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1. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

   skyb replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   Nursing is my second career. My first was as a flight attendant for a big airline. One night over the bond, we hit some air, and I came off the floor, and the middle of my foot landed on a bottle top from a liter water. I heard a pop, and it was d...

2. Male by grace of God, Nurse by Education

   skyb replied to TNBalloonist's topic in Male Students

   First male nurses in the 80s? Somebody is sleeping... When I was a Vista Volunteer in 1975, one of our group was going into nursing....and it started long before that... The first man to be commissioned in the Army Nurse Corps was Edward Lyon, a nurs...

3. A&P Help... From My Brain to Yours!

   skyb replied to polka-dot's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Polka Dot... Thanks so much. I start Nursing School in the fall, and had lost all my notes in a computer crash last year. I am now a FIRM believer in external hard drives. We even used the Marieb text. You are a true lifesaver. I do have to admi...

4. Ages of male nursing students?

   skyb replied to Stearnsy's topic in Male Students

   Duh.. I think this is dubious distinction...but I am 58, and will turn 59 within weeks of entering nursing school at end of August 2009:idea:

5. Algebra nightmare

   skyb replied to WannaBeMaleRN's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Been there ...done that.... THE problem with math instruction IMHO, is the quality of instruction. I would STRONGLY suggest you look at computer based instructions. My problem with this was I never got math. Then, years later, I saw a movie called...

6. take my survey for stats class - PLEASE!

   skyb replied to LanaBanana's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Why not? #1 E #2 D #3 A This is going to skew your sample, but I am a flight attendant for a living. Glad this is just a plotting exercise.

7. Nutrition Class Vent

   skyb replied to bandas's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Different schools place a different emphasis on some things. The school that I am doing my pres at requires nutrition. Another local school , has pharmacology as a pre. Just different emphasis. I also have nutrition this semester. Just took my fi...