Lynnsey017

I, too, am a new grad in the OR. Just started my nurse-internship and I'm so overwhelmed with all of the information! So glad to have a forum like this though. Good luck to all the new OR nurses!

They said there aren't enough students @ WCC?! Wow, that's actually hard to believe. I'm 4th of 5 semesters @ WCC-Dothan and we are practically overflowing with nursing students! My freshman class alone started with more than 100 students- we're now down to about 60. I was just talking to one of my faculty advisors yesterday and she said there are close to 300 students in the program! You can find the pass rate @ http://www.abn.state.al.us/main/programs/reg-programs.html WCC has done away with the waiting list, which used to be more than 2 years, now they are using a point system (an A gets 30 pts., B 20 pts, etc) they take as many as they can who have enough points. I am the president of WANS (Wallace Association of Nursing Students) so if I can get you any information, I'll be glad to help!

Hi everyone! I am the president of our student nurses' assoc. and I am in charge of developing ideas for our bulletin board in the college cafeteria. I was hoping that maybe someone on these boards has seen some really neat boards or has any ideas for setting up/decorating their boards. I do have some help from my VP of the assoc and we have got a few ideas- we have gotten medical-themed fabric as our background, blue border w/black lettering. We had also thought of taking a stethoscope, empty I.V. bag, syringes (w/o the needle, of course) and attaching them to the board (our pharm teachers actually had those on their boards). We had thought about just using "Join WANS" (Wallace Assoc. of Stundent Nurses), "Be A Nurse" (something simple for new students who might not have thought about nursing as a major), or even "Dare To Care" the Johnson & Johnson theme. I was just wondering if anyone had any other good ideas that we might borrow. Thanks for the input!

RN program all the way!! Love it so far but finals & 3 more semesters to go!! :yelclap:

I'm in the Wallace Comm. College program right now, 2nd semester- finals in two weeks :w00t: . I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have.

Thanks for the great info BlueEyes!

I'll be starting my clinicals in OB this week and need to know what are the most used pain meds for C-sections- pain, etc. I don't have any experience in this field and I'm excited/terrified. Can anyone help? Thans