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Med Surg! It was great. It was a transition from CNA work to Lpn work. I've given full patient care while starting IV's, d/c'g and starting foley caths, blood draws, wound care, and ng tubes! Ive done...
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First day of I.V. Therapy was a full day of information. We went over everything, even acid/base. So much material leading up to the procedure of venipuncture, but it did help in the understanding....
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Thank you enchantress! Ok so today was the last day of clinical in the geriatric site.Tuesday was our last day of geriatric theory. We had a final Tuesday and my overall theory grade was an A. Today I...
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Thank you Ivaiav. I truly appreciate it and I'm glad my experiences are helping others like you. That's why I wrote this forum because when I was making my decision to start lpn school there was only...
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Geriatrics clinical: It's fun! I finally get to care for patients and be hands on. And all the practice on our dummies really helped. So a day in clinical starts out in pre conference. This is were I...
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So we were tuaght med math on Thursday. Had test 1 on Friday..were taught even more math..then took our final that following Monday. Med math. I passed it! With an 92 % A. ME!..MISS BAD AT MATH passed...
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ashleys: don't be scared!! It's really fun because it's exactly what you want to do. It's to the point without all that extra hoopla most majors make you go through before you can get to the meat and...
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Ok. I passed anatomy and physioolgy! Now on to nurtrition! So far we hav been learning about vitamins and such. Not too much on the first day but it is alot of stuff to remember. Clinicals start in...
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I have made it to anatomy and physiology! It's hard. I won't lie. There just soo much more information in this section. We have covered all but 3 chapters of the book in one week. We have already had...
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ADRIANE: I have been in college since i graduated highschool and I can tell you that nursing school is a bit different ...alot different..the material...the way its taught and the way you have to...
yes i just took my first set of ati modules for my course. it was..different. the questions were what i'm used to on the test we take in our course but they focused on more situational things....
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hair 303... don't worry! I may make it sound hard on here because I am typically wrapping up days into one so you guys can get an idea of everything..don't get me wrong this is the hardest thing I...
NursingLadyQuinn replied to NursingLadyQuinn's topic in LPN, LVN Students
My program is 12 months long. What you can do to get a leg up?...I would get a nursing math made incredibly easy book and start looking through fractions and decimals if you have been out of school...