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  1. NP Clinical Preceptorships

    psychonaut replied to psychonaut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    inthesky: I am in the position where I am able to take 4 of the required MSN classes as a "non-admitted" grad student, prior to actually applying to the program. Turns out to be a good thing. For one...

  2. Feeling inept :(

    psychonaut replied to twizzlers67's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    My story: -had a great preceptor, very supportive. gave me credit for being "book smart", for looking things up/asking questions etc, but even near the end of my 12-week orientation, confided that she...

  3. Almost done with RN-to-BSN. Very disappointed.

    psychonaut replied to Kosmonavt's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I love these posts. This is coming from a guy that did BSN. I chose it over the ADN simply because I would get admitted a semester earlier, and since I had a BA already, the prereqs were all taken...

  4. NP Clinical Preceptorships

    psychonaut replied to psychonaut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Ivan: Yes, I am coming to realize that students finding their own preceptors is much more the rule than the exception in NP education. It would appear to go hand-in-hand with the trend towards...

  5. NP Clinical Preceptorships

    psychonaut replied to psychonaut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Thank you all for the responses! To be clear, I consider my program to be "de-facto" distance ed. It is not described as such, and it is located within a brick-and-mortar state university. However, I...

  6. How is school going so far?

    psychonaut replied to VTBabyNurse's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Thanks for the tip, I'll read up on

  7. NP Clinical Preceptorships

    psychonaut replied to psychonaut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    At the orientation, they showed the numbers for those in each track (FNP, PNP, and nursing ed). The numbers were about equal to the undergrad program, with there actually being more entering NP...

  8. How is school going so far?

    psychonaut replied to VTBabyNurse's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I'm with you on Nightingale; I'm going to do my theory paper on either her or Benner (the novice-to-expert stuff). Frankly, they are the only two nursing "theorists" I can stomach at this point. EI...

  9. How is school going so far?

    psychonaut replied to VTBabyNurse's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Just starting week two with two classes: theory, and "roles". Both are online, and the only action seems to be postings in the "introductions" threads. I've already posted my first assignment in the...

  10. Difficulty finding clinical sites for online students?

    psychonaut replied to moonshadeau's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I was going to start a new thread on this very subject, but I'll bump this older thread instead. I attended an orientation today for the NP program I am going to attend, and I was dismayed to learn...

  11. 13-hour clinicals too long?

    psychonaut replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Students

    Doing 12-hour shifts in my final semester preceptorship was great in preparing me for the rigors of actual practice as a nurse. But 12-hours in psych? I was counting down every moment of our 6-hour...

  12. Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    psychonaut replied to jjjoy's topic in General Students

    Hmmm, your post just caused a lightbulb to flash over my head. How about making "care plans" more like giving report? This is a skill I had to develop on my own as I entered nursing, and even now...

  13. Transferring to UNLV

    psychonaut replied to BLESSED916's topic in Nevada Nursing

    She's gone, huh? That's good to hear...there were a few people in my class that were pretty upset to be that close to graduating and suddenly being told that their chem credits or whatever weren't...

  14. Transferring to UNLV

    psychonaut replied to BLESSED916's topic in Nevada Nursing

    There were students in my class that had some issues in the final semester with classes that had supposedly been accepted causing problems when graduation packets were submitted. Hopefully, the issues...

  15. New grad NICU nurse

    psychonaut replied to ren406's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    -still have my university library access, so I pull up papers on subjects I came across during the week -emedicine has some awesome articles on neo stuff, as does the ucsf icn handbook -pull out the...

  16. Questions about Valley health Adopt-a-nurse

    psychonaut replied to mschelee's topic in Nevada Nursing

    Valley system is UHS; desert springs, summerlin, spring valley, valley, and centennial hills (still under construction?). Sunrise et. al. is

  17. Help with scrubs...please!

    psychonaut replied to Medic74's topic in Men in Nursing

    one word: suspenders I'm dead serious...I like packing my pockets, and I'd be hitching up my bottoms constantly without my trusty "Lord

  18. Saunders for NCLEX

    psychonaut replied to Heather07's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Thank you both. Just got back...75 questions in 45 minutes. I am cautiously optimistic! And yeah, there were a bunch of the priority-type questions, so I'm glad I went through the Saunders stuff last...

  19. Saunders for NCLEX

    psychonaut replied to Heather07's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    my nclex is at 8am tomorrow morning, and I was all set to put both myself and Mr. Saunders to bed. these posts got me up for another hour of review for this delegation stuff... we'll see if it makes...

  20. Questions about potentially awkward male-female interactions during lab/clinicals

    psychonaut replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Male Nursing Students

    We did breast exams on each other in 1st semester assessment lab, boys-boys and girls-girls. Also had a plastic model with nodules to give us a feel for

  21. Hss anyone used NCSBN's learningext.com??

    psychonaut replied to kelci22's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    We are going to be using it for 5 weeks as part of our 4th semester NCLEX prep course; access starts on Monday. If this thread is still alive, I'll post a comment once I see the course. We are the...

  22. does this book exist?? ---Transcultural Nursing

    psychonaut replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Mostly cultural, but I seem to remember some religion stuff as well:...

  23. NICU Preceptorship

    psychonaut posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Oh happy day! After three weeks of working harder than I have for all of nursing school, and a week of nail-biting suspense, I have this morning learned that I have landed my sought-after NICU...

  24. Weight - Blog (somewhat)

    psychonaut replied to antidote's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Fair enough, although I will note that the OP is an RN, and thus it can be assumed they are educated in human anatomy and physiology at a level above the general population. What really caught my eye...

  25. Weight - Blog (somewhat)

    psychonaut replied to antidote's topic in Health, Stress Management

    hahaha To lose *any* kind of fat, you need to be in negative energy balance, i.e. consume fewer kcals than you expend. Do it via diet or exercise or (probably ideally) a combination of the two. that...