Similar thing happened on a bio chem review this summer. The 20 somethings were more interested in "texting" than LEARNING. If it happens to me in a lab I'm not shy--I'll pull the Prof to the side...
There is a twenty something 1000# woman (that's right a half ton) on trial here in Texas for murdering a 2 yr old. She won't fit through the jail door and is too wide for the county court house...
my human psychology prof is doing research on gpa vs age on all the rn students at the local community college. research isn't completed yet but she said the two highest grades in the psyc class this...
What made me change? Getting in a rut, doing the same things every day, and WATCHING I LOVE LUCY RERUNS EVERY MORNING. Decided that was really wasting the life I had left. First career: physicist,...
you probably will be scared now but just wait until you've had a couple of classes..you'll wonder why you were ever concerned. prof says several times in class and in sylabus "come with a blue book...
Please, please, please stop smoking--try the patch, try meditation, try prayer. I lost my dad when I was 23 due to heart problems caused from smoking. My brothers were 12 and 15 & without a...
I've ran into a brick wall when I asked an administrator at the college "what percentage of students who are admitted in nursing programs actually graduate?" I was informed that information was...
Did you happen to watch the Olympics weight lifting. One woman from Romania cleaned and jerked 350# over her head. Her husbands comment is always the same "YES DEAR"
You think I should risk personal injury to avoid not being labeled not one of the team and lifting 100#? Have you ever had a back injury or cuff rotator surgery? No wonder there is such a big nursing...
The books are just something to help me get more educated in the time between now and summer 2009 when I can start full time. It should give me a leg up on the other students. Grades are extremely...
i hope this isn't the end of my very short career as a nursing student. i tore my cuff rotator keeping my wife from falling down stairs, and had a 6 hr surgery. i almost didn't make it because of an...
Thanks--each class is separate. I want to get my GPA for the prerequisites as high as possible since that is one of the ranking items used to get admitted to the nursing school. Stopped by a place in...
I recently took two assessments tests at the RR HEC--no wonder our taxes are so high. They have a waterfall out front, glass elevators, wood paneling in the stair railings. It is beautiful. Good...
I just started in an RN nursing program because of my experiences with a male nurse in the ER. It is 3 am in the morning in the ER and the nurse asks me to describe the pain. "Like someone running...
Bo Shoi Ming replied to vegnurse21's topic in Texas Nursing
We just moved to Austin two years ago from new Orleans and the area is definitely young and growing. Since you are considering a family in the future do some research on the areas that has the best...
You young pups brought a smile to my face this afternoon. I took my first pre-requisite nursing class this summer (human psychology), and passed the entrance exams required for anatomy and...