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1. Starting Monday. Need some advice!

   peacelover replied to ShelbyDee's topic in Student Assist

   First off-congrats on starting the program! Way to go! Second, do not listen to all the scary stories people tell you. The next time someone starts to relay something negative either walk away or stop them mid-sentence and ask them to tell you what ...

2. Feeling intimidated by Adult semester

   peacelover replied to Mommy_RN1211's topic in General Students

   See if you can create a good list of nursing interventions you will use for those cardiac patients. Why they are important, how they help your patient, how you assess for the effectiveness of the intervention. Include what adjuvant therapy may happen...

3. Too much to handle?

   peacelover replied to Nurse2BeCam's topic in General Students

   Anything is possible if you put your mind to it, I suppose. With small children it is not something I would ever do to myself. If your program is like most you must make A's in those science pre-reqs to even be considered in the program. There is a...

4. Please help! I'm a new grad.

   peacelover replied to pink8's topic in New Nurse

   It is pretty common to have this feeling of 'shock' when you first move into that place as an RN from school. There are a lot of expectations that school creates for us, couple those with our own notion of what nursing 'should-be' and it pretty much ...

5. Failed my 1st Fundamentals Exam

   peacelover replied to Fever4RN's topic in General Students

   Sent you a PM with a helpful site...dont give up!

6. Favorite books to help you understand material?

   peacelover replied to estormpowers's topic in General Students

   Hey! All books will put the same content in front of you. It depends on how you learn. Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic? Only you have that answer and I imagine you have a good feel for it by this point. I was not a huge fan of my OB/GYN rotation. I go...

7. Expectations vs Reality

   peacelover replied to dprevish's topic in General Students

   I am glad you see that you are being a bit hard on yourself. I will say though, thank you for actually caring that you do a great job and take give great care, lots of new nurses do not really even know that they do not know something. Which is an ev...

8. Expectations vs Reality

   peacelover replied to dprevish's topic in General Students

   It is hard when expectation does not match up with reality. I have never been scared, I think that my pre-nursing life experience helped me with confidence. I was shocked at the gaps though..you know there was just so much that school cannot possibly...

9. Terrified to graduate in May...

   peacelover replied to ALDsn14's topic in General Students

   Take a breath and know that being nervous/freaking out is actually pretty much normal no matter HOW prepared/ready you may feel to graduate and be out there worling under your own license. A couple of things...sometime in this last semester you shoul...

10. RN ADN Prereq.

    peacelover replied to TexasNoel's topic in Texas

    Just my perspective. If you are going to get into a school in DFW then you need to make A's in all of those Pre-req classes. The specs on the programs tell you that you can have a 3.0..seriously though, they have to say that. They start with 4.0's fi...

11. conscious pt terminal wean

    peacelover replied to taylynnfree's topic in MICU

    I think the fact that it shook you only proves you are human. Don't be too hard on yourself or expect that you 'should' magically have had a different reaction to the situation. I wouldn't say you get used to seeing death; especially when people ar...

12. PRECEPTORSHIP!

    peacelover replied to ABailey2326's topic in General Students

    First things first....take a breath and feel proud of the work you have accomplished! Yay for YOU!!!!! I precepted in ICU and work there now...so MUCH FUN! As far as confidence goes, I dont think your program would allow you to precept in ICU if the...

13. Frustrated student

    peacelover replied to Austincb's topic in General Students

    I am sorry you are going through all this, how tough to be so disappointed in something you worked so hard to get into in the first place. I am wondering, have you spoken to any of the faculty about your concerns? What have they said about how your p...

14. How do I change my outlook?

    peacelover replied to wise8's topic in General Students

    Ultimately, you are studying to learn how to keep patients safe and alive. So, study with this in the forefront of your mind. To heck with the focus on grades one way or the other. Don't let that keep you from being motivated to do a great job.

15. study Aids

    peacelover replied to ginna88's topic in Student Assist

    First semester is a bit overwhelming at times. Have you been able to determine how you learn best yet? If you are a visual learner then maybe you need to draw out the concepts and connect the dots between them to retain the knowledge. There is a seri...