WILLBEANRN

Hi there. Good luck starting in May! It's exciting. When I went back to clinicals the following week it was much better. I did well for the rest of the time and passed. We just got through Nursing Process I. Process II starts next week. Thanks for the pick-me-up!

congratulations! i'm just finishing up process i this week. i haven't taken micro yet either. i'm also going to take in in the summer. i'm not worrying about it. you can do it then. :yeah:happy for you that you got in.

Wow. Thanks for writing that. I felt sorry for you while I was reading it. I don't know why instructors have to be that way. Making people nervous does not help them to learn. Although I can tell you where I WILL NEVER leave the foley bag again. And how I will watch that IV like a hawk and not get a drop of water near it. It's so scary to have so much responsibility for people but I'm going to do it. Thank you.

Wow. It sounds like you have a lot of stress. I don't blame you for wanting to get away from your Stepdad. Maybe just live there and stay away from the house as much as possible. Go to the library a lot. They tell us not to work in nursing school. It really is a lot of work. I'm almost done with Nursing Process I. Good luck!

Not yet. LOL But I'm still in Nursing Process I. My first day of clinicals SUCKED. I don't HATE it yet. It's the most stressful thing I have ever done and I have three kids. If I can get through nursing school, I can get through ANYTHING.

I appreciate everyone's comments so much! Makes me feel like I'm not alone. :)

I know what you mean. Some of the people in my class make the MOST disgusting noises. Snorting, snotty noises. GROSS!!!!! I would love to say something. No class.

Thank you for the replies. I have decided to just pick myself up and do my best when I go back again next week.

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share about my first day of clinicals. It was awful. We had partners to take care of one patient. Our patient was 95 and her daughter was glued to her side. I was to start vitals. The daughter insisted on BP first. I was afraid because she was frail. Then after two tries I couldn't hear ANYTHING. My instructor had to do it. Then after that we were to do a full head to toe assessment and a bed bath. The daughter would not let us do it because the patient was tired. Finally after two hours my instructor assigned us to another patient. We performed the full assessment and helped her to the commode. She really wanted her bath. She smelled like feces. I felt so sorry for her. But, no. We had to then hand in some nurse's notes to our instructor by 10:30 so we had to wait on the bath. In lecture, we learned about fidelity. If you tell your patient you're going to give her a bath, give her a bath. So about an hour and a half later......We started her bath. We didn't have much time and were rushed because we HAD to meet for lunch by 12:30. We were unorganized because someone had taken our bath supplies and linens out of the room and we had to go hunt down more. How does that happen? Only to me, right? LOL So we gave that sweet lady a bath. And we started to get her out of bed and to the chair to give her lunch and change her linens. I had the foley bag to make sure it stayed where it was supposed to. I looked up on my partner's side where the iv was and it had come out. NIGHTMARE. I hung the foley bag back on the bed (but too high. I was panicking about the iv) I went and told my instructor and the nurse. The instructor was furious about the bag. It was on the side rail. I WILL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN. Sucks when you learn from mistakes sometimes. The nurse was so sweet to us. The patient was so appreciative. After lunch, we met with our instructor and had a little conference about the day. Everyone but us had a good day and did great. I said, "I feel bad because of the mistakes that were made." My instructor said, "You should." I guess I should expect that. She said if it happens again she will fail us. I'm definitely not used to that. I have been doing so well in the lab and in lecture. She pulled me aside and said I wasn't aggressive enough and I needed to not shuffle around so much. I was running my butt off, not shuffling. She yelled at my partner and said she was making excuses. I went home last night and felt like a complete FAILURE. My instructor told my parter after I left that "we need to figure it out." Next week I will be by myself and I know it will be better. I can organize a little better and we will hopefully have a patient from start to finish. All night I tried to make sense of the day and how I could have done it differently. And I learned some things from it. It still feels REALLY bad. Up until yesterday I thought I was doing so well. One day can just shatter my confidence. Sorry this was so long. It feels better to get it off my chest.

Okay. Thanks for your advice. I appreciate it!

Oh really? The woman who counsels about studying came in and spoke to us yesterday and she said that reading the objectives and concentrating on those is VERY helpful. She did say read everything too. Thanks for your advice. I appreciate it!

Okay. Thank you very much.

Thanks Bumblebee. I feel like I'm getting a lot out of reading the chapter. When we had first lecture today, I knew a lot of answers to her questions. Just so darn time-consuming. Can you tell me about the critical thinking questions. I did the questions at the end of the chapter and they were really really hard. I went blank and then had a hard time finding the answer in the book. I do have the book Test Success, Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students. I've read most of it, but it didn't seem to help me here. LOL Does it get easier to come up with an answer for those? I know that's how the tests are. I'm scared of those questions!

Really? Wow. Ok. Thanks for the advice!

Hello there, This is a question for possibly the people who have taken Process I already. I JUST started and I'm not sure how to fit in all this reading. We are supposed to read the Fundamentals book and the skills book chapter for the topic. Example, the first week is on Vital Signs. So I did read both chapters in each book. Both are almost identical with a few points that are different in each book. But....it takes me about one hour to read eight pages of the book. So if the chapters are 45 pages it takes me five hours to get through them. My question is, did you have a good schedule for the reading? I know I have a lot of other things to do. Integrate my notes after lecture, highlight answers to the objectives in the book, make up some flashcards, answer questions, do practice questions, read the Test Taking Skills book.....etc. And still practice the math and whatever I have to do for Pharm. I start that class today. I'm trying to figure out when the best time to read would be. Should I get up in the middle of the night and get that out of the way? LOL I would appreciate your wisdom and suggestions. Thanks so much!! Oh, and can I just tell you that the critical thinking questions at the end of the chapter are HARD?! Do you get used to coming up with answers for those correctly?

Hi. I'm registered at North. Here is a link to the nursing process teacher. http://webhome.broward.edu/~gbrickma/calendars.htm It gives some info here. There is no other orientation. As far as shoes and lab coats, I don't think we will be doing clinicals at the hospital right away, so we won't have to have those things at first. I would guess they will tell us when we start in the first couple of weeks.

Hi there, I turned in my appeal and they denied it. I still cannot believe that they will not give me financial aid because "I have too many credits and some withdrawals". Absolutely ridiculous. There's nothing I can do. So not only do I not get a grant, but I can't apply for a federal loan. So here I am, ready to start the nursing program and I have to pay my tuition for first semester. It's over $1300.00 that I don't have right before Christmas. So my husband and I searched for a private loan. Originally our plan was to take out a student loan for the money I will be missing when I quit my part-time job since they recommend not working while in the program. Well, there are not a lot of options out there for the private loans. We decided to go with WellsFargo. They have two types. One is where you apply and they send the money directly to you. We don't have bad credit and they would not give it to me without a co-signer. Both of our mothers with good credit would not qualify us for this loan. Then they have another type of loan where they send the money directly to the college. Then the college decides how to disperse our money. The college also decides how much money we deserve for living expenses, etc, and when to give it to us. I did qualify for that one. We are now waiting for the college to give the information to WellsFargo. I guess there are amounts that they allow. One for the program, which is $6000 in total and then for living expenses, etc. So I doubt we will get the amount we asked for. I hope they give you the financial aid. You certainly have valid reasons for the withdrawals. Isn't it a sin that people that want to better themselves that are getting good grades are denied financial aid? I don't know where they came up with these guidelines. This is the first time I've ever applied for financial aid. I've never even taken the money and withdrew from classes. Or used the money before I changed my major. Good luck. Let me know how your situation turns out. Michele

I got the e-mail with the North Campus schedule. All set to register tomorrow. Do you think I should worry about not getting my classes at North? They said at orientation if it's full you will have to go to another campus. I definately don't want to have to do that.

Thanks for trying to help me. When we went to orientation, They gave us all the registration schedules for the campuses except for North. She said we would get an e-mail for north campus, which I haven't gotten yet. She also said we had to follow the schedule in order to register. I also just did the search for the classes from the website. Only thing is I don't see clinicals for North. It doesn't show which one it is. I called the north campus nursing office yesterday and the person who answered the phone said we would get the e-mail yesterday. I didn't get it.

I will be going to north. Which campus are you going to? Do you know how many breaks we will get? I'm going to take my micro and psych during that June through Aug break, but do we get any others where I can take the humanities? Thanks!

Thanks. I will. :-)

Hello there, Is there anyone getting ready to register at Broward College on Fri 11/6 at North campus? They told us at orientation that we would get an e-mail with North Campus schedule. I haven't gotten anything. When I called yesterday the person I spoke to said she didn't know what the hold-up was. Not sure what to do. It doesn't seem like you get much help or good answers. I don't know what to do if I don't get the schedule by Friday. Has anyone gotten any news?

Hi, I wound up being able to speak to a supervisor yesterday and she said I could petition. How long have you been in the program? Michele

Hi, Stupidly, I didn't save the e-mail. I received the denial about four months ago. No the e-mail did not explain the process for the denial. That's why I called the financial aid office. The girl on the other end looked up my student number and told me I didn't get it because I was part-time. Anyway, I wound up speaking to a supervisor yesterday. She said she would let me petition.

Hello there. I was wondering if anyone could help me with a financial aid question and give me some advice. I was accepted to the nursing program at Broward College in Florida. I will start January 6, 2010. I applied for financial aid. This was the first time I filled out the FAFSA form. On my SAR, it showed I was eligible for $2300.00. My school sent me an e-mail that said I was not eligible. I saw flags on my financial aid status. I called the school because I didn't understand why I was denied. The girl on the phone (incompetent) said that it was because I had been going to school part-time and when I start the program full-time I will probably get it. My husband and I went into the financial aid office yesterday to speak to someone because now I will be full-time. The woman said that I was supposed to petition and I had had 21 days to do it and time was up. I knew nothing of this because the wrong information was explained to me. She gave me a phone number of another person that would possibly let me hand in my petition. First of all, the reason I needed the petition was this. I'm 37. After 20 years I'm going back to school. In 1990-1995 I attended Broward College (then BCC) for court reporting. I had some withdrawals for a semester back then. But this woman said I had to do the petition because I had too many credits from when I went to school from 90 - 95'. I never got my degree. And now my major is changed. She said all I had to do was explain this. I called the person I was supposed to speak with who is "on the board". Another words he's one of the people that decides whether they let me have my financial aid. He went through all of my records and decided for himself that I had some withdrawals back when I was 18 and not to bother doing the petition anyway. And over the past year and a half, I dropped my on-line chem class. Took it again and received an A. Then this past time I had to withdraw from my Micro class. I have over 3.0 GPA. So basically this young guy said, "Nope. Too bad." I asked for his supervisor, whom I was told numerous times yesterday she would call me right back. She never did. This is absurd to my husband and I. I feel I am being treated unfairly. I was given false info and now nobody wants to help me. I am not a slacker who fails her classes. I have received all A's and B's, which is why I was accepted into the program. Can someone please tell me if there is something I can do. Thanks so much. Michele