iWish ADN, RN

Hi everyone! I’m so nervous and excited typing this right now. I’m a new nurse in my 1st year of practice. I graduated in the middle of the COVID pandemic which means I didn’t get my last semester nursing clinical, and no nurse residency programs ...

Honestly, I think it's a mindset thing. Yes, this public and anon forum for nurses is a great place to vent and relate with others going through the trenches. I have honestly only had one job in my whole life that I would look forward to going to, an...

Thank you for the advice! Steady watching for more tips and tricks as I start my new journey in the ED.

Good Morning! Apologize for the length This has been on my brain for a couple of months now and I'm scared of the responses I'm going to get. So back story, I graduated in the Summer months of 2020 from my ADN program. Passed NCLEX and landed a...

Hi everyone I'll be graduating from my ADN program in the near future. I want to get started on my BSN as soon as possible but I'm worried about starting to work as a new nurse and also balancing a RN-BSN program. I'm really excited to start working ...

I don't know why I asked this question knowing dang well I was going to do it anyway. & y'all were right, I should have waited haha but oh well. I'm so busy & stressed all the time. I am determined to finish what I started here though. Litera...

Thank you for the advice. This was my concern.

If there's any way you can enroll in a course this summer, do it, and knock the gen bio out of the way. If you can't this is how I'd lay out the semesters. Fall: Gen Bio, Gen chem, and Phil. Spring: Anatomy 1, statistics, and nutrition Summer: Anatom...

This is common grading criteria for nursing courses. In my program 75% is passing. 74.9% is failing. If you score anything lower than a 77% on an exam, you have to remediate with the professor and the academic advisor plus filing out paperwork. There...

Think small and take one day at a time. Literally, one day. This is how I manage. Make small family goals to accomplish weekly and incorporate them into your schedule. Ex: Tuesday nights I will take my family out to eat. It may be only for an hour a ...

In my personal experience, the ADN program is more flexible time wise than the BSN. I was previously enrolled in an extensive BSN program. It was hectic and basically impossible with my family life. I switched to an ADN program and it's much more man...

YES! It's doable. Single mom of 3 right here (6, 4, 2.) It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life and I was a single mom in the Army before this (active duty.) My biggest hurdle was getting over the feeling of guilt when repeatedly having to ...

Ours is this way too, but it could change with each clinical since it is up to our clinical instructors. My CI last semester was by the book, care plan for every clinical day, due 72 hrs after clinical ends, etc. I had classmates that had 7 days to c...

This! The detailed care plans are tedious but I remember things I've learned so much more than doing the shorter care plans.

Hello everyone! I am in a good place right now and I'm currently on my short "summer" break in between semesters. I wanted to take some time to sort of tell my story and hopefully encourage some students who are in the same place I was almost a year...

Thank you! What I did was I took about 8 weeks to "be sad" and not think about school. After that I started doing my research for other schools. Just keep in mind, it's May and there could be application deadlines approaching soon. Not to rush you, b...

Seriously, BEST of luck to you on your Hesi exam. It seems like we share the same passion for nursing and whether it's 5 years or 10 years, it's not a race at all. I have to remind myself that on the daily. Thanks for sharing your story!

Honestly, it seems like a much more efficient way to do it for your class. I wish my class would adopt methods like that but hey, thats where end of course surveys come in handy.

5 pages equal medication cards, nursing dx page is usually 3-4 pages, discharge plan is 2 pages, intro page is 1, I&O is 1, lab values is 2, correlation sheet is 2 but suchhhh a pain, plus more. It's very very detailed and imo overkill. The previ...

In my BSN program: first clinical = 2 care plans; 2nd clinical = 3 care plans; 3rd clinical = 1 care plan (didnt finish the program) these care plans were easy, maybe 8 pages total. My now ADN program: first clinical = 5 care plans (22 pages each) k...

I relate and I just wrote a post about my experience. You're not alone.

I've never used a study group while in nursing school. I used one during my prerequisites and it was so very helpful. My professors this semester are really trying to push study groups on us but I've been doing really well studying on my own because ...

These science courses are difficult for sure. Nursing courses are even more difficult than they are to be frank. If you don't really really want to be a nurse, that's okay! There's absolutely nothing wrong with changing your degree path. If you do ab...

Wow, everyone, thank you for the advice. I was not expecting this many responses. Thank you for taking the time to read and reply. I'm going to do my best to stop making a back up plan since I'm not failing at the moment. I don't want to put the cart...

I personally have a love/hate relationship with med/surg units. I'm sure you're working on a general med/surg floor and it can be slow and tedious at times. My advice would be to give it another clinical rotation to see the different units, hospitals...