according to the advisor. We ended up with a 15% male class.
    Feb 22, '11
    Forum: Male Nursing Student
  22. is oxygen considered a medication?.. what do you think?
    Our professors tell us that oxygen is considered a drug because you need a physicians order to give it to a patient. Assuming that is the case nationwide, then the argument is settled. Whether or not...
    Feb 22, '11
    Forum: General Nursing Student
  23. Anything that can help get in?
    Ask your advisor how they calculate entrance scores. For my school it was something like 50% comes from your grades, 30% comes from the TEAS, and 20% came from experience / volunteer work. They had a...
    Feb 21, '11
    Forum: Pre-Nursing Student
  24. who's taken the teas v???
    The practice booklet is essential. It comes with two paper practice exams which are also very helpful. I used the study guide straight for about a week and ended up with a 99th percentile score. I...
    Feb 18, '11
    Forum: TEAS Exam Help
  25. Has anyone gotten into nursing school with a low gpa?
    I was accepted into my school Idaho State University with a 3.56 gpa. They said that ~3.4-5 was the lowest that made it in even though they would accept as low as 3.0. There were only about 130...
    Feb 18, '11
    Forum: Pre-Nursing Student