Kina21

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 buy...

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...

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 f...

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

The ATI test is similar to the tests you take in the classes, it's just more standardized. I think the reason they're so caught up in them is because the ATI's are said to be good indicators of how you'll do on the NCLEX. I reviewed my ATI books and...

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 o...

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 sexua...

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 eli...

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...

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 y...

I start nursing school in 15 days ( eek...sooner than I realized) and I started buying my textbooks slowly to lessen the blow... We have 17 required textbooks...and I have pretty much spent every penny to my name buying them. I searched for them used...

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 firs...

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 ha...

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 wo...

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 b...

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

I got my letter tonight!!! Good ending to a crappy day at work! I opened my mailbox to find a thick brown envelope. I was told we'd find out next week so I figured it was just some paperwork saying my petition for residency was complete and they were...

Another thing I can suggest you do is mimic those actions and then luck at the diagrams in your text book. Not only will this let you get your project done, but it'll help you study for the practical, because those muscles will be on the practical as...

I took the summer classes at Anne Arundel Community college in MD, sorry ,look around though, theres some schools that have them online and have labs that are online too...they're usually at private colleges and cost a bit more, but if you're in a pi...

I too took both classes at the same time,I took them in a summer semester that was 8 weeks long. I got an A in both classes. I think you need to just think about how much the work is and how you're going to be able to balance it all out. Try planning...

Congrats to everyone that got in. I wish my school would just tell us already. The applications were due September 15th but they extended the deadline for our residency petition until November 15th so I know I'll have to wait until after then. It doe...

http://msjensen.cehd.umn.edu/webanatomy/muscular/default.html This is nice because it has little quizzes, the only downfall is that the answers are multiple choice, which isn't what the test is like. But the way the muscles are pointed out is very si...

Hey, I had to have a PPD test for tuberculosis for both my job and nursing program. I got it on Wednesday morning and had it read on Friday and it was a little red, but had no raised area or 'papule'. The nurse said redness happens sometimes but it w...

You are supposed to flame the loop between every section. This helps to separate out the colonies because you pull so much out of the broth to begin with. You should have time to do it again, I took micro as an 8 week class and had to do my streak pl...