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  1. Murrieta, CA new home- which hospitals in area have new grad programs?

    catzy5 replied to babblingbrook's topic in California Nursing

    I love the area, I live in Temecula have been here 6 years now and it is really wonderful. We are in dire need of good hospitals though and you will see it's quite a shocker. Palomar has a new grad...

  2. Murrieta, CA new home- which hospitals in area have new grad programs?

    catzy5 replied to babblingbrook's topic in California Nursing

    I have been looking just a little, I live in that area, but I am only a first semester student. I know Loma linda and Polmerado health have new grad programs but only at certain times of the year,...

  3. Mt San Jacinto Nursing program?

    catzy5 replied to chargersbaby's topic in California Nursing

    I can give first hand info just PM me and I will be happy to share my experience. I am attending there now. there is no waiting list but you do have to have the GPA. they say they pick 4 lottery but...

  4. free downloadable nursing skills videos

    catzy5 replied to jedv#1's topic in General Students

    oh yes i have a couple sites i have used. nursing assistant - video lessons cso -

  5. Motivation please!!!

    catzy5 replied to >--stethoscope--o's topic in General Students

    I am not sure what you mean by the spiritual side? do you mean religiously or more like caring and nurturing nurses do? I haven't really seen any nurses usue spirituality in their care, however if a...

  6. care plan for acute pancreatitis

    catzy5 replied to shorty510's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    with my limited knowledge i agree with daytonight, i had my last pt yesterday came in with pancreatitise she was npo and in extreme pain, i think pain would be the major dx, it was the first thing we...

  7. Nursing Diagnosis help

    catzy5 replied to E.R. Rookie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    isn't it risk for insufficient

  8. critique please

    catzy5 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Ok this is my first dx with goals, intervention and rationale, does it look right? am I on the right track. Please any critisism is fine I might be completely off track i am trying to do this...

  9. fundamentals and med surg I are 8 week classes

    catzy5 replied to vivasmom's topic in General Students

    yes this was us too, I just finished my first 8 weeks with Fundamentals and Pharmacology, it was seriously the toughest 8 weeks of my life, with each week consisting of a 2 exams both of which we need...

  10. critique please

    catzy5 replied to catzy5's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am not even sure I know what that means. She is in day one post op for hip replacement, the only complaint I could come up with was pain, her recovery was going very well, she was quite anxious...

  11. critique please

    catzy5 replied to catzy5's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    oh good grief 10 lol I am barely making the 3 atleast for this round and my lack of experience. I wish I had a case study to go on, unfortunately just what I wrote down in my notes from the chart...

  12. Nursing Diagnosis

    catzy5 replied to catzy5's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thank you very much daytonight! I am trying to realy use my book (care plan's made incredibly easy), I am also using mosby's guide to Nursing Diagnosis, that is where I got the labeling for my care...

  13. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    catzy5 replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    How funny I read that and didn't think anything abnormal about 5 days. We have literally only 5 days to learn all material for two courses have to study 24/7 then start new topics right after the...

  14. Healthy Clinical Lunch?

    catzy5 replied to GypsyRose07's topic in General Students

    I get hungry over the 13 hours too, also my commute is an hour each way so I am up by 4am to got to clinicals. I have yet to find the time to snack during clinical though and I have never seen any of...

  15. Healthy Clinical Lunch?

    catzy5 replied to GypsyRose07's topic in General Students

    we can't bring anything in due to lack of space. I do have a clipboard and pack snacks but not

  16. Healthy Clinical Lunch?

    catzy5 replied to GypsyRose07's topic in General Students

    I hear ya, our clinical starts at 6:30am and we are not allowed to bring anything in with us, not even lunch. We have a cafeteria but the food is really gross, I have been trying to think of what I...

  17. Get RN in 2 yrs or less!

    catzy5 replied to simplymemyselfandi's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I could be wrong but from looking at the link above it looks like it is for someone who has an RN already, the link brings you to RN-BSN programs which has no prereqs, however I guess it is assumed...

  18. What mantra is getting you through nursing school?

    catzy5 replied to MySimplePlan's topic in General Students

    mine was really positive until I started school no my favorite mantra is "she can't fail us

  19. Drugs and the Autonomic NS

    catzy5 replied to GeauxNursing's topic in General Students

    Well sounds like you still have it better then me, we are teaching ourselves, thankfully we have a good book, does your book have diagrams or tables? the sub groups are all layed out in mine, I have...

  20. Drugs and the Autonomic NS

    catzy5 replied to GeauxNursing's topic in General Students

    one more tip parasympathetic increase SLUDD (Increases fluids) S- salavation (increase) L- lacrimation U- urination D- digestion D- defication Decrease: heart rate bronchio, pupil constriction...

  21. Drugs and the Autonomic NS

    catzy5 replied to GeauxNursing's topic in General Students

    just curious I am on the same unit, our instructor is not lecturing on this and we have to know all the Cholinergic, adrenergic and cardio hypertensives by this thursday, how long do you have to know...

  22. pharmacology help

    catzy5 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am very frustrated, I am having the worst school experience I have ever had. I was so looking forward to nursing school and worked so hard to get here and now I am teatering on the verge. We just...

  23. pharmacology help

    catzy5 replied to catzy5's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Well the class is called Pharmacology so I assume we should get some instruction, I don't mind doing the work but what they are expecting is impossible and scarier still what kind of nurses are the...

  24. My first bed bath!!

    catzy5 replied to ostomyrn2b09's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    well i have a fear too i start clinical next week, i got checked off last week on bed bath's, know what i had to do to get checked off? i watched a video that said bed bath was a good time to do...

  25. Rescue Me!

    catzy5 replied to jacq2005's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    you know what I did? I got out childrens text books, it is a way to really simplify things for you, and from there you can learn more about it. It's not as hard as you might be thinking it is, and...