~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    1st clinical day!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to CrunchyMama's topic in General Students

    I totally agree, the great thing about math is once you get it, it doesn't change. Once you learn addition it will always be the same. So if people know the material and understand how to work the...
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    Nursing school double standards?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Risgirl's topic in General Students

    Well how else are comments like "I take time out of my busy schedule to be there" and "they check up if we are going to our labs" supposed to be taken?? When you post on a public board like this you...
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    Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    Not my spouse but when we were playing pictionary once one of my sons got "intestines" for his picture, when he was drawing it my younger son (age 6 at the time) goes, "I know what those are,...
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    Stethoscope colors...HELP!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to oguesswhat's topic in General Nursing

    My traveling luggage is a deep bright pink. I LOVE it and the double bonus is, no one accidentally walks off with it at the airport and I always know when mine comes off the belt and my husband no...
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    Can someone please pity me?!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to bhusn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Am I the only one that starts singing the song from Little Mermaid in my head every time I read Poor unfortunate soul.
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    MY sister "wants" to be a nurse? I don't think she should!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to misspink789's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree with you. I started nursing school with no experience. Our director came in and did some speech with strings mimicking experience and how some of us have none and our string was like...
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    Stethoscope colors...HELP!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to oguesswhat's topic in General Nursing

    I have the raspberry in that same kind of Scope and I get a lot of compliments on it. I would have gone with Pink if the company I bought mine from offered it on the order sheet. I later saw...
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    Charting for another nurse

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to mominsd's topic in General Nursing

    I am only in school but they have drilled into our head about never charting for anyone and not leaving blank spaces when we
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    Nursing school double standards?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Risgirl's topic in General Students

    Although I can understand your frustration I don't agree with some of your points. First to say that you all are "taking time out of YOUR busy schedules to come to class 4 nights a week" well no one...
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    Can someone please pity me?!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to bhusn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't do pity, but I could smack you for taking all those added classes with the science ones. Will that help??? It only gets harder when you start nursing when it comes to time management. Just...
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    Clueless Patients and The Problems They Cause

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Speaking only on the elder generation consulting husbands and stuff, I don't think it's limited to just the older generations. I would consult with my mom and husband before I made any major...
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    Most useful Pre-reqs

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to acubed's topic in General Students

    It's a smart thing to do, I did the same thing, made use of my time sitting on the waitlist and got everything done I could so now in nursing school I only have actual nursing classes to
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    guilty mom

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to kristak's topic in General Students

    I haven't read the other responses yet, but take a little time out for your kids, even if it's a couple hours on the weekend to take them to the park or do something fun. Invest an hour or two every...
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    Most useful Pre-reqs

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to acubed's topic in General Students

    My current school only required A&P 1 and 2 and Micro for the science pre reqs (my previous school required those and Chem and Organic Chem so I have those done as well but here only the BSN...
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    Nursing Orders

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to 1234student's topic in General Students

    I have never heard of a "nursing order" only Doctor Orders, I have heard of nursing diagnoses and nursing
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    Does any one know

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to blynn9173's topic in General Students

    We learned All Physicians Earn To Much for heart
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    Does this happen to anyone else? (female cath)

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to studentnurse2012's topic in General Students

    I haven't done this on a real person yet but from listening to our instructors it happens quiet often, in fact they said sometimes the anatomy can be so different looking sometimes that seasoned...
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    1st clinical day!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to CrunchyMama's topic in General Students

    Wow I am surprised you only have to pass with an 80% we have 3 tries but must pass with a 100% since you can't get med calculations right in the real world 80% of the time.
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    Student Nurse tshirts

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Kilika421's topic in General Students

    Our school has these ones, I have 2 of them, one is a Care Map on the back with nursing Dx all related to the students and then another one is like a top 10 on for nursing students and it's written in...
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    What do you do in Med_Surg

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN posted a topic in General Students

    Like what are the focuses, I know it's not what I imagine just reading the title of it and I have heard it's a tough class and I know we have 3 semesters on it, so what kind of stuff do you learn in...
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    1st clinical day!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to CrunchyMama's topic in General Students

    My program is like this Pharm Fundamentals and Dosage Calc for first semester. Our first semester clinicals are LTC facilities where we do a lot of CNA type stuff. Once we pass a skill in lab we can...
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    I killed it today!!!!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    So today we got our test back, I came so close to only missing 1 but of course I second guessed myself on one I got wrong, had I not I wouldn't have missed that one. The other one I still would have...
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    I killed it today!!!!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN posted a topic in General Students

    I had to come share in my excitement because people here will understand and I only would share a super good grade with a few people in my class because of comments. Anyway, I started off well in...
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    I killed it today!!!!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    That is
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    NSNA and CNSA... do hospitals care when hiring new grad?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to AlmostRN15's topic in General Students

    Interesting, our school's chapter of NSNA is newly up and running and they have been trying to do a lot of community volunteer work that goes above and beyond making cookies. They have been helping in...