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That is so true! The docs just keep keeping them alive. They are not the ones who are there for 12 hours with them dealing with balancing all the drips to keep them going, seeing the patient suffer, seeing the family in distress over their loved on...

My hospital hires graduate nurses into ICU. We have a three month (at least) preceptorship and critical care classes once a week. Once I was on my own the stress level was high. I had loads of experienced nurses to consult and never was made to fe...

I think that you are doing just what you should by answering her questions without giving any more information. Just keep answering her questions and hope that as she comes around they will become more complex and she will remember more (of what you...

I used Saunders and Prentice Hall and found Saunders to be really much easier. I so needed that book to make me feel better when I was getting 68% in the Prentice Hall book! It made me feel successful because I did better. I think that the test ta...

I just took mine today and it was the hardest exam I have ever taken. I have to agree that listening to others is not good. All anyone said to me was the IT WAS HARD, so I studied well. I think I was tachycardic the whole time but somehow kept mys...

We also have to pass the HESI exit to graduate at 850. We are allowed three tries and have never 'lost' a student because of it. We pay nothing to take any of the many online exams we are required to take, it is included in our tuition. We took it...

Many smaller towns outside of the big cities are hiring. Try Conroe and Livingston outside of Houston. Tyler and Nacogdoches have great hospitals to work for, but they each have lots of grads about to come out of schools near. The smaller towns ha...

Well, I took the dreaded test today and passed. I had done ALL the problems on those websites this weekend and it paid off! That is my LAST DOSE CAL TEST!!! Till my on the job tests, that is.

Here are some websites that our instructors gave us. I copied and pasted the problems to a word document and have been working on them all weekend. My test is tomorrow. http://classes.kumc.edu/son/nurs420/clinical/basic_review.htm http://nursesareg...

Our instructors told us last semester that they had been 'babying' us too much. They discussed not giving us their PP's online to print out. They wanted us to take notes instead. OK, they have about 75 PP slides in 50 minutes of lecture and I beca...

We take it at the beginning of each semester. We have to get a 90 and have three chances to pass. We only have 10 questions o the test though. :omy:

I had the same experience. I assumed it was because our program director was in the lecture hall with us. One other student and I commented to each other during a break that the lecture was different than before. We will see if it keeps up. We ar...

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Before malls, my friends and I would catch a bus in Webster Texas and ride to downtown Houston and spend the day shopping at Foley's and Macy's and getting pictures taken at the drugstore in a little booth. We would return to the bus station and pay...

My late husband had a 'Robbie the Robot' in the 60's and I remember going to the theater to see '101 Dalmatians' when it first came out and being VERY afraid! I was about 5 years old. In the early 80's we had a game for TV called 'Intellivision'. ...

Dear Spoiled28 What is the source of this patient's pain? ALS does not usually have pain associated with it. Is this patient at home or in a hospice facility?

There are NO state income taxes in Texas. A BIG plus!

Did you look at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster? It is not far from Pasadena Bayshore, and is a bigger hospital. It is in a really nice part of the Houston area for housing, amenities, restaurants, shopping without being 'in the city'...

Bless your heart! It is so hard to have wasted all your time. Maybe you did not pass, but you have learned a lot, I am sure! Look into other programs in your area. Could you get a job with the skills you have now? I know many students with worki...

Finals are OVER!!!!! I made an 87 on my last one, came home and took a nap to make up for lost sleep. Now I have 5 wonderful weeks off before starting all over again. Good luck friends!

I have kept everything science or psychology related. I actually referred to my A & P book recently because I found a mistake in my Corbett Lab and Dx tests book having to do with pulmonary function testing. I was glad to have the A & P boo...

These two helped me on my test: S&S hyperkalemia: M - muscle weakness U - urine, oliguria, anuria R - respitatory distress D - decreased cardiac contractility E - ECG changes R - reflexes, hyperreflexia, or areflexia (flaccid) S&S hypocalcem...

I made a 91 on my Fundamentals Final!!!! Tomorrow is my Health Assessment Final, then I'm done for a MONTH!!!! Yeah! Today I've been studying and decided to take a break here. Back to work for me.

It would be great if you could find a school like the one in Lufkin that had clinicals on Mon-Wed, or Tue-Thurs only.

I am glad you are taking a rest. You truly need to do that for yourself. I'll tell you what, when that mom gets to heaven...it just won't seem to matter any more. There will be nothing but jubliation! Blessings