Deliasgone

If they are eliminating RN scrub, how will you be able to become a first assist? I thought you had to have multiple years of both circulating and scrub experience to become a RN first assist. Will that be a thing of the past, too?

I can relate to you. During semester our marriage pretty much gets put on hold because I am in school in the mornings and he works 2-11 as a chef. What my husband and I do to keep it together is work out together three mornings a week....no excepti...

1. What have your clinical instructors done to enhance your learning during clinicals? Especially clinicals that didn't offer much in the way of practicing skills ( such as low chance for IV's, dressings, etc). I can say that I've had pretty boring c...

I am so upset right now. I made a "D" in Med/Surg I. I got my final grade early this morning and I was unable to go to the school to talk to my advisor to see what to do now. The thing that really gets me was that I thought I was going to be okay....

I was having anxiety issues all semester and I kept putting therapy off b/c of a previous bad experience w/a therapist. I guess it all kept building up and I finally snapped at the end. The last week of lecture I blacked out in class b/c it got so ...

Everybody, Thanks so much for your hugs and encouragement. I went and spoke to my dept. head this morning and she is pretty sure that I can get back in next semester (as long as they can find the faculty ) I was feeling pretty down yesterday but I...

If it still matters... The student would have been told to leave the floor immediately and booted out of the college. Not so much for the med error...that would have been a nasty lecture, conferences, additional lessons, a write-up, the possibility ...

In response to the "mom has to be there 100% of the time" posts: Who on earth does that? Even the super SAHM get a break of some kind. Nobody and I mean nobody can be there for their children 100% of the time. No breaks. It's just plain unhealthy...

How exactly is going to school equating with not wanting to be a mother? And where exactly is the job description of a mother? Does it mean that you are with your children 24/7 to cater to their every whim while negleting yourself (because that's j...

I've been concerned about the same thing. I mean, come on here, last I heard parenting was a two way responsibility. How come he isn't being blasted for shirking his parenting duties by getting out of the house and doing something for himself (work...

Give her whatever emotional support she needs since she isn't going to get it from her family for now. The resistance from her family may just be related to the change and hopefully they will get used to it, but in the meantime, support her. What s...

I have been thinking the same thing. And have you also noticed that when someone's life gets saved on other random shows, it's always a Dr. doing the saving. Never a nurse or EMT. I say we need to come up with a good primetime quality TV show idea...

"At my school we praticed on eachother in lab." -What did you inject each other with? At my school we practiced on oranges.

It has been done but it is VERY difficult. You will have to look at other factors such as your courseload and your own abilities. How many hours are you taking other than the two science courses? What else do you have going on in your life? Do yo...

Hi! I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a proud mother of a 4 yo boy with autism. I can totally relate to all the stares from the neighbors, fellow shoppers, even family. Fortunately, they have tried to learn more (some are more zealous than ...

The henna scarring was likely due to black henna, which is not supposed to be used and the people who do use it should know better. It will cause permanent scarring among other things. Black henna is very popular among the street vendors that line ...

No curves. Passing is a 78% and if you have a 77.9% it is still a 77.9%. The instructors said that it was a mandate that was beyond the school. I don't know if that is true or not but it certainly mollified the class.

I'm a Davis's girl, myself.

I had my OR observation this past Friday and your tips helped out loads! Thank you! I will also say that I absolutely fell in love with OR. I really felt at home there and it gave me the drive to keep going through school.

Tri-County Tech is Upstate in Pendleton, which is near Clemson.

I'm currently in the RN program there, don't know anything about LPN though. I am not sure of what you want to know about the program, but I can tell you that I like it. It is HARD and I have heard a fair shair of gripes about the program. The RN ...

After the fingerstick I probably would have asked for someone else to administer the vaccinations. I agree with everybody else, go as far up as you can and be as loud as you can be. Nobody should be like that with any other person, much less a chil...

Normally 1 grain = 60 mg, except in the case of aspirin, then 1 grain = 65 mg

We worked on mannequins at my school and I wish we had worked on real people. Giving your first real live bed bath, pt xfer, etc is nothing like a plastic dummy!

Not that I am aware of. If you include the time I spent getting pre-reqs out of the way (while waiting for my turn on the waiting list) and add that to the 5 semesters of nursing classes I will have been in school for 5 years. I think that 4 years ...