lowypop

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1. How Do You Unwind?

   lowypop replied to justme01's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I also replay everything, and even end up having dreams about placements!! Its madness But to try and unwind i normaly eat some crap, crisps or sweets or something that i know is really not good for...

2. Nursing instructor that reads powerpoint word for word

   lowypop replied to mwdw04's topic in LPN, LVN Students

   ours did the same, apart from she did it r-e-a-l-l-y- s--l--o--w,, to top it off, she would stop halfway through 1 sentence try to explain it, and then coz she couldnt, she would just go "um,ah,...

3. Any males out there tired of the drama?

   lowypop replied to HumptyDumpty's topic in Male Nursing Students

   ha ha bit random, but if u come oer here, majority off the girls talk about completley random stuff we hardly make comments about how bleak our outlook is at university! theres a lot of talk about sex...

4. Do you ever have a subject that you are just not able to grasp no matter what?

   lowypop replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

   ahhhh i have sooo much trouble understanding the hormones, lymphatic system and all the immunity stuff!! mainly the hormones!! i was lucky though, i have passed my biology exam, i got 53% not the best...

5. Student Uniform - My Gosh!

   lowypop replied to Meg_student's topic in General Students

   i wish we had dresses, over here (UK) we have trousers that go up past our bellybutton (im not jokin it almost touches my bra) which r blue, show up any speck of water or fluid (very impractical) and...

6. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

   lowypop replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Im ashamed to say i agree with the patients, many a times in handover i have struggled to understand about a patients PMH of reason for admission, etc etc because a nurses accent was so strong and...

7. Am I too old to just be starting?

   lowypop replied to Roxy0628's topic in General Students

   Dont be silly!!! Im one of the youngest in my cohort and the youngest in my class by a long way, most of them are mid-forties and weve only just started. Apparently they will be better nurses than me...

8. The Patient I Failed

   lowypop replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   this is such a sad story, i hope that daughter lives with the guilt, of what she did to her poor mother. wonderfully written. My heart goes out to the rest of the family, and i hope she can now rest...

9. Anyone heard of Carper's Ways of Knowing??

   lowypop replied to Karine2's topic in General Students

   arghhh im just starting the nature of nursing module, and we have to KNOW carpers model or we fail basically, but im finding it difficult to atually find a decent website or book in the library wih...

10. AMAZED at what some students get away with!!!

    lowypop replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    im quite upset by these comments made about students, i am a new student and at my very first placement i rarely had anything to do, because the home was too OVERstaffed believe it or not, the only...