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That's awesome to hear! Wasn't actually following but I'm glad it all worked out!:)

I just finished my first year and I don't remember much. All I can remember is that we introduced ourselves to each other and that we just started the lessons after that. Oh wait, we got some handouts and outlines but nothing overly exciting. Didn't stop me from being enthusiastic though!:)

I always knew the 'Room of Requirement' was real! I just wished that when it was needed, there was time to use it. 😥 - Harry Potter joke for those who don't know. 😄

I'm not a nurse yet or a final year student either but you shouldn't worry about other people who got awards and didn't deserve it. You should just focus on the fact that you finally did it and graduated after all that hard work. End on a high note and not a low note. Focus on the positives and be excited about the future like now that you have graduated, where are you gonna work and which department and the fact you'll meet new people and maybe have new friends, etc. It sucks that you didn't get an award but you graduated though and not many people can say they graduated nursing school. Besides, life is too short to worry about what you can't control.

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Hello allnurses.com, I haven't been posting much since I've been busy lately but I'm currently in my third and last semester of Nursing school. Second semester was pretty good since I got pretty good grades for the hard subjects and first semester ended. ((((By the way, anyone in their third semester of nursing now or anyone willing to give me tips, please do! I'm doing Health Promotion and Foundation (not fundamentals - totally different thing) of Nursing this time so any help would be great before classes start.)))) My school is kinda slow on the grades thing so I got back my first semester GPA last week. In the first semester, if anyone read my (rant) post, I had a low grade with a course and I had to do it over. I did and my final overall grade was 70 which is the lowest passing mark. It was sad but I'm glad I managed to pass it and didn't have to resit it again. My first semester GPA, even with the C, turned out to be a 3.5 which is pretty awesome to say the least. Kinda goes to show, one C in nursing school isn't the end of the world. So, I'm happy and excited when I'm hit with a bomb of a project in a course with us being the 'guinea pigs' to see how well the course will go. Lucky us. So we have nothing to go off of (no format or anything), teacher gives us freedom to do whatever and I'm panicking. Luckily, we have a kicka..! librarian to help and stuff gets done. Basically surviving the first hurdle of the last semester feels awesome but I know it can change in a minute. So school is good...for now. Again, tips would be great. So, thank you and goodnight! *bows and nearly falls over*

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The patient asked for her best friend so here he is!

Thank you for that. Your respect for the profession really shows. Hope computer engineering works out! Your gender will be missed but from what I have read so far...you not so much.

I'm not sure if you know the subject but it's Written and Oral. It's sorta like English Language.

It's accredited. I made sure before I attended.

The subject had no textbook. All we had to rely on was the syllabus and slides and activities we did in class (which came from the syllabus).

I started nursing school this September at age 19 but birthday was in October so I guess you could say 20. I would have started earlier at like 17 but I did three years at college to be a doctor not a nurse. In the end I didn't have the grades (or finances) to be a doctor but I wanted to go into healthcare so nursing was the next step.

Congratulations on being accepted! Try to relax! It's your first day! If anything you need to focus on is being friendly with your class/batch mates. Try getting to know everyone and building good relationships. Also, I'd also recommend making a group email or WhatsApp group at the start to making studying together and sharing of notes easier.

*plays entrance music* I have survived the first semester of nursing school!! :D It's official as I have finished my final exams, I got the courses I'll be doing next semester come January and I am now on Christmas break. It was a wild ride, with some ups and downs. I loved and excelled in Anatomy and Physiology (as I knew I would:cool:), I excelled in Biochemistry, did great with Info technology and for Written and Oral Communication...well, it could have gone smoother. But that is all in the past, right now it's party time! Although I'm curious, who else is a survivor of the apoca- I mean, nursing school? How did final exams go and how was the semester for you?

Only school that accepted me. All the others are full plus they are more expensive.

Yeah, pretty much.

Good afternoon! I have an issue and I need to see if I'm just over reacting or not. This week was finals week and the pressure was of course on but it didn't start out all that great. The first exam was a complete disaster. It was multiple choice with an essay but for some odd reason the first ten or fifteen questions they were paragraphs. To make it worse, some of the questions were confusing. I had to read one of the questions three times and even then I still didn't understand. You would probably think I didn't study but NOTHING from the outline of the syllabus and the document with notes that we got got came on there. Now even though most of the class failed, the school rules says we have to pay to resit. I'm talking ten grand here that no one has on them and we need to pay before January. Do you think that's fair? For almost 80% of the class to fail and have to pay for something that wasn't our fault?

"THIS is how you do an incision..."

I was on her phone trying to send a certain file to a group. I saw a midterm review paper with the topics that would come on the midterm biochem exam. I sent it to the WhatsApp group without her permission. She got upset and yelled at me. Still confused?

