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  1. Starting Nursing School and Getting Divorced

    When my husband of 19 years left, I enrolled in nursing school. A year later the divorce was final. He got the house. I bought a mobile home so I could afford the bills. It is old and not pretty, but...
  2. ATI Testing!!!!

    I have not taken the test personally. The class that just graduated did. They just started ATI in October and 34 out of 38 passed on the first try. Of the four that did not pass, a couple were nearly...
  3. In my program, OB/Peds was more observation than hands on. In both OB/Peds and adult med/surg you will apply all those basics you learned last semester. Now you have to know what to do first for what...
  4. 50 years old, a good time for LVN school?

    Sounds like maybe this may not be the right LVN program for you. Are there any others availble in your area? How much longer would it take for you to attend an ADN program? If the stress level is less...
  5. What do you do to relieve your stress?

    Get into the outdoors. Go out with friends who are NOT nursing students. Turn the stereo in the car up loud and sing along with the music. Spend time with my son doing something he enjoys or just...
  6. Bag for Books

    I had three solutions. First I streamlined the amount of books I needed to carry by getting my resource type books and NCLEX study/question books on PDA. This also has the added benefits of having...
  7. Waiting for My Final Grade

    Here I sit in front of my computer waiting for the final grades in level 3 to post. It was one of those tests where I really have no clue as to how I did. If I get an A on the test, it is an A for the...
  8. Waiting for My Final Grade

    Got so restless that I had to go grocery shopping to keep myself off of the computer. But the grades have been posted. 94 is an A and I got 94.09!
  9. Spring 2009 Graduates

    May 8, 2009 cannot come soon enough. Then it will all be worth
  10. How fair is this?

    I am in Level 3 of an ADN program. They have split the students into two groups because we have two instructors. One group took cardiac while the other took respiratory. Then we switched places. Each...
  11. How fair is this?

    Actually she added more questions on material that she did not cover in class and included questions about medications that we were not responsible
  12. Dorming versus not dorming

    Roommates problems are not just in dorms. I own my own place and rent to two college students to help pay the bills. Between their noise, their lack of responsibility, their sloppiness and their drug...
  13. Failing a student when not receving a failing grade?

    We do not have letter grades in clinicals. It is pass/fail. There are a list of criteria we have to pass. Some of it is skill related. Do not get signed off within a certain period of time you are...
  14. Being a nursing student

    Another student and I were asked to given this little old lady a bath to help out the aide. She was in her 90's and had broken her public bone. A very young, good-looking doctor came in while we were...
  15. Dorming versus not dorming

    Also check to see if you school has specially dorming options for nursing students. Where my son is going, they offer it. Not only are you surrounded by other nursing students, there is a nursing...
  16. ATI Exit Exam

    Our instructors gave us a list of codes to the various practice
  17. Dorming versus not dorming

    I do not know about being in the nursing program and dorming, but I lived in a dorm when I was in engineering. It was a definite plus. First of all I did not have to cook. I cleaned only a small 10x12...
  18. Do you have family issues in the nursing program?

    I know it hurts to have those you love treat you this way. My son got so upset with my schooling, that he threw a temper fit and moved out. He has since come to realize how important an education is...
  19. School Grading Scales

    100-94 A 93.9-88 B 87.9-80 C No rounding! When 75 was passing, I know someone who got a 74.9 and had to
  20. What does a nursing student need?

    Some things I have purchased along the way: A really good pair of shoes. The extra $$$ are worth it. An organizer for the pen light, pen, scissors, etc. Socks with arch support. They are that added +...
  21. ATI Exit Exam

    Do you access to the practice exams? If you do, take those. They will give the areas you need to study. Then in the library, you will find the related
  22. CNA job making me almost want to give up Nursing

    uscstu4lfe, not necessarily. At the hosptial where I work, most of the units do not even get aide on many of the shifts. When they do, the aide cares for 15 or more patients. The aides have to do...
  23. In my program, each level and campus (we have two now, maybe three soon) has set clinical days. But the times and locations vary based on where youare assigned. We will not know defintely until...
  24. CNA job making me almost want to give up Nursing

    At least as a nurse, I know I will not spend the shift doing over 100 sets of vitals and 30+ Accuchecks. It gets old after the first 50 or so! So does swinging over filled bags of soiled laundry into...
  25. After Graduation?

    At the hospital were I work, they had a position of GN. You work under a RN until you get your license. You are actually doing the work. The RN has to supervise you