Nepenthe Sea

Nepenthe Sea

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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

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

    Nepenthe Sea replied to rnintwo's topic in General Students

    Oh, and IMHO, the content itself does not necessarily get harder. Mental Health may be a little harder just because you've been trained to think in terms of black and white and MH is a whole bunch of...

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

    Nepenthe Sea replied to rnintwo's topic in General Students

    Just my opinion...It gets easier AND harder. You get used to the testing style, so in some ways, that becomes easier. But I just finished the first semester of my second year, and the test questions...

  5. Pet Peeve: Poor Grammar by Nurses

    Nepenthe Sea replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still a student but I had an instructor this last semester that has his Master's degree, but cannot spell or use correct punctuation at all, in addition to using bad grammar in his notes and on...

  6. Am I over-thinking, or are these just bad test questions?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to chicken1's topic in General Students

    I hate some of these test questions our instructors come up with! Our pedi instructor is big on preventing med errors, and then on one of our tests, she gave us a question that involved rehydrating a...

  7. Giving Nursing Students a Taste of NICU

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    When I was a NICU mom to 31-week twins five years ago, I was always afraid of dropping them, for some reason. These vivid images would come to my mind as I was holding them, bathing, etc. I never did...

  8. Just registered for my FINAL semester!!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in General Students

    Congratulations! I just registered for MY final semster yesterday, so I know how excited you are!

  9. Any of you make excellent grades but suck at skills?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to aem31's topic in General Students

    Some people will never get the concepts taught in nursing school, but you seem to have that down. Skills are easy, because all you have to do is practice over and over again until you get it down....

  10. Phi Theta Kappa - Haven't we all been invited?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SDChargersGirl#31's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Now that I've read your post a little more closely, I see that you are given one semester to bring it back up, so maybe that is what our ex-president did. But I have never heard my group say anything...

  11. Phi Theta Kappa - Haven't we all been invited?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SDChargersGirl#31's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Weird...maybe my chapter is more lenient, because I know that even a past president of my chapter had a bad semester once and it dropped below the accepted GPA, and they didn't kick her out. That was...

  12. Phi Theta Kappa - Haven't we all been invited?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to SDChargersGirl#31's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, by all means, JOIN! I have been a member for the last 1 1/2 yrs, and was the VP of scholarship in my local chapter last year. It's about $70 to join, but that's all you will ever pay, and it is...

  13. Which pre-nursing classes did you find the most useful?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to Copperismydog's topic in General Students

    A class that was not mentioned that I found to be really helpful was medical terminology. I would definitely take the med math class. I also agree with a lifespan psych

  14. First week of NS. Any misconceptions?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to jennabean55's topic in General Students

    You have to be careful when listening to peoples' stories about NS, because they will get you all kinds of freaked out for no reason. I remember in my first semester that I listened to all these...

  15. Do you actually READ your nursing books or just skim?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to starmickey03's topic in General Students

    I never really did read my books that much, but last semester I was in a med surg class where we basically taught ourselves, so I had to actually read the book. I noticed I did better on my tests, so...

  16. Had my oh **** moment!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to HCollier's topic in General Students

    We all have our "Oh ****!" moments...most of us will have them more than once. That's why you come here - to share with all the other deer-in-the-headlight

  17. can you be burned out before you finish nursing school?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to CeilingCat's topic in General Students

    I'm sorry that NS has truned out this way for you. It is hard when you realize that nursing is not anything like our "idea" of nursing. And it kind of sucks to go into a well-respected program and...

  18. Which class was harder for you?

    Nepenthe Sea replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Students

    A&P II has been my most challenging class so far, but my professor for that class was tough, too, so that may have had something to do with it. When I go for my BSN, I bet that biostatistics and...

  19. I'm sure this has been said.. MA's calling themselves Nurses

    Nepenthe Sea replied to AprilN's topic in General Nursing

    At the hospital where I work there are dry erase boards in every room on which we write the date, room number, names of the nurse, charge nurse, RT, housekeeper, and any other staff caring for the...

  20. Remember when...?

    Nepenthe Sea posted a topic in General Students

    I had a mini-stroke today (I think) after I bought my class notes and saw the redonkulous amount of work I have headed for me this semester, not including clinicals. In the temporary fugue state (ha!)...

  21. SENIOR year of nursing

    Nepenthe Sea replied to sherriberry1's topic in General Students

    I am a senior, graduating in May. I start back on the 24th of August, with Med Surg III, Psych Nursing, and Peds. I'm kind of freaking out about it right now, as this is supposed to be a really tough...

  22. Remember when...?

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

    Yes! I took a state government class last summer, and I was making 100's on THOSE multiple choice tests, and didn't feel like I put in much effort at all. And yeah, non-nursing students sometimes seem...

  23. How often you see your boyfriend while in nursing school

    Nepenthe Sea replied to CaliforniaRNnow's topic in General Students

    I am about to enter my last year of NS, and so far I see my boyfriend, on average, about once or twice a week. He works night shift, so usually on Friday nights, I go over and hang out with him after...

  24. Best method for figuring dosage calculations!!!!

    Nepenthe Sea replied to survrgrl08's topic in General Students

    Dimensional Analysis is the way to go. It sounds intimidating at first, but we used a tiny book (Math Magic) and by the end of the book, you have it all down. There were a few incorrect answers,...

  25. Well, I got my syllabus today...

    Nepenthe Sea replied to MzRN2B's topic in General Students

    At my school, the syllabus and the class notes come together in a package like that, and includes the clinical hand outs for each class, too. You can charge them to financial aid if you get it, but we...