KimberlyRN89 BSN, RN

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    why is med/surg a hard class to pass??

    KimberlyRN89 replied to 2bmalenurse23's topic in General Students

    Clinicals is the most enjoyable part of nursing school in my opinion. It is applying the stuff you are learning in lecture& skills to the real world. Also, dosage & calculations was very easy...
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    why is med/surg a hard class to pass??

    KimberlyRN89 replied to 2bmalenurse23's topic in General Students

    Lol yes my med surg book (by black & hawks) weighs about 8 lbs. It's massive! And not very understandable..even our instructors said so. But anyways I digress. We lost 5 people in our Med-Surg 1...
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    Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    Ugh, I had a group project last semester for my "multicultural nursing" class. It was three of us in the group, but only two of us did the work. The third person got a 90% because of OUR hard...
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    Any rad-techs out there?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Livinstrong85's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I went to a community college that offered that as a program (nuclear medicine). I almost considered it for a while. It looks like a very interesting
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    From now on the only bed I make will be my own

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Healing Soul's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Ditto to what Hygiene Queen said. It's quite alright if you decide that being a CNA , LPN, or RN isn't for you. You gave it a shot, and that's all that matters. Life's too short to spend it being...
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    How do you respond??

    KimberlyRN89 replied to SunshineDaisy's topic in General Students

    Or maybe she is
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    How do you respond??

    KimberlyRN89 replied to SunshineDaisy's topic in General Students

    I had a patient like this too.And like you, I was really upset too. My clinical instructor told me basically to get over it..sometimes the patients will be like this, unfortunately Sorry you had to...
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    Loans, loans and more loans

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Jennyfour's topic in General Nursing

    OP you mentioned going back to school. I think this scholarship is geared toward those who want to pursue a degree in nursing education & help repay their loans...
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    $10/hr,is it enough?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to UpstateNyDollCna's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm not in NY, but in my experience, those "luxury" facilities are often the ones who pay the lowest. I'd keep looking if I were you. Good luck with your
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    What are clinicals like for you?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to RHIA, RN's topic in LPN to RN

    Oh okay that makes a little sense..since you are already nurses, they probably expect you to do some things without them having to be there "holding your hands" so to speak. But everything else...
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    What are clinicals like for you?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to RHIA, RN's topic in LPN to RN

    WOAH! That sounds frightening. I just finished my 2nd semester of NS, but each semester our clinical instructors were on us like a hawk. We couldn't pass meds without them being there to verify that...
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    Switching Schools?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Cupcake89121's topic in General Students

    I know this must be a very hard decision to make The hassle of trying to enroll in a new school, possibly having to deal with waiting lists, starting the program over again...either decision is going...
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    Switching Schools?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Cupcake89121's topic in General Students

    Yes, it's notoriously difficult to get nursing credits to transfer from one program to another. If possible, could you stay where you are & live with family or friends to finish out the ADN...
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    Three times was not the charm

    KimberlyRN89 replied to lostdecade's topic in General Students

    OP I really hope you take a look @ this thread: https://allnurses.com/success-stories-nursing/anyone-failed-nursing-514880.html Many of the posters were in the same boat as you & they are now...
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    Do you all think med aides are bad idea?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to blocp's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In Maryland we have Certified Medicine Aides and Certified Medicine Technicians. CMA's are used in LTC facilities (and I don't really see a bunch of nursing homes in my area utilizing them, but that's...
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    Are your nursing school tests timed?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to tlc2u's topic in General Students

    Our tests are 50 questions & we are given 1 hour to complete. The final is 100 questions, and we have 2 hours to complete it. We take our tests on the computer, and so there is a timer in the...
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    Did you find Med-Surg class much harder than fundamentals?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    I officially received my grades this morning & I passed Med-Surg 1 (on my first try..yay!!):yeah:. So I will chime in with my 2 cents. I struggled soo much during the first 8 weeks of the...
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    Three times was not the charm

    KimberlyRN89 replied to lostdecade's topic in General Students

    I just want to chime in & say that a good majority of my classmates also failed out of RN programs at other area schools, and I do not look down on them. The program probably just wasn't a good...
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    Assited Living: The new skilled care

    KimberlyRN89 replied to NJayne17's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am not a nurse yet, but I work as a "caregiver" in a Alzheimer's assisted living facility. When I first started 2.5 yrs ago, the resident service director (at the time), told me that they had...
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    Travel time to clincals

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Britt2007's topic in General Students

    My commute to my clinical site this semester was 2
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    can someone help with my care plan??

    KimberlyRN89 replied to clff_0107's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Just agreeing with everyone else. In school we learned that while writing our dianoses, prioritize. Remeber your abc's, and in this case all the respiratory diagnoses would be listed
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    Soon to graduate and still don't know what I'm doing

    KimberlyRN89 replied to greyL's topic in General Students

    There's still quite a few diploma programs in PA, VA, and I think there is one in DE. I think nationwide there are fewer than 100 left. Anyways, I feel like everyone else Passing the NCLEX seems to...
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    Things you "should" be taught in nursing school

    KimberlyRN89 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm about 1 week from finishing up my 2nd semester in a BSN program. In my skills portion of Med-Surg, on our syllabus it stated that we would learn how to apply 12-lead EKG's. But we never did. I...
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    What do you think?

    KimberlyRN89 replied to Decemberblues's topic in General Nursing

    At our orientation, one of the instructors did mention that the job market is very tight here in the md/dc/va area. I think that really in order to land a job these days is network, and it doesn't...
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    Things you "should" be taught in nursing school

    KimberlyRN89 replied to KimberlyRN89's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm guilty of this This semester we were responsible for having two (or three if the census permits) patients. However there were a couple of days when I only had one due to the census being low. One...