medicgirl

Wow. I wish we got to pick. We do 180 hours all in med surge. Sucks.

I am sorry all this has happened. When I started nursing school someone on here posted very good advice concerning clinical instructors. If your clinical instructor tells you that the sky is pink, the sky is PINK until you graduate. THEN it can be...

This post is all so true!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't understand the monsters some of my classmates have become. Wow. Hopefully graduation will bring some much needed smiles.

You need to have a good stethescope. There is no way around it. I have to shell out the dough before I could hear the thump.

Where I live in Alabama as long as you have the science classes done with a C or better you can pretty much walk into the program. I am so thankful I live where I did not have to wait to go to school. I count my blessings everyday!

I would love to know that answer to this question. I have had no less than 20 pen lights in the past two years. IT IS HORRIBLE!

Dating in nursing school is very hard. There is just simply not enough time. My friend's husband who was in nursing school before me told me that nursing school is a sentence for both the student and the loved ones. BOY WAS HE RIGHT!

great stuff!

How did you all end up doing? This test scares me to death. What did you find worked best for you?

congats to everybody! Hesi scares me to death!

Hi there, I just finished the Nursing sequence you talk about at Wallace this semester. DO NOT sweat the pharmacology. It is NOT hard math. The professors use ONE formula to do all the problems. It is easy calculator math (multiplication and divi...

Do you go to WCC in Dothan? This sounds like someone I know......

Hi there. I would suggest becoming an EMT. It is SO MUCH FUN, and most people really enjoy the training. You gain a lot of assessment skills and if you get a job in the field you will see many many different things. I am a paramedic going through...

Hi there. I am a paramedic (age 32, not a spring chick!) going through nursing school and have been a medic for one year, and an EMT for 3. It is not strength you need to lift a cot (or a patient, for that matter) it is knowing proper lifting techn...

I have one wih a little stick figure nurse on it. The sound quality is AMAZING! I would get one again in a heartbeat!

Hi there. I am a nursing student and a paramedic. I think the schooling I have had and the education that has come from riding on the truck has been absolutely invaluable in class. EMT school will no doubt help you in many ways through nursing school...