csmcj BSN, RN

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    Does everyone get this but me?

    It sounds to me like it was part of a simulation lab, not on a real patient.
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    1 Semester

    I'm not a nurse yet, but I am in my last semester of nursing school. Ask questions in clinical. It's not enough to know how something is done, you need to know why it's done. Space your studying out. Cramming won't cut it at test time. Speaking of t...
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    Has anyone been part of a DEU clinical?

    I was lucky enough to be chosen to participate in DEU clinicals 3 times: Med/Surg, Pediatrics, and Mother and Child. It was an incredible experience. The level of autonomy I was given (with support from my preceptor when I needed it, of course) as ...
  4. I only know of one school that does that, but it's a BSN program. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has a program called Pacesetter that front loads all your didactic classes then the last semester (or maybe two, I can't recall...
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    Hep B Vaccine Question

    Check with the school and with your doctor, but I can say that when I got mine, I got the first two on schedule, but then life sort of got in the way and I didn't get the final shot until a year after I'd started the series. My school accepted it, bu...
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    Can I get into nursing school with a 3.1?

    I got in with a 3.1. However, I also had a 96 on the TEAS, and my school puts a lot of weight into the personal statement portion of the application along with interviews. So it is possible, but I'd have to say it depends on the school.
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    Hardships/horror stories?

    While UTMB is a very competitive school, they look beyond just the numbers. Your personal statement and interview(s) go a long way toward helping you get accepted. On paper, I was only a so-so candidate: while I had scored well on the TEAS (96%), my ...
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    Do you have to have a 4.0 to get in ?

    As said before, it really depends. It depends on a lot of things, really, such as how competitive your particular application cycle is. For example, in one cycle the average GPA of those applying may be high, like 3.8 or 3.9, while in the next cycl...
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    Correct grammar

    Ooh, I know this one. In my pre-nursing-school life I was a linguistics major, if that gives any weight to what I say. Default/variant choice (in this case a/an) is driven by phonetics. Therefore when you say myocardial infarction, there is a conso...
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    Technology Advice for Nursing School

    My MacBook Pro is 7 years old and is running as strongly now as it ever has. In that time, the only money I've put into it is $60 for for two operating system upgrades ($30 each). I use a Windows based laptop for school, because some of the softwar...
  11. We're allowed calculators, though we can't use our own. The school provides them for any test in which we have calculation questions. That said, it's been rare that I've needed one on any of our doscal tests. Most of the questions are simple enoug...
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    Hospital Clinicals

    First semester, we started clinicals in the 3rd week of classes (after we'd learned/been checked out on assessment and vital signs). We also learned med admin in the first semester, about 6 weeks in, but we weren't allowed to do that until after we'...
  13. Eh, as with any review site, you have to keep in mind that people are much more likely to leave a bad review than a good one, and take the bad reviews with a grain of salt. Also, when it comes to rating professors, many are unfairly given bad review...
  14. I know for me (and I realize my situation doesn't apply to everyone), my wife and I had several long conversations about the kind of time commitments nursing school was going to require and what that might mean for us as a couple. Once I started and...