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  1. How did you cover your tuition costs?

    birthrevolution replied to CSellers3's topic in General Students

    Federal Student Loans a scholarship/loan (I have to work for a year in a certain area or pay them back, there are conditions but they forgive it all if I meet them) scholarships tuition grant from my...

  2. looking for topics

    birthrevolution replied to willardjh84's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    circumcision? Not that CNMs do them, but I am sure they get lots of questions about it! I always talked about it with my doula

  3. New RN/BSN grad needs suggestions on where to work

    birthrevolution posted a topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    The short version is: I am about to graduate in December with my BSN and am essentially trying to figure out where to apply for my "one year of RN experience (L&D preferred)" that so many CNM...

  4. Tell me the truth...

    birthrevolution replied to Adams_Mama_07's topic in General Students

    Did you take a leave of absence or actually withdraw? I think you will be fine, people have done a lot worse than get pregnant in nursing school and still gone on to be successful, fabulous nurses :)...

  5. how to cough when you are next to a sterile field?

    birthrevolution replied to swansonplace's topic in General Students

    You can step back from a sterile field, so if this happened to me I would step back and cough into my

  6. Do you guys see a lot of people saying they are nursing students....

    birthrevolution replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    I understood what you were saying. The ASN/ADN programs in community colleges have long waiting lists and lots of prereqs. I think it would have been harder for me to get into the local community...

  7. Do you guys see a lot of people saying they are nursing students....

    birthrevolution replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    See, to me that's just college. I honestly thought my prereqs were harder than my nursing school classes. I wrote more papers in undergrad Part 1 and did more group projects as well (I'm a second...

  8. Do you guys see a lot of people saying they are nursing students....

    birthrevolution replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    Parents and grandparents get confused, my grandmother thought I worked in HIV/AIDS for years, even though I explained to her that I was doing something completely different 8000 times. I don't think...

  9. Do you guys see a lot of people saying they are nursing students....

    birthrevolution replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    Nope, this is honestly the first time I've ever heard of this

  10. New Student Rant!!!

    birthrevolution replied to mater44's topic in General Students

    That kind of @%$* happens all the time in nursing school. For your own mental health I suggest getting used to it and developing a healthy sense of apathy towards anything where you think you might...

  11. bachelors in non-nursing field, rn? msn? bsn? i need help!!

    birthrevolution replied to AmyB86's topic in General Students

    I have a BA in a non-nursing field. I took my prereqs while working (I worked at a university so I could take one a semester) and then applied to 3 year MSN entry programs and a second degree BSN...

  12. Do you cry a lot in nursing school?

    birthrevolution replied to CaliforniaRNnow's topic in General Students

    I'm a cryer and yes, I've cried during school. I cry out of frustration and sometimes anger, which means that I started tearing up in a couple of evals. I can't think of a situation where I've busted...

  13. Which pre-nursing classes did you find the most useful?

    birthrevolution replied to Copperismydog's topic in General Students

    I actually found Micro to be the most useful too, then Physiology and then Anatomy. This is after 5 semesters of school! Clearly Anatomy was helpful in health assessment, but I feel like it just...

  14. Drug books!?

    birthrevolution replied to HCollier's topic in General Students

    My . I didn't actually buy a drug book. I used the online version Of Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses available through my school's library. If I needed to reference something at clinical there are...

  15. do you get enough clinical experience?

    birthrevolution replied to singleye's topic in General Students

    Baths are an important part of the art and science of nursing. I'm in my second med surg rotation and I gave my patient a bath yesterday, which helped her more than any of the morphine or dilaudid I...

  16. Starting nursing school in January, how to prepare?

    birthrevolution replied to apoppyfield's topic in General Students

    I worked hard in my prereqs for two years, while working full-time and consulting on the side. I purposefully didn't take any additional classes the semester before I started because I wanted to have...

  17. arrrgh! OB is killing me.....

    birthrevolution replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Students

    I won't lie. It's hard. I emailed my clinical instructor at the start of clinical to ask to talk to her to get into a frame of mind where I felt like I wasn't going to scream and she was helpful. I...

  18. Starting nursing school in January, how to prepare?

    birthrevolution replied to apoppyfield's topic in General Students

    Sleep a lot. Visit all your friends and family. Clean your house. Do laundry. Go through boxes, papers, files and anything else you've been meaning to do. Things you won't be able to do when nursing...

  19. should I do my internship in ICU or L&D

    birthrevolution replied to Ceeceenumber3's topic in General Students

    I wish I could do my capstone (internship) on L&D, but I'm also glad I can't. EVERYONE, including people in OB keep telling me to be glad I'm getting med-surg experience for my capstone. I know...

  20. Im in my final year- and incompetent.

    birthrevolution replied to LR_C's topic in General Students

    Dude, you're not alone. You'll be okay. School is for learning and they're not going to throw you to the wolves on your first day on the job. Today I felt like a total dunce, there was this patient...

  21. What to do when you have two answers left on an exam?

    birthrevolution replied to AllThingsPink's topic in General Students

    If I am stuck I will dissect the question again like the previous poster said--is it what do you do first, last, best, most important, priority, etc. Are they asking about safety and one of the...

  22. What did you wear to certain clinicals?

    birthrevolution replied to brokenroads27's topic in General Students

    OB-surgical green scrubs Psych, Public Health-business casual Everything else-school

  23. arrrgh! OB is killing me.....

    birthrevolution replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Students

    I love birth and babies, was a doula, training to be an IBCLC, want to work on L&D when I graduate and then become a midwife. Working with moms, families and babies makes me so happy. That said, I...

  24. UNC-Chapel HIll School of Nursing

    birthrevolution replied to exploringnursing's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I don't think anyone can really answer that for you. Have you tried straight out calling nurse recruitment? It depends on the unit, your experience, shifts,

  25. Gonorrhea

    birthrevolution replied to kagkat's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with everything you said, except this part. There is great information on the internet, particularly sites that have already been cited such as the CDC, NIH, and local/state health...