Nepenthe Sea

Nepenthe Sea

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  1. How to explain how hard you have to work in nursing school

    Nepenthe Sea replied to guest10's topic in General Students

    It's almost impossible for people to know unless they have been there. I myself didn't know what it took to do nursing school until I did some serious research on this forum. My sister and I got into...

  2. What semester did you learn each skill?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to debstmomy's topic in General Students

    I'm in a five-semester program. In the first semester, we learn the fundamentals: PPE, VS, foley/NG insertion, central line dressing change, TED/ACE bandage application, baths, ambulation,...

  3. What semester did you learn each skill?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to debstmomy's topic in General Students

    My computer had a brain

  4. Critical Care in Nursing School

    Nepenthe Sea replied to anon695's topic in General Students

    I'm running into the same thing here. I like to buy books from the Davis Success Series (Med Surg Success, Pediatrics Success, etc.). Of course, there is not one for critical care, though. It's hard...

  5. Thank you gift for a preceptor?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to hiddencatRN's topic in General Nursing

    Mine liked the chais down at the coffee bar in our cafeteria, so I gave her a $20 gift certificate so she could get a

  6. Nursing School/Tattoo Vent

    Nepenthe Sea replied to LikesToWander's topic in General Students

    I would do my best to get my money back, tell that program to go take a hike, and enroll somewhere else. I live in one of the most conservative parts of Texas (which is very conservative anyway), and...

  7. NOT going to the pinning ceremony

    Nepenthe Sea replied to CaliforniaRNnow's topic in General Students

    I have a friend who is not going to pinning or graduation. She has a previous degree, also, and is from another state, so she doesn't have any family here. I REALLY want her to go, just because we did...

  8. Does anyone else use 'lisa frank' school supplies as an adult?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to katebean04's topic in General Students

    I love Hello Kitty, too. Ever since I was a

  9. Do You Regret Nursing School?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to ladylou88's topic in General Students

    Right now, no, but I worry that I will. I have spent the last four years doing prereqs and nursing classes. I used to love school, but last semester took it's toll on me. I am graduating in May, and...

  10. Does anyone else use 'lisa frank' school supplies as an adult?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to katebean04's topic in General Students

    I'm 36, and I like Lisa Frank, but don't use her school supplies. However, I have three Alice in Wonderland notebooks. I hate having plain school

  11. Countdown to Pinning

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Turd Ferguson's topic in General Students

    98

  12. Whoa, go me

    Nepenthe Sea replied to pockunit's topic in General Students

    There's a girl in my class who made a 100 on an exam. She thought the computer was broken!

  13. Does Having CNA Exp Help so Much in Nursing School?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to proudmommy's topic in General Students

    I never got my CNA. I worked in a grocery store as a cashier during my school breaks, and went on leave whenever school started back up. I did okay when I started clinicals, but I was really...

  14. BS!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Students

    I agree! Why do you guys thing nursing school is this way? We have to do so much damn busy work (like we just have time on our hands!), and learn such stupid stuff. The nurses where I work tell me...

  15. Oh! The sacrifices we make just to get through nursing school

    Nepenthe Sea replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    Family, mostly. When I started the whole NS process, I was the single mother of 18-month-old twins, so I pretty much didn't have time for my friends, anyway. I hooked up with my boyfriend in my first...

  16. I am very scared....

    Nepenthe Sea replied to CHRISTINE HEARTS's topic in General Students

    I'm about to enter my fifth and last semester and I still worry about not being a good, safe nurse when I get out. I think it's normal, because most of my friends are the same way. You're going to...

  17. Where are you doing clinicals this semester?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SingDanceRunLife's topic in General Students

    In my fifth (and final!) semester of a five semester ADN program. I will spend two weeks doing Community clinicals (hoping to get hospice experience with that one), four weeks of Critical Care (SICU,...

  18. I just lost my brother, hoping to get some feedback

    Nepenthe Sea replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    ((((Hugs))))) to you. I am so sorry. : ( My dad died of lung cancer at the end of last spring semester. He was diagnosed, and six weeks later he was dead. Very shocking for us. We had to put him in a...

  19. Oh my gosh! Last semester starts tomorrow.

    Nepenthe Sea replied to DolceVita's topic in General Students

    Starting my last semester next Wednesday. I'm alternating between dreading going back to school, and wanting to get it over with! Good luck, everyone. :

  20. First semester of clinical made me change my mind

    Nepenthe Sea replied to crownemarie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I can tell you that I was VERY uncomfortable in the beginning of clinicals (LTC/rehab facility). I wasn't the only one - we had a student drop out on the second day of clinicals! I had no previous...

  21. Just got my course calendar for next semester...

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SingDanceRunLife's topic in General Students

    This is going to be my last semester (Yay, me!). We have Community (online), Management, and Critical Care. We will go from 7-8 hour clinical days to clinicals that are 8 hours (community), 10 hours...

  22. May 2011 graduates..nervous for last semester?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to gaspasser2b's topic in General Students

    Yes, very nervous! I just got hammered this last semester and at first I was hearing that this last semester will be easier than the last, but now am hearing that it's just as hard. In my experience,...

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

    Nepenthe Sea replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    This isn't really that gross, but the other day I was helping with a pt. who had been in a MVA and broken both legs. She was quite obese, and also had ovarian cancer. The nurse and I were bathing her,...

  24. You know you're Old School when...

    Nepenthe Sea replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    Abductor wedges for hip replacements are old school? I just helped care for a patient yesterday that had one. We also use banana bags for the ETOH pts. that come into MICU. We just learned about CPM...

  25. Does RN school get easier or harder as the semesters go on?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to rnintwo's topic in General Students

    I had med surg classes the first three semesters, so my school may be different. We have covered everything from blood disorders to AIDS to respiratory disorders to liver and GI disease - pretty much...