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-When to contact the doctor about your patient - I discovered its better to **** off the doctor than not contact them when you need to clarify something (orders, plan for the patient, ect.) about your patient. Better safe than sorry...you and your pa...

Ida came to us from an understaffed and unsafe local nursing home. She had type II diabetes and as a result, had necrotic toes on her feet. Infections were common in her feet, and they tried relentlessly to treat in the nursing home. But one of the s...

I understand what you are going through. I am 6 months out of school and I went directly into oncology because that's what was offered to me. I have a hard time disconnecting myself emotionally from all the sad stories. Just this week we have lost s...

I completely understand about injection fear! I don't think I've ever given an IM except in nursing school...on a baby. I work on a unit with immunosuppressed cancer patients who also have really low platelets, so an IM is usually a big no no there. ...

I found out today that I passed mine too! :-D Totally worth the $7.95 to get the early results! So Happy! It will be so nice to sign RN next to my name now. Haha

I just took mine today and it shut off at 75 questions!! I was thinking it would. I got so many of the same type of questions! I kept thinking...OMG, am I answering these continuously wrong so they are giving me the same type of question over and ove...

Human disease course? Do you mean pathophysiology? If so...thats the toughest class you'll have and has the highest probability of flunking out of it. Its pretty much the weed-out course. Its rough, but study a lot and you'll be fine. Clinicals were...

Hello WCU BSN 2 Advance hopefuls. I just wanted to see what you think about the program and am updating my post from about a year ago. I just graduated a little less than a month ago from the program. I found the program to be very unorganized. Very...

Graduate on Sunday from second degree program just outside oh Philadelphia PA! Just passed my HESI exit exam today!

Wow! 181 applicants! But that's the story of new graduate positions today. *crossing fingers*

I understand what everyone is saying. I have no experience except for clincials in school. I graduate this December, have been applying everywhere and everywhere is saying the same thing. I am in an accelerated program...so no externship and no time ...

rewrite your notes - I always find that helps me!

Good Luck! Learn lots! :)

Wow, I thought my white scrub top and pants were bad! A scrub dress is in no way practical in clinical.

I would think you'd get this in any profession. But I have already seen it quite a bit in clincials already. I had one rotation where the floor nurses wanted nothing to do with students, constantly complained we were getting in their way, and we were...

I remember feeling that way before I started clinicals! Everyone feels nervous! Just go in with as open of a mind as possible and it will come! I remember my first rotation - I was at an assisted living facility and I almost froze up the first day w...

I completely understand where you are coming from. I went directly into a second degree nursing program right after I finished college - at 21 years old. I'm now about halfway through the program and 22 - but I had an awful lot of comments from profe...

I'm currently in the second degree BSN at WCU. So far its a great program. But like all schools it has its ups and downs. The faculty is great, its a nice small class setting, evening classes and weekend clinicals (which is good for some, bad for o...

I completely understand where you are coming from. I am in a 2nd degree program, and I am definitely the youngest at 22 (I jumped right from one degree to another). Most people in the class are at least 4 or 5 years older than me, so they have a cons...

I'm heading back tomorrow! I'm in my second semester and I have gerontology wellness and Maternity. Its my first clinical rotations and I'm quite excited!

Yikes. My nursing school requires a PDA for clinicals but klutzy me stepped on my NEW Palm Tungsten E2 Handheld PDA and cracked and destroyed the screen. I still have the textbooks in a SD card that can be added to another PDA...but the new price for...

Stop whining about how bad the professor teaches and how unfair the exams are and open the textbook and read! This is college, professors do not spoon feed you the information!

I'm also like you on this one! I was a Penn State student who had a change heart too late in college. I graduated a semester early last fall 2007 (to save money) and looked at several and applied to a few accelerated programs. I looked at Pitt also, ...

I applied to the WCU program starting May 2008. I recently had my interview last week, and I have to say that I was very impressed with the program. It seemed organized, structured, and not too condensed (its a 17 month program). This was the only se...

I too was just accepted into Drexel Ace for Spring 2008! I am on the other end of the age spectrum (I'll be 22 when I finish the program). I currently attend Penn State and will graduate with my first degree in the fall. I was one of those students w...