- communicating with MDs - charting - clinical skills: IV, foley, PCA, lifts, everything - chart checks - how to ask for help balanced with independence - juggling, juggling,
My last scheduled shift as PCT was 10/14. Finally got word today that I now have a fulltime position in another hospital where I'm finishing up a residency program. Had my RN license since February....
thanks. Being so new at the Clinacial stage of nursing school, I felt like I didn't know what I was doing most of the time. Your post gives me hope for the next
I'm not in the accelerated program but I had 2 semesters of dosage. First of all, how comfortable are you with math, simple math. That's all there is. I'm also over 35, in the regular nursing program....
What your pharmacology class is like? How your teacher teaches it? Had 2 semester of Patho/Pharm, the first taught with an old-fashioned projector and the pther with PPS. They both gave us the...
Think first, open mouth later, much later. I hate it when you show up for a test and there's already a regular Roman forum going on in the hallway. Classmates so eager to tell you what they've...
missmatched replied to moniquemarie24's topic in General Students
took ATI Foundations about 3 weeks ago, passed with a Level 2 (needed to be level 1 to pass). I took the ATI practice test half an hour before the actual test, it was a disaster @ about 53%. We were...
last test was on May 14, I'm already bored. 2 semesters down 3 more to go before BSN. I plan to work as a nurse aide or something during the summer to get more experience in a hospital. Of course I...
Nobody's too old to do anything they want to do. Hi, I'm xxxxx and I'm 36, I'm older than my instructors and I graduate in 2010. It's often said that regrets in life are for those things that you...
missmatched replied to kynursingstudnetcna's topic in General Students
Here's a website that makes ABG's fun. just note that they may have different values than what your instructor tells you. In my school we go by PaCo2 of 35-45 and HCO3 of 22-26. I agree with Daytonite...
I learned that E and NE are adrenergic/catecholamines and of the SNS not parasympathethic(which is cholinergic). Ach is for PSNS. Just finished the patho /pharm test today. My teacher did not...
I'm from the Philippines myself, but i'm still in nursing school. I guess, it's not unusual, all my friends from home who live here are nurses. where did you go for