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  1. Classmates using you as a pincushion?

    tbell2 replied to xyra's topic in General Students

    We don't do procedures on each other at my school. All my first stuff was on

  2. How much is school costing you?

    tbell2 posted a topic in General Students

    I am going to a community college in the suburbs of Chicago. Total (pre-reqs and nursing classes, plus childcare) it will cost me about $20,000. I am including the childcare because it is more than...

  3. Just curious...

    tbell2 posted a topic in General Students

    I just thought it would be interesting to see these numbers side by side. What is your school's lowest passing grade and what is their NCLEX pass rate (first try)? My school's lowest passing grade is...

  4. Just curious...

    tbell2 replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    Only for the first class did our teacher post our grades under the last 4 digits of SSN. No one got an A in that class. Now we all check our grades online and can see the class statistics. Highest...

  5. Just curious...

    tbell2 replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    This is very true. No one knows what another school's tests are like. I know in my school, very very few people get any As on the tests. I would say it averages one per test in our class of about

  6. Do You Have To Memorize Generic Names for Meds?

    tbell2 replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Students

    I believe NCLEX only uses generic names, so you will have to know

  7. Much Older People Going Into Nursing

    tbell2 replied to MissMaryMack12's topic in General Students

    I am the same way! I am not the stay at home mom type at all! My sister in law says "It must be so hard for you to be home with the kids and school and then go to work at night!" And I say "No way! It...

  8. Grading scale for Nusing school???

    tbell2 replied to COLPN's topic in General Students

    No plusses or minuses for us 93-100=A 84-92=B 76-83=C They just changed the passing grade from 75 to 76 in August. Clincal is pass or

  9. How much is school costing you?

    tbell2 replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    We can do it!!! Nurse moms are the best... I know, I have one! My mom also went to nursing school (in 1980) with twins and a newborn me at home. I just keep telling myself "If she did it, I can do...

  10. How much is school costing you?

    tbell2 replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    Haha. I have a five year old (late b-day so not in kindergarten yet) and my twins are 21 months. I got pregnant with the twins during the first part of my prereqs. The road isn't always easy, but...

  11. Odd and funny methods used in nursing school

    tbell2 replied to jennifer7010's topic in General Students

    I hope it helps you. I thought of it when I had my GU unit and one of my friends has interstital cystitis and I realised it was helping me remember all the symptoms and treatments. I had already been...

  12. Double Majoring in Biology/Nursing?

    tbell2 replied to nohika's topic in General Students

    Hmmmm.... Nursing school is pretty all encompassing.... I think it would be next to impossible to have two areas of study with

  13. Odd and funny methods used in nursing school

    tbell2 replied to jennifer7010's topic in General Students

    I have a method to help me remember some things for tests. I will "assign" each disease to a family member or friend. It makes it easier for me to remember what characteristics go with what disease...

  14. Nursing School with a 6 month old?

    tbell2 replied to gdoubleu's topic in General Students

    All things are possible! When I started my pre-reqs I had a 2 1/2 year old. I was pregnant 2 months later.... Lo and behold... Twins! When I started nursing classes they were 8 months and my oldest...

  15. I passed finals....I am a offically a Graduate PN

    tbell2 replied to deemarys's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Congrats!!!! I am so jealous!!! 6 more months for

  16. Feeling good!!

    tbell2 posted a topic in General Students

    I had my final eval for Med-surg 2 clinical today. I have loved loved loved this clinical and it all because I had the best teacher I have ever had. She is the most straight forward, no BS, no...

  17. You know you're a student nurse when...

    tbell2 replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

    There are so many I agree with, but this one was fun! And I won't let anyone tell me this is a cake walk. I have a few words for that which would get me kicked off here.... I have a 5 year old,...

  18. Feeling good!!

    tbell2 replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    Oh, yeah. I have had a couple so-so instructors, one that made me want to quit, and 2 great ones! Hopefully everyone out there who has a teacher they want to complain about also has one they want to...

  19. Faculty evaluations

    tbell2 replied to SolaireSolstice's topic in General Students

    I can't imagine that the evals at my school are taken seriously. There is one teacher that NOT ONE classmate of mine has anything good to say about. We were discussing her with our current clincal...

  20. How bad is it that I took Anatomy almost 20 years ago...but just took Physio??

    tbell2 replied to livinglighthouse's topic in General Students

    I don't know. At my school if any of your science classes are more than 5 years old you have to retake

  21. Does this sound like a typical Clinical experience?

    tbell2 replied to anon695's topic in General Students

    I agree. I had a pt last year in my med-surg 1 class who was almost completely self sufficient, but he was a big man and needed help washing his back and shoulders. When I brought a warm basin over...

  22. how many classmates dropped in your first semester?

    tbell2 replied to allthingsbright's topic in General Students

    At my CC each first class starts with 36. Right now we are at 28. We have lost some of our original group and had some rotate in. I anticipate losing at least one more this class, I just don't think...

  23. only in nursing school

    tbell2 replied to fiveofpeep's topic in General Students

    my mom is a nurse and she always had syringes and stuff laying around the house. i had this funny conversation with a friend in high school in my parents house friend: uh.... what is this? me: it's a...

  24. Urgent: Iv drip rates, flow rates etc

    tbell2 replied to twinjeep97's topic in General Students

    the amount of fluid is 150ml. the dose or erythromycin does not matter. (amount of fluid* drop factor) so, for this problem (150*10)= 1500=50gtts/min time in minutes...

  25. What a difference a good instructor makes!

    tbell2 posted a topic in General Students

    I started med surg 2 this week. We were doing a quick review of Fluid and electrolyes (my worst test grade ) and I feel like I have a majorly better understanding of it than the 2 weeks another...