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If your points are pretty high(24 or more) you can pretty much know you got in. I had 28 but still had the feeling I wouldn't make it but I did. Let me know if you get your letter today. I stalked my mail lady for weeks and then screamed all the way to my house when I got in:D. I would love to give you names of my favorite instructors but they do not allow names here. I can tell you tho we did not have a single BAD instructor. It was a great program. None of the instructors teach by intimidation they are kind, giving and always there for help. Be ready to study hard and long. Your going to make the best friends of your life. Take a lot of pictures for your graduation slide show. Looking back at pics from nursing three the night of graduation was priceless.....PM if you need anything. GOOD LUCK!!!

just to let yall know I am a GCC grad and we got our letter on saturday of memorial weekend! they send them out sooner then they say. Hope yall get yours tomorrow!!! Oh and your gonna love the program. I cant say enough good things about the insructors.

I take mine NCLEX in June and have no clue what the trick is!! Please shed some light or point me in the right direction ....please!! and congrats to all who have passed :)

I was very blessed to find a job so quickly. I was offered a Gn spot at my dream hospital only 4 days after walking the stage. i take boards in June. I cant wait to start this new phase in my life. I am feeling very very blessed. Keep your heads high and pray!! Something will come along.

Great post I will grasuate next semster and I will follow all the advice you just gave!!!

We use the tape to label our meds so if we are giving more then one med we dont get them mixed up Due to the fact some pushes require it to be given over 5min where others maybe only 1 min. It makes sense I sure wouldnt want to push a med within one minute when it says give over 5 min yikes.....So yeah I completly understand why and what i did wrong thank you everyone who shared their stories it helps to know Im not the only one that has made mistakes

I love DA... but where I keep getting confussed is your minutes does not cross out with minutes it crosses out with gtt's? I learnered it had if you had min on your bottom fraction you needed minutes on the top of your next fraction. Does this change if your doing gtt/min problems? Im sorry if its confussing to read its hard to type math problems. But no I dont have a specific problem I need help with I just wanted to use DA for setting my IV rates since I use it calculate tabs caps mls ect with this method... Its just driving me crazy they dont cross out!!

no its a formula you use to convert any dosage problem for example. The Doctor odered 4mg of a specific med and the dose you have on hand is 2mg tabs how many tabs so you give. you set the problem up to where what ever you have are trying to get goes on top and the drug amout goes on bottow then you muliple and divide. You know when the problem is set up properly because if you have mg on the bottom then the next fraction you write should have mg on the top of the next. I can solve any problem like this except gtt/min and ml/hr... when i took the class severle years back they showed us but I cant find my notes sorry if its a lil confussing I typed you a sample of a easy one. tabs= tab/2mg x 4mg/x = 2tabs

SO yesterday was my first clinical day of my second semester of nursing school and I am pretty sure I got a U. The reason I say might be given a U is because I screwed up a med pass. It all started in the med room where I was giving 2 iv pushes. I was checked off on IV meds the day before in lab and giving them the very next day. So I get to the med room and everything is fine other then my nerves cause I cant work the omnicell. I go to remove my meds and my med isn't on the screen. I wrote the name brand down not the generic:crying2:. So I have to re-look it up then re-pull my meds. Then I draw up my meds and completely slipped my mind I needed tape after that I was sooo stressed and upset I couldn't concentrate. My instructor told me its a U for not having tape she told me if my next med pass goes well I can redeem myself and not get a U. Ive never had a U and never been so upset over hearing those words. Even when I got in the room I forgot the check for name and DOB which i NEVER DO..ahhh i just wanted to crawl in a hole. This was my first clinical day with my new instructor and I felt like I started on a bad note all I kept thinking was she probably thinks I had no business moving up from Nursing1. I had a B in nursing1 I'm pulling a high B in nursing 2. I guess I'm just disappointed in myself. I'm not sure if I got my U or not I did complete a IVPB later that morning and I did way better but honestly I feel I deserve the U. Has anybody else been in this situation and if so how did you handle it? After lunch I feel like I was back to normal but the feeling of not knowing where anything is and passing meds at the same time got the best of me:uhoh3:

SO yesterday was my first clinical day of my second semester of nursing school and I am pretty sure I got a U. The reason I say might be given a U is because I screwed up a med pass. It all started in the med room where I was giving 2 iv pushes. I was checked off on IV meds the day before in lab and giving them the very next day. So I get to the med room and everything is fine other then my nerves cause I cant work the omnicell. I go to remove my meds and my med isn't on the screen. I wrote the name brand down not the generic:crying2:. So I have to re-look it up then re-pull my meds. Then I draw up my meds and completely slipped my mind I needed tape after that I was sooo stressed and upset I couldn't concentrate. My instructor told me its a U for not having tape she told me if my next med pass goes well I can redeem myself and not get a U. Ive never had a U and never been so upset over hearing those words. Even when I got in the room I forgot the check for name and DOB which i NEVER DO..ahhh i just wanted to crawl in a hole. This was my first clinical day with my new instructor and I felt like I started on a bad note all I kept thinking was she probably thinks I had no business moving up from Nursing1. I had a B in nursing1 I'm pulling a high B in nursing 2. I guess I'm just disappointed in myself. I'm not sure if I got my U or not I did complete a IVPB later that morning and I did way better but honestly I feel I deserve the U. Has anybody else been in this situation and if so how did you handle it? After lunch I feel like I was back to normal but the feeling of now knowing where anything is and passing meds got the best of me:uhoh3:

my nursing program is the same way 10hrs for each semester nursing I nursing II ect...good luck and enjoy it you can make it as fun as you want or as miserable it all depends on the attitude you put forth :)

I am still in nursing school but I can tell you we MUST flush....we flush give med flush give next med flush ect always ending with a flush. Our instructors told us the same rational you just did. good for you for going with your gut!!

Can anybody show me how to calculate gtts/min and ml/hr using dimensional analysis? I use this method for all my calculations but I cant get it to work with setting IV rates if anybody could help it would be greatly appreciated. I can figure the rates using another formula so its not a matter of not knowing how to do them I just prefer help with Dimensional method only!

I'm a Grayson student love love love the program its worth the drive our instructors are awesome and go out of their way to make sure you know your stuff I enjoy nursing school I can even say I love it. I also heard stories of Collins program so chose not to even apply there...good luck with your nursing journey :)

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