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I read Cliff's Notes books to prepare for CLEP tests, and passed them every time!

Transferring patients is terrifying at first, but it definitely gets easier and easier with practice. Eventually you learn the best ways to position the wheelchair and the patient, and it becomes...

I got reprimanded by a supervisor at work last night for pulling up a chair and sitting down to talk to a patient who was upset. I was told that it's UNPROFESSIONAL for a nurse to ever sit at bedside...

Congratulations!!! :)

It all depends on the quality of your roomate! I have lived on-campus throughout college and nursing school, and when I had a quiet roomate who didn't mind if I was up studying at 3am, I loved living...

You may just need to try different study styles until you see what fits you best. I imagine it'll take a combination of strategies, but you'll eventually figure out what works for you individually!...

I'm pretty stressed about this semester! i'm taking 17 hours (critical care, public health, nutrition, leadership, and senior seminars) and we do a 160-hour preceptorship. we also have to do 4000...

no...level 3 is actually the highest. at my school we have to score a level 3 to get advanced placement, and we occasionally get bonus points for them! i always do a lot better on the real tests than...

i'm a student, and after one of my peds clinicals, a peds patient friend requested me on facebook. one of my teachers advised me to decline the request, and i agreed with her. i sent a message to the...

yay! congrats!!! :) that's a wonderful grade, especially in pharm!!!

i love the prentice-hall reviews and rationales series in general! i ended up not using it for OB because my teacher was easy enough that i didn't need it. but i love the books in that series because...

i'm in the BSN program at Troy, but I don't know much about grad school there, other than that they just started a DNP program. here's a link to their website if it helps!...

i applied for 17 positions this past summer (internships and tech jobs) and never got a response from anyone. i had no idea that getting a job involves more than submitting an application, resume,...

I've heard that putting people in trendelenberg for low BPs is no longer the in thing to do. I was told that in school also. But nurses still do it. Does anyone know what the rationale for not doing...

at my school we have clinicals all five semesters, and our fifth semester we get to do a preceptorship through school for school in addition to clinicals. in the preceptorship, we get to pick a floor...

textbooks are my best friends when finding rationales. i look up my patients' medical conditions in my textbook and a lot of times, there are interventions and rationales in it that i can use! you...

everyone's advice about calculations is great! as far as what to expect first semester: nursing is a special type of profession filled with special people. at my school, first semester was a huge...

for really early mornings, i use the calendar setting on my phone as an alarm. as the title for the calendar event, i list the things i have to do that morning before class, or the reasons why i need...

class + clinicals + driving to and from clinicals = about 35 hours per week i'm about to be through with clinicals for the semester, though, so it'll drop to 17 hours per week for the last couple...

nursing school's a really big adjustment. i forget sometimes how much i struggled first semester to stay on top of assignments and make it out of there and pass. i think it's normal to be overwhelmed...

nursing school's tough! i know students who had been failing all semester, and pulled out a passing grade in the end, and others who didn't have the same success. take a look at your schedule and...

i won't even graduate until may, but there's times when it hits me that i'm almost a nurse, and i get scared/overwhelmed, too. it just feels like there's so much left to learn, and that i'm not...

thanks for the advice! :)

i took a&p II and micro together, and it worked fine for me. i'm not sure how hard those two classes are at your school, though. if you did well enough in a&pI that you're confident you can handle...

I get to choose my preceptorship at the end of this semester (to precept in the spring), and I'm not sure what to choose! i would like to become either a Family NP or Pediatric NP someday, and i'm...