Jeepers, and to think I was considering starting my own post, on a somewhat related topic! Bullet dodged, and I'm sure I'll get flack for these few sentences LOL! I joined back in 2007 when even...
DahliaDaisy replied to LovingLife123's topic in General Nursing
As a new nurse, I've already come to sadly accept that most of my time will be spent writing ABOUT my patients rather than, you know, actually taking care of them. They might as well put law classes...
DahliaDaisy replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing
I'm a new nurse as well, graduated in Dec. 2018 and started in March at our local state psych facility. I'm a bit older and went into NS knowing I wanted to do psych. I think my "favorite" part is...
^^^THIS, is all brilliant advice and I wish I had read it before I started! In hindsight though, I probably wouldn't have understood it, and the reasons behind it nearly as well as I do now. #4 is...
And what is wrong with that? I entered nursing school in my 40's KNOWING I wanted only to go into psych and/or addictions nursing. I too enjoy the academics and have consistently high scores on the...
I'm sorry I wasn't clearer. The 100 pt head to toe assessment we had to pass out of in procedure testing that I was referring to was literately assessing 100 aspects, including testing all 12 cranial...
We had in school "labs" they were called, for the first 8 weeks. It was then that we learned a BASIC head to toe assessment that we used for our first 8 week hospital clinicals. We also learned to...
I could be here for days if I were to recount some of the biased, DATED, you have to know the professor to guess the answer, questions Ive run across! Deep breaths, let it go and concentrate on...
I took predictor A in August, got a 76 which was the 2nd highest in my class of 40. Then after 8 weeks of helpful quizzes and annoying homework, I got an 89.3 on part B, and last Thursday I took the...
DahliaDaisy replied to Transfer_Student's topic in General Students
Everyone above gave you great advice, and I can't agree enough with the part about "befriending" the aids! They are less stressed than the nurses and know all of the ins and out, I have found them to...
You mention Biology, but what about A&P I and II, and maybe Microbiology? My state school in NY looks at those the most and if you aced those, it will go a long way to overcoming your C in Bio...
Also in Upstate NY and there are a lot of programs here of all kinds AND, a lot of jobs! Everyone I know graduating from my ASN, Community College program are going straight into whatever field they...
I live in Syracuse and am in my second year of an ASN program. Everyone I know is getting jobs IN the specialty they prefer even before graduation. The starting salaries sound about average and the...