Fermin Hernandez

Fermin Hernandez ADN, ASN, RN

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  1. should a person work if they don't have to while in school?

    Fermin Hernandez replied to scrublifenurse10's topic in General Students

    No. Focus on your

  2. Do whiners make it through nursing school?

    Fermin Hernandez replied to tuchipie's topic in General Students

    Students often worry too much about other students rather then their own

  3. Is it possible to successful in nursing school.....

    Fermin Hernandez replied to lala2287's topic in General Students

    Most who get 4.0s in prereqs are good students that do well in NS. People always remember the exceptions as the

  4. Just Thanking God!!!

    Fermin Hernandez replied to KEYMONNEE's topic in LPN to RN

    Does God read message boards? I thought he was more of an IRC being. :) good

  5. Assessing Bowel Activity

    Fermin Hernandez replied to CarolS Boyz123's topic in General Students

    Also sometimes it is tough to tell very hypoactive vs absent bowel sounds, but it is rather important to do

  6. What the heck is a "Peer Reviewed Article"

    Fermin Hernandez replied to NurseHotFlash's topic in General Students

    Most nursing journals are peer reviewed...look in the first few pages of the journal. If youa re using a database search like EBSCO then just tick "peer reviewed only" or whatever in the search...

  7. Nursing and Pre Med

    Fermin Hernandez replied to sc4s2cg's topic in General Students

    Your handicapping yourself by taking nursing classes. The grading scale is much tougher and you will be competing against students that don't need a 96% for an A. Decide what you really want to do and...

  8. someone please help me

    Fermin Hernandez replied to hollyandsky's topic in General Students

    PCTs are surely valuable members of our team in my state. I believe that, much like nursing, most of your training will happen on the job. The certification gets your "foot in the door". While no job...

  9. Anyone else out there waiting to be readmitted for 2nd year?

    Fermin Hernandez replied to beth66335's topic in General Students

    I know there are many here in your situation, good luck on your fresh start! Already assuming you get in - think positive,

  10. 20% Pass Rate

    Fermin Hernandez replied to Blove86's topic in General Students

    A 20% says little about the students but tons about the course and the

  11. AllofYouHaveGivenMeGreatSupportNowINeedNewAdvice

    Fermin Hernandez replied to SnowRain7489's topic in General Students

    Why would hurting you be a good joke? Sounds like hes the joke, move on to the next

  12. Electrolyte questions, not sure on answer

    Fermin Hernandez replied to deemarys's topic in General Students

    Don't say pH means proportion of H+ as its inverse log and might mess someone up :) You should get these concepts down solid for sure OP, as they are pretty fundamental. But yea, look at 7,8,9,10,12...

  13. Should a nursing instructor tell a student they are not nursing material.

    Fermin Hernandez replied to motivated2nurse's topic in General Students

    instructors are not to choose who will be a nurse, but to educate and grade fairly. anything else is an abuse of power. now if the students qualities don't allow them to complete a skill with a...

  14. Why do teachers tr to fail you???

    Fermin Hernandez replied to NStiger88's topic in General Students

    But some questions will be rather stupid and never either show up on boards or be useful in real

  15. Student loans with bad credit

    Fermin Hernandez replied to jenawade25's topic in General Students

    or perkins loan if its offered to you, but if your working then i doubt you can get it. Fun fact: People with jobs have a harder time paying for school then those

  16. Older students biased against younger students?

    Fermin Hernandez replied to Stephanieee's topic in General Students

    fun fact about humans - when you get more then 1 that share some trait in a group, then they start to look at it as "us vs them". age, gender, grades, whatever. we are social and warlike

  17. Men have it harder?

    Fermin Hernandez replied to fabiusgile's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Mostly its a bunch of BS...except when an instructor says something like that. It's the instructor with the issue, not the rest of the

  18. Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    Fermin Hernandez replied to jjjoy's topic in General Students

    I don't need my nursing teachers to teach me composition - that's what the English comp classes are for. Traditional care plans are relics from a past time. Now the nursing process...that's another...

  19. Need your help - trying to change school policy

    Fermin Hernandez replied to CrystalShip's topic in General Students

    Don't forget NCLEX pass rate if you are preparing a presentation to your nursing advisory

  20. Does anyone else hate nursing school?

    Fermin Hernandez replied to jenawade25's topic in General Students

    Ouch, sorry to hear that! My Ob teacher is really great, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't give a point

  21. Students that cheat

    Fermin Hernandez replied to NewNurseAlert's topic in General Students

    Jan's grades are not your grades. Keep focused on your tasks and

  22. Kind of bummed...My 4.0 is ruined

    Fermin Hernandez replied to midnight*sky's topic in General Students

    What till you realize that with 96% needed for an A you only have 4% leeway...and 2-5% of test questions are going to be wrong or trivial memory tasks that will mean NOTHING later (like if aids...

  23. Hints on Pharmacology

    Fermin Hernandez replied to intuition's topic in General Students

    Whatever you do, don't forget the basics! I know a guy who forgot how many mg are in a grain on a conversion test...he failed the class...since so many questions need mg/grain

  24. Your school's exam review policy

    Fermin Hernandez replied to MollyMel's topic in General Students

    Your schools suck. Nursing tests are often wrong...and some places (not mine) seem to have insecure instructors who disintegrate tests ASAP with fire and smoke. Best policy: Silent review (keeps...

  25. Kind of humiliating

    Fermin Hernandez replied to cmonkey's topic in General Students

    the "ng" doesn't matter. it could be frogs. 500 frogs/100 ml = X frogs/dl? replace dl with 100ml.... (10 decliters to a liter, so each dl is 100ml) 500 frogs/100 ml = X frogs/100ml x= 500 frogs, or...