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I finished my fiirst year toward my ADN and clinicals. However, during that first year I came down with pneumonia which triggered a rare lung disease which forced me to withdraw from year two before it began, hopefully temporarily. My school is hol...

Thanks for the thoughts Angela. I was thinking along the lines of nursing home, ob, psych, or sometimes our school places students at the local cancer center. I do realize that I may encounter sick people at these locations (or shoot, the grocery s...

Thanks Daytonite, that was most helpful. The hospital and its employees have been most generous in sharing information and resources, and I'm trying to see this hospitilization as a positive thing. I've gotten a ton of exposure that I would have ot...

So I'm an inpatient again, have another day or two of inside time, and looking for some useful ways for a nursing student to pass time. Any ideas? I've reviewed my chart, looked up all my diagnoses and labwork, studied for all the tests I have comi...

I'm in the same boat, but I have 5 kids and my classmates ALWAYS accept that as a valid reason why I can't do group studying . I tell them I'll come if I can bring a few! Seriously, I do tend to share my study habits if asked, techniques, what I'...

Good luck!

Have a good sense of humor, it definitely helps.

If you know how to study then you will do just fine, don't worry! It is a lot of hard work, and yes some people do just drop out after they find out how much work is involved, but don't let that deter you! Many a 4.0 student finds themselves making...

Congratulations!! I'm not laughing, I haven't inserted a foley successfully on a real, live person yet so I'm very proud of you.

I have 12, and I think one more class would have put me over the edge. 12 is doable. That's one extra class on top of the nursing classes I have to take.

Wow, you are really busy right now! How old are your small kids? Do you have any family close by (I know you said you're away from family and friends, but anyone?)? I hope you have someone who is helping you keep your sanity. Just take a deep...

Pass along some tips, we're starting endocrine next week! Congrats on making it through that section, hope you'll rub off on me by my posting here ha ha.

Today: Study for exam on immune response (Mon) Mon - Take exam (am); prepare for Tues. psych clinicals Tues - psych clinicals until 3; prepare for med-surg clinicals Wed- Med surg clinicals until 3, prepare for group presentation for Thurs night clas...

We just started doing IVs and I'm in quarter 3/6. No successful sticks here yet (haven't had the opportunity in clinicals yet) but I'm looking forward to it! Congratulations royr!

I am absolutely heartbroken right now and really don't know what to do with myself. We're on quarters here, and I've just started quarter 3/6 with a 3.5 gpa and flying colors in clinicals thus far. Love my teachers, love my classmates, love clinica...

I decided to fight for it and hopefully not take a year off. I called my dr back and explained the situation, and he agreed to go ahead and release me for clinicals with the promise that I'd use good judgment and not kill myself. today was my first...

Doing it with 5 kids here!

I have a lot of kids and very limited study time, so I make up note cards as I go, whenever I have 10 free minutes or whatever. Then I can flip through note cards while I'm cooking, nursing the baby, whatever, and by the time test rolls around I've ...

Yup, been there. This too shall pass .

We're on quarters here, and I just finished quarter 2/6 (med-surg I) with an A. Have to go in today for my clinical eval., and now I'm off until April!!! :monkeydance:

Micro will be challenging this summer I think because it will be only a 7 (?) week course due to the switch. Ouch! I don't have any idea how the new students coming in will have their program structured. It's a big secret . It's not even up o...

It's actually a very good program, and the instructors are great and very helpful (for the most part ha ha). Your program will be a little different than mine because we're switching this summer to semesters and that's kind of thrown the organizatio...

I'm right across the river, student at Shawnee State and currently doing clinicals at Bellefonte. I'd love to go to work at KD when I graduate!:)

I'm an MDC mama too! And a selective/delayed vaxer. Still just a student nurse but thought I'd throw my .02 in. I'm in agreement with some others here that the basic premise of vaxing is sound, but I'm worried about the fact that no one has bother...

I've got 2 weeks left, and I'm counting them down!