amybethf

amybethf

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  1. EXAM QUESTION BUGGING ME please help

    amybethf replied to veleron's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I remember being taught to cross it out and and write 'error' and then continue with the right documentation. But if 'you didn't document it, you didn't do it.' Better to err on the safe

  2. HFCC Nursing 1st Year Description

    amybethf replied to ChelsNurse2B's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Thank you for clearing the air. Thoughts do come across differently when written then in talking. This website is meant, at least to me, to help all of those involved in nursing in whatever capacity...

  3. HFCC Nursing 1st Year Description

    amybethf replied to ChelsNurse2B's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Are you for real? I don't know if it is just the way things can come across in cyberspace but it seems as though you just don't get it. Please keep us informed of your stellar performance in NS, we...

  4. An Observation

    amybethf replied to MySimplePlan's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Funny, I have had family move to Arizona and Pennsylvania looking for greener pastures. But PA is in the same boat as us Michiganders. Penn State U pays college grads $8 hr to work for the...

  5. HFCC Nursing 1st Year Description

    amybethf replied to ChelsNurse2B's topic in Michigan Nursing

    There's nothing that students and teachers dislike more than the student who seems to know everything even though they are a novice. It's a good way to get alienated by your peers. Questions are...

  6. HFCC Fall '07 post here

    amybethf posted a topic in Michigan Nursing

    I am so excited and ready to start this journey! I hope to meet many students to share this wonderful experience with and find some study buddies!

  7. Questions about clinical skills labs-IV & NG Feeding tubes

    amybethf replied to noellelynn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    During fundamentals, you learn the basics: VS, head-to-toe assessment, bed baths, meds and med administration, body mechanics and catheters. Before Med/Surg, you learn sterile dressing changes and...

  8. Digital Voice Recorder - Suggestions?

    amybethf replied to stinebean's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It might a good idea to ask your instructor their preference about being recorded, some are happy to oblige, others

  9. HFCC Nursing 1st Year Description

    amybethf replied to ChelsNurse2B's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Echo the above comment. Clinicals require alot of paperwork and the 17 assignments had to be completed within 6 weeks and that seemed to be across the board. That on top of lecture, well, you get the...

  10. Anyone In Henryford Hospital Nursing Program

    amybethf replied to excited08's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Candygirl- I am graduate of WSU and just about to finish my 1st year of nursing school @ HFCC. That said, I find it incredulous and extremely condescending that you would make such a statement about...

  11. HFCC Nursing 1st Year Description

    amybethf replied to ChelsNurse2B's topic in Michigan Nursing

    For 2nd semster 155, you only have 1 check-off in lab - you are given 4 scenarios with all requiring a combination of different skills, plus IV drip

  12. HFCC Nursing 1st Year Description

    amybethf replied to ChelsNurse2B's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Hello! First semester is Theory (120) and Fundamentals (126) for 16 weeks. You will have 8 weeks in the lab and then the last 8 weeks is your first clinical. 2nd semester is Psych, 8 weeks and...

  13. Does your school give back q's on exams?

    amybethf replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in General Students

    We get 'IA's' (item analysis) if more than 40% of the class got it wrong. It's ususally 1 or 2 questions they throw out. But those points have made students pass and I would never complain about...

  14. Has Anyone Been Accepted For HFCC Fall 08

    amybethf replied to excited08's topic in Michigan Nursing

    It is my knowledge that you can only postpone 1 full year, (I did to finish up co-req's) and then you are put at the bottom of the list. Perhaps in the last 2 years they have changed that criteria...

  15. Flunking 3rd semester AA program

    amybethf replied to dtermineddenise's topic in General Students

    I know cumulative finals are stressful, but you learned that material for the tests so it should still be circulating around in your brain!!! Don't be so hard on yourself. Just study your brains out...

  16. Med Surg, Help desperately needed!!!!

    amybethf replied to >--stethoscope--o's topic in General Students

    If you don't already have an NCLEX book, I would buy one like yesterday!!!!! It sounds like you are truly motivated now and if you really want this, you can attain it. It's up to you! Good

  17. WCCC does NOT have an accredited nursing program

    amybethf replied to nurseO9's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Is it a misnomer that if you graduate from an unaccredited nursing program, that you are illegible to apply for a license outside of MI? That is what I have always heard but I could be dead wrong. In...

  18. Has Anyone Been Accepted For HFCC Fall 08

    amybethf replied to excited08's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Yeah that! 6:50 sounds about right! But there is an oppurtunity for PM clinicals if you're not a morning person! Those start around 3:00. But you really have no control (unless few people want PM's...

  19. HFCC Nursing Program waitlist????

    amybethf replied to RN2B73's topic in Michigan Nursing

    if you are an employee of the henry ford health system, you can do an 18 month accelerated program. i believe you are paid a monthly stipend as well. instead of having a summer break, you go right...

  20. HFCC Nursing Program waitlist????

    amybethf replied to RN2B73's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I am almost done with my first year of nursing @ HFCC (2 more weeks!!!!) and here's some info I can pass along to the newbies. If you start in the Winter semester, u go straight thru without a break...

  21. Feeling inadequate in skills.

    amybethf replied to Justlearning's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    hey - this is not the time to give up! I think you are experiencing the normal jitters that come with graduation and breaking out on your own. You are not the only one feeling this way! Talk to...

  22. psych nursing diagnosis, care plan?

    amybethf replied to birdgardner's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am in my psych rotation and the NANDA priority is always safety first then physiological. Daytonite's advice as usual is right on the

  23. Finally got my acceptance letter to HFCC.

    amybethf replied to mybrowneyedgirl's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Congratulations! Good

  24. So hows med surg at hfcc?

    amybethf replied to oguesswhat's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I just had med/surg (155) and it required plenty of studying but it was interesting material, ALOT of it but good stuff. Get an NCLEX for supplemental reading. It gives great questions and the...

  25. HFCC: Fall acceptance, how many do they take per semester?

    amybethf replied to mybrowneyedgirl's topic in Michigan Nursing

    They take 220 each Fall and 60 in the Winter. Included in these numbers are the students who are repeating courses. And yes, they typically mail out 70 letters per month. Anna Brown is the nursing...