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Please don't take offense to this because it is not meant that way but your critical thinking skills ARE still lacking! You are a first semester student with no medical experience! I can say that because I, too, was a first semester student and wor...

Each person is different and will have a different experience while in ns. I started ns with a 3.94 GPA. I just completed my third of four semester and I now have a 3.90. I have made A's all the way through ns but I recieved my first B in third sem...

IMO, a large part of being an effective nurse (or nursing student in my case) is to be in tune with the patients. I don't "feel" the pain the patient is experiencing but I am aware it. As nurses we are in a great position to explain to the patient ...

Thank you for the kind words! I am thoroughly enjoying my break now!! I hope you and yours have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

The most challenging for me was the one I just finished... After every single semster I have truly felt that way!! So since you are asking me right after I finished third semester I will say... Third semester!! But seriously, it is probably differen...

Congrats to both of you!! I am also starting my fourth semester and I am SOOOOO excited! I can't believe how fast ns has gone by!! Yay us!!! Lol.

Changing jobs can be very stressful and we all know how stressful nursing school can be. If you are at a place where they will work with your school schedule I would stay there! I have been a receptionist at a diesel engine shop the entire time I ...

I am a traditional student and just completed the third semester of my RN program. My advice to you would be to thoroughly check out the LPN to RN program before you go that route. When my third semester started we had 10 LPN's join our class. We ...

Well, people with CHF have fluid on their heart making it pump less efficiently. This causes a back up in the blood returning to the heart. So the client basically has blood hardly moving in his/her extremities (usually the legs). So I would say th...

At Rose State we wear royal blue pants, white top, white shoes and if we want a jacket it has to be royal blue. I actually like our uniforms... Well, the white shirts aren't my first choice but overall I like the look.

It's funny, my priorities have changed a lot in ns but they changed because I changed them. My family has always been my #1 priority and they still are. However at times I have to put school higher on the immediate list than my family but it is for...

I think most community colleges will allow you to take a zero credit hour math course if you do not score high enough on the math portion to go directly into college algebra. Go talk to your entrance counselors and find out, that may take the stress...

I would check to see if transferring is an option first. You said they kicked you out of the program because you got below a C... If you aren't in a nursing program you probably won't be able to transfer to another one. The act of transferring mean...

One day during second semester, my prof was watching me put in a foley. I could feel the sweat running down my back I was so nervous! I was thinking in my head that I was screwing up everything I touched. After I finished and we left the room my i...

[quote name= happilymarried - the drive? LOL...boy oh boy. I have so much drive enough for 5 RN students 'n more. I petitioned, but it was denied. My mentalhealth counselor & I are going to meet on Monday & she is going to call the School o...

I'm sorry to hear that... Do you have the opportunity/drive to repeat 2nd semester?

Take a multivitamin EVERY DAY!!!! I started taking a Centrum vitamin within the first week of my first semester and while I have missed class once or twice it was never because I was sick!

In my ns class (we are about to start 3rd semester) there is a wide variety of backgrounds. There are those who breezed through high school, never having to study and still acing the tests, there are some that got a GED because they dropped out of h...

I wouldn't say nursing school is hard, it is just different than any schooling I have had up to that point. It consumes me. When I am not in class I am at clinicals, when I'm not in clinicals I am studying. When I am actually doing something that ...

congratulations on starting nursing school! i stay organized with an expandable accordion folder with a band around it (i got it at wal-mart for like $7.00.) it has about 10 slots so i put each set of notes for each lecture into its own slot for that...

I am in an ADN program and pathophysiology is by and large what my nursing school is centered around. I would assume the same for all other RN programs. I do not think one could pass the N-CLEX without it.

I go to ns with a girl that was pregnant first and second semesters. She actually had her baby during spring break week! Good timing on her part! She was back in class the Monday after spring break. She talked with the instructors regularly beca...

http://www.google.com/products?q=Timberland+Xtreme+Performance+Upright&hl=en I googled it and copied the link above. Looks like about $90.00-$200.00. It's a good thing he bought it for me because I would have never spent that much for a backpac...

I never envisioned myself being a nurse. I chose nursing because I knew I could find work being a nurse, it is a respected profession, and I will be able to support my family on the income. I am 34 years old and I am now finished with my first year...

Unfortunately, I work full-time and attend school full-time. Because of this I have to tote my backpack with all my books in it practically everywhere I go. I do get to study at work when time allows so I need access to my books in case I get an oppo...