RainbowSprinkles

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1. NCLEX-RN; Terrified

   RainbowSprinkles replied to briixx's topic in NCLEX

   I totally agree with this post. Blenderbottle 75-100 questions daily are a lot. I just took the nclex and passed with 75 questions, I was an average student. I used UWORLD for a month and focus on the rationales more than the number of questions don...

2. Renegotiating salary

   RainbowSprinkles replied to Seeing Myself Out's topic in Professionalism

   Take it as a learning experience, always ask for more..it will always be a yes or no.

3. Is it just me or is nursing school not as difficult as everyone makes it sound?

   RainbowSprinkles replied to Nicolecn's topic in General Students

   First two semester for me was a breeze, by the third semester I had a slight meltdown. However, I believe it was clinical (peds/psych) that was taxing on me which then trickle over into my academics. Maturity levels, emotional stability, finances, li...

4. Paying for Nursing Pre-Reqs

   RainbowSprinkles replied to elba88's topic in General Students

   I took my pre reqs at a community college, 12 credits were about 2,200. I paid for my pre reqs on a payment plan, however my actual nursing program I took out federal loans. FYI, im a second degree student but I only took out 10,000 for my first bach...

5. Prepping for nursing school

   RainbowSprinkles replied to clf1926's topic in General Students

   I've worked at an primary care/urgent care facility as a receptionist . You get to see a variety of issues and its a great opportunity to start learning about meds and what other specialities do... for ex cardiologist/radiologist/endocrinologist/ob ...

6. Fundamentals Nursing Outlines?

   RainbowSprinkles replied to injured1's topic in General Students

   Oddly enough, I found the Saunders nclex to be a great overview of my fundamentals class. It surpasses all the fluff and gets straight to the point!

7. Take statistics in RN program or wait?

   RainbowSprinkles replied to Nicolecn's topic in General Students

   Personally I would not take it with a 12 credit nursing course, adjusting to nursing can be rough. Can you take it over the winter? I took stats in the winter and earned an A, seeing it everyday for 3-4 weeks made it doable.

8. Retaking courses...? PLEASE say it ain't so

   RainbowSprinkles replied to ethanstarkey's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Agree with the above poster, take those classes over. Most school heavily weigh science g.p.a's and those need to be at least on the minimum requirement and lots of schools may have a requirement but their applicants may be in the 3.5 range so it le...

9. Working during nursing school

   RainbowSprinkles replied to calpals's topic in General Students

   Im currently in an accelerated adn program, 14 months. There are still some folks who work in my program. However, I chose to live off my savings, credit cards, a little bit of scholarships, and I take out federal unsubsidized and subsidized loans. I...

10. Gen, Org, Bio Chem Difficulty

    RainbowSprinkles replied to Rafaeld500's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I only took General chemistry for pre nursing, I absolutely loved it but I had an amazing professor who encourage us and was very informative. If you have a good foundation, everything is attainable once you put the work in.My boyfriend is a pharm d ...

11. Pregnancy/Newborn during nursing school

    RainbowSprinkles replied to lanna23's topic in General Students

    Possible morning sickness, cramps, not wanting to get up for class/clinicals, being pregnant while doing strenuous work at clinicals, having a new born baby with random sleep patterns while trying to study doesn't seem like a great idea to me. Howeve...

12. How long does it take to get ADN including prerequisites, on average?

    RainbowSprinkles replied to rachelkelllyy's topic in Pre-Nursing

    it will be 3 years in total for me, however I did get into an 14 month accelerated adn program. On average for most is about 4 years.

13. Student in first Clinicals - Geriatrics

    RainbowSprinkles replied to Medic_to_BSN's topic in General Students

    I'm in my first semester of nursing school, I'm wrapping up as we speak. I worked with geriatrics at a skilled facility, it was mostly bedbaths, vitals, enteral feeedings,head to toe assessment, changing adult diapers, inputs and output. I also got t...

14. Too old for nursing school?

    RainbowSprinkles replied to cookiecutter2018's topic in General Students

    Im in my first semester of school and there is a massage therapist in my class that is 56 years old, she's in better shape than me lol (30 y.o).

15. Class Schedule Suggestions??

    RainbowSprinkles replied to FutureNurseNe''s topic in Pre-Nursing

    The first semester I wouldn't do much, I would see what I can handle first and get adjusted to school life again. I suggest just do a life science and psych or ap1 and english just to start. Plus you want the best grades you can recieve, Good luck on...