garnetgirl29

garnetgirl29 BSN, RN

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  1. The wait is finally over...

    garnetgirl29 replied to HopefulLPN83's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Congratulations!!! I'm 36 & about to finish LPN school this month & I remember very well how I felt getting my acceptance letter a year ago. Once I take my final exam, I'll start working...

  2. how many hours do you work while in nursing school

    garnetgirl29 replied to Ashley123555's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    It can be done, but it's hard. I finish this month & I worked less than 10 hours a week while in school. Fortunately for me, my boyfriend agreed to let me quit working while in school & he...

  3. Diabetic Ketoacidosis??

    garnetgirl29 posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In lecture, my instructor said that a symptom of DKA is warm, dry skin. My sister has gone into DKA twice, but both times she said she was cold. I checked the mayo clinic website & it doesn't say...

  4. Diabetic Ketoacidosis??

    garnetgirl29 replied to garnetgirl29's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    windowrn, thanks so much! I'm going to share that with my classmates.

  5. LPN Clinicals- what are they like?

    garnetgirl29 replied to student forever's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    hahah, no, it's my birth stone. I've never heard of garnet career

  6. LPN Clinicals- what are they like?

    garnetgirl29 replied to student forever's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    One of my classmates gave birth in our 2nd semester. The instructors didn't give her any restrictions & she didn't have to do a lot of lifting since we always paired up for anything like that....

  7. Diabetic Ketoacidosis??

    garnetgirl29 replied to garnetgirl29's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh that's a great way to remember it KatePasa! Thanks! In DKA, will the person feel cold even tho their skin is hot to anyone who touches them? Just trying to understand why my sister said she was...

  8. LPN Clinicals- what are they like?

    garnetgirl29 replied to student forever's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I think clinical is the best part, too! My clinical instructors were great & always willing to teach & answer questions. My first semester when we basically did cna stuff, we paired up. I'm so...

  9. First quiz in pharmacology

    garnetgirl29 replied to kyblondie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes, we were told to memorize adverse effects and any important info about food/drug interaction with certain drugs(especially MAOI's cuz there are soooo many contraindications with them). In pharm,...

  10. First quiz in pharmacology

    garnetgirl29 replied to kyblondie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Online? Really? Jeez, I wish mine was online! Ours was all on campus and the tests were based from lectures. That class was tough & it's part of our practical nursing program, so if you failed it,...

  11. First quiz in pharmacology

    garnetgirl29 replied to kyblondie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Our department head wrote our tests. In pharm, we had tests covering equivalents, calculations, history (such as insulin was created in 1922 by Dr.'s Banting & Best when they ground up pig &...

  12. LPN Clinicals- what are they like?

    garnetgirl29 replied to student forever's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I graduate next month. 1st semester, we were in a hospital & did basic cna care. We were assigned one patient & had to go to the hospital the day before to get information from our patient's...

  13. Tips to help me get ready for nursing school starting next month

    garnetgirl29 replied to SavannahE's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I graduate next month & my program is very intense & VERY big on dosage calculations (and no calculators). We took quite a few calculations exams this year. Bush up on your fractions,...

  14. private vs community college

    garnetgirl29 replied to peppapig123's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    It couldn't hurt to apply even if you think you don't have enough credits. Talk to the counselor to find out which classes are most important. In my program, some of our classes could be taken with...

  15. Very important concern regarding FAFSA and my school

    garnetgirl29 replied to cutelatina's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I've never heard of that school, but I would definitly not do a private school b/c of the cost. I'm in my 2nd semester at a community college and Pell Grant completely covered my 1st two semesters,...

  16. IV therapy and blood wihdrawl question

    garnetgirl29 replied to spectrabrite's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    So, IV therapy isn't included in your program? We haven't learned blood draws, but we do IV therapy. We would need to take the phlebotomy program to learn blood draws, I think. I actually have an...

  17. OK, clinicals in two weeks?!....NO experience!

    garnetgirl29 replied to Iridescent Orchid's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    My clinicals started on the medical floor of a hospital, but the majority of the patients were 70+. I never did CNA and have NO experience whatsoever in the medical field or with the elderly, but I...

  18. PAST MY LPN-NCLEX

    garnetgirl29 replied to campbeartrack's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Congratulations!!! I'm almost half way through my 2nd semester. I'm waiting for things to come together for me. I keep trying to reason things out and put what I've learned to use, but I feel like I...

  19. Will I be able to work 20-30 hours while in the lpn program?

    garnetgirl29 replied to countrygirl1234's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I'm in my 2nd semester & I only work about 10 hrs a week. I have two teenage kids, so if I worked more, I would have no time for them, and I can't do that. My program is VERY demanding. We are on...

  20. Who's program teaches the apothecary system?????

    garnetgirl29 replied to garnetgirl29's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Thanks for all the comments. I understand the need to be familiar with it, but I do wish that it wasn't emphasized so strongly in our program(or at least let us use a calculator, those grain...

  21. Who's program teaches the apothecary system?????

    garnetgirl29 posted a topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I'm just curious because this system seems rediculously innacurate to me. My program requires it. In fact, more than half of my calculations test was covernting drams and grains to the metric &...

  22. Indiana University LPN - BSN??

    garnetgirl29 posted a topic in LPN to RN

    I am a current LPN student & expect to graduate in August. I was hoping to go into the LPN-ADN bridge program at my school, but I just found out that I will only have one more semester of Pell at...

  23. Need input on what I should do...

    garnetgirl29 replied to BigAlLPN's topic in Excelsior College

    So, how are clinicals handled if you state has no additional

  24. Male Nursing Student

    garnetgirl29 replied to arronlpn's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Wow! There are only 14 student in your class? My program accepts 80, divided between day/night classes. There are about 50 in my day class. Glad you decided to go through with it! There are 5 men in...

  25. Graduate in 3 months, and have only done three procedures

    garnetgirl29 replied to Trixyp's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    In my program, we are broken into clinical groups of about 8 students per instructor. Each group is assigned a clinical site, and we are each assigned a pt. The evening before clinical, we have to go...