thatgirl2478

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  1. affordable apartment with rn salary

    thatgirl2478 replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    The 'rule of thumb' is that your housing (all of it, rent, utilities, insurance) shouldn't be more than 1/3 of your TAKE HOME pay - which will be a lot less than 75k since you'll have to pay: 401k...

  2. Too old?

    thatgirl2478 replied to FFBean68's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm gonna 'ditto' the others - you're never too old! I'm going to be 40 by the time I get into nursing school, I've been taking prereqs for the past year and the 'kids' in my class have been awesome!...

  3. Are Adn nurse being hired at hospital?

    thatgirl2478 replied to nurse_student27's topic in General Nursing

    depends on the hospitals. some will hire you with an ADN but will require you get a BSN w/in 3 or so years of hire. some will hire you with an ADN and not expect you to get a BSN. some won't hire...

  4. Two sciences at once??

    thatgirl2478 replied to Bketchens's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm doing A&P 2 with Micro now, it's not

  5. Is it necessary to get experience as a Rn before NP?

    thatgirl2478 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    So, I was going to unsubscribe from the thread and just ignore your reply. Yes, there may be schools that are highly respected and have wonderful programs that produce top notch, highly qualified NPs...

  6. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    thatgirl2478 replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    I think you'll get over being let go. It sucks in the short term but in the long term you'll be ok. Walking 15 miles in a snow storm is probably a little extreme, if you were MY kid, I wouldn't want...

  7. Is it necessary to get experience as a Rn before NP?

    thatgirl2478 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    LOL oh so you caught that huh? yeah.... more students, more money, lower standards... :/ which means the NP profession gets looked at in an even WORSE light by other health care providers (and many...

  8. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    thatgirl2478 replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    Legitimately - if you can't afford tires (which is basic maintenance) how can you afford to have a car? Do your parents pay for your insurance? How do you pay for gas? What about oil changes? I mean,...

  9. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    thatgirl2478 replied to Studentworker's topic in General Nursing

    You asked 'Is this my fault?' I assume you're referring to being fired, so the answer is yes, yes it's your fault. Does it suck that employers want you to work even when the weather is bad? Yep....

  10. Is it necessary to get experience as a Rn before NP?

    thatgirl2478 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    necessary? no, a lot of NP schools allow you to enter without EXPERIENCE as an RN. is it a good idea? Yeah, probably. as other's have pointed out some specialties require

  11. Too shy and quiet to be a nurse

    thatgirl2478 replied to CMerin's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    can you fake it at all? I mean, can you model your behavior off other people you see as outgoing and just do what they do? frequently this sort of thing is a 'fake it till you make it' situation that...

  12. Care plan

    thatgirl2478 replied to Amystud710's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Did you figure out what your instructor was asking for? I'm

  13. Extremely Sore Feet!! HELP

    thatgirl2478 replied to TenerifeSea's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Maybe look for an actual RUNNING shoe store? NOT just a store in the mall or wherever, an actual running store that caters to serious runners. They can take a look at how you walk/run and give you...

  14. check my work for this IV question please

    thatgirl2478 replied to btf4's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You have to wonder if there isn't a better way for the hospitals/drug manufacturers to package stuff to make it less wastefull. I mean, isn't controlling costs HUGE these days?

  15. How many can you get wrong?

    thatgirl2478 replied to MamaBeaRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I believe this is the clearest, most succinct answer as to why the NCLEX is so

  16. BSN or Associates Degree

    thatgirl2478 replied to raynpetal's topic in General Students

    I'll be 40 when I start nursing school. Whether you can get work with an ADN or NEED your BSN is going to be a region specific (and possibly hospital specific) requirement. I'm in IL and some...

  17. Is nursing actually worth it?

    thatgirl2478 replied to Smarietb's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well I hope it's worth it ... I just got into school! However, I think it really depends on how you define 'worth it'. I mean, are you using money & prestige as your 'worth it' definition? Then...

  18. Does Anatomy & Physiology help you in nursing?

    thatgirl2478 replied to KStudentNurse70's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As far as I can tell, we aren't doing specific nerves in A&P! We had to learn the cranial nerves & the basics of nerve function (sensory in the back, motor out the front... 3 paths up, 2 paths...

  19. Does Anatomy & Physiology help you in nursing?

    thatgirl2478 replied to KStudentNurse70's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    FYI this thread is almost 4 years old, so the original people may not respond. I'll help as best I can... The only thing that really works is practice. Practice naming the bones on yourself, your...

  20. Nursing sucks!

    thatgirl2478 replied to FrankRN2017's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "accelerated MS in Project Management program at USC" - get ready to babysit adults... I did project management for 6 months before going back to my previous IT role, all I did DAY IN AND DAY OUT was...

  21. Help with Histology

    thatgirl2478 replied to Lavender111's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Ususally it will be darker - may not be toward the bottom though! If you look for the positioning of the nucleus within the cell, that's often the key. But yeah, I HATED the histology section of...

  22. Anatomy disections

    thatgirl2478 replied to aquakenn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It depends on your program. Our LPN program has the students complete a single A&P course. You may not do ANY disection, or you may learn on pre-disected preserved specimines. When I took A&P...

  23. Help with Histology

    thatgirl2478 replied to Lavender111's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So first of all, look for the 'basement membrane' and the 'free surface'. If you see one layer of cells (like a single layer of bricks) with their bottoms on the basement membrane and their tops as...

  24. Starting Pre-Req’s at age 37

    thatgirl2478 replied to AspiringNurse99's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yep. I'm 39 and started in the Fall of 2017. I'm going to be 40 when I start my BSN... It's good because you understand how YOU study best, and your social life is usually more settled than 18-22...

  25. Anatomy disections

    thatgirl2478 replied to aquakenn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We dissected a rat first (for gross organ anatomy), then the sheep brain and then the sheep eye all in A&P1. So far we're using display skeletons, some plastic some real in