CaliforniaPoppy

CaliforniaPoppy has 1 years experience.

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1. Got locked out of first test...Feeling like a failure

   CaliforniaPoppy replied to sbarge72's topic in General Students

   Has it happened to anyone else? I was 30 seconds away from it happening to me this Monday!! Our dosage calc exam was at 8 am, and I left 20 minutes earlier than I usually do (which is already 20...

2. Future Specialty Speculations: L&D vs Wound Care

   CaliforniaPoppy posted a topic in General Students

   Hi Everybody, I have just started second year of my RN program (semester 3 of 4); and I am already finding more and more people asking if I have any idea what specialty I might be interested in, for...

3. CNA brain templates

   CaliforniaPoppy posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   Hi there, I am a nursing student (starting 2nd year in August) and just got a job as a CNA on a busy step-down telemetry unit at our local hospital. This is my first job as a CNA (or anything...

4. Bedside medication summaries

   CaliforniaPoppy replied to CaliforniaPoppy's topic in General Students

   This is exactly the kind of summary our instructor seems to want us to do (and it makes sense)...now, any chance there is somewhere that people have compiled a collection of nice succinct descriptions...

5. Bedside medication summaries

   CaliforniaPoppy replied to CaliforniaPoppy's topic in General Students

   Thanks! Lexicomp looks great, 'though I certainly cannot afford it right now. And of course I have Davis' Drug Guide to hand all the time (on my phone, I'm looking at it so often). The Med Deck...

6. Bedside medication summaries

   CaliforniaPoppy posted a topic in General Students

   Second semester ADN student here, and starting to administer meds more often on our clinical days now. It is going pretty well - not feeling panicked or anything (yet) - but I have found that when it...

7. What do you eat for breakfast?

   CaliforniaPoppy replied to Ioreth's topic in General Students

   I'm a breakfast person, and even I find it tough to eat when I get up at 4:45 am! I find the Trader Joe's instant oatmeal blend (it's organic and has a bunch of different grains & flax etc. in...

8. Just accepted into nursing program - need help deciding about summer courses

   CaliforniaPoppy posted a topic in General Students

   I've been lurking here on allnurses through the application process, gleaning study hints as I did my TEAS, and spending hours learning about specialties I didn't even know existed before...this has...