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1. How do you study for Nursing Exams

   phelipa replied to Dragtail's topic in Student Assist

   Mrsshifflette09: Everyone else in my program never seems to study! I don't understand it! I'm terrified to use any other method because this has been working for me - a friend just reads her notes a couple times and goes from there. I wish easier met...

2. Stethescope & Blood Pressure Monitor

   phelipa replied to maija's topic in Uniform/Gear

   To Browning20 - there really is a huge difference in quality. Half the stethescopes sold in other stores don't even have the bell on them which makes it hard for extra heart sounds because it's different amounts of pressure that allow you to hear dif...

3. Stethescope & Blood Pressure Monitor

   phelipa replied to maija's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I had the same issue last year and ended up getting the Littmann Cardiology III for about 180$CDN. It is absolutely great - I love it! I have never had a problem with it. We were told by our clinical instructor that by hanging it around your neck the...

4. WANTED: Nursing student tidbits of advice

   phelipa replied to KellRrn2b's topic in General Students

   In terms of what to bring to clinicals I bought two pairs of plain coloured scrubs, a littmann stethescope, completely white running shoes, a penlight (it was eight bucks and I was the only one with one in our group - it was constantly being borrowed...

5. How do you study for Nursing Exams

   phelipa replied to Dragtail's topic in Student Assist

   Personally, I gather up all of my notes in date order and rewrite everything (either based on a review given by the proff or all notes from the entire semester). After that I have everything I need to know in one package which is handy and helps keep...

6. General questions about third year nursing (Med-surg/Psych)

   phelipa replied to phelipa's topic in General Students

   Thanks so much :) I wasn't so fond of LTC either so I'm hoping to enjoy these ones more. I'll definitely have to review lab values and look into the pocket book. I do have a pocket drug guide and one with really basic assessment info so I'll have to ...

7. What makes Nursing school hard?

   phelipa replied to Back2Nursing09's topic in General Students

   1. The faculty make your schedule for you, in my case I ended up with all of my classes in one day - 12 hours with 2 additional transportation hours. That makes it rough for the following day, especially if you have clinicals at 7 am across town. 2. ...

8. Clinicals

   phelipa replied to Goingthere's topic in General Students

   We have a couple different times depending on how many days we have to spread the time out. For school and kids we only went 4 hours twice a week but for geriatric we had 8 hours twice a week (up to ten for some people who had fewer days). We start o...

9. Silly question--what to wear for class

   phelipa replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

   For clinical we wear scrubs/nametags, for picking up clinical assignments or lab classes we have to wear professional dress (ie. black shoes, dress pants, blouses), but for our other classes where we don't have lab/clinical we can wear whatever we wa...

10. General questions about third year nursing (Med-surg/Psych)

    phelipa posted a topic in General Students

    Hey everyone, I just happened upon this site - what a great resource! I'm going into my third year of nursing this fall and we'll be starting Med-surg/Psych rotations first. All we've done up to this point is geriatric nursing so I'm just wondering ...