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Basically, everything you will bring will need to fit into your pockets. Alcohol wipes and hand sanitizer are on the units. Your stethoscope, penlight, permanent marker for dressing changes, a watch (my first one happened to be digital), bandage scis...

A&P is a knowledge based class. You mostly memorize stuff. I made my own flash cards because I knew I learned more that way. If you don't know what your learning style is, you can google and find online tests to take. That may help more than any ...

You are wanting to go into a lesser program, so that you can get a certificate you don't want and have to keep going to school to get the degree you do want because you are tired of going to school. Does that sum up your questions? You need to get on...

Why are you afraid to tell you professors? They understand that some things are more important than nursing school. (Blasphemy, I know!) Let us know how everything goes. HD

WOW, serious deja vu! I cried after every clinical for weeks. You've gotten so much good advice already, I can't think of anything to add, other than it is all SOOOO worth it! Maybe you can find a buddy in your clinical group. I always ask a peer f...

Absolutely. Using the excuse you were "intimidated" in a profession that is going to require you to stand your ground when advocating for a patient isn't going to reflect on you in a positive manner. You cheated and you lost. Game over.

I'm in my final year of a BSN degree. For pharm, study the CNS and ANS, since nearly every med seems to affect one or both of these. As was stated, the hepatic, renal and gastro systems all play a part in the delivery and metabolizing of medications....

Do you have an advisor for the nursing program? Our community college actually has a pre-nursing option and the advisor for the program let us know what we needed to take. We all applied at the same time for admission to the program the following fal...

One thing I've been told is that nursing degrees are priceless. Just about any field has a niche you can fill with a BSN. One of my instructors worked for an attorney for many years in an advisory capacity. I think insurance companies often employee ...

I attend University of Cincinnati. It has the oldest 4-year nursing program in the country. I decided to attend because of no waiting for clinicals.

By far the most difficult class I've taken is statistics. I think most BS programs require it, I'm not sure about AS programs. I had the hardest time with fluid balances. Lab values come with experience. Every clinical stresses different lab values. ...

CO2 is going to point towards respiratory, since that is where the body throws off it's excess carbon dioxide. An imbalance in the bicarb is going to point to metabolic.

Yes we does.

I would probably use Activity intolerance related to immobility as evidenced by contractures...and whatever else you are basing your Dx on.

I was wondering the same thing about the instructor. I had a nurse that sat in the day room for 8 hours, literally. When my cancer patient needed his PCA pump refilled, I didn't bother with the nurse, but went straight to my instructor and told her ...

I was just at the AHNCC site. It's not only one year post-BSN, it's one year working as a holistic nurse or 2000 hours within the last five years. I'd like to know how difficult it is to get a position as a holistic nurse?

I know Canada has its own requirements to practice as an RN and you will need to pass their boards as a minimum requirement. Google the information, then contact them with your question. In the end the official governing body over Canadian nursing is...

Thanks so much for the advice. I've hears that the HESI is more difficult than the NCLEX. Be sure to let us know if that is true! Good luck to you.

I was told by a 2008 class member that only 10% of the students are expected to pass the HESI on the first try. That freaked me out a little, since I know many of the students are very intelligent. Thanks for the information. I'll look for that stud...

I swear I just had this discussion with one of my instructors because I was whining about a grade. Her contention was that a RN does not wear her grades on her uniform. The best nurse you've ever seen may have been a C student in didactic. Knowing th...

Cripes! I just finished the first quarter of my junior year (only a year and a half 'till graduation, YAY!!) and I always feel like I didn't learn a thing. Fortunately, my clinical rotations prove otherwise. Don't stress over it. Everything comes tog...

Coleen, my instructor actually told us that one during a finals review. She's been a nurse for umpteen years and still remembers that one from college.

I'm at UC as well, in the BSN program at the Clermont cohort. We practice NCLEX questions all the time, most of our exams are NCLEX-type questions from past test banks. If your text book has a CD-ROM or web page, you might want to check those for que...

I've seen LPN jobs in the paper through temp agencies. You might want to try there. Also, I've worked with LPN's during clinicals at Anderson Mercy. I don't know if they are currently hiring or if these nurses have been with Mercy for awhile. Good lu...

I'm in the BSN program at UC. I'm in the Clermont cohort and there are no wait times. I have peers that were accepted at main campus, started the same time I did, and no wait times. I have heard the two-year program at Raymond Walters has a waiting l...