Nepenthe Sea

Nepenthe Sea

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  1. A&P I Frustrations!

    How does your nursing program look at your pre-req grades? In my program, you only got more points for having more of the pre-reqs done - with a C avg. or above. You didn't get more for having a B or...
  2. Medical Terminology Class?

    I thought it was really easy, and it was fun, figuring out what the words meant once you had the pre-fixes and suffixes down. And, hey, it's easier to understand what is going on when you watch...
  3. Totally lost! Anyone else?

    I'm only finishing my second semester of a 5-semester program, but I can tell you that I learn so much more every semester. Yeah, I get nervous, too, when I go to clinicals and try to imagine doing...
  4. In my school, an A is 90-100, B is 80-89, C is 70-79. Even so, alot of people aren't doing well in my class. I have had a 4.0 until now, including last semester when I took Intro to Nursing and Skills...
  5. No She/he Did Not!!!

    It's just like my medical terminology professor taught us when explaining the usage of the word "purulent": there is NO good way to chart the word "puss -
  6. Preemie Mom turned NICU Nurse?

    I am the mother to 31-weekers that will turn four on New Year's Day (twin girls). They spent five weeks in NICU. Luckily, they could have been much worse off, and don't have any lingering problems...
  7. Actually, poinsetta is NOT toxic. I found this out some years ago when I was training for my Master Gardener certification. I saw a guy on tv, who owned a greenhouse, make a salad with poinsetta...
  8. Oh, Layne Staley. I am a big Alice in Chains fan, and even got to meet Layne at a concert when I was in high school. I cried when I heard he had died, especially because I heard that he had been dead...
  9. Has anyone had the worst day at clinical?

    Clinicals were very awkward for me at first, also. I started out my first clinicals being sick and having had no sleep (evil care plan!). I felt that I did everything wrong. I fell asleep during our...
  10. Yeah, I hardly ever get those extra points, either, because I ususally get the question
  11. I know. Those same people are ONLY passing with the 4-6 pts. we get when they nullify questions after each test. If they would bother calculating like, three math problems on each test, they could do...
  12. Yeah, it's exactly the same with us. That's why I don't understand why they are too lazy to even try those questions - it's not like we don't have a major math test every
  13. Gross me out!

    Potpourri or rose + diarrhea = :barf01: I think I would rather have just the plain diarrhea, thank
  14. We don't really have worthless projects, but ALOT of people at my school are only getting by because of the nullified questions we get on each exam. They complain about their grades, but will admit...
  15. First Semester Down, 3 more to go...

    I will be done in three weeks with Med Surg I and Pharmacology, and have one more clinical day left. So far, it's not as bad as I thought. Some of it is hard, but not anything I can't handle. I am...
  16. Alot of people I know have a mother or other realtive that was a nurse, and they end up going to NS themselves, just because they got a good look at it and thought they would like it. However, a...
  17. Attended an autopsy today

    I got to go to cadaver lab also when in A&P II, but no autopsy. Although I would love to see one. (sounds weird, I
  18. Men in Nursing

    LOL!!!
  19. How do you ace tests?

    I am also one of the few who does better when they change answers, and I would go nuts if I couldn't do
  20. Men in Nursing

    I think it's great. Men have a different perspective and some patients may be more comfortable with a male nurse. I got really offended this week for a guy in my clinical group when his patient asked...
  21. The "Curve"

    Oh, I know that's why they do it! I think we do get a good education, but it's still a business, and it's still all about the
  22. Can nurses have piercings?

    This is a little off topic but I just read in the newspaper yesterday that there are nursing schools that will no longer admit students that have tattoos that cannot be covered by scrubs. So, no...
  23. The "Curve"

    We're supposed to have a high passing rate, but I am pretty sure we have a HESI exit exam. So if you are only passing your tests based on them throwing out points, then how are you going to pass the...
  24. The "Curve"

    Oh, and what gets me, too, is something that my A&P I professor said. She told us she doesn't have a curve in her class because "Would you want a nurse taking care of your mother if you knew that...
  25. The "Curve"

    We have a curve in that almost every test we get at least two questions dropped. It hardly affects me, because I usually get most of those right in the first place. However, there are many people in...