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Pinning - May 13th Graduation date - May 16th Do you have a job lined up? Yes What department? L & D When do you start? May 27th at a Tech and when I pass the board I will transition to staff nurse.

Hey everyone, I was just wondering when your last day of class is. At our school our final semester was split into two 8 week sections. The first 8 weeks were our class and lectures and the last 8 weeks are our clinicals and preceptorships. Tod...

I am like you, can't believe it is this close to graduation. I too only have 5 more clinical days. My Final is is May 9th, Pinning is May 13th and Graduation is May 16th. I am taking the Sylvia Rayfield review course May 19, 20 &21. We are ...

I agree with Heather, I thought as nurses were supposed to give our patients information so they could make their own informed decisions, not give our opinions that may sway their decisions. Lucky for me, I only have 1 daughter so I was never force...

We had to write our own, our school would not let us use purchased drug cards. They said we would retain more of the info if we looked the drugs up and wrote them out ourselves. I put mine on Note cards and then bought a index card box and alphatiz...

kimmicoobug, I had this same discussion come up this week in my preceptorship. I have a daughter who is diabetic and takes insulin injections and was taught even before nursing school not to aspirate when giving SQ insulin. When I started nursing ...

I agree with everyone, don't give up. I was notified about 3pm the day before Classes started, that I need to be at class the next morning at 9am. There is always a chance that someone may change their mind and not stay with the program. We had 2 ...

Kristy, I have also had problems getting some of my programs to run in XP. But I have found that if I go into your help and support menu, There is a section for trouble shooting problems, one of the options is "programs won't run in XP, but worked ...

This is my first concern, is why the insulin was not adjusted for a pt who has reoccuring hypoglycemia. I am a nursing student in my final semester so I don't have alot of nursing experience on this subject, but as the mother of a 12 yo with type 1 ...

Our A & P teacher had a great way to help us learn the Bones. She gave us photo copies of about 150 bones, we had to cut them out, and attach them together to make a 6 foot skeleton. All of the bones had to be labeled. After spending so many h...

We are only allowed to invite 5 people to our pinning, but graduation is unlimited.

mastiff38, I was very nervous about switching careers, I had worked for the same Finance company for 14 1/2 years. It was like giving up my safety blanket to leave my company. But I had always wanted to be a nurse and when my then 9 year old daug...

Our pinning Ceremony is May 13th and Graduation is May 16th. I will be doing my Preceptorship in March and then we have clinical rotations in Home Health and ICU during April. Several of our class is taking an NCLEX review course the week after gr...

"(luckily my husband is still very supportive... i know he gets tired of eating pizza and easy quick dinners... gets tired of the laundry getting done like once every 2wks (or until he says "im out of underwear) .... he knows that it is gonna benefi...

Hey everyone, I have a question. I am a 2nd year, 5th semester ADN studant. At our school we have 2 different campuses, 57 students in my nursing class. We had a new instructor last week, new to our school and to teaching. She taught the lecture...

Miss JKm, I am speaking as a person who spent 15 years working in the credit industry before my mid-life crises of going to nursing school hit me. Everyone has gave you great advice. I have seen so many young people, just starting college get int...

Hi everyone, My name is Tammy, I am 35 years old, Married to a wonderful supportive husband ( I thing the Spouses of nursing students are special people for putting up with everything involved in nursing school ) I have a 11 year old daughter Heat...

We are doing our Maternal-Newborn rotation this semester, I am so excited cause this is where I want to work. Since I am so interested in this field of Nursing I want to know everything that there is to know. I have been studying fetal monitoring s...

That is how our school is also. It is sad because they only take 20 students a year, and when these people get into the spaces, there are others more qualified that don't. We had one that started with us last fall, that during our first clinical ...

Cross post from OB/GYN board. We are doing our Maternal-Newborn rotation this semester, I am so excited cause this is where I want to work. Since I am so interested in this field of Nursing I want to know everything that there is to know. I have been...

I have a Sony Clie, it has a palm operating system so it works with all palm software. I have had it for about 2 months, I love it. But take a bit of advice, Stay away from Cassio PDA's they operate on Windows software and are not compatible...

We have a student in our Nursing class that is driving the whole class crazy. She acts like a know it all and tries to tell us how to do things and she is alway wrong. She shows up for clinicals dressed unappropriatly, open foot shoes, no sock, no...

My finals are December 10 so I have 24 days left. Then only 4 more semsesters to go.

I am a first year Nursing student, in my first semester. I have Nursing, A&P and Medical Calculations this semester. I just finished clinicals and I loved the experience, but I am so overwhelmed with stress. I have been carrying a 3.71 GPA ...