I had the worst day ever in the history of worst days! I feel so bad and I wish that I had never gotten up to go to school this morning just to avoid today. This day was so bad that I might as well give up on the idea that nursing school will be enjoyable and that I might have friends. No one will be friends with me after this! I know I sound dramatic but don't roll your eyes yet. This is not your cliche bad clinical stories on here or bad day at work or anything. I did a very bad thing based on an assumption and now I'm hated and/or black listed. Okay fine, that does sound dramatic. But this person was nice to me. In fact she knows my mom and she's seen me around town and now she hates me. I haven't made any friends but if I had to choose, she'd be one of the people I would pick. I sent a file that was on her phone to a WhatsApp group I made for everyone in the class. It was topics that we could use to study for the midterms test on biochemistry. But...I did it without her permission. What happened was, I saw that she had a PowerPoint up and I thought that could help others and asked her to send it to the group. She didn't know how so I kinda went through it and while looking for it I saw a file called 'midterm review'. I remembered a while back about her and a couple of other students talking about some kinda cheat or something on one of the subjects and assumed they circled it around. I thought they would share it but some of us didn't get it (well, I didn't) and so since it would help, I sent it to the group. Apparently, she was the only that had it and got it from another source and she could get in trouble if anyone found out. Still wondering how she would get in trouble since she had the topics and not the actual questions. The thing I need to know is: how can I fix this? I deleted the group and created another group (although in the end it didn't help). I feel super bad - I actually cried when I went home and I still feel like crying. Can I salvage anything at all?

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone! I just have a simple (or maybe not so simple) question about nurse midwives. I have read up about them on the net about how they are midwives with nursing experience but they all mention a graduate degree. In my country, you can become a nurse and a midwife without a graduate degree. But would we be considered nurse midwives or nurses/midwives? I'm just curious cause some of my batch mates are considering midwifery after nursing school and want to also work in another country, for example: in the US. Thank you for any responses and for taking the time to read this.

Today, Sunday September 10, 2017, marks the last day of me being a pre-nursing student! Tomorrow, Monday September 11, 2017, marks the first day where I'll be starting a four year BSN program! I am extremely excited for tomorrow and I can't wait to go through orientation and have my first classes and everything. I have all my textbooks, I couldn't get a planner, I have a binder and a pencil case that can fit inside it and I have my uniform. I'm gonna get my class schedule, my 'bible' and other stuff tomorrow. I don't know if we'll have classes tomorrow even though it is orientation and first day of classes all in one. Never had that before and not sure if there will be time but...hey, tomorrow is gonna be awesome! Based on what textbooks I was supposed to get, I'm gonna be doing A&P 1, Statistics, Microbiology and Biochemistry. A&P seems exciting and I have a feeling that it will be my favourite subject based on the stuff I see in the textbook but statistics and biochemistry gives me pause. After high school, chemistry was never my strong suit (I know it's biochemistry but still) and although I passed the A levels, that was based on my high lab grade and multiple choice exam. The problems and equations were INSANE. I passed it though, thankfully but I am still not confident. Statistics is the same as Chemistry but I did a bit worse. Passed it...well I passed A Level Math which had a bit of statistics in it. Took me awhile to understand it. Some parts are still confusing. Biology is my best subject so far (no idea why since I love Math) so I'm confident about Microbiology. A&P looks exciting so I'll definitely have fun. All in all, hopefully the first day, first week, first month and first year goes well. P.S Any tips for statistics and biochemistry would be helpful.

Thank you both for replying so quickly. @xxstarrynitesxx What specialties would those be? Would it still be considered 'bedside'?

Hi everyone on allnurses and guests. I'm pretty new here and nursing school for me starts September but because it starts in September I just think of myself as a pre nursing student. Sorry if I'm wrong for thinking that but I just feel that way. Anyways, I'm excited to enter the world of nursing and there are a few specialties I'm interested in... But I have a few problems.... Poop is not my thing and I can't stand the sight of worms of ANY kind. . To be honest, I'll handle poop that's not in a toilet. I'll suck it up for poop (liquidy poop is better looking to be honest and again, not in a toilet bowl) but worms is a big no no. Weird thing is...is that I'm interested in being a ER nurse or an ICU nurse. To be honest any bedside nurse specialty would look good at this stage if there was NO chance of worms or...ugh, maggots. (I considered neonatal before but I read that it's limited especially compared to peds so not really a big fan but if it's my only option then so be it.) So am I bedside nurse material? Er nurse or ICU material or am I doomed? I know I can change my mind about specialties but what if I don't? Best to know now than never. P.S Sorry if this is the wrong area to put this question in. Sorry for the nurses annoyed by this question but I haven't found any worried about worms in nursing like I am.