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  1. Im confused, some quick help

    miss_pitty_pat replied to pilot833's topic in General Students

    You would have to check your local hospitals, but around where I live, the county hospital will hire an ASN or BSN ER nurse right out of school. In a bigger hospital north of here, you have to have 2...

  2. Im confused, some quick help

    miss_pitty_pat replied to pilot833's topic in General Students

    You can work as an RN in the ER with an associate. I have been told the main difference between an ASN and BSN is that you have to have a BSN to get into management (nurse manager, case management)....

  3. Positive nursing school experiences please!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to Remi's topic in General Students

    For all of the ups and downs that I have been through in school (I graduate in May from an ASN program) it has definitely been up there in the most rewarding things I have done in my life. For every...

  4. HELP! Research paper sources!

    miss_pitty_pat posted a topic in General Students

    I am writing a paper focusing on cultural aspects of childbirth and parenting of the Hispanic culture. Sources cannot be older than 2004. I am struggling to find sources pertaining to my topic. Are...

  5. HELP! Research paper sources!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    The assignment is to research a culture outside your own as it relates to the cultural practic/beliefs related to child birth and child care. I chose Hispanic because it is the fastest growing...

  6. HELP! Research paper sources!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    Thank you everyone for your help. It is starting to come

  7. HELP! Research paper sources!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    I have been to my local library and being in a small town, they have nothing. The majority of their culture books are in the children's section and none relate to childbirth. I am thinking of making...

  8. HELP! Research paper sources!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    I have used google (of course) and EbscoHost, Medline, LexusNexus, etc... I have tried Hispanic pregnancy Hispanic childbirth hispanic pregnancy traditions hispanic motherhood hispanic nursing care...

  9. Nursing School Horrors

    miss_pitty_pat replied to jrosemoore's topic in General Students

    My program is the same way. Everyone just keeps saying "It's the nature of the beast!" We didn't have grades curved, but 2 different instructors offered major extra credit. My Complex Med-Surg...

  10. Issues with Nursing Instructors

    miss_pitty_pat posted a topic in General Students

    I am in my second year of an ASN program. We are in Complex Med/Surg. Our instructor for the lecture class is the program chair in our area. She is very unorganized! According to our calendar, we...

  11. The Clinical Post Conference - A Few Guidelines

    miss_pitty_pat replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    This is wonderful information! We have a new clinical instructor this semester and if we have post conference (we don't have a certain time that we leave the floor, it's just whenever she shows up...

  12. Issues with Nursing Instructors

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    Oh, she is reviewing the exam. She said that with the grades that everyone got, she knows there was some sort of mistake somewhere and she is going to make it right. She is a lovely lady. I enjoy...

  13. HELP! Care plan question Due tomorrow!

    miss_pitty_pat posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I need help! I am doing my care plan for Med/Surg II. Last semester my instructor told us that Actual diagnoses are always prioritized above RIsk for diagnoses. My list is as follows: 1. Acute Pain 2....

  14. Help! Care plan question

    miss_pitty_pat posted a topic in General Students

    I need help! I am doing my care plan for Med/Surg II. Last semester my instructor told us that Actual diagnoses are always prioritized above RIsk for diagnoses. My list is as follows: 1. Acute...

  15. Clinicals...ugghhhhh

    miss_pitty_pat replied to Nicole2010's topic in General Students

    We actually spent a day in the hospital's orientation for students. We learned the IV pumps and were shown the glucometer. After that we were thrown to the sharks! I definitely feel lost and...

  16. Care plan HELP

    miss_pitty_pat replied to Seni29's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Could you possibly use knowledge defict for the newly dx diabetes? I am new at this too. That is the only thing that "popped" out at me right

  17. Extremely frustrated @ clinicals!

    miss_pitty_pat posted a topic in General Students

    I am in my second semester of an ASN program. We started our first hospital clinicals a few weeks ago. Things were fine when I was in observation on other units, but when I was put on the...

  18. Extremely frustrated @ clinicals!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    I apologize if you think I didn't give credit where credit was due. I am having such a difficult time understanding all of this. There was a nurse who sat in the nurse's station on the computer the...

  19. Nightmares

    miss_pitty_pat replied to aerorunner80's topic in General Students

    It has to be stress related. I have actually had a couple of night terrors, waking up everyone in my house screaming. I have never woke up as scared as I did those 2 nights. My husband thought...

  20. I'm so tired

    miss_pitty_pat replied to patricianyc's topic in General Students

    You're preaching to the choir! I am in week 4 of 2nd semester and it's not any better! All I can say is to take advantage of any rest you can get. I also drink coffee morning noon and night but I'm...

  21. Extremely frustrated @ clinicals!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    I agree. All I ask is for common courtesy. If I ask where something is, just tell me instead of grumbling and walking away! I don't work here and it wouldn't take but 2 seconds to just tell me...

  22. Extremely frustrated @ clinicals!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    truern Just so you know, my instructor understood and was off the floor at the time. Just because it's not in an RNs job description to teach doesn't mean they should be so extremely RUDE to the...

  23. I am HORRIFIED!!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to missingunc's topic in General Students

    Oh my goodness! I know exactly how you feel! I had to take Phlebotomy in a Medical Assisting program (I am now in an ASN program) and it was soooo scary. I remember shaking so bad. The key is to...

  24. Extremely frustrated @ clinicals!

    miss_pitty_pat replied to miss_pitty_pat's topic in General Students

    Download Daytonite's critical thinking flowsheet and fill it out for your patients. Compare what you would expect to find with this condition to what you actually find. Determine your key...

  25. i feel lost and confused...=\

    miss_pitty_pat replied to hTx87's topic in General Students

    I am the same way. We are in the hospital and I feel so useless. To top it all off, the RNs at the hospital we are at do not want us there and make it perfectly clear. (There have been past...