Kina21

I've seen openings myself as a new grad but I don't think enough have opened to make a difference. Last year the BON shows almost 2,000 people passing boards here. Now I know not everyone stays and such but there aren't that many jobs for students to get when they graduate and pass boards. I've been out since December 09, took NCLEX in Feb and can't even get a phone call or interview about a job as a new grad. ...hmmmph

I took mine same day :) thats what the Maryland BON showed for me, and I wasnt sure enough so I paid for quick results and sure enough, passed! The BON still shows my license as pending due to them checking backgrounds and such but the test is over!

Took the NCLEX RN 2/24, tried the trick and got the good pop up. This afternoon (2/26) I checked my quick results and sure enough I passed! I left the test in tears and was sure I'd be the one exception to this trick. Best of luck to those waiting for results and those getting ready to test :)

Congrats to all :) I'm only a little over two weeks away from pinning at AACC so I've been in your shoes .I wish everyone the best of luck. It'll be a tough 4 semesters but you've made it this far. If you have any questions just contact me

To a few of my professors: 1. The fact that you get so excited over a bowel elimination lecture is slightly disturbing. Was it really necessary to have three slides on different poop scales? 2. I don't mean to laugh during lectures. The drag on for over 2 hours after a huge test, I have nervous energy and you put me to sleep. Laughing is the only way I survive. I try to keep it in and I pretty much always stay quiet, but every now and then a giggle slips out. 3. The orthopedic shoes you wear are distracting when you wear them with a short dress and white stockings...you seem so unlikely to be wearing them 4. You can't expect us to follow some of these ridiculous rules if you ignore them right in front of us. Cell phone usage is just as bad if its you all using them.... To my clinical instructor: Thank you for just throwing us in there and letting us do what we were capable of and not doubting us. You treat us like the adults we are and that is refreshing. But if you expect us to be there at 6:45 am...please do the same. We live as far away as you do and still make it there on time, despite the fact we're up all night doing drug cards and care plans.

Do you have a nursing diagnosis manual? Mine lists 12 diagnoses for colostomy in the back... Complicated grieving deficient fluid volume disturbed body image imbalanced nutrition : less than body requirements impaired skin integrity ineffective sexual patterns ineffective tissue perfusion (GI) readiness for enhanced hope and so on.

It really sucks that you don't have your diagnosis ref manual because all you have to do is look up the UTI and it has a list of nursing diagnoses for it. I don't know of any websites but I can suggest a few ideas... -Acute pain -Impaired Urinary elimination -Urge urinary incontinence I'd say the pain/fever is the priority... Good luck :)

I feel the same way...mine is a little different of a scenario..one of my family members is constantly on me about wanting to be a nurse and making rude comments like " All nurses are good for is cleaning up pee...etc" and then when her puppy pees on the floor, they're like "hey why don't you clean it up, you're in nursing school, you gotta get used to it". Thats not all I'm good for :angryfire and thats not the only thing a nurse is capable of doing. I mean yea, sometimes you're cleaning bodily fluids, but they're there to help and take care of people...I don't get why some people look down on nursing.

I'm a first semester nursing student we've been told by some random uniform lady to buy cheap stethoscopes. Then yesterday our lab instructor told us to spend around $80. I know there are hundreds of stethoscope threads out there, but is it worth buying a somewhat more expensive for better sound quality. What do you think the best deal is? Is $80 a good range? Any help is appreciated!

I'm starting the RN program at AACC next week. I'm excited and really nervous. I took all of my prerequisites here, most online so I could work full time and save every little penny...It's said to be a little tough to get it and you do have to bust your butt so hopefully it'll be worth it. I just finished up buying textbooks... Good luck to you all :)

Thanks, I just feel overwhelmed. I guess I'm realizing that it's not going to be what I had expected, I knew it would be difficult but I felt like they just threw a lot on us today. I really did plan but sometimes stuff just doesn't work out. I do have people willing to help, getting school paid for isn't really a problem---don't get me wrong, it costs a lot, but I have some money and family to help, it's just being able to pay bills while I'm in school. I'm sure I'll figure something out. I'm just freaking out because it all hit me today and I feel overwhelmed and needed to tell people who would get it...

I had a plan, they gave us schedule that was far different from what it is now. I try to plan ahead but sometimes life just throws you a curve ball. Sorry that the change threw me for a loop. I have a job now that I was going to switch my hours to work around school but there isn't a steady schedule. Sorry for asking...

I had a very intense orientation today. We walked in, signed in and immediately got handed course registration sheets already filled out with classes, all you had to do was fill in your name. They randomly gave out the sheets, half were for the first section (more so morning) and half were for the second section (more so afternoons). The schedules are so crazy. They vary day to day and week to week, the classes are in different buildings and the lab groups are all mixed around. The clinical sites were a little unusual. They're all rehabs or nursing homes with the exception of one hospital. It's like right by where I live so I put it as my first choice, but I doubt I'll get it. The reason I'm freaking out now is because I have no idea how I'm going to support myself while I'm in the program. I can't really work at all because theres no steady schedule. I'm in panic mode now. This is really what I want to do and I've wanted to do it for a while, but I'm just not sure how it's all going to work. It's an ADN program and I want to go on to get my bachelors/masters and become a NNP eventually. I wish I had stayed at home I don't know if I wanna take out a loan or not...I'm trying to weigh my options. Did anyone else have this issue? How did you deal with it?

My micro teacher had us do gram staining several times. She had us prepare like 8 slides of our unknown, hit fix them and then store them in a slide box. That way if tests started to not make sense, we could repeat some. I redid my gram stain twice because the color was in between pink and purple, looked purple to me but the teacher had doubts. When I redid it it was definitely purple. It doesn't hurt to repeat...good luck :)

School of Acceptance: Anne Arundel Community College Pre-Nursing Sciences GPA: 4.0 Pre-Nursing Cumulative GPA: 3.6 Mines an ADN program, that selects like 60ish...but I'm not sure how many applied for Spring 08