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I would report it officially b/c sometimes parametics have just enough knowledge to be very dangerous. If the man is in and out of consciousness and can possibly have a head injury, then it's safe to say that he cannot give informed consent. If that ...

Yup...always hits me about 3 weeks before the semester ends. Bad timing...real bad.

I think that this could become an amazing resource for those that either bombed the GRE's or are weak in Math....like me :) I plan on taking the GRE's to expand my choices, but it's nice to know where you can go if you don't get a good score.

Do Suzanne's plan before you enroll in Kaplan. I plan on doing both only because our school has included Kaplan into our tuition, but I was planning on taking my chances with Suzanne's plan, mainly because I have seen so many posts of where people a...

Wow...this is a GREAT question!! It also...would explain a lot.

Everyone feels like they failed the NCLEX when they walk out. Just about Everyone. Not once have I seen someone post, "Yeah, I nailed that sucker!" or "You know...it wasn't so bad!" So congratulations...you have joined the majority :)

I think there is another reason why 12-hour shift were implemented in hospitals....it alleviates quite a bit of the "she said, she said" factor. When 8-hour shifts were common...early shift blamed everything on the night shift, 2nd shift blamed the m...

Care plans were left over from the days when you would spend a week or more in the hospital just for an appendectomy. They were originally designed for longer-term stays...so that is why we students find them difficult to do for patients who can be o...

Sue, the best of luck! I'm sure you will nail it!

I'll be honest..I don't think the color of your skin has anything to do with whether or not you become a doctor or a nurse. Where I live, we have a huge number of foreign doctors...so much so, that American doctors have a hard time because the percep...

I have a question for you...I suck at Math...I had to take a high-school level of Chemistry last year for the nursing program and I struggled the entire way through. This has significantly limited my options as far as BSN programs and graduate scho...

When you really think about it, what the OP says does make a ton of sense, and even though I am still in school, even in my short, 10-week stint as an extern this summer, I did see some of that. Externs weren't so much of a target b/c nothing was exp...

Don't flip out yet...I have seen tons of posts of nurses who passed that also said, they had no math. Even a few that passed that had no SATA questions!

It depends on how far you are in your current degree...if you are at Junior level or higher, my advice is to finish that degree, and then apply as a 2nd degree student to the school's nursing program.

The "know it alls" in our class seem to be the ones that failed this same semester last year...yeah, as if I am taking advice from them. One of them was assisting me in doing a foley a few weeks ago (and during this clinical rotation I finally got a ...

I can imagine what a day like that must have been. I was in high school when Rock Hudson died. I remember the controversy over it being "too expensive" to test the entire blood supply for Hep C (b/c most AIDS patients at the time, which were mostly ...

I agree...but then again...she's probably right. Before you throw something across the room at me...I'm moving toward "that age" every day and if what I am going through now is even a hint of what full-blown menopause is going to be like....there won...

I couldn't agree with you more. We actually go over the questions and openly discuss them at our school for 2nd year students. We debate them in class, but if let's say, there is a question where you are in the minority opinion or the instructor di...

You make that statement as if I have never had a job in my life. I have worked since I was 16 years old. So I had about 20 years into the workforce before I decided to quit and go to nursing school. Nursing will actually be a significant pay cut to ...

There is a HUGE difference between school and a hospital. School: I pay them for a service that they said they would provide. Work: They pay me...and if they ask me to do something, 95% of the time, it becomes my job when they ask. Sarcasm, degradi...

Ok...so his electrolytes were normal...which is good. I know that fluid and electrolytes is a medical diagnosis, but the s/sx that they manifest and how the patient copes with those changes are used in a nursing diagnosis. When you say the CBC is lo...

I did noticed that you didn't answer my question...how is the hospital learning of student's HIV status that come from your program?? When we do our clinicals or externships, the first time we are at the hospital is when we start working...b/c we a...

Fair enough :redpinkhe I don't blame you for not calling sooner...it's very, very hard to call on a family member because since you work in the healthcare profession, you know how these kid's world's get turned upside down. On the flipside (and I k...

To me, there are several reasons why nursing school enrollment is down.... The lower enrollment, is due to the decrease in availability of student loans, both government and private. The private sector has all-but locked up. There will be less money...