Mat4mel

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1. Feel like giving up

   Mat4mel posted a topic in General Students

   I had my first at the hospital yesterday and made several mistakes. I'm such a goofball and wondering if nursing just isn't for me. Here are my mistakes: 1) I was going to give an injectiona nd almost forgot to use an alcohol swab. My instructor w...

2. Bringing diseases home to your kids from work?

   Mat4mel replied to abbabask's topic in General Nursing

   Oops... sorry about that!

3. Bringing diseases home to your kids from work?

   Mat4mel replied to abbabask's topic in General Nursing

   I'm sure you wouldn't argue with me when I say breastfed babies are healthier. Yes, getting colds and different viruses help to build the immune system and can help give the immune system "practice" in order to effectively fight off the bigger guns (...

4. Bringing diseases home to your kids from work?

   Mat4mel replied to abbabask's topic in General Nursing

   This is totally false. Clean living conditions was a major factor in infectious disease control. Did any of you guys attend the lecture about Florence Nightingale? "The sanitary, nutrition, and basic facilities in the battlefield hospitals were poor ...

5. Bringing diseases home to your kids from work?

   Mat4mel replied to abbabask's topic in General Nursing

   To the OP, I totally understand your decision to delay vax. If you are concerned about bringing things home, I would figure out: 1. Which diseases you are likely to come in contact with; 2. think about their method of transmission and how easily the...

6. Who is in Nursing for the money?

   Mat4mel replied to rnmomtobe2010's topic in General Nursing

   Yes. I am starting nursing school in a few weeks, and if I didn't need the $, I wouldn't be doing this. It is going to be extremely stressful on me, and my husband, and my kids. But I'm doing it, because my husband is a pastor and is not able to work...

7. Cost of books first semester?

   Mat4mel replied to Mat4mel's topic in General Students

   Wow.. I guess I was just clueless. I expected the books to be a couple of hundred dollars but $700 blew me away. Anyway, the credit card idea is the only feasible one right now. I'm simply not going to have time to deliver pizzas or mow grass with...

8. Cost of books first semester?

   Mat4mel posted a topic in General Students

   Yikes. I'm starting nursing school in a few weeks. I just got our syllabus and list of "required reading." I already have 4-5 of the books.. the other 13 or so books are going to add up to almost $700 Um, I don't have $700! I do have some $ on ...

9. When you graduate, can you work part-time?

   Mat4mel replied to Mat4mel's topic in General Students

   Thanks for the input. This is going to sound like a stupid question, but how are shifts typically laid out? In a hospital? There are shifts 7-7, right?

10. When you graduate, can you work part-time?

    Mat4mel posted a topic in General Students

    I have always been attracted to nursing because of the flexibility. I have 5 children and want to work part-time when I graduate nursing school (I'm starting this fall.) Is it possible to work part-time right out of nursing school?

11. Accepted into the ADN Program!

    Mat4mel replied to ms.futureRN86's topic in Mississippi

    I'll be starting SMCC's ADN program in the fall.

12. The Parents Support thread!

    Mat4mel replied to Hoping2beRN's topic in General Students

    Hi there. I'm glad I found this place! I am a mother of 5 (I'm 28). My kids are 10.5, 7.5, 6, 3.5, and almost 2. I have stayed home for 11 years, and we homeschool. I am incredibly fortunate that my husband has a job that allows him to be home 9...

13. A & P II Lab killing me!

    Mat4mel replied to Mat4mel's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Yes, I have figured this out in the past-- some questions can have more than one "correct" answer. The problem is, that this professor is not willing to go back through and check the lab quizzes. It's very frustrating!

14. A & P II Lab killing me!

    Mat4mel replied to Mat4mel's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Well, in my online classes (through a community college), the A & P tests are open book, except for proctored midterms and finals. The lab quizzes are open book and there are no proctored exams. I like it, but I think I would learn a lot more do...

15. A & P II Lab killing me!

    Mat4mel posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

    I am taking A & P II online and I bombed my last two lab tests. I am having the hardest time figuring out the labelling exercises. I have Mosby's (Kevin T. Patton) Lab Manual. I am looking at the upper digestive tract (mouth) right now and I can'...