Catma63

For everyone who has had clinical already, and those getting ready to....what is your definition of a good clinical instructor? And a bad one?

I haven't posted to this forum in a long time and, upon finding it again, thought perhaps I could attempt to gain advice again here. I was a nursing student. I completed the first year of a two-year RN program and failed the third semester by one po...

As an RN student working as an NA, I can easily say that some nurses have attitudes and don't want to work either. ;-)

Sometimes I think that's exactly why they destroy them....so we won't know!

I am disappointed to read some of the replies in this thread. As a 41 year old, if I've learned nothing in life, I've learned never to make negative assumptions about another person. Actually, I've learned not to assume at all. None of us can begin t...

I am disappointed to read some of the replies in this thread. As a 41 year old, if I've learned nothing in life, I've learned never to make negative assumptions about another person. Actually, I've learned not to assume at all. None of us can begin t...

You know, I'm glad I saw this thread. It's like I was meant to see it, guided to it. After reading of her disappointment yet her determination and then reading the encouraging posts that followed, I feel so extremely comforted. This latest reply real...

You know, I'm glad I saw this thread. It's like I was meant to see it, guided to it. After reading of her disappointment yet her determination and then reading the encouraging posts that followed, I feel so extremely comforted. This latest reply real...

I was just about to recommend this one as it helped me a lot with Med-Surg when I took it last semester. The Incredibly Easy books are good too (though I don't have one yet). Another book that I used was Medical_Surgical Nursing: Reviews and Rational...

I was just about to recommend this one as it helped me a lot with Med-Surg when I took it last semester. The Incredibly Easy books are good too (though I don't have one yet). Another book that I used was Medical_Surgical Nursing: Reviews and Rational...

Huh? Now I'm confused! I would surely have chosen "open"....WHat's the rationale behind closed?

You so said it....One of the things that has helped me the most was remembering that I, in my new status of failed student, will not be the first and I won't be the last. I recall my nursing instructor telling us (this was the first year instructor) ...

our final was on monday and though i can't recall any dumb questions, per se', on it, i did see what i thought was a totally irrelevant question on the last exam for the unit that was given to us on the thursday before finals. like you said, it was n...

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! I'm so happy for you!! I was feeling your tension and am so glad you had such a wonderful outcome! Congratualations! Now, time to enjoy the holiday, catch up on your rest and build up your strength.

Omigosh!! Your husband gave you a snowblower!! I think already you've been given some fantastic ideas.....Things good for the soul (Hey! That's an idea! One of those "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books....I love them! I'm sooo admiring a 60 year old...

Congratulations on passing!! You are so blessed, too. I look at the requirements to pass in your course and am so envious. Were I where you are, I would have passed...(still moaning and groaning in Virginia....*shrugs*) We had to have an 80 to pass ...

Maybe I'm just pondering "aloud" and I've no goal (except to gain a better understanding) but I'm going to post and get other's opinions/answers on this. Why do you think nursing schools change the point system (how many points are credited to a stud...

No no, none at all. I just wanted to clarify. You know, when I first "sat down to analyze" this whole thing of having failed I had all of these thoughts..."I'm angry....I'm disappointed....I'm hurt....Am I supposed to feel this way?.....Is this ster...

Oh noooo, of course not and I'm confident that I did not imply that in my post.

Yes, I'd pondered that as well...the NCLEX pass rates. Truthfully I can understand the necessity of changing point systems because of it but question why it was done so drastically. If I'd had even half of what last year's students had, I would have ...

Bestest of luck! Saying a prayer for you from Virginia....You'll do wonderfully!

I would say you can't know how much reading your post meant to me but I'm truly thinking I would be wrong because I recognize so much of my own thoughts and feelings in it. You see, I failed this semester, too. This was my third. I had planned to gra...

Someone else may have remembered this and posted this in thier response but I can recall reading an article in the paper (and it seems to me it was along the time or a little before the time my eldest son was born 21 years ago) about a couple who's l...

I've known all of my life that I wanted to be a nurse.....just didn't think the option was open for me. I'm a 41 year old and feel blessed to have the opportunity. I'm now in my second year (eight months to go....again, God willing) and though it's ...

I got a large binder with inside pockets to carry my syllabuses in, separating each one with one of those transparent separater thingees with tabs. Get a pack of black non-eraseable ink pens, a few #2 pencils for exams, some of those tabs you can get...