Faith213

I'm interested in anything from conception (antepartal) to peds. Pediatric cardiology and NICU are some areas in which I've had experience (albeit that pediatric cardiology has been from a patient's perspective) that I like.

Your symptoms are similar to mine. I'm over a year post-ablation for WPW. They haven't found anything abnormal either. I'm concerned that a silent pathway may becoming active since they ablated the other accessory pathway. I have to schedule an appointment with my EP soon so hopefully I'll get some answers. I'm also having chest discomfort with palpitations and shortness of breath. Had cardiac enzymes drawn (for some reason just one set) in the ER and they came back clear. My cardiologist scheduled me for a stress test with cardiac enzymes. They also told me to increase my sodium and fluids to help with my orthostatic hypotension. I hope you get some answers soon, as well.

Thanks!

These are a couple of nursing quotes I pulled off of my facebook profile: The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.... ~William Osler Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. - Val Saintsbury

I made a 97% on my Med/Surg final and received a 4.0 in Med/Surg theory and clinical, along with Nursing Seminar. Brings my cumulative GPA up to a 3.8.

All of my instructors are wonderful as well and will do everything they can to help their students succeed. It is nice to hear about the good experiences others have had with their instructors. I thoroughly enjoy and love my nursing program.

I got a 988 on my Fundamentals HESI which converts to a 91.45% :)

My instructor has been using my Patient Data Records (20-25 pages in length and full of everything about your patient) which I have received 20/20's on as examples to the other students and instructors of how they should be done. I also made a 100% on my dosage calculations test, 100% on high alert medication test, and a 98% on my mid-term clinical exam. I passed my IV returns two hours after we were first taught how to do them.

Pathophysiology was a pre-req for my program. I found that if you paid attention and did well in A&P, then you just build upon that knowledge a little bit and should do well. However, like others have said, if you didn't actually learn the material in A&P then it'll be difficult to understand the abnormals without a good grasps of the normals beforehand.

The first semester we had one total care patient. This semester we again start off with one total care patient and can do a lot more than we could last semester such as oral medication administration, parenteral medications, urinary catheters, tube feedings, inserting NG tubes, drawing blood, starting IVs, hanging IV fluids (no meds yet), taking samples from urinary catheters, sterile dressing changes, and of course the standard head to toe assessment. They said they will bump us up to two total care patients halfway through the semester to test our time management skills. I'm definitely looking forward to that. :uhoh21:

Same here.

I am also starting my junior year on the 23rd and am ready to have a nursing class involving more pathophysiology instead of all therapeutic communication and the like.

Health Intervention II (med/surg I theory) 5 credits Nursing Science Practicum (med surg I clinical 6 credits) 2 - 9 hour clinical days Nursing Science Seminar 1 credit So 12 credits total, but I'm told that it'll still be difficult so that's why I CLEPed out of the year of American Literature I had left. Now all nursing classes. Good luck everyone!

I agree with That Guy. I like the structure of a classroom setting and having deadlines. It'd be too easy for me to put off doing my work. If you are motivated and self-driven it might could work out. Best of luck to you!

- When you didn't have to try to memorize every thing about hundreds of drugs and still worry that if you forget one little detail about a single drug that you'll end up killing your patient.* - When the bags under your eyes didn't feel like they weigh a hundred pounds by two in the afternoon. Or better yet, when they didn't exist.