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That is the GREATEST thing, to clep classes. So far I've done Human Growth and Dev, and Sociology in the past six weeks. It saved me several hundred dollars and a LOT of time sitting in class and driving back and forth. I picked up 6 credits so ea...

Three years ago I threw caution to the wind and took Chemistry after dropping it as a 20-year old, and I made a surprise "A". It was the academic equivalent of jumping out of an airplane for me because of how bad I failed it the first time around. ...

Has anybody heard of a website or application that will pop up a new NCLEX question of the day each time you log on, or whatever? I think it would be nice over the next year and half to let one good question sink in, per day, so I can linger on the ...

I thought this would be a good place to get some suggestions. When I have a patient with small veins I can usually always find the vein in a hand with a syringe and a 25 g. needle. I get a flash, and can easily draw about 1 cc., but after that it s...

How do you call a code at your hospital? (Forgive my ignorance...Nursing semester I, week II.)

Alright, the phone is always ringing, and there are always messages on my cell. I want to go in and help out, but most weeks I've already answered the call and gone in for someone or another, or am scheduled to pick up someone elses shift. If you h...

I graduate in December, and have heard the textbook we use for critical care is not too swift. Can you recommend a book that comes to the point and gives you the gouge on critical care nursing? I'd like to find something on the shorter, but more di...

Does anybody know of a way to listen and study using an MP3 player? I would spend more time walking and exercising if I could be listening to an NCLEX review at the same time. I have heard of the MedStrong Audio NCLEX review, but would like to hear...

I should be getting my ATT any day now, and I am really getting the jitters. Did you select your own test date, or were you assigned one? I am hoping to schedule my exam around the first week in Feb., but no sooner, since I need the time to review....

It comes down entirely to the policy of the hospital to which you are applying. Here, some hospitals call them nurse interns, others call them nurse techs or nurse associates. Some hire after semester one, some after semester two. Either way, you ...

Well, it took me this long (graduate in Dec.) to get my first dead guy. I am a nurse tech in PICU and ER, and yesterday a guy came in with EMS doing CPR on a 74-yr old. He died, and the nurse invited me in to remove his et tube after the family was...

Jesus...that itself is haunting.

When I was a kid my mom gave us a bath before going to the doctor, and all she had to do was look at us a certain way for us to sit on the paper-covered table in quiet and reverent obedience. So, it never occurred to me the sort of barbaric behaviou...

Hi Kathy! I hope your summer's going OK too! We are SO coming around that last stretch. I don't know about you, but I want the hat, the pin, works, and soon. See you in a couple weeks!

I also have an expensive pair of Dansko's collecting dust in the corner. They were too hard for me too, but then my sister turned me on to Merrell's, and I have been floating on a cloud ever since. I have several pair now for all occasions, beach e...

Two of you mentioned free study guides from Excelsior. Can you tell me where to get them? I have a friend who wanted the RUE study guides, but does not have the $$$. Thank you!

I took a phlebotomy course which took about 6 weeks, one night per week, pluse 40 hours of unpaid internship. It helped me immensely in being comfortable with the hospital setting, approaching patients, doing hands on work, and of course sticking pe...

How about a job as a hospital unit secretary? It's a good way to get experience reading charts and adding orders, which you'll have to know how to do as a nurse. You've said you have clerical experience, so you probably can get a job w/o too much m...

I also had PF and am a runner, until I got orthotics from my footo guy for my running shoes, and bought a pair of Merrell's by recommendation. I have so many pairs of Merrell's now for casual, work, beach, etc., and they are truly unbelievable comfo...

OK, I see I need to toughen up! But...has anybody experienced any repercussions for saying no, such as negative feedback during evaluation time for "not being a team player", and so on? Thanks everybody whose answered so far. Cool answers, especia...

here are a few: once you've mastered basic skills don't let them slip away from you until the moment is critical. for example, a whole group of 2nd semester nursing students was crowded around a patient for wound care last fall. the student perform...

Yikes, you'll be touching lots of things you didn't even know were there. Besides, it's hard to keep fungus from growing under nails with your hands constantly in soap and water. You probably won't have to make the decision on your own anyhow...you...

Sue, I remember your posts during my first semester. I also just finished 3rd, and have the summer off! Aren't you jazzed graduation is just around the corner? You can be sure I am! Last March I started working as a nurse tech in peds, and since...

Many kids will start crying as soon as they see a uniform come through the door. I tell them right away "no boo-boos!" if there aren't going to be any, and most quiet right down. Empathy and caring is perceived by most parents as competence, so be...

PICU transport nurses, can you tell me a little bit about your experiences? I have an opportunity to do my preceptorship wth a fantastic nurse in the PICU next semester, and I am really, so excited! Our PICU does transport, and it sounds so intense...