HeavenBound0530

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1. how many patients do you get for clinical?

   HeavenBound0530 replied to glamgalRN's topic in Student Assist

   Our first year you only get 1..the third semester we started out with one and worked our way up to 3, but our instructor only gave you three if she felt you could hendle the stressof having three..unfortunately I was the first to get 3!! Which meant ...

2. Reality Shock

   HeavenBound0530 replied to beanie72's topic in Student Assist

   I'm the saem way...I knew ahead of time that we're understaffed and it makes me mad because our clinicals give us 1 pt. and we're supposed to do all the stuff that we're never gonna do when we graduate...you don't have time to sit and read through a ...

3. First Time Nursing Diagnosis

   HeavenBound0530 replied to wsustudent's topic in Student Assist

   your pt. is also a good candidate for the diagnosis of ineffective airway clearancce....if she's on home oxygen she obviously has some trouble getting o2 into her blood because of her COPD which by the way includes emphysema.... As far as an example ...

4. Help! Will This Get Easier?

   HeavenBound0530 replied to mickeycat's topic in Student Assist

   I wouldn't say it gets "easier" persay, just that you get used to constantly being bogged down and running on only 4 or 5 hours of sleep and then dealing with everyday life while trying to study somewhere in between all of that. Like right now, I'm r...

5. Work during Nursing School???

   HeavenBound0530 replied to Conz3434's topic in General Nursing

   I'm currently working as a Nurse Extern at a hospital and I'm in my last year of nursing. It has helped me sooo much with school as far as feeling confident about going into a pt. room or just doing anything. I'm way more organized compared to before...

6. 2nd year sudent who needs med. calc. help!!

   HeavenBound0530 posted a topic in Student Assist

   I have a crazy instructor who gave us these off the wall med calc. problems on our test. The one goes like this... You have a pump that's programmed at 50gtts/ml. It's running at 45 gtts/min. How many hours would it take to infuse a 1 liter (1000 ml)...

7. Daytonite

   HeavenBound0530 replied to CapeCoralChick's topic in Student Assist

   I didn't think you had to have 3 parts with a risk diagnosis...i thought they were only two part...and either way i don't see how oxygen is a risk for infection...but that's just me..there are alot of people on oxygen and I wouldn't think they are a ...

8. ccac students in pa

   HeavenBound0530 replied to ravin8012's topic in Pennsylvania

   i'm a senior student also...I'm starting to see the tiny little light at the end of the very long tunnel...however, you've got alot of hard hard hard work ahead of you, I'm not gonna lie. Your life is gonna consist of work and school for the next two...

9. Question about palpating pulses/assessing sensation in a patient's extremities

   HeavenBound0530 replied to mommagracy's topic in Student Assist

   The first part is right, but Im not so sure about the answer for how to assess for sensation. I think you would want to do something along the lines of a neurovascular check which consists of the 5 P's...Palor, Pain, Pulses, Paralysis and Paresthesia...

10. So what'd ya think?

    HeavenBound0530 replied to ashfost's topic in General Students

    Well...let me tell you...I went into my program knowing it was going to consume my life and well....it consumed my life and my next life!!! I'm barely passing with a C but I look at it this way...there's alot of people that aren't passing with now......

11. Tearful 2nd week of clinical

    HeavenBound0530 replied to Kaiulani's topic in General Students

    actually yeah, i had a really bad one and it even beats yours. my grandmother died of lung cancer in feb. and on my 4th week of clinical i had a patient that also had lung cancer. We went to lunch and when i came back (around 12) my patient was diein...

12. careplan books

    HeavenBound0530 posted a topic in New Nurse

    what's the best careplan book out there do you think?? I need some help with careplans..i have a nursing disgnosis book but it's not the greatest...please help me!!

13. NCLEX-RN Books

    HeavenBound0530 posted a topic in NCLEX

    I have a question, i heard it's not too soon to start practicing for the NCLEX test (this is my first year/semester in nursing)..i was just wondering which books helped out the most..thank you!!

14. I need just a little encouragment...please...

    HeavenBound0530 posted a topic in Student Assist

    My name is Rachel, I'm 19 yrs. old and I'm in my 4th week of my first year of nursing school. I'm starting to beat my head off of a wall because there is just SOOOOOOO much information and I don't know how to retain it all...I study my butt off and I...

15. Yay!!!!

    HeavenBound0530 replied to HeavenBound0530's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Thank you guys.....I guess I also learned some other good points while taking this class......VERY GOOD STUDY HABITS!!!!!!