paynck

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1. What do you do with your limited spare time?

   paynck replied to jbjints's topic in General Students

   I love computer games too! I used to play WoW for a few years but I stopped for nursing school. but I still play other games that take up less time, and I make sure to catch up on all my favorite TV shows. You HAVE to have "me time", or else you will...

2. Do Grades Matter? What Kind of Grades Did You Get?

   paynck replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Students

   Usually in a semester I get about 1 or 2 A's and the rest B's. From my experience, grades do not matter as much as experience and leadership roles. If you are finding that you are killing yourself studying trying to make A's, I would advice you relax...

3. So embarrassed today and nervous (re vital signs)

   paynck replied to Kringe38's topic in General Students

   Hey!! First, thank you so much for this thread!! And please don't feel embarrassed!! My classmates and I are ALL struggling with this! I've been practicing like crazy - part 1 of our mastery is to take vital signs on 50 people and I promise you, by p...

4. Does anyone else get extremely tired while reading textbooks?

   paynck replied to Sarah Hay's topic in General Students

   I feel your pain. To keep myself awake, I take frequent "moving" breaks where I would get up, walk around, maybe talk to someone (out loud) - anything that requires movement! Sometimes when I have hours and hours of studying ahead of me, I'll make su...

5. Advice needed

   paynck replied to becky5438's topic in General Students

   I hope you feel better soon!!! Remember to take breaks - everyone's minds wander away from the reading if they're staring at tiny print for 2 hours straight. (And if yours doesn't, can I has your brain? ) If you don't have time to read everything, d...

6. No Nicotine!

   paynck replied to Brikkz's topic in General Students

   I'm going to have to agree on what everyone is saying. It isn't fair for the OP either, her husband's family smokes together, so is she going to have to avoid family gatherings? Smoking cigarettes isn't illegal, so at one time or another everyone is...

7. I needs some advice!!

   paynck replied to Love840207's topic in General Students

   Another thing to remember is of course everyone complains about the hard work, the stress, the professors, etc, but there's all sorts of good things that outweigh the bad! I'm sure everyone here agrees, or else they wouldn't be in nursing school! For...

8. New Nursing Students age 50 and up

   paynck replied to seasoned hopeful's topic in General Students

   I had A&P II with a nice older lady a few semesters ago. She was wonderful and she was so easygoing, even cracking jokes with us younger folks about the instructor's jokes and the material. She was also one of the smartest people in our class. Be...

9. First Impressions of your instructors....

   paynck replied to DolceVita's topic in General Students

   Nice and definitely helpful, but super tough. My skills lab professor also told us about the socks!! On the first day of lab!! She did it in a very nice way though and explained to us the reasoning behind it (which is solid, of course.) Luckily, I ha...

10. Dismissed from my program less than a week before finals!!! Please Help!

    paynck replied to MattiesMama's topic in General Students

    It sounds like a tough situation. I hope everything goes well for you. Usually at the start of nursing school, the professors give you a chain of command to "go to" if someone gives you an unsatisfactory answer. I would recommend trying that. Also, s...

11. Trouble sleeping-too nervous!

    paynck replied to brokenroads27's topic in General Students

    You're not alone! I have the same problem!!! What I try to do is I don't eat/snack right before bedtime, and I do not study right before. Studying right before bed leads me to thinking about my notes in bed. I either take a shower (be careful with th...

12. How do you manage to find time to workout & stay fit during nursing school?

    paynck replied to lindsay176's topic in General Students

    This is a wonderful thread and I want to thank everyone for their replies and tips! Contributing my two cents, as far as working out I find that swimming is more relaxing and less tiring to me. This is perfect because you tone your entire body and y...

13. The First Days of Nursing School by the Fall 2009ers!!!

    paynck replied to craziechiq's topic in General Students

    I start tomorrow and I've already got my books and notebooks together! I'm pretty excited, and super nervous. This is also my first post and I'm very happy to be here :)