1smrtnurse

1smrtnurse has 12 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg, Orthopedics,Cardio,Geriatrics.

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1. LPN bridge to BSN

   1smrtnurse replied to scott414's topic in LPN-RN

   I am planning on moving to Phoenix, Arizona and would like to enroll in their LPN to BSN, can you tell me what school and where it is and how I can obtain the information on the program.

2. what is the material/studying like for online?

   1smrtnurse replied to northmississippi's topic in Online Learning

   @northmississippi are you thinking about online courses with Excelsior? if so then I can give youinformation on what it is like I myself take online courses with Excelsior now.

3. DON not working with my school schedule ...

   1smrtnurse replied to volcomcna's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   @volcomcna I hope this helps you deal with this situation if you need a friend and help with anything im me ok! Been there where you are this is why I chose Excelsior to do online. I had everything including Chemistry, Ethics and Statistics for the B...

4. DON not working with my school schedule ...

   1smrtnurse replied to volcomcna's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   First of all let me say "STOP and PRAY"!!!!!! "DO NOT" let anyone frazzle your nerves like this!! In some workplaces this is to be expected, looks to me that you may be a very good worker as a CNA and they probably do not want to loose you in this ca...

5. Daily plan of care

   1smrtnurse replied to J-NO's topic in Student Assist

   Where I work @ the VA we pass this out every morning to our patients before the start of shift when we are making rounds with the 7pm to 7am nurse going off duty with the 7am-7pm nurse coming on. Basically a daily plan of care is a document provided ...

6. Books?! Where do you buy them for EC?

   1smrtnurse replied to SWilson213's topic in Online Learning

   I purchased all of my books from Amazon.com, fortunately for me I had excellent sellers who also responded with emails. If you ever have to use Amazon.com again always check the seller's ratings to see if they have @ least a 97-99% rating or better. ...

7. Excelsior College Online Nursing Exams

   1smrtnurse replied to Nurse Blondie's topic in Student Assist

   Yes,it is very helpful if you read the recommend Chapters as this is the information that you will need to help you answer the questions to the actual exams. You need to read to be able to understand, how to apply the 5 Steps or 6 Steps of The Nurs...

8. SG101 practice tests

   1smrtnurse replied to savagetrojan's topic in Online Learning

   @savagetrojan , Again Congrats on doing so well on Health and Safety, I did purchase the 2010 yellow book new edition it cost me $58 bucks brought it @ Books A Million about 5 months ago when it first came out, but you can count on me getting my mon...

9. SG101 practice tests

   1smrtnurse replied to savagetrojan's topic in Online Learning

   @beachnurse84, Is the yellow Saunders book the newest edition the one that everyone is buying, that the NCLEX questions are very similar to the Excelsior practice exams.????

10. Health Safety

    1smrtnurse replied to savagetrojan's topic in Online Learning

    Congrats savagetrojan I am getting ready to take my practice tests to see how I stack up!! I am happy you did so well ,again Congrats and on to Transitions. I am getting ready to schedule my test wish me luck!!! And then on to Transitions !!!

11. La charity Scores...........NCLEX RN

    1smrtnurse replied to jabwemet's topic in NCLEX

    By the way my co-worker did pass her boards!! Again GOOD LUCK & Praying for you all!!!!

12. La charity Scores...........NCLEX RN

    1smrtnurse replied to jabwemet's topic in NCLEX

    One of my co-workers who recently took her boards used the book by LaCharity she said that the test is mostly delegation and prioritization,and Assignments and has a lot of questions with multiple answers if this is in any way helpful to you all beca...

13. La charity Scores...........NCLEX RN

    1smrtnurse replied to jabwemet's topic in NCLEX

    To: Jabwemet,Illbeanrn, and Chillceb here are some things that I know will help you to CRITICALLY THINK to help you STAY FOCUSED & PASS YOUR BOARDS if you follow these rules: (1) If the question asks what you should do in a situation, use the nur...

14. Just ordered LaCharity with ONE WEEK LEFT!

    1smrtnurse replied to Mrs. SnowStormRN's topic in NCLEX

    No a CD does not come with the book by LaCharity another book I use along with this one and the Saunders to help me study is called: Lippincott's NCLEX-RN Alternate Format Questions. This book has great Strategies that are Critical to answering NCLE...

15. Just ordered LaCharity with ONE WEEK LEFT!

    1smrtnurse replied to Mrs. SnowStormRN's topic in NCLEX

    This is a very good book and yes a lot of the test questions are delegation and prioritization, I brought this book in September of last year, one of my LPN co-workers took her RN boards and used this book and said her test had a lot of these type qu...