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from my experience the big blue veins you can see are always easier. and it does make you feel better when you try unsuccessfully to start an iv and then the one with more iv experience cannot start it either. it's hard to describe exactly what vei...

my wife is a nicu (neonatal) nurse, of course they do their share of cleaning poo. the upside is that it is contained to a diaper and in much less quantity than an adult patient. it also only takes a couple of wipes to clean it. the smells may not...

I am fed up with the lack of professionalism that I am seeing popping up in my unit. I am tired of seeing staff (nursing and otherwise) wearing earbuds from their Ipod while at work. I did bring it up with one of my nurses one night and he was very...

When I read the original post re: good stethoscopes, I had to let out a good laugh. I went through nursing school w/ a dual head "Prestige" brand stethoscope... about $20 when I bought it new. There were others in school who had dropped the $75 to ...

First of all, congrats and good luck (with the pregnancy and getting into nursing school)! Although I was never pregnant during nursing school, there were quite a few in my class that were at some stage of pregnancy throughout my 2 years in the nurs...

I am set to graduate in 6 months and have already gotten a job/internship position at my first choice! I am so excited to be getting school behind me and joining the world of the gainfully employed! I have a question though...I am going to be start...

one question- how do you want nursing schools to be run these days? just curious. anyways- what has helped with me was last semester which was my 2nd of four semesters i was feeling the same way. i was bummed my grades were not what they should/co...

i know that there are some who post here who are in/have been in the wesleyan program here in ft worth so they may be able to shed more light than i can. i do know though that some who have gone/will be going to crna school have been at baylor all s...

this is great to see such a response by guys! i have been on here for about two years now or so and i don't think i have ever seen anything like this before. unfortunately i don't always have time to post comments, but i always look to see what's n...

if this is a problem that the whole class is having w/Nursing 101 instructor- it might be a good idea to go up the chain of command and get the problem fixed. it may not necessarily immediately resolve any problems you are having now but it may chan...

here's another. senior at university of tx @ arlington!! i know what you mean agent- when we started last fall out of ~100 there were 10 guys, now due to some of them failing classes we are down to like 5 or 6 now.

for me personally, i think that pharmacology has been my toughest class so far (1 year of nursing courses completed, one to go). first of all it was at 0800 on monday morning, on top of that, nothing but drug names, method of action, dosage, side ef...

jayne- good luck and best wishes for your interview. when i had my interview, of course being a male my choice of clothing was different from what you would wear, but "sunday dress" was appropriate for our school. something appropriate for the weat...

as far as i know my act score was not looked at during my application process. maybe it was, i don't know. i know that it was looked at and useful for getting me accepted to college in the first place. but i think they looked most at pre-req's com...

online a&p...that's interesting. sorry though- mine was in class. i had never heard of a&p offered online. how are labs handled? i could see the lecture portion being available via distance learning or something of the sort, but honestly,...

one suggestion that was given to me last semester when i was at my wit's end...dealing w/a 3 y/o son and trying to study while he is at home w/me and wife is working...was check into your local public library or rec center. see if they have a readin...

as a second (and final) year nursing student, i will see if i can help you. are you meaning just like pens, notebooks etc? or do you mean supplies for clinicals and everything? as far as juts for class, what i did was purchase a three ring binder ...

here are my two cents...if you are an insurance claims adjuster currently, then my guess is you probably don't have a biology degree already. that being said, i am figuring you probably do not have all the pre-requisite courses completed needed to a...

Very well put K! Cynthiann, please let me reiterate what K said. Keep your eye on your goal and do what is necessary to achieve that goal. I am not a CRNA, not even a SRNA yet (desire to be though). I am getting started with my last year of nursi...

there has been a lot of talk on here about pda's. i am starting my last year in nursing school (a bsn program in the d/fw metroplex) and have not had one. i looked into getting one when i started school but could not justify forking over the $$ to ...

i'm here in the d/fw area- arlington to be exact. finishing up research course @ uta in about 8 hrs (final at 0900) should probably be studying or in bed- oh well. anyways- starting senior year @ uta in a few weeks! ready to be finished and get to...

in my opinion- i do not think you are in the wrong profession just because you get a little quesy now and then. i would imagine it happens to a lot of people. i thought i was going to drop one time when i saw a jp drain being pulled out during my f...

in my opinion, nursing school is tougher than the pre-req's were, but it is not impossible to get an a in actual nursing school course work. there are a lot of different factors to consider- factors that are not necessarilly within one's control. h...

Do healthcare workers (i.e. nurses, doctors, rt, pt, etc) really tend to have more troubles w/pregnancy? Background: My wife is 25 weeks pregnant with our second child (a three year old angel when he is not a terror!) When #1 was born we had a simpl...

With two semesters of Nursing School down and two left before I graduate next may, I have had the "luxury" of taking courses that were web-based and even one that used a cd instead of a textbook. Our web based instruction consisted of a forum where ...