ticky_rms03

ticky_rms03 specializes in Mostly peds as a tech.

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1. What is your passing percentile?

   ticky_rms03 replied to Achoo!'s topic in General Students

   we have to get a 75% average on our tests first, then they add in the rest. no rounding! 74.9 is failing! lost a lot of people that way! we also have to take a math exam (med calculations and such) every semester (sometimes two per semester, one in t...

2. Question about nursing school and shots

   ticky_rms03 replied to CNAtoRN2b06's topic in General Students

   ah, i remember giving my first injection. i was scared. i asked him if it hurt, and he said no. i started jumping up and down and said that was my first one. him and his wife laughed hysterically. i love giving shots...i also love doing ivs. sick, i ...

3. ATI Testing is BS!

   ticky_rms03 replied to TsavarenaRN's topic in General Students

   okay, i failed my first ati last week. over half my class failed the med/surg one. we are seniors. i think most of us went home planning our suicides. some of the things on that test were ridiculous! i have never failed an ati test...why this one? t...

4. How do you remember calculations?

   ticky_rms03 replied to DAMomma's topic in General Students

   i carry a folder that has helpful hints and cheat sheets. i am probably one of the worst math students on earth ( i freeze the second i see numbers)....it took me a long time to undertand my math calculations. last year (my junior year), everything j...

5. Do nursing school students actually rest.....

   ticky_rms03 replied to DAMomma's topic in General Students

   as far as resting from schoolwork, i guess i do. we have to do a portfolio our last semester, so i spend a lot of my breaks working on that...especially since it's due next semester. i work a lot...but i don't like to sit still...i have to be doing s...

6. Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

   ticky_rms03 replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

   my name is rachel. i am 22 and a senior nursing student in a four-year curriculum! i have been a tech since my junior year in high school. i currenly work in pediatrics (in a transplant university hospital) as a clerk/tech and as a paraprofessional ...