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Well, I just finished my first year of nursing school and decided I'd share some insights on how to survive this oh-so-feared first year. Please feel free to contribute from your experiences! :) First of all, the three golden rules to remember when...

iluvoranges, both of the 1100 gned courses are fairly easy. I took 1102 and found it interesting and easy. I heard 1101 was a piece of cake as well. Any gned you take will have papers and assignments so they`re all fairly equal. The first two years o...

I took the globalization course through them (one of my school's gen. ed requirements) in the summer as I wanted an easier course load during the semester. I didn't find it too bad. The syllabus was well constructed and made it easy to plan how much ...

I am starting as an NA on an acute care burn unit in a couple of weeks and the unit manager has told me that she likes for nurses and NA's to have a mini meeting at the beginning of the shift to discuss what needs to be done for the patients because ...

Hey guys! So I am finally here. I'm finally starting clinicals in a week. Exciting, right? One problem- palliative care unit is the one thing that scares me to death. It's not the idea of patients with incurable diseases or the fact that they're dyin...

Thanks everyone for the advice! Makes me feel less nervous about the upcoming semester :)

It's not possible to request the times for your clinicals. All clinicals have set days- for example, you first round (nurs 1214) will be on mondays, your second round (nurs 2114) will either be tues+wed or thurs+fri. You will either have the morning...

Yes, you can take general courses over the summer to lighten things up during the year but I should warn you that there is a lot of people that like to do that so you could be out of luck if you're at the bottom of the list to register for classes. H...

In my program they get us to start practicing IVs in lab on mannequins in the second year and then we're allowed to do them on patients at the end of third year.

Nursing school is as difficult as you let it be. If you freak out over every assignment and test, school won't be kind to you. If you put in the effort, you'll be just fine. It sounds like you know how to manage your time well so that will be key. As...

Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind! (Here's hoping I never actually have to act on it). Until then... back to my applications.

It was at Foothills where I was told that. I was definitely taken aback that staff could openly say that. I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything, but just want to put it out there that it still happens where someone can get hired if they know...

"Getting a job through the website is the ONLY way to be hired by AHS, internal applicant or not." janfrn, I realize that you have a lot of experience and know way more than some little second year nursing student, but that statement is simply not tr...

You are honestly the first person I've heard that from. Maybe there's hope for the rest of us yet!

Are you an internal applicant? If not, then you are probably out of luck. I have been applying for a year now and the only kind of response I've gotten are emails saying that "due to unforeseen circumstances, the above noted Requisition has been canc...

Hey everyone! I wanted to get your guys' opinion on the topic of CRNE prep guides. I'm in my second year of nursing school right now and I was wondering if it's a smart idea to get Mosby's and Lippincott's prep guides right now to start practicing CR...

That's a great idea! It never even crossed my mind to borrow the ones from the library. Thanks! I really like the program so far. Not going to lie- first year was a bit of a drag because I didn't have many nursing classes but I loved the ones I had. ...

Ditto on time management and not having to read every single page you're assigned. What I did for my nursing classes in first year is get together with a group of people and divide up the work. Every week we had a "module" to do (basically it's a lis...

Thanks for the advice, guys! Greatly appreciated :) 27400, I'll definitely keep in mind the mistakes issue when I'm studying for CRNE two years down the road.

Cells, body planes, integumentary system and bones

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Found this video about a year ago... makes me laugh everytime

Don't get worried before you get your x-ray results. A doc told me once that the tb test has a higher chance of turning out to be a false positive the older you are. Another explanation could be that you may be having a mild allergic reaction to the ...

Try Pathophysiology by Copstead (4th ed.)

You can also ask your instructors if they know of any volunteer opportunities within hospitals because a lot of times they have way better insight into these kinds of things. Another thing you can do is talk to unit managers in a hospital about shado...