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  1. "You've never said you liked nursing." A vent.

    mspontiac replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    I hate my job. I've been a nurse now for a year and a half, and I've been telling myself from the beginning that eventually I wouldn't be so stressed and I would learn to love it. Nope. I work in a...

  2. Indiana Wesleyan University Online

    mspontiac replied to KayceeLeeRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I know this is an old thread, but I spoke to an advisor this week and she informed me that they are revamping the program starting July, 2012, and IWU will no longer require

  3. Home care nursing and wounds

    mspontiac posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hi all.... I am preparing to take a Lab Skills Exam for my Community Health class. We will be acting out a scenario with our instructor and a mannequin who is to be the client. One of the topics we...

  4. Life as a minority in nursing

    mspontiac replied to cookie91's topic in General Students

    If we are picking apart grammar, your sentence structure is incorrect. "If anything, minorities are at a DISADVANTAGED in the hiring process" should read, "If anything, minorities are at a...

  5. students who don't seem to study and do so well

    mspontiac replied to italy's topic in General Students

    I can understand being frustrated if she has a habit of being late for class, because that directly effects her classmates as she enters the classroom. It's disruptive. We have a girl who used to make...

  6. NOT going to the pinning ceremony

    mspontiac replied to CaliforniaRNnow's topic in General Students

    I don't want to go to mine either, simply because my school sucks and once I am finished, I want to walk away and not look back. I'm older and the ceremony doesn't really matter to me; I'm not...

  7. Terrified of clinicals

    mspontiac replied to Brekka's topic in General Students

    Sounds like you have it good! We are required to come in the day before, select patients, and do a 20-page writeup prior to clinical the next morning. It's brutal and most of us perform patient care...

  8. Terrified of clinicals

    mspontiac replied to Brekka's topic in General Students

    Sometimes the instructors who seem the most intimidating and threatening at first turn out not to be as bad as you expected. They are usually the ones who bark the loudest at first, have the highest...

  9. Drug Calculations: what works for you??

    mspontiac replied to ReinventingMyselfAgain's topic in General Students

    I am also "math challenged," and I use the exact same method you use. I *always* use a ratio/proportion formula and I excelled on my dosage exam and never have a problem with calculations. My former...

  10. Do You Regret Nursing School?

    mspontiac replied to ladylou88's topic in General Students

    Perhaps it's a matter of perspective. My husband is an RN on a cardiac med-surg floor and he regularly states that he loves his job. I am confident that I will too because I thoroughly enjoy...

  11. Irritating Classmates

    mspontiac replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

    Same old, same old....

  12. What is up with these Sickle Cell Patients?!

    mspontiac replied to BrandNewbieNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Your post is so, so sad. I am moved to tears to know that your mom experienced this terrible thing. I was even more moved to tears by your last paragraph...I'm so sorry for you. I am a student, and...

  13. BS!

    mspontiac replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Students

    I feel the exact same way. This semester, I have stopped sitting quietly by and tolerating the stuff that goes on in my program; I have become the sqeaky wheel who is an advocate for myself and the...

  14. About to leave nursing school

    mspontiac replied to workinghardforit's topic in General Students

    Please don't leave! I am 41 and am 4 months from being done, and I can barely tolerate school. My husband is an RN and continually assures me that he hated school, felt overwhelmed and unsure at...

  15. "The New Style" of education.

    mspontiac replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Great post! I looked especially close at #1; I am in my last semester of nursing school and instructors drill it into us that we should never suggest that RNs are short on time because of the patient...

  16. Has anyone ever put down your career choice?

    mspontiac replied to Servingshots's topic in General Students

    More often than not, I find that people in the general population are supportive. My husband is an RN and when he says what he does, he gets the "Oh, okay," with a positive tone of voice and a nod of...

  17. Of these Los Angeles schools, which one is least "ghetto"

    mspontiac replied to okiedokie123's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It absolutely does. I was reluctant to attend my school of choice after I visited the campus. It just felt unsafe there, and it was in a community of 150,000 in IL. I can't imagine looking for a...

  18. history class for a pre-req to get a BSN?

    mspontiac replied to meghan91's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As the previous poster mentioned, it just depends on the program. I took "US History to 1865" and it would have been accepted at all 3 schools that I looked into. I think it fullfilled the Liberal...

  19. failed foundations of nursing

    mspontiac replied to snowybee's topic in General Students

    Maybe I missed it, but I think none of us knew that English was your second language until someone picked up on it and mentioned it. I don't have much advise other than to keep trying and use the...

  20. Assigned to patients with conditions VERY unfamiliar to you

    mspontiac replied to winzer's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The hospital I do my clinicals in has older nursing textbooks lying around - in an interview, I would respond that I would refer to them for the patho-phys and nursing interventions. When getting...

  21. Mayo Clinic Summer III-2011

    mspontiac replied to sj73201's topic in General Students

    Off topic, but I attend school in IL and we can push IV drugs starting in third semester. Yay me!

  22. Is this Wrong?

    mspontiac replied to EMEddie's topic in General Students

    I don't see anything wrong with it - I hope to become a NP someday as well. Seems to me that the people who do see something wrong with it are often the ones who think that people shouldn't enter...

  23. Not being able to understand...

    mspontiac replied to Darkpk55's topic in General Students

    This post was literally my first "laugh out loud" moment this

  24. What is harder A&P or Micro?

    mspontiac replied to aubreyeve's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Micro was a walk in the park for me. I didn't even purchase a textbook; I went by my notes only. I breezed through with an A. A&P, on the other hand, required me to record every lecture and then...

  25. Smokers in Nursing School--How Are You Treated?

    mspontiac replied to SarahMaria's topic in General Students

    Just a side note....the hospital where we do our clinicals allows patients in certain circumstances to have alcohol. Example: say they have an 85 year old patient who has had a nip of whiskey every...