KimN

I am very sorry that you are going through this, I can only imagine how heartbroken you must be. However, I think it is wise for you not to go to the BON .. it is the instructor's responsibility to pull an individual from a program if they feel there...

After two weeks jam packed with midterms, lectures, seminar, CWE hours in the emergency department, and a group project - I am overjoyously happy to say that I have THE WHOLE AFTERNOON TO MYSELF! I came home and changed into my pajamas (at 1:00 in th...

What information have YOU come up with? If you provide what you have done so far then we can try and help you organize or clarify those thoughts/issues. Without any information from you we can't help much.

Well here is my two cents on the BP issue. Based on what is presented here we do not know what is normal for this patient. Yes it is unlikely that her BP is normally that high, however, we cannot assume that she is having increased CO when we really ...

Seems unfair to throw it on you last minute but usually you have more than one opportunity to take it .. many schools allow two - do you know if your school will allow this? I'm sorry I am really not trying to sound insensitive but I think it's actua...

Okay okay let's see if I can make any sense here from student to student. It seems that maybe prioritizion is the issue here? I know when I started nursing school I would be so stressed about these things that I would find myself pulling for amy diag...

Also I completely agree with Biffbradford's comment. The hospital I am working in does post jobs on their website etc. but primarily uses internal nurses already working for their facility to fill them. Most of these nurses that fill the jobs are fac...

I have no advice that can help you with securing a hospital position, but I do have some insight on the new grad hiring thing. It seems that in my area many facilities are hiring straight from their own preceptored students from nursing school. For i...

I completely agree with the above poster. I used to be that first year student that complained about not doing catheters, etc. (although payback has been a you-know-what this term .. it's been catheters galore!) And although I do still think practici...

I am in my last year of nursing school and asked my program director about signing up for clinical work experience credits on top of my class and clinical schedule. There are about five of us doing it and working full time with nurses in various depa...

I don't know ... that sounds pretty. scary. I can just imagine the looks from other staff members you will receive when they see you writing patient information down for your own records and then leaving the facility with it. I'm also not sure that k...

Please don't ever believe you are dumb for having a rough patch in your program. This website is here for a reason, and there is a 'student' section for all of us, who just like you, are struggling at some point or another. You deserve to be where yo...

Hey, as a senior nursing student I can tell you that there were people who made it into my program with less than excellent GPAs. The key is nursing specific pre-requisites ... in which case they pretty much needed to be perfect. I think you've got a...

Hey guys, So I have been working on my case study for a pediatric patient that presents to the ED with DKA. As i'm doing my research I have been finding a lot of conflicting information about whether or not it is standard today to give an insulin bol...

Thanks for the responses! I don't think I did a very good job of wording my question. I was actually not intending it to sound like I was seeking advice about what I personally would do in that situation, but instead just trying to get some feedback ...

I also really struggled finding resources that satisfied requirements from various instructors when I first started my program on EBSCO. I didn't receive a whole lot of help from the librarian, but did utilize friends in my class who could navigate i...

My shoes are also starting to KILL my feet by the end of the day. I also wanted to get danskos but decided it wasn't worth the money since I graduate in a few months and will no longer wear the white shoes my program requires. If you do get them I ho...

I'm having a hard time understanding why you would even be spending your time talking badly about LPNs ... I saw that you were talking negatively about them in a previous post. In fact i'm not even sure I buy that you are a BSN student at all... anyo...

I have to say that I feel the same way ... every time I am put on the med/surg floor that is. I have always said that I too just feel depressed after spending an extended amount of time there for the same reasons you mentioned. I talked to my instruc...

I just typed a really long comment to lose it all to a page error.. great haha. Anyway, I know where you are coming from. I just started the last year of my program and did really poorly on our first big paper of the term. I don't know what happened ...

What kind of exam is it .. entrance, exit, etc? my school requires that we take TWO hesis per term that count as our midterm and final... yes that equals to SIX per year and we have to pass them both the first time to progress to the next term... nee...

I am currently in nursing school and am still deciding! I just KNEW for sure that I wanted to work in labor & delivery or pediatrics. Well turns out I'm just so-so on L&D and too emotional to work with children, not to mention volatile. So ma...

Well I did not work as a CNA before nursing school, but I can tell you that you should absolutely do it if you can... it certainly would have made my life a lot easier in the beginning of nursing school. Coming into nursing without any 'real life' ex...

I think that your heart is definitely in the right place and having the desire to help someone in their time of need is a quality that nurses need to have. However, in my opinion the ability to have a desire to dive in as far as you can to learn abou...

I LOVE my Littmann Classic II S.E. In my opinion it is the best all around stethoscope for nursing school and beyond. I have used friends that have the Master and Cardiology, and while they are fine, I don't consider them to be any better for our pur...