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I agree with those that are saying this is just rudeness. We have a new grad nurse that started nights on our unit that acts the same way during report. I think it is her attempt at "proving" herself as a new nurse. Try to trip up the nurse with expe...

I am in month 9 of a 12 month RN residency program. The program incooporates RNs from all over the hospital in different practice areas, the majority of us are May 2010 graduates so we are all very new with similar experience levels. The thing that I...

Love this! I am precepting my first GN and we just finished up our first week together and I hope she has learned half as much from me as I have learned from her in this week.

I started as an LPN in an office and I loved it, as an RN I have found it much harder to find a job in an office but I would go back in a minute! I currently work in a super busy med/surg unit in a large teaching hospital and to be honest I would go ...

I worked in LTC for 3 months before getting the job that I have now, I did let my employer know that the facility was just not a good fit for me and that I was going to be applying at other facilities. I had support from my DoN at the LTC which made ...

So, I'm a new grad in my first nursing job. I am in week 4 of a 6 week preceptorship on a busy M/S unit. I am at the point where I am delegating responsibilities to my preceptor and juggleing the load of pts by myself I can ask for input/help along t...

Red or diff color pens, they help to make your notes to yourself about things that need documented later stand out a bit. I also carry a small little note pad in my pocket for quick notes to myself such as I&Os, pump rates, PCA doses, etc. I'm a ...

Just a heads up, we had a drug test for every student in the program the day of orientation in addition to the test we had to take to be accepted into the program. We were also told to expect random drug tests through out the program which makes me ...

My daughter is 22 months old and we started sending her at the end of the spring semester this year. She had never even been to a baby sitter (not even grammy!) and she is doing so well. Sometimes I think she would rather be at "hool" than at home....

When I took classes through the ccc system I did not get a choice about who I could take as an instructor. They may have changed the system since then. The instructors that I had were decent, no real complaints about any of them.

I took both A&P 2 and Micro through the CCConline system and in my experience the lab manual is only sold as part of the labpaq. I don't think that you could buy it separately. The labs are pretty in depth and there are questions that you will ...

Thanks Csantos! I have been doing my practice tests for 10 days now and I take the NET Friday. I feel good but yesterday when I read that there may be geometry on the test I got a little weak in the knees! :uhoh21:

Just curious as I am taking the NET this Friday about whether or not there are any geometry questions on the math section of the test. I have been working the practice tests but there seems to be a lack of geometry questions although I have read tha...

Oh man! That guy sounds like my stats teacher from round one about 6 years ago. I did all right in the class but only because we had a TA come to the rescue of the WHOLE CLASS one day after the instructor came in with a chart showing how pathetic o...

I don't see how it would be in the best interest of the school to only have 2 out of 35 grad/pass. I have been under the impression that schools can lose their accredidation (couldn't spell that to save my life evidently ) if enough of their student...

jdarcy, I agree, the CCCS is a bit on the hinky side. I feel like I rarely ever get any communication and when I do there is only one adviser at my school that I get clear answers from. I think I would have had a hard time listening to someone tha...

When mu hubby and I first got married we were in HI...what I wouldn't give for some sand and sun today! I'm freezing!!

You got to sleep 7 hours in a row? I'm so jealous! The previously mentioned toddler makes sleep a commodity for me these days. lol I agree with you and previous posters that have stated that A&P2 +micro pales in comparison with NS but if the ...

The only reason that I would have taken A&P 1 and Micro together is because I took an Intro to A&P when I got my first degree 3 years ago (communications) and it made A&P 1 a little easier to digest. A&P 2 was A LOT of memorization a...

At my school A&Ps and Micro were only offered online and had a built in lab at home ( which I detested!!). I missed the lab interaction with my peers and I felt that it was a lot harder to take the online classes than traditional classes. That ...

MikeInCO where are you taking classes? Some schools require that you take A&P 1 as a pre-req to A&P 2. I did A&P2 and micro together and it is doable but tough. If I had it to do over again I would have taken micro with A&P 1, it j...

Man am i a sap!! That made a lil' misty. I have a 17 month old and I am maintianing my 4.0 but it is HARD and anyone who would tell you different is wrong. I have really struggled with balance and not feeling like I am the worst mom on the plan...

IMO, Micro is the hardest class I've EVER taken!! Even Chem didn't leave me feeling like as much of a moron as micro. I had a great instructor that was very willing to help and I managed an A but I worked my little booty off for that A. I took A&a...

I took A&P 2 online after taking Intro to A&P and A&P 1 in a traditional setting. The class that I took had a lab that you worked from home (nothing like getting a fetal pig in the mail!:barf01:) The course material was much harder to me...

Ok, I feel like I am being tortured with the waiting!! I will not hear anything about whether I'm in for Fall 08 or waitlisted until 09 until late April or May...they won't even tell us when we can expect a letter.:uhoh21: So now I am officially goi...