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  1. Exceptional clinical teacer...gift?

    shrimpchips replied to lazy_prodigy's topic in General Students

    We brought bagels & juice for our last day of clinicals and my instructor loved it because she loves food We also got her a thank you card and everyone wrote a little "thank you" message and...

  2. what will you be doing over the break?

    shrimpchips replied to picurn10's topic in General Students

    Studying Got a full schedule next week + my final lab check off on a head-to-toe assessment which I'm very nervous for (on wednesday), then finals the week after!

  3. Does Your School Give Priority Registration to Certain People?

    shrimpchips replied to jpeters84's topic in General Students

    For registration it does not matter but when it comes to who gets in the program and who does not, first it goes by science GPA. my school takes your science GPA and averages it, then the school...

  4. Easiest drug calculation method?

    shrimpchips replied to MiaKeaRN's topic in General Students

    That is an awesome book! Definitely check it out if you

  5. Easiest drug calculation method?

    shrimpchips replied to MiaKeaRN's topic in General Students

    this formula: d ---- x q h where d = dose or desired dose (what is ordered), h = what you have on hand and q = quantity which really i only use when calculating problems such as...

  6. Anatomy?

    shrimpchips replied to RedEyeBrat's topic in General Students

    There generally is a little quick review of A&P in my classes, especially for my health assessment class where A&P 1 is a pre-requesite for it, but it's not nearly in depth as an A&P class...

  7. I'm In!!!!

    shrimpchips replied to dominicangirl1's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    :ancong!:

  8. What Do You do During Clinicals

    shrimpchips replied to cutensweet2's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm still in my first semester of my BSN program and right now I'm in a LTC. For the first time I did meds, I was supervised because she has to watch us take them out of the pack and we had to tell...

  9. Sterile Dressing Changes

    shrimpchips replied to jorla9903's topic in General Students

    I have a lab check-off on this today! Here are some tips/hints: * be sure to select the correct size of gloves - if they're too small, they can tear; if they're too big, you risk contamination (parts...

  10. Are you allowed to use voice recorder during lecture?

    shrimpchips replied to Lajimolala's topic in General Students

    our program strictly prohibits the use of

  11. lost in clinical.. confused about nursing school...:(

    shrimpchips replied to miniangel729's topic in General Students

    What do the other students in your clinical group think? Are they experiencing similar problems? I'm still in my first clinical rotation at a LTC. I don't particularly like the LTC but everyone has...

  12. Priority nursing diagnoses

    shrimpchips replied to Eirene's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Is this true for any sort of medical diagnosis when formulating a nursing diagnosis? (because we were taught not to use medical diagnoses) stupid question, I know, but I was

  13. Just Opened Acceptance Letter! I'm In!

    shrimpchips replied to Absolutely13's topic in General Students

    :ancong!: just like chicookie said, expect a lot of work and stress! there will be times where you will think to yourself "now WHY did I want to do this again?" but despite that feeling sometimes, I...

  14. please give some tips in answering exam questions

    shrimpchips replied to veleron's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Don't change your answers - go with your first choice (or

  15. Could charts be more disorganized?!

    shrimpchips replied to newbie08's topic in General Students

    I think what bothers me more is all of the illegible handwriting you find in most charts...

  16. Poked myself with a syringe

    shrimpchips replied to Dakeirus's topic in General Students

    You should recap after drawing up a medication/transfering the syringe to a patient's room (maintains sterility of the needle...by walking to the patient's room there is "air traffic" which can make...

  17. Hardest class so far...

    shrimpchips replied to ColtsMom's topic in General Students

    Pre-reqs: intro to general organic & biochemistry I & II. ugh. in the program: I'm only a first year but so far Foundations of Nursing has been pretty difficult, mainly the exams. My Health...

  18. need help with nursing dx!

    shrimpchips posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I have to write an assessment paper on my patient which basically includes...well, everything, including a whole review of systems. We also have to formulate two nursing diagnoses (one priority and...

  19. need help with nursing dx!

    shrimpchips replied to shrimpchips's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    THANK YOU

  20. (vent) Group projects

    shrimpchips replied to SoloWytch's topic in General Students

    omg, I hate group projects unless I choose my group! lol for one of my classes each group had to do a presentation on a nurse theorist. first of all, everyone told me that they didn't know how to...

  21. Poked myself with a syringe

    shrimpchips replied to Dakeirus's topic in General Students

    how did you poke yourself? i know that things like that happen, but for example if you recapping the needle, we were taught to use to the one-hand scoop technique - put the cap on the table then...

  22. I passed DRUG CALC TEST Whoo !

    shrimpchips replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    :ancong!:

  23. How did your clinicals start??

    shrimpchips replied to newbie08's topic in General Students

    Ours started 4 weeks after the start of the semester...on tuesday mornings (which is when our clinical time is this semester) we had "lecture" and then we also went over things like drug math because...

  24. what happens if your teacher takes off a ?

    shrimpchips replied to jackie102's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    our instructor awards us the points if the questions are unfair or sometimes they are coded incorrectly on the

  25. drug calculations

    shrimpchips replied to tsv.thundercat's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It also depends on the drug; 65mg = gr 1 is the best conversion; the most noteable of these are Tylenol and aspirin (gr x = 650mg) (from Calculate With Confidence: 4th Ed. by Deborah Gray