megykilo

It sounds like you have it all sorted out; that's great! You will stay busy and get lots of time for studying! There is one guy in my class whose family lives in Vancouver and he rents a studio apartment here and goes home on the weekends. It seems t...

You shouldn't worry about it. This is just me having a meltdown as we get to finals week and being on allnurses instead of studying ha ha! You are blessed to be able to bring your family with you. I was going to school and working on prerequisites fo...

i did my prerequisites at clatsop, and live in the area. it is definitely cool to live within walking distance from school and 5 minutes from the hospital. i don't have much to say about clatsop...if you've attended before then you might have an inkl...

i have a white pair of pants and they are completely see through. didn't expect that because they were kind of expensive. i have to wear white for school. twas a bummer

i have a pretty high set oval stone as an engagement ring, and a simple wedding band with channel set diamonds. i've found it to be pretty gross after wearing it to work or clinicals, and the alcohol hand rub caused a nasty rash. so for now i'm not w...

Well that was sweet! I'm another one of those soon to be nurses that won't ever take a CNA for granted.

haha today i did my first indwelling cath on our sim person, whose name is Pat. it's a hoot; we are all still pretty weirded out about talking to a dummy. but it's useful for scenarios that we would not want to be faced with for the first time in rea...

In LTC you will have between 8-15 residents and be responsible for incontinence care, feeding, ambulation, dressing, transfers, getting them to the dining room and making sure they all eat enough at meals. Plus vitals and coordinating with family out...

i second the advice to ENJOY THIS WEEK TO THE FULLEST! there is nothing like wishing you didn't have a billion things going on. please, enjoy it and when you start school just keep truckin' towards your goal.

funny! my husband is an AMT3 as well, and he graduated this past august. i hope you get stationed somewhere fun too! i wish i was already done with school like you are! elizabeth city is pretty neat, i lived there for about 4 years when my dad was in...

sorry to hear that. my husband is also in the coast guard, but we arent due to transfer again until 2 years after i graduate. i know what you mean about some health care facilities not caring about anything but a dollar. i would feel discriminated ag...

I started pre-reqs at 17, started NS at 19, and this year will take the NCLEX PN (at 20). I will graduate with my ADN at 21.

so today our instructor told us that she's going to take 10 of us to India next year to work in an orphanage/old folks home off of the bay of Bengal. obviously im excited out of my mind. but my husband brings up the fact that 2000$ towards that is 20...

all i have ever heard is that hospital cna's have it easier. i work in LTC and know exactly what you are talking about. despite being a 'lift' hoyers take a lot of energy and it is so easy to throw out your back. my first experience in the hospital c...

for some reason i was expecting nursing school to be easier. several nurses i know told me not to worry, that A&P was the most challenging class i will have ever taken. HA! so here i sit, consumed with anxiety and guilt because i havent yet crack...

yep i pretty much dread clinicals all week, am miserable waking up so early in the morning, curse everything driving over ice and sleet in the winter to get to the darn hospital and hAte lugging a 30 pound back of books...but in the midst of it all i...

one of my clinical instructors is a '99 grad of chemeketa, and a girl in my class did her prereq's there but i really don't have any helpful information. my teacher described herself as a 'survivor' of CCC and said that when she was in school, everyo...

I'm a first year student at a rural community college and we had around 200 applicants for 24 positions....i can imagine in portland the numbers would be baffling. my best advice is to get really good grades in A&P and definitely do the CNA work....

yup, it sounds just like the LTC where i work. so sad. what a system.

my school will not round up for us. our care plans do count towards our final grade, but it is very minimal. too bad. so sad. i spend a lot of time with my careplan and get good grades on them, but as far as theory tests, no matter how well i feel li...

I bought mine on Amazon because it mentioned MyNursingLab or something of the sort in it's title. My book list said we need the program and access bundled with the text. So now I have my book and it has a CD ROM in the back but I have yet to see an a...

i'm beginning my ADN program in september. i'm really excited; i've worked so hard for the last year and a half to get in...but it's almost frustrating to think that if i went to a U (closest is 2 hours away) I could be getting my BSN in the same amo...

yea i remember in cna class they mentioned vicks up the nose...i did try it once but it ended with me smelling minty poop. now i just suck it up, get the job done, open the window etc. it helps to have a strong stomach but there are always those inst...

Yea my bookstore doesn't have it in either..I don't start until Sept 24 but I wanted to get all squared away..arrgh I just know this is going to bite me in the @ss... Thanks everyone for your input!

I am married but with no kids. I've been working full time and going to school part/full time for 2 years now. All I can really say is that it's hard; especially CNA work...I mean physically exhausting. And forget about pulling a double with the 'I'l...