Thoenix

I graduate in May with my ADN. I'm very near the top of my class and take advantage of every opportunity for more hands-on experience and to try and learn everything I can. I'm so excited to start nursing and I had intended to seek out a residency ...

The move will definitely materialize. It's just a matter of which of four locations and which of three different move dates. I haven't even started applying for jobs because of the fact that I am trying to figure out what's appropriate to eve...

I have blood pressure down pat. I get accurate readings every time--as long as I'm using a single-person stethoscope. I cannot, for the life of me, hear anything on the two person stethoscopes. I'm being tested on this skill in a week with the two-...

Hey I know it's been a little bit since you posted this but I'm in the fall 2019 class and we just had orientation. Classes are mostly in mornings. Clinicals depend on your sites and are two days a week. Clinicals can be any time Wednesday afterno...

This is really helpful. I really hate the double scopes. Even the really cheap classroom single ones, I can hear fine. I'll watch for the bounce. I know I have the vitals down cold. I know my 'vitals dialogue' cold. I have this. Thanks for the ...

I'm Canadian and Hep B is a vaccine we get at about 11-13 years old in the province I grew up in. I go to school in the US, but with different countries having different ages for the vaccine, I can see where people could miss one window or another a...

Yeah, go ahead and email her. When she called me she said she was caught up on her student emails so I don't think it would annoy her.

If you have permission both to a) record and b) use a laptop or tablet in class, I highly recommend the program Sonocent audio notetaker. You can take notes in it that link directly to audio timecodes so that if your notes seem garbled or incorrect,...

I had those thoughts as well, but I'm sure that they're going to make sure we can go to class and to our clinicals, otherwise they're shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm an immigrant and Castlebranch was giving me troubles as a result so I had called awhile back to clarify what Castlebranch was meant to be doing because they clearly didn't know. I couldn't get a response in time so I had to do my best on my own,...

CEC students should probably be aware that we're running a little behind. The woman in charge of our cohort had to have emergency surgery a little while ago and she's been struggling to get us all caught back up. She's very nice and doing her best ...

It's so normal where I grew up. Very north, very rural, very poor. We don't think twice about it at all. I've probably eaten roadkill meat, though I didn't know it at the time. My family hunted in the fall for our winter meat and had deals with f...

Police where I grew up had a call list for deer and other largish animals--when people called in to say they'd been in an accident with a critter, or to report an injured/dead deer/bear/whatever, the police would call the next person on the call list...

Same. Now I have to coordinate the TB testing. I'm allergic to everything so I'm expecting to have to do the blood test because I have no doubt that I'll be allergic to a component of the skin test and welt up. I've got it scheduled but I am not l...

Every single thing you've ever posted is anti-vax. Do you just sit and lurk and wait for years for opportunities to do anti-vax trolling? Is that your only interest? Fascinating.

I did consider it. You're coming from a place of fear and propaganda. What's 'lots of preservatives'? Do you know why they're there? Do you know the rate of allergic responses? Do you know which vaccines do and don't contain preservatives and wh...

People panicking about autism being 'on the rise' never realize that the other issue is recognizing that autistic people can be highly intelligent. The vast majority of new diagnoses are in people who don't struggle academically so badly but who str...

@ukgirl7655I feel like you just managed to get me a bingo on 'antivaxxer who doesn't know what she's talking about' bingo. I think you literally hit every single easily disputed myth that I've ever seen an antivaxxer bring up. Congratulations. If y...

You complain about not having informed consent, well. Honey. If you think all those things are in vaccines in any kind of quantity to do any kind of damage, you're not informed. You're just a conspiracy theorist who knows nothing of chemistry, mic...

@JanDoATX 1st time applying Prereq GPA 4.0 Coreq GPA 4.0, ethics and nursing skills 1 not completed at time of application HESI I got a mid to high 90 on everything. 40 points

My Nursing Skills I profs said that we could use that on our resumes and that most hospitals in the area will take an ACC NSI in place of a CNA license. Something about being able to challenge the CNA license but I'm going to be honest I was thinkin...

EVC, CEC, RRC for me. I think there are clinicals first semester but I'm not positive. I'm hoping to get a very part time job (a day or two a week) in a hospital while in the program.

Letters have started going out!

Thanks for the pricing tip! It's been out of stock locally (they have all the other colours of course) and my friend went to *her* local shop in another country and got me photos that she says are true-to-colour. Her photos are pretty close to the ...

If I get into my nursing program (my odds are very very good but I'm trying not to count chickens before they hatch) I'm going to reward myself with a good quality stethoscope because I'm expected to have my own for clinicals. I've been working very...