Nurse SMS MSN, RN

Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development

You did what you knew how to do; when you knew better, you did better. - Maya Angelou

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  1. Nurse SMS

    Pregnant starting 2nd semester, anyone BTDT?

    Nurse SMS replied to hardworkinmama's topic in General Students

    How do you figure you will be "done with clinicals"? Clinicals go through the entire program. Or
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    Is your clinical experience like mine?

    Nurse SMS replied to dee78's topic in General Students

    We get 24 to 48 hours to turn in our care map. We have the packet but by senior level all the information in the packet has to be put on the care map and then shown how everything interrelates to one...
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    Please!!! Someone tell me how does Externships work?

    Nurse SMS replied to healthnut84's topic in General Students

    Yep, every place is different. I do not have a
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    Please!!! Someone tell me how does Externships work?

    Nurse SMS replied to healthnut84's topic in General Students

    I applied the summer after my first semester ended. I have not met anyone else since then who has been hired after first and definitely nobody hired during first. You are more likely to get responses...
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    Study help

    Nurse SMS replied to Beckster2011's topic in General Students

    One of the best pieces of advice I ever got about text reading and highlighting was this: Use two colors. One color is for what you will SEE - assessment data, diagnostic test results, etc. The...
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    Is your clinical experience like mine?

    Nurse SMS replied to dee78's topic in General Students

    Yep, that sounds
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    How often do you get sick? More or less often than

    Nurse SMS replied to MammaNurse2Be's topic in General Students

    Knock wood (Nope, not evidence based. oh well ) but I have not had a serious bout with anything since I started nursing school - just a bad cold/cough once that made people nervous to be around me,...
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    Nursing school schedule-vent !

    Nurse SMS replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    It is awesome they allow you absences. Most schools do not. Ours certainly doesn't. If you miss, for any reason, even if the instructor sends you home for being sick, you get a zero for the day. It...
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    lllnesses/injuries affecting nursing school work

    Nurse SMS replied to cogath's topic in General Students

    In our school we are not allowed any absences at all. You get a zero for the day. A girl in my class suffered an injury in third semester that made her temporarily unable to participate in clinicals,...
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    Please!!! Someone tell me how does Externships work?

    Nurse SMS replied to healthnut84's topic in General Students

    To be honest, in an accelerated program it is highly unlikely you will have time or energy to work an externship. From what I hear the coursework is brutally intense from trying to cram so much...
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    Please!!! Someone tell me how does Externships work?

    Nurse SMS replied to healthnut84's topic in General Students

    You can research it if you want but you won't be eligible to apply for any you manage to find until you have 1-2 semesters under your belt. Not all externships are PRN either. Some go for eight weeks...
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    Please!!! Someone tell me how does Externships work?

    Nurse SMS replied to healthnut84's topic in General Students

    Yes, I am doing my externship along with school. I am PRN, so I set my own hours and work it around my school schedule. It works fine. Frankly, the biggest benefit to getting an externship is having a...
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    Why the disdain for LTC?

    Nurse SMS replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I said I would look at LTC as a last resort, but for the most part I see a much heavier weight of unhappy nurses in LTC than in other specialties. And believe it or not, we are listening when nurses...
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    Thoughts on post-conferences

    Nurse SMS replied to lansgrl123's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Senior level nursing student here - forgive me if I am out of line in responding. Last semester my clinical instructor did a "working lunch" instead of postconference. We got our lunches, then did our...
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    Please!!! Someone tell me how does Externships work?

    Nurse SMS replied to healthnut84's topic in General Students

    Well, for the one I have, I had to call the hospital, ask if they had any externships available, then apply, interview and be hired. This was after my first semester of nursing school. Four of us out...
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    Textbooks: Have you tried international editions?

    Nurse SMS replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    I did for microbiology. Saved me about
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    Do you know of anyone who has been thrown of of nursing school/program? And why?

    Nurse SMS replied to Laurenslovely's topic in General Students

    I have known a couple of people to fail to make the grade and flunk out. I have yet to see anyone kicked out, even when it seems obvious they probably ought to be. Admission requirements academically...
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    Pre-employment background check question please!!

    Nurse SMS replied to aoobennett's topic in Texas Nursing

    If memory serves there was a blurb about background check in the big packet of application paperwork that I signed. I never heard anything about it again because, frankly, there is nothing in my...
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    Nursing market becoming oversaturated?

    Nurse SMS replied to xpose85's topic in Texas Nursing

    Are they willing to consider new grads
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    Jumping through hoops to even APPLY for a job!

    Nurse SMS replied to sophie<3's topic in General Nursing

    I would mark the ADN option and then make sure the attached resume you will submit has your date of graduation on
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    Asked 100X how to Quit immediately

    Nurse SMS replied to Airidis's topic in General Nursing

    I hear the text message break up is popular these days Truly, two weeks notice is the right thing to do. You can leave without doing that with full understanding of the bridge burned and a sense of...
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    Too young to be a nurse??

    Nurse SMS replied to eschoolgirl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I WISH I had had the courage to pursue this (as I wanted to) when I was young. Honestly, I love seeing young workers tackling important jobs with the skills, knowledge and passion for it that those...
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    Questions about alcoholism and withdrawal

    Nurse SMS posted a topic in Addictions

    I am a student nurse working an externship at a local hospital. We had an admitted patient who was/is a long term alcoholic (since childhood). The first day or so the patient had horrible shakes and...
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    Highlighting?

    Nurse SMS replied to princsheather's topic in General Students

    I use one color to highlight what I am going to SEE (assessment data/nursing diagnoses material). I use another color to highlight what I am going to DO ABOUT IT (Nursing interventions) I am an honor...
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    Collin College Fall 2011

    Nurse SMS replied to nursesme's topic in Texas Nursing

    Ah hon, don't put that pressure on yourself. You WILL do just fine. You won't make the grade you want on every exam and you will have to remediate at least once on a skill etc - almost everyone does...