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Just wait til you try to make a wheal on one of those injection pads....talk about annoying! GLad you are so excited, I was the same way my first semester!!

OH Angelfire....I am sooo sorry you are dealing with this, but I dont have much advice I guess but I too know how it fells to be the expendible member of a clan,that was one of the most thoughtless comments I have ever heard( and coming from my famil...

Thanks JHansen...I am just jacked up about this totally off the wall excited~ I am hoping to come away with a great experience and a little more info on a field I find very interesting,peri-operative nursing!!!After my lap chole this spring just befo...

Hi everyone, I am having an observation day tomorrow in surgery (:yeah:sooo excited)and I just found out what is scheduled, so my time to brush up is short....there are several colonoscopy procedures , a hernia repair (dont know what kind) and a mas...

Thanks for directing me to that, I appreciate it...it has tons of great general info...I wish my school would pass out something like that!!!, but still I am kinda also hoping to hear from someone who has encountered the specifc things I will be deal...

Think about it ...if House did not treat every one around him with such distain, would he still be House? I think not! That is almost part of what makes him so lovable... at least he is predictable. and I have to admit I LOVE me some House!!!! I try ...

We actually were required to buy that book (Test Succes) with our first semester books, it is a great investment...it is very well written and easy to understand even if it might be difficult to apply those tips when you are a nervous wreck.

I to have my first nursing test on 9/2...though over 16 chapters! I guess we are pretty lucky , our teachers give us written objectives for each section and test from them , so you can look up and specifically study only that certain information...bu...

Wow Elvish...as a woman who has suffered a fetal loss ( not with current husband but many years ago) honestly I never thought about HIS loss as I was told the physical abuse he did to me was the reason I lost the child in the first place... but thank...

I can only say this was beautifullly written as I ended it in tears....it is nice to see a reminder of where the true strength of a relationship lies...not in the bed but in one anothers hearts! Thank you Babs , thank you so much for sharing..I neede...

I have to go a different route here and say MATH 150 was my hardest (college algebra)and it was the only thing I could not pulll of an A in:( though I have complete all my Anatomy and Physiology credits~I still need medical micro though but wont be t...

OhI sooo know what you mean...I have orientation next Thursday ...skills test on Friday and classes sstart the next Monday the 18th! I feel like I have waited so long for this to happen now time is just dragging by in slow-mo.I am lucky though I gues...

Our application also asked for a letter of interest BUT it was a pre-printed check off list( we got these at the schools informational pre conferences for our specific program) that required just our signature,,,no actual letter needed to be written....

mom4jesus, :icon_hug:I am sorry for all the loss and difficulty you have faced lately.just remember you can still do THIS...it was never promised to be easy (but it WILL be worth it)and I would bet we get a earful of warnings next week in orientation...

LadyJane Thanks for the advice:flowersfo...at least I have a jumping off point. we got a book in our boxed set called Test Success:Test taking Strategies for Beginning Students...maybe I will give that a looking over as well, I just checked the table...

Hey schrimpchips that edition of Saunders N-CLEX review came in our boxed books....maybe that says good things about my school, they are beginning a "new curriculum" with my class starting on the 18 th, we are gonna be the guinea pigs for this.It is ...

Wow I wish we got our syllabi now instead of waiting until next Thursday at Orientation, we cant even ask previous classes because the curriculum is new this year, they would have no clue...I would love to have that much a head start on my work load....

I just picked up mine yesterday....12 books ( still need 3 more) and it was a total of almost $700.00!!! Glad I had hubby with me cause it was like 40 lbs of books seriously . We had a box set with Davis's Drug Guide and Tabers and Mosbys Nursing Dx ...

I just received an e mail stating that our school is using a new curriculum this coming semester, so no hints for us from the last class...so my class going in this Fall will be the guinea pigs I guess!!!!!!I did not think it possible to be more nerv...

So then what would the cure be for this particular situation??? I dont see a way to prevent this in the future. Would any of you say to prevent this type of incident in the future that all nurses with any mental illness(from postpartum or clinical de...

Thanks for clearing that up~How ridiculous though, no wonder he got to keep his licsense...I would think an intense probe into his mental status and various conditions is exactly what they (the board)needed to do to verify how stable he could be with...

You are absolutely right Tele , it is a travesty he should remain liscensed under ant circumstances! I would be terrified if someone capable of that was taking care of me or my loved ones! I have one question though, why do you assume he is bipolar? ...

I just got accepted in to a 2 year program and I started taking my pre-reqs in January of 2007 (also taking classes last summer and 17 credit hours this spring)so I will have 3 and 1/2 years in when I graduat in May of 2010 but I will also only owe a...

Yeah thanks StriverSN but the melatonin I have actually comes in that specific dosage, so I am not taking too little unless 3 mg is simply not enough for me , I have no idea. I wish that was all I was doing wrong , if so,I would just take 2 a night a...

Wow, LNCRN2B I wish our school offered a class like that, I would have taken it in a minute!