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Our college has a Nursing Honor Society pinning for all students with 3 semesters with A's or B's in nursing grades. We are supposed to bring in an object that represents what nursing is to us and an object as to why we choose nursing. We have to g...

"I see nothing of this nature in this persons chart and obviously it is not possible to ask this to her. Not to mention her occupation,hobbies are almost non exsistant from reading her chart since the facility has just recently been introduced to her...

YUP! I'm a student nurse in Chicago Heights. ME TOO!!!

I am the president of the nursing club...I need some fundraising ideas. We were thinking of maybe doing clip boards with calculator...any idea where to go? What else could we do? I need all the help I can I kinda got thrown into this. Thanks!!!

I was told I would get addicted to coffee. After 12 years of nursing I still can't stand the smell, let alone to even try a taste. I'll stick with Jolt, and Mountain Dew, and diet pepsi. I drink mt. dew at school too...they don't serve Starbucks a...

Thanks Kristy!!!!! I to have this on a Midterm Monday!!!! Almost 1/2 way thru my second and hardest semester!!!

:roll I am not working at a hospital currently do to school, but I said I was going to Chicago's Childrens Memorial because they have a STARBUCKS!!! (they also have a McDonalds) I could get a Venti Toffee Nut Latte and work a 16 hour shift. I neve...

Are all you guys living on the east coast that are having all these snow days? I am in a suburb of Chicago and although we have lucked out snow wise this year.... They never cancel school!!! My kids had a Heat day once, but no snow days in the last...

We had the first semester in the good old nursing home (16 weeks) now this semester it's med/sug for 16 weeks, but it kinda depend on who you got for an instuctor and what hospital your at. I ended up with a 2 year instuctor that is filling in and I...

We did care plans on our patients last semester and altought I hated them there was a format. Now we have to do a Concept Map's before we even see our patient on 3 need areas. They will not show us examples or anything because"it needs to be your o...

Thanks Christine, yes that is pretty much what they want!! The thing that I hate is they pick our assigned patients on Tuesday and most are gone by my thursday clinical day...so I do one on a patient and than need to do one on the new one I get.

Oh yes nursing school and children!!! The first day of our 1st semester one of our instructors told us if we had kids and we thought it would hurt them to not have enough time with them to drop that very day. I couldn't believe she said it, but she...

Well, I have hardly had anytime to come here and read all these post after a very stressful semester. We started with 93 students 42 passed....next semester we will have 58 because the 16 people are trying again that failed last year...the program o...

Thnaks All!!! Glad to see I am not the only one wanting that A. I need to get rid of my prefectionism!!!!!! My oldest who is 9 and is in 4th grade has always been a straight A student this year he got his first B in advanced reading...he cried!! ...

I think our school is worried about the "rational" behind everything so we understand "why" it has to be done a certain way. If you perform it prefectly, but don't know the rational and A & P behind it you fail....Thats where I get stressed stud...

WOW, some of these posts is making me think my lab isn't all that bad. First off we are required to be CNA's before we can even apply to the nursing program...I think this is a new state law or something because all the colleges around here now requ...

Hi all this is my very first post here!! I start school monday and I am so nervous! I have been reading all these post and it is helping. So what should I expect??? I have bought all the books.....thank god for scholarships!! I had oriention...sca...

I start Aug 19 with my first semester of an ADN program. I did 2 years part time doing all my pre-req's waiting for my youngest to go to school full time....I have 3 kids a 4th grader, 2nd grader, and my 6 year old baby is going full time along with...

I forgot about a new stethoscope..What should I get. I see alot of you are getting or got the Littmann Classic S.E. or Cardio III I have an Cheapy one I bought at a Work & Gear place, but I want to get a good one to get me thru 2 years of schoo...