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1. Nursing Honorary Society

   StudentRN posted a topic in General Students

   Our college has a Nursing Honor Society pinning for all students with 3 semesters with A's or B's in nursing grades. We are supposed to bring in an object that represents what nursing is to us and an object as to why we choose nursing. We have to g...

2. CNA Case study

   StudentRN replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in General Students

   "I see nothing of this nature in this persons chart and obviously it is not possible to ask this to her. Not to mention her occupation,hobbies are almost non exsistant from reading her chart since the facility has just recently been introduced to her...

3. Introductions

   StudentRN replied to Brian's topic in Illinois

   YUP! I'm a student nurse in Chicago Heights. ME TOO!!!

4. Nursing club help

   StudentRN posted a topic in General Students

   I am the president of the nursing club...I need some fundraising ideas. We were thinking of maybe doing clip boards with calculator...any idea where to go? What else could we do? I need all the help I can I kinda got thrown into this. Thanks!!!

5. MCdonalds in Hospital

   StudentRN replied to CCURN's topic in General Nursing

   I was told I would get addicted to coffee. After 12 years of nursing I still can't stand the smell, let alone to even try a taste. I'll stick with Jolt, and Mountain Dew, and diet pepsi. I drink mt. dew at school too...they don't serve Starbucks a...

6. Cardiac Preload and Afterload

   StudentRN replied to orca1's topic in General Students

   Thanks Kristy!!!!! I to have this on a Midterm Monday!!!! Almost 1/2 way thru my second and hardest semester!!!

7. MCdonalds in Hospital

   StudentRN replied to CCURN's topic in General Nursing

   :roll I am not working at a hospital currently do to school, but I said I was going to Chicago's Childrens Memorial because they have a STARBUCKS!!! (they also have a McDonalds) I could get a Venti Toffee Nut Latte and work a 16 hour shift. I neve...

8. Snow days

   StudentRN replied to essarge's topic in General Students

   Are all you guys living on the east coast that are having all these snow days? I am in a suburb of Chicago and although we have lucked out snow wise this year.... They never cancel school!!! My kids had a Heat day once, but no snow days in the last...

9. Clinicals

   StudentRN replied to TheBrainMusher's topic in General Students

   We had the first semester in the good old nursing home (16 weeks) now this semester it's med/sug for 16 weeks, but it kinda depend on who you got for an instuctor and what hospital your at. I ended up with a 2 year instuctor that is filling in and I...

10. Concept Maps!!!!!

    StudentRN replied to StudentRN's topic in General Students

11. Concept Maps!!!!!

    StudentRN replied to StudentRN's topic in General Students

    Thanks Christine, yes that is pretty much what they want!! The thing that I hate is they pick our assigned patients on Tuesday and most are gone by my thursday clinical day...so I do one on a patient and than need to do one on the new one I get.

12. Concept Maps!!!!!

    StudentRN posted a topic in General Students

    We did care plans on our patients last semester and altought I hated them there was a format. Now we have to do a Concept Map's before we even see our patient on 3 need areas. They will not show us examples or anything because"it needs to be your o...

13. Making it through Nursing School with Children

    StudentRN replied to mommyrn's topic in Safety

    Oh yes nursing school and children!!! The first day of our 1st semester one of our instructors told us if we had kids and we thought it would hurt them to not have enough time with them to drop that very day. I couldn't believe she said it, but she...

14. One Done Three more to go!!!

    StudentRN replied to StudentRN's topic in General Students

    Thnaks All!!! Glad to see I am not the only one wanting that A. I need to get rid of my prefectionism!!!!!! My oldest who is 9 and is in 4th grade has always been a straight A student this year he got his first B in advanced reading...he cried!! ...

15. One Done Three more to go!!!

    StudentRN posted a topic in General Students

    Well, I have hardly had anytime to come here and read all these post after a very stressful semester. We started with 93 students 42 passed....next semester we will have 58 because the 16 people are trying again that failed last year...the program o...