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  1. hosptial pay for school

    shrimpchips replied to acantrell77's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    A lot of hospitals do this - they will either help pay for tuition (or sometimes in full!) in exchange for working for them for x amount of years. You could call the hospitals or go on their...

  2. Required Classes for Nursing School

    shrimpchips replied to my_purpose's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Here are the classes that I had to take: Intro to General, Organic & Biochemistry I & II (+ labs for both) Principles of Microbiology (+ lab) Intro Ethics Intro to Psychology Intro to Nursing...

  3. starting med surg, question

    shrimpchips replied to robert2010's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The closest thing I can think of is RNotes:

  4. Med Surg textbook

    shrimpchips replied to dhammond3's topic in General Students

    We are using Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care 4th edition by Lemone &

  5. RN-BSN-NP

    shrimpchips replied to Nurse wanna-be's topic in General Students

    Like ChristineN said, it really does depend on your school so I would research their curriculum guides for their nursing programs. Make sure that your pre-req classes can be transferred to the NS...

  6. Nursing School Students...Is It Hard?

    shrimpchips replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Students

    Oh, and another thing that I would like to add that makes nursing school more difficult than pre-reqs/HS classes - we, as students, have spent all of these years memorizing information. Memorizing...

  7. Newbie Question: Blood Pressure...?

    shrimpchips replied to WannaBeNrse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I have always been taught on what you hear, NOT by the needle bouncing. There was an interactive blood pressure cuff tutorial at our computer lab and it was the same. Of course you need will still...

  8. Dysrhythmias

    shrimpchips replied to gaajr1's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    :chair: Stupid question, but... dysrhythmia =

  9. measuring resp rate?

    shrimpchips replied to mcubed45's topic in General Students

    They taught us to take their pulse for 30 seconds then take their resp rate for 30 seconds, so you'll be there looking at your watch for a minute. A less obvious way that they also taught us is to...

  10. Can anyone recommend a good Patho book?

    shrimpchips replied to Natingale's topic in General Students

    Pathophysiology Made Incredibly

  11. Nursing School Students...Is It Hard?

    shrimpchips replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Students

    :ancong!: On getting into your nursing program! Nursing school *is* tough. You will constantly being nothing but studying and they really like to cram a lot of material in such a short amount of...

  12. I spent over 600 dollars on textbooks and supplies

    shrimpchips replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Wow, lucky you! I spent ~$900 just on BOOKS alone, + ~$200 for uniforms, ~$73.95 for a Littman Classic II S.E. stethoscope, ~$50 for shoes, so that's about ~$1223.95 for everything... This semester...

  13. lung, heart and bowel sounds

    shrimpchips replied to carlarenee02's topic in General Students

    The Auscultation Assistant is a nice website for heart/lung sounds: http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/intro.html Not so sure about a website for bowel sounds,

  14. How do you prefer to take notes...???

    shrimpchips replied to ksauce20's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Handwritten. I learn things better by writing them down myself. Also, "technology" (cell phones, laptops, iPods...) are strictly prohibited in my program, and with laptops it's for a good reason...

  15. Do you use Ratemyprofessor.com?

    shrimpchips replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Students

    No, It's not And yes, it does! I love it! Unfortunately all of my school's nursing faculty isn't listed, but a good majority of them are. I also use pickaprof.com

  16. Are you forced to practice IV's and injections on each other in nursing school?

    shrimpchips replied to kroegerk's topic in General Nursing

    no no no! :no: we practiced on little pads. we also had a little forearm model that can be used to practice intradermal injections but the bleb never appeared on

  17. Do friends outside of nursing school give you a hard time?

    shrimpchips replied to hunnybaby24's topic in General Students

    This happens to me all of the time. I have lost friends from not being able to hang out with them so much, and it sucks, but that's life I guess. In the end you will know who your true friends are,...

  18. Writeatermpaper.com

    shrimpchips replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Students

    :nono:This counts as cheating and you WILL get caught. Most nursing schools take plagiarism very seriously and you can even get kicked out on your "first offense." It's not worth it so don't do

  19. How is the Nursing School Different from Pre-Reqs?

    shrimpchips replied to futuredream's topic in General Students

    Memorizing will help when it comes to things like lab values, but other than that, you need to understand the material and be able to apply it, just like RhodyGirl and others have been

  20. Issues placing a bedpan

    shrimpchips replied to shippoRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Isn't that one also specifically used for patients who have had hip fractures? At least that is what I have been

  21. Which class would you recommend? Please respond!!

    shrimpchips replied to rawoysteraddict's topic in General Students

    And if you don't want to pay for a book, you can always do some googling - I know that there are websites out there that have medical terms on them that you can study

  22. MEDS leanring System-RN

    shrimpchips replied to TRCCnurse2be's topic in General Students

    You will be fine! Start looking over those drug sample problems to get an idea on how to solve them, then practice, practice, practice! Drill them into your head and then when you have to take a...

  23. Nursing students getting in a BSN program...

    shrimpchips replied to Nellifuturenurse2010's topic in General Students

    I'm trying to space my classes out and I don't have it that bad this semester: * Foundations of Nursing II * Pathophysiology for Nurses * Self-Defense (:chuckle I needed the additional credit...and I...

  24. Stress!!!!!!

    shrimpchips replied to Blueberrz's topic in General Students

    Meditation or yoga :) Both are extremely

  25. MEDS leanring System-RN

    shrimpchips replied to TRCCnurse2be's topic in General Students

    At my school, we had to take a dosage calculation test by a certain date and pass with a 90% or better or else we can't do clinicals. It wasn't in the form of an LSRN, though, but we had LSRNs on...