JessL85

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1. Thank You Treat for Staff

   JessL85 replied to jazacmom's topic in General Students

   I just finished my first clinical rotation and we left the nurses a plate of (store bought) cookies and a fruit platter and a thank you card. Gave them something to munch on when they were able to take a sec to stop by the break room!

2. Students, do any of you not want a hospital job after graduation?

   JessL85 replied to Skips's topic in General Students

   I do not want to do bedside nursing, but I think it's a good experience to have and that really all nurses should probably do it, at least at first. Plus, I am only going for my ADN right now. So the plan is, get ADN, get hospital job, work and decid...

3. First day of clinical!

   JessL85 replied to Julesmama28's topic in General Students

   Awesome...My first day of clinical is Sunday...I go Saturday afternoon to pick a patient. I kind of want to throw up just THINKING about it!! Haha, so I hope it goes well...

4. What kind of non-nursing jobs did/do you all have while waiting?

   JessL85 replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Recovery

   I work at a daycare. This is my first semester of nursing school, so I cut back a lot, to just 10-15 hours a week since my schedule changes daily so it's too difficult for them to otherwise rely on my for a set amount of time. I have never worked in ...

5. TEAS V score

   JessL85 replied to sacnurse's topic in TEAS

   84.7%. But honestly, I had no idea I was even going to take the TEAS! The assessment we had to take to apply to the program was something different (they just changed it to the TEAS this semester), but they had all new students come in to take the TE...

6. How to control nerves

   JessL85 replied to unicoRNurse's topic in General Students

   Haha, I seriously started contemplating today if maybe I should get medicated and see if that helps!! Just seems like I should try to deal with it in different ways first...

7. How to control nerves

   JessL85 replied to unicoRNurse's topic in General Students

   Too funny I came across this thread tonight because I was going here to post something similar, asking for help!! I had my third checkoff this afternoon. I didn't feel nervous at all before going in. I knew what I was doing, and the other two had gon...