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Well, after all this hard work, we find out at orientation this semester that we will probably NOT have a pinning ceremony at the end of the semester. I'm kinda upset about this. Our first semester they started hyping up the pinning ceremony, how m...

I'm hoping to get some advice regarding ACLS. I'll be graduating in December and they are offering an ACLS course for us to take in October so that we would have that certification when we graduate. Do you think that it is worth the effort mid-seme...

Ours is 75 with 70% of your grade being from exams throughout the semester and 30% being from the final exam.

I'm 33 and in my last semester, but there are MANY folks older than I am (both male & female) in my class - so please don't let your age be a hurtle for you...you will have other hurtles, don't create one that isn't really there! I would think th...

I had the same suggestion as Silverdragon...as a student I would find it very useful to have someone come & talk about the different areas of nursing. Have you thought about doing a quick survey of your classmates to ask what they might be inte...

I use good old fashioned pen & paper. I also use a digital recorder & use it to "fill in the blanks" after class. Our instructors post their powerpoints as well and I print them out before lecture and will use them as well. Be sure you don'...

If you are going to volunteer for something where you will have hands-on with patients, make sure you check to see if you need a preceptor present. I know that we had to have one present when we were doing community service that involved hands-on.

Were they to send the background check to you or to the school? Relax, make a couple phone calls. :)

I think that you really need to think about this test anxiety thing and if you do decide to go back, you need to seek out some support to deal with that. If you are going to have that much anxiety over an exam at school, what are you going to do whe...

Good Luck with A&P...my best advice for A&P is that when you get that blank diagram of something that you need to learn (muscles, nerves, organs, etc.), don't fill it in until you've had a chance to make a bunch of copies of it so that you ca...

I'm almost 33, but there are plenty of other student in my class at NS that are 50+ and I don't think that any of them feel that they are over looked or treated unfairly. As for the nursing shortage - well, I think that it is difficult to determine...

Gee...anyone get the sense that there is some tension with the start of the semester?? (BTW, that was sarcasm)

Hi zc727 - I think that it really varies by campus. We needed to have our "packets" from the book store for our orientation for 101 (which is typically your longest orientation). Did you get any letters from the school stating what you needed? If ...

Hey Paco386 - Thanks for the encouragement. I have indeed thought about how I can use my education degree, I guess that I just get frustrated that I've had that degree for 10+ yrs and its just been sitting in my safe collecting dust while I worked i...

I'll be 33 in a few weeks and will be finishing NS in December. I have a full-time job, husband, 2 kids in middle school and my Mother In Law lives with us. If you want it bad enough, you make it work regardless of what else you have going on. BTW,...

You can check with kinko's - they offer binding, but I'm not sure of the cost. It is true that unbinding your books in NS is a good idea. I've done it...Those books are HUGE and weigh more than you would think. Good Luck!

Shaunta20 - I'm so sorry you had to go through this - professors come in both varieties (good and bad). My dad died 3 1/2 weeks into my last semester of pre-reqs...I was taking an online course and the online professor did not believe me, even when ...

I have the perspective of both the nursing student and someone who works in higher ed. I know that you want to get a jump on your prereqs, but isn't there something that you know you need to take regardless of what they accept? Can you start with t...

Hi everyone - I'm going into 204/205 in the evening/weekend program at Allegheny Campus. I thought I saw someone say they were starting 101 there. I'm not on here all the time, but at least 1 or 2 times a week. I'll answer any questions you might ...

So far, I've lived by, "I laugh because otherwise I'd cry"...last semester was extremely tough for me, if I hadn't been so exhausted, I would have cried, but I felt that was a waste of precious energy. In my school, last semester was considered the ...

I work a full-time job and I'm heading into the home-stretch here with my final semester. I won't lie - it's hard. You will have a lot on your plate, but it's not impossible - it can be done. Most of the folks in my class work, and many of them wo...

I have the littman classic for my stethoscope, but other people in my class have others & they seem to be fine. Over time, you will find out what works best for you and may choose a different stethoscope and may not...if you think that you can h...

We didn't have classes over the summer either and that wasn't by my choice. If I'd had classes that I could have taken over the summer, I would have. That said, I did enjoy having time off. I have used my time to study some NCLEX, do some reading ...

I always do a major cleaning/organizing before school starts, but I also find that a cleaning project usually ends up being my distraction mid-semester when I really deep down don't want to study for something. I'll convince myself that life simply ...

We get a lot of that in my school. Each semester we have an "orientation" for the semester, which is a day the week before classes that we have to come in and they update us on everything for the semester. Well, last semester, our clinicals were li...