Nepenthe Sea

Nepenthe Sea

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  1. Complaints You've Heard During Nursing School

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guiltysins's topic in General Students

    You didn't ruffle my feathers at all. I saw what you were saying. My friends and I tell each other the same thing when we don't do as well as we would like on an exam. I definitely think that you...

  2. What specialty do you want and not want to work in?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guiltysins's topic in General Students

    Want: NICU, PICU, any ICU or critical care Maybe: ER, trauma, surgery, oncology, hospice No, thanks: LTC, psych, school or clinic

  3. At the very last minute...

    Nepenthe Sea replied to sophie<3's topic in General Students

    Where I live, the ADN program is better than the BSN program, and it's harder to get into. It's also easier to get a job with the ADN, and all the nurses say they would rather work with ADN grads than...

  4. Help me become a lactation counselor!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SuperStudentNurse's topic in General Students

    My house sure wasn't clean, so she's doing better than me. But mine were also slow eaters. They thought they had the all-day, eat-all-you-want buffet going

  5. Help me become a lactation counselor!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SuperStudentNurse's topic in General Students

    Oh, I must have been tired last night...I spelled "milk" as "nilk". And what I wa trying to say about milk composition is that the milk from the mother of a preemie is different from the milk of the...

  6. Complaints You've Heard During Nursing School

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guiltysins's topic in General Students

    While alot of nursing students say that, meaning that doing their best, even if it results in a C, is good enough to get through school, I think we all know that for alot of people, it DOES mean just...

  7. Help me become a lactation counselor!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SuperStudentNurse's topic in General Students

    I'm interested in this route, too. I got some pretty good help from my kids' NICU nurses. Between them and my midwives, I nursed my twins for over two years. I want to help other mamas of preemies -...

  8. Starting Last Semester

    Nepenthe Sea replied to chuckz's topic in General Students

    Good luck to you! Almost done - just hang in there

  9. New Nurse. Need help, Please. What are my options???

    Nepenthe Sea replied to jkRN223's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still just a student, so I don't have any experience with this, but...I was talking to my ex-roommate the other day. She has been a nurse for 6 or 7 years now. She was giving me advice and told me...

  10. Complaints You've Heard During Nursing School

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guiltysins's topic in General Students

    OMG...I ran into a former classmate that is an LVN student today. She told me that she heard that the school is making it really hard on us RN students, with all the tests they have us taking, etc. I...

  11. Freaking out soon-to-be first semester nursing student

    Nepenthe Sea replied to ajulian87's topic in General Students

    I freak out a little at the beginning of every semester, and think "I don't know if I can do this!" Then my dad calmly reminds me that I say that every semester, and every semester I end up doing...

  12. Complaints You've Heard During Nursing School

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guiltysins's topic in General Students

    Nope, it's not just you. Definitely ALOT of

  13. How can I prepare for RN school?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Julian87's topic in General Students

    If you're not already organized, then you will need to learn to be organized. You will be given so much work to do, and you have to keep up with it all. Use a planner to write down the due dates for...

  14. Curious..What classes were in everyone's first semester?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to CBsMommy's topic in General Students

    My first semerster was a little different from a lot of people on here. In my ADN program, we start off with Intro to Nursing, and Nursing Skills. In Intro, we don't do clinicals, but we just learn...

  15. Is it Possible to pass Exams Just by doing Lots of Practice Questions?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Felicia327's topic in General Students

    I do tons of NCLEX style questions to help study, and I do think they help me understand those questions better. And heck yeah, I read the text, too! You can't answer the NCLEX questions right if you...

  16. Math Nerveous

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Wantadegree's topic in General Students

    I'm in my third semester of a five-semester ADN program. We learned all of this - DA, equivalents, dosage calculations- in my pharmacology class last semester. I think most of us didn't know anything...

  17. Math Nerveous

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Wantadegree's topic in General Students

    I know. I always hated it, too, but knowing I would have to do it as a nurse, I decided to make myself like it. Quite the feat, I will admit. But I got to where I did enjoy it somewhat, and I made A's...

  18. Math Nerveous

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Wantadegree's topic in General Students

    That trick for memorizing conversions is great. Thanks for sharing! The math is not that bad. It is generally 8th and 9th grade level stuff. I don't really like math and it has always been my weakest...

  19. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    How bad is this? This morning, I dreamed I was in clinicals. I had a young male patient that had a peg tube with a huge syringe attached to it. I don't remember the details, but I was supposed to be...

  20. Sympathy Pains....will they ever go away?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to AndiePi's topic in General Students

    I used to be a licensed massage therapist and when I was in school for that I did a massage on a fellow student. As I was working on her upper chest, she mentioned that she had had breast cancer and...

  21. Horrified to start nursing school in Jan

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Mmae's topic in General Students

    Here's my two cents: I had a 4.0 in my pre-reqs, and everybody had me all freaked out about how hard it was going to be. Like you, I am super-organized and can figure out what to study within a short...

  22. What (in your opion) is the "hardest" semester of the ADN program?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to seasoned hopeful's topic in General Students

    Yep...OB will be hard for me for the same reasons. It's why I will never be a L&D nurse, even though I lOVE pregnancy and childbirth. I'm still looking forward to the class - I'm just going to...

  23. I DID IT!!!! I survived illness, fought back, and am graduating an RN program!!!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to nursgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, you are an inspiration!! Awesome work. Congratulations! I hope to do half as well as you, with a fraction of your

  24. Working ahead...Suggestions?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guest042302019's topic in General Students

    Another thing I did before getting into NS that I think helped was watching skills videoes on YouTube. When we actually got around to learning them, I was a little bit familiar with them, so they...

  25. Working ahead...Suggestions?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guest042302019's topic in General Students

    Our lab reports had them too, but when we took our exams, we always had a bunch of questions that involved lab values, and if you didn't know the numbers well (like me!), then you were kinda screwed....