Great tips about typing everything out thanks everyone. I hear ya about the time thing. I will get at the clinical site toni ght at about 4:00p.m., and not get home until aroung 6:30 or so, and...
Hello I am currently an ADN student and this is why I chose this route: To get into my ADN program, I had to take many pre-reqs to even be considered. Over half of my ADN pre-reqs will also go toward...
Thats great. We have to make appointments with our individual nursing instructors next week to get ours. We just had our second exam on Friday, which I'm thinking I got an A on and I got an 84 on my...
No Fee, but at my clinical site they have 20 spots reserved for students. The problem with this is that there are 3 different nursing schools doing their clinicals. Everyone car pools. I'm just...
I had four years of Spanish in H.S., so I'm pretty good with the language part. As one of my electives for nursing school, I took Spanish 131. It was a class that was based on culture and politics...
Exactly, and it is also how many new RN's entering the profession have the attitude they do. Especially those that have no prior medical experience. Everyone is important and vital to the healthcare...
Todd, I guess I can understand where you are comming from, because after my first week of nursing school our instructors have already put down phlebotomists, LPN's, and ADN's, and yes I'm in an ADN...
Brett, When I graduated HS and went to MA school, I used to donate plasma. The people who stick at the plasma center are really good since they do it so often, you really don't feel it too bad. The...
I currently work in the lab and we had an instance one night running a urine specimen on an 80 year old lady from a nursing home. The lady was brought in from the nursing home and being seen in the...
I am still in nursing school, but I work as a Phleb in a hospital. We wait one hour. Sometimes the nurses would get a little frustrated when I tell them that I cannot do the scheduled H&H...
I understand your pain. My first and second semesters of pre-reqs wasn't that bad, because I knew that it would be awhile before I was accepted into the nursing program. I was just so excited to be...
The hospital where I work at offers a tuition reimbersement program for employees only. It is a part of the benefit package. If you are a full time employee, you get $1,000 a year. Part time gets...
LPN2Be2004, that is histerical. DO you have a web link for the Co. in Huntington, or a phone# so that I could order a catalog? That is really an excellent price for
Actually I find Landau to be the best for me. I think they are made very well and are very reasonable. Have you ever tried Cherokee? They are also made very well, but even their extra small is too...
"But then again, the entire shift refers to her as something not so nice," That is too funny. It is true that there are not so nice people everywhere. I used to not say anything to anyone, and did...
Hopefully you will find that these nurses are in a minority as I have. I work in a hospital as a phleb and the majority of the nurses respect me and I them. I have had many nurses ask me to come in...
During my pre-reqs, I was engaged and lived with my fiance of 5 years, while I worked as a MA in a Dr.'s office. I took a phleb job at my local hospital and ended up breaking off my engagement and...
I don't skip class for this reason. I'm paying for it myself. The second semester during my pre-reqs, I was taking psychology. The regular professor, was taking a leave and it was being taught by...
I will not start my ADN program until this fall, but one of my biggest concerns is that my instructors will be there for me. I hope that they will always find time to meet with us on an individual...
Oh no!!! I guess my standards are really low. I'm a female nursing student dating a male nurse in the hospital where I work. Honestly, I have worked with manu doctors, and would never date any of...
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