dinah77

dinah77 ADN

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  1. Advice please - new to nursing

    dinah77 replied to mikejjmay's topic in General Nursing

    "It is just too hard to try to find a night program, and create my work schedule around that, and have time for all the other things in my life. " I totally understand. However, just take the plunge-...

  2. Advice please - new to nursing

    dinah77 replied to mikejjmay's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Mike Sorry, just found this thread, and so you may no longer need any input- but here's my two cents.... I would advise against going the LPN route..the jobs simply aren' t there, unless you are...

  3. HELP!! I need guidance I saw someone cheating

    dinah77 replied to Brie80's topic in General Students

    I concur with the advice of turning her in, and I'm a little alarmed at all the responses on here not to. Cheating is bad anyhow, but in Nursing school it's really bad as it affects the safety of...

  4. Is anyone else suffering from senior-itis?

    dinah77 replied to Work in Progress's topic in General Students

    Oh heck yes, that's me. In fact, I'm technically supposed to be in lecture right now, but I already know the material well and I'm getting good grades AND IT WAS BORING ME TO TEARS! One semester...

  5. Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    dinah77 replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    I can so relate to this! people lose their minds in nursing school- when I do really well on a test, of course I keep it to myself, out of sensitivity to others.....but at the same time, it make me...

  6. Can I turn it around? Did you?

    dinah77 replied to dittosaur-bandaid's topic in General Students

    You can DO IT! My first test of med-surg I failed by 6 points under the passing mark- For the second test I spent the two weeks prior studying my ass off, reading all the assigned material, running...

  7. Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    dinah77 replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    Please bother to do reading prior to lecture as you are darn well supposed to per the course syllabus. And if you don't can you at least stop de-railing the lecture time with questions that were in...

  8. Nursing School Drama queens

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in General Students

    "People went out of their way to get me kicked out of the program, doing things like putting their patients dirty breif on my patients floor at clinical before our rooms were checked, spreading rumors...

  9. Nursing School Drama queens

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in General Students

    "I started off Nsg. school hoping to make oodles of wonderful friends...now I'm just hoping to make it through the next 9 months without my tires being slashed " LOL- sadly, this is how I feel now...

  10. Nursing School Drama queens

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in General Students

    "I really am glad my friends and classmates arent like you people on here at all. " THis is a little harsh. If you had read my OP, you would have seen that I started out nursing school with a good...

  11. Nursing School Drama queens

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in General Students

    "This kind of thing is why I don't ask what other people made on tests. " Yes exactly- I learned my lesson the hard way- now if people ask how I did, I just tell them "I passed" Or "not as well as I...

  12. Nursing School Drama queens

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in General Students

    Thanks for your reply! It's nice to hear I'm not the only one in the world who thinks they could have been better friends to

  13. Any St Kates nursing student want to give me the heads up on what to expect.

    dinah77 replied to Jeannai's topic in General Nursing

    Im starting The nursing program In sept any advice on that??? Yes! Buy the books, do all the readings, skipping what is easy to you- in 1000 and 1200, the readings are deceptively easy, but by 2100...

  14. ADN vs BSN bias, grrrrr

    dinah77 posted a topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Okay so I am trying my damndest to land a summer internship, and to my dismay I have discovered that many of the hospitals in my area ( including the one I REALLY wanted to be an inten at) will not...

  15. which cities are the best for CNM opportunities?

    dinah77 posted a topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    SO even though I have 15 months left in my ADN program, my husband's career is such that it is never too early for him to start looking at different cities....and we pretty much have to move because...

  16. Is Atalanta good for jobs for New Grads?

    dinah77 posted a topic in Georgia Nursing

    Okay, here is the short version...husband applied to a bunch of doctorate programs all over the country.....When he starts getting acceptance or rejection letters back, one of the many factors we will...

  17. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    Actually, what's ironic is that my school simply has you wear white scrubs, which is the same as what we wear to clinicals. So at my pinning I'll just haul out my most accpetable pair. I tend to...

  18. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    yes indeed

  19. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    it's about a year away. I only ended up on this thread because I resonated with th e OP's

  20. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    well, that's nice to know you try to live the same way, refreshing to find another one like me:) I would re-think walmart though. They have and continue to treat their employees so poorly that I...

  21. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    I think I didn't fully explain myself. Sure, your suggestions are all good ones if it's something you want. But my husband and I, along with living on the poverty line are also committed to an...

  22. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    uh I think you are the one missng a point if you honestly believe "there is always a way to find the money" It's called poverty friend. It doesn't mean there is money sitting around somewhere one...

  23. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    Amen to

  24. Enough is enough: Get out of my wallet.

    dinah77 replied to Bortaz's topic in General Students

    I'm totally with you. If my school pulled this, I would say screw 'em and wear whatever I could find that is a reasonable match to the "required" outfit. What are they gonna do, not give me my...

  25. Is Boston good for jobs for new grads?

    dinah77 posted a topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Okay, here is the short version...husband applied to a bunch of doctorate programs all over the country.....When he starts getting acceptance or rejection letters back, one of the many factors we will...