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  1. Amazing feeling