I'm a brand new RN and landed a 3-11 shift at a LTC facility. I can sum it up in a few words: I HATE IT. Everyplace wants experience around my area so I took whatever job I could get. I had...
It's a challenging program, but overall it's great. Never realized how much driving was involved with nursing school until I was assigned a clinical over an hour and a half away. That's one of the...
A+P is important and will help you in your nursing courses. The nursing courses I took expected us to know how the body functioned. They never retested us on that content. If you didn't know...
I post stalked you, sorry. Lol I was just seeing if anyone went to LCCC. And this is a really old post, so sorry for bumping it. I graduated May 2010 and unfortunately quite a few people failed the...
Sorry if "nut job" offended you or anyone else... but I'm sticking to my guns about thinking those who take classes besides their regular nursing courses are very brave. I'm sure it is possible to...
Before I went in for my test I reviewed labs and tried to grasp why they might be low or high. Dosage calculations were also reviewed along with metric conversions. So glad I did that because I had...
You are going to concur this test! I have faith in ya! But try not to just memorize the lab values. Instead, try to grasp the reasoning in why a lab value might be low or high. I took the...
Were you accepted into the nursing program or advised to take the gen eds? My advice to you is to get all your general classes out of the way before starting the nursing classes. I went to an ADN...
Oh dear, first year of nursing school was sooooooo expensive. I think I spent over $700 on books and supplies including a stethoscope, BP cuff, clamps, scissors. The only good thing about the books...
Oooh, you would like to know what was in my bag when I went to school? Ok well, I wish I had gotten one of those bookbags with wheels. I didn't, so I carried around a tote. We were required to bring...
The worst that could happen is that you'll receive plenty of tough love. Clinical instructors will push you to your limits to try to break you out of your shell. First year of nursing school I was...