~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    Do you guys see a lot of people saying they are nursing students....

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

    Oh and today some girl bought one of our nursing lab kits at the bookstore and she just started her pre reqs. I mean come on, the school only has so many and some of us like to buy 2 because they are...
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    Confused about HIPAA and internet posting...HELP

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to tammy1974's topic in General Students

    I don't see how saying I went to clinicals is a hipaa violation. You are not giving away any identifiable information about your patient. I mean stories about patients are posted on here all the time,...
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    How do you all feel about grading classmate's work?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to aem31's topic in General Students

    You grade your own or you grade your fellow classmates? I would think grading your own can give the opportunity for cheating by changing
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    How do you all feel about grading classmate's work?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to aem31's topic in General Students

    Our school has a strict policy on grades as well. Teachers can't even email the grade to the student, it has to be posted on the students blackboard thing and when we have test review the scantrons...
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    psychiatric nursing test questions

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to hunnybaby24's topic in General Students

    I agree, today I had an exam and one was a multiple choice more than one answer can apply. It was a question on people you need to be more aware with when having suicidal ideation. So like one answer...
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    Hardest part of nursing school is...

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

    I don't like the role playing either. Talking to a real patient is different than a doll or your friend. We are in Psych right now and we have to pair up and pretend it's a psych patient. I just can't...
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    How do you stay sexy in nursing school

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to 2bnurseforce1's topic in General Students

    Exactly, I don't know why there seems to be such a bad connotation with that word. I am a mix between a tomboy and girly girl. I am a jeans and a T shirt, or yoga pants and a t kind of person. I would...
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    How do you stay sexy in nursing school

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to 2bnurseforce1's topic in General Students

    I bet she takes better care of her patients when she goes in looking good and feeling good, than if she goes in looking like a ragga muffin and feeling crappy. There was once a post like this in the...
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    How do you stay sexy in nursing school

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to 2bnurseforce1's topic in General Students

    I get what the poster is meaning, how you present yourself can do wonders for your self esteem and what you portray. For the past 3 years (prior to 6 months ago) I was in a pretty bad depression due...
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    What did you wear to certain clinicals?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to brokenroads27's topic in General Students

    For OB when we did a day in actual L&D (the other days were in the post partum mother baby unit) we wore the hospital scrubs, all the nurses and students had too. In Peds we wore our normal...
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    What to do when you have two answers left on an exam?

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

    oops i should have read the other responses
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    What to do when you have two answers left on an exam?

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

    There usually are 2 answers left after narrowing the ones it cant be. (except, in the more than one answer can apply ones) Remember your ABC's in picking between the 2, if not an ABC issue remember...
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    How did you do on your first test

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

    It's been over a year since my first exam but if I recall I got a 90 on it. It was for Fundamentals. I prefer nursing school style tests. I know I am the odd man out on that, but it's definitely more...
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    can you make it all the way through nursing school on dishonesty alone?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Desire2Learn's topic in General Students

    Yes it is. I wasn't saying it about the cheaters, I was saying not to let it personally anger you or cause negativity in your life. (you being
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    Can anyone become a nurse? When do I give up on being a nurse?

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

    Does your school offer tutoring services? Our school has it and it's free, they also have free counseling for students or even students and their partners and stuff for free as well. A lot of people...
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    Can anyone become a nurse? When do I give up on being a nurse?

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

    Not anyone can become a nurse IMO. That said, I think only you can answer this question. There is no rule or set time. If you think you could do something else and succeed while still filling the void...
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    How much time do you *really*spend studying?

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

    I would never consider studying 33 hours a week a Luxury. I would consider it hell. :| Than again I still manage to have a fun and free time and I have 4 kids, a husband that is self employed (works...
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    Which pre-nursing classes did you find the most useful?

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

    Oh see we had to do the APA in my English class. I still suck at it though and suck at grammar and spelling. I have no Idea how I got an A in the class. It's the developmental psych that will come...
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    can you make it all the way through nursing school on dishonesty alone?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Desire2Learn's topic in General Students

    I had to grow up really early, so maybe I am ahead of the curve LOL but it does come and it wasn't easy getting there. Once it comes though it is really nice. Now I can see things that used to set me...
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    can you make it all the way through nursing school on dishonesty alone?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Desire2Learn's topic in General Students

    The distractions of the cheating during the exam by what you described, that is effecting you and I can absolutely understand getting upset and frustrated. Our last exam about 6 people walked in late,...
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    For Fun--Kudos 2 Me...The "toot your own horn" thread

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to tammy1974's topic in General Students

    My hooorah kudos moment was my Pharm Final. I got 100% and was the only one. It felt so good and was such a surprise for me because I only studied about 30 mins for it and Pharm wasn't one of my...
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    Which pre-nursing classes did you find the most useful?

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

    English is good for all the paper writing in APA format there will be and Psych will come back when you talk about the theorists in Peds, and when you take Psych
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    Which pre-nursing classes did you find the most useful?

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

    If I could do the whole "if I knew than what I know now" thing. I would have really tried harder in A&P. It came back TONS so far in nursing school and I feel so dumb and think to myself a lot,...
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    can you make it all the way through nursing school on dishonesty alone?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Desire2Learn's topic in General Students

    I don't condone cheating at all, it's not OK, and if I saw someone "cheating" or "cutting corners" in clinical where someone can end up injured I would report it immediately. That said, why get so...
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    It's actually NOT so bad!

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

    I am in third semester but so far it was second in ours that was hell. First semester we had a few rough weeks (multiple exams, clinical and like 5 papers due with skills check off lab, we swore that...