203bravo

203bravo MSN, APRN

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  1. What books are really necessary for nursing school?

    203bravo replied to dee789's topic in General Students

    our instructors will make several books for a class as "required" so that students can have fin aid pay for the texts.. but they will tell us prior to the class that these texts are actually

  2. Is my school the only one?

    203bravo replied to aspiringrn1987's topic in General Students

    the advantage to having the courses split is it makes it easier for students to repeat just one 3 hour class if necessary (instead of having to take the entire 10hr module again) and it also makes it...

  3. Nursing Books-Buy or Rent

    203bravo replied to raidergirl95's topic in General Students

    i would consider buying the patho book --- i find myself referring back and referencing this book a lot during other courses -- especially med

  4. Need your opinion/thoughts

    203bravo replied to nlitened's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I would not spend 32k for an ADN --

  5. Reconstitution Help!!!!!

    203bravo replied to CordaeP's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    i was going by the chart as written.. since it's a poorly written question as you have identified

  6. Reconstitution Help!!!!!

    203bravo replied to CordaeP's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    according to the chart you have been provided -- you would mix the 1g vial with 10 mL and have an avg concentration of 125 mg/ml (which seems high to me since 1000 mg/10 ml = 100 mg/ml). if you need...

  7. Drug dosage calculations - question on rounding

    203bravo replied to pmabraham's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    also think about your measuring device - you maybe able to measure 6.9 mL in a cup or syringe.. but you'd never realistically be able to measure 6.947368421 mL

  8. 30-Year Old GPA Might Sink My RN Program App

    203bravo replied to Beginning15's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    uhmmm feel you're pain.. i didn't really like business law either..

  9. 30-Year Old GPA Might Sink My RN Program App

    203bravo replied to Beginning15's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You've only mentioned 4 classes that you've "bombed".. if you don't get admitted this cycle, I would retake those 4 classes if I were you and then no doubt you'd be competitive next year

  10. Bioethics paper

    203bravo replied to russianbear's topic in General Students

    a couple of topics that come to mind would be * stem cell research * assisted suicide * abortion * mandated vaccinations - especially for school aged

  11. Please explain to me why I set up this problem wrong. Dimensional Analysis

    203bravo replied to Mrs2016's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm with Kris -- I always start out by looking at how the answer needs to be.. mcg/kg/min.. so I would start out by looking for mcg as well thus the 1st step would be 1000 mcg/1 mg -- then just keep...

  12. what is the nursing management of patient with Anisocoria

    203bravo replied to shiju john's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    what's causing the anisocoria? that may give you a place to start -- if disease process or injury consider if the patient is having any other problems associated with the disease process... is the...

  13. Nurse Extern Hiring

    203bravo replied to mk989's topic in General Students

    OP - are you looking for a summer extern position or talking about a final semester capstone? If summer extern - I found in my area that most hospitals drastically cut the number of externs they...

  14. Would an online A&P course affect admission?

    203bravo replied to uganurse19's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I took A&P I and II with labs online from a local community college... had no issues transferring those credits and as pmabraham stated my transcript does not indicate in any way that those...

  15. Easy RN admission program in Tennessee

    203bravo replied to Bambi22's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    About 40 spots open for each semester. They have around 100 applicants each semester Wonder if the 60 that didn't get it would agree that it was "easy" to get into the program?

  16. Hand Held Device Requirement for Clinical

    203bravo replied to tbbtpeach's topic in General Students

    yeah - but when i drop a text book, spill water on it, step on it the text is not ruined.. and i do chose to carry my drug guide to clinical (though all facilities that we have worked in have copies...

  17. Hand Held Device Requirement for Clinical

    203bravo replied to tbbtpeach's topic in General Students

    I wonder --- if the program requires you to have these devices, are they going to replace them when they are lost, damaged, stolen, destroyed??? Those 500$ devices add up quick when having to replace...

  18. A bit of a setback..maybe

    203bravo replied to mag426's topic in General Students

    Sorry to say... but if your EFC is higher than 0$, I really wouldn't expect anything from nurse

  19. CBL vs. Lecture Based

    203bravo replied to grace.lu's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    computer based

  20. Certified Nursing Assistant job vacation help?

    203bravo replied to diana10's topic in General Students

    I have interviewed many potential employees in my career and you need to be honest up front with any potential employer -- YES YES YES let them know of your intentions during the interview and see if...

  21. My turn to rant :)

    203bravo posted a topic in General Students

    Our finals are next week and of course they are throwing tons of final assignments on us this week -- this morning we had an exam in Pharm and tomorrow morning an exam in medsurg. To top it off my...

  22. I want to attend University of San Francisco but I need more information.

    203bravo replied to Crista Galli's topic in California Nursing

    I can't comment on USF transfer requirements or their curriculum.. but if it were me and they are not very interested in helping a potential student then I would seriously think twice about attendance...

  23. Venting, majority of class did poorly on test

    203bravo replied to nobodywarnedme's topic in General Students

    We have the same problem -- 1st semester instructor.. this is no lie.. she does NOT lecture.. she gives us assignments that are based on the learning objectives (not sure where is getting these...

  24. My turn to rant :)

    203bravo replied to 203bravo's topic in General Students

    update -- apparently there were some questions that got marked incorrectly on the computer so points were added back and there was also 2 bonus questions that were not graded by the computer so those...

  25. My turn to rant :)

    203bravo replied to 203bravo's topic in General Students

    ellaballet - i wish that was the case here.. I'm 45 and the 1st time I went to college not everyone had email and I'm not happy with some of these assignments are getting posted via email and coming...