thalictrum

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1. Catheters to Classmates?

   thalictrum replied to gatordez's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I know in some schools people run IVs on each other, which are angiocatheters, which may explain the source of it – or maybe it's just a wacky urban legend. (I'm really glad I never heard it, even if I wouldn't have believed it.)

2. Does anybody else get this from family or friends.....

   thalictrum replied to vccorscc's topic in Pre-Nursing

   As a former pre-med student, I get plenty of people telling me I should just go be a doctor. And maybe someday I might go be a doctor, and maybe my RN is a step along the way, but for now, those people can shut up. Don't let them get you down. You kn...

3. Anyne going to HVCC? (Hudson Valley)

   thalictrum replied to dandk1997RN's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I've got my schedule now, actually, as of this morning -- I expected to be an alternate, but my TEAS score was actually 91% so to my complete shock I actually did get in right away. And am somehow only taking 8 credits after a year of overloads in my...

4. Anyne going to HVCC? (Hudson Valley)

   thalictrum replied to dandk1997RN's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I'm starting in Fall '10 too (and also very shy) -- and terrified so many people apparently already have their schedules! I want to be in the day class (read: I can not actually be in the night class, schedule does not permit) and am now concerned th...

5. No one told me....

   thalictrum replied to Reese17's topic in New Nurse

   Even with my Danskos, my feet are killing me at the end of a shift (I work in an emergency department so there's really no sitting, ever, which might have something to do with it). Then again, I wonder if they don't fit me properly.

6. A Few Simple Rules For Electrical Safety

   thalictrum replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   This has me, my MD father, my paramedic co-workers, my massage therapist boyfriend, my friend the medical student and my other friend the pre-med student/EMT all cracking up. Thank you so much; it's wonderful. (And sad how many of these things have h...

7. is a change to a nursing career even an option?

   thalictrum replied to TXturtle's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I've got basically no sight in my right eye either (and am 20/20 in the left with corrective lenses as well), and got accepted into a selective program with the admissions committee well aware of the disability. On top of that I'm learning disabled -...

8. Who's taken the teas v?

   thalictrum replied to sch1109's topic in TEAS

   The chemistry made me want to bang my head on a desk until my forehead was bleeding. I'm five years out of high school and haven't touched chemistry since 11th grade; there was no way I could possibly learn all of that stuff again. I didn't like tha...

9. Who's starting (or hoping to start) this fall?

   thalictrum replied to nocheapones's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I am! I just found out a couple of hours ago -- or else, I hope it's accurate, because the school's website says I've gotten in, but I haven't gotten an actual letter. I'm not letting myself think about the remote possibility of a computer error, th...

10. marriage problems in nursing

    thalictrum replied to jnkrek2006's topic in Pre-Nursing

    You're not. My biggest problem is that while I haven't even begun nursing school yet, I'm finishing up paramedic school right now (I'm on my field/clinical time, which basically feels like having a Real Job and not being in school anymore, except I'v...

11. New TEAS V Science Section

    thalictrum replied to nepthea's topic in TEAS

    Chemistry. My test was unfairly skewed toward chemistry, which I haven't taken in six years! (I think I got a 53% on the chem questions, compared to a 100% on Biology.) People just out of high school will fare better than older folks, it seems, due t...

12. What TEAS score did you get & did you get accepted in the nursing program?

    thalictrum replied to nursein2012's topic in TEAS

    91.3%, and I'm still waiting to hear, but my hopes have been raised by the "99th percentile" aspect. I was expecting to fail! That test scared the crap out of me.

13. Hudson Valley Community College--Has anyone gone there???

    thalictrum replied to carrie42's topic in New York

    I'm also a current applicant for Fall 2010 (just got my TEAS scores this morning) and am actually sitting here wondering why I haven't heard about these CPEs -- does it stand for "clinical proficiency exam," or am I completely off-base? I do have fri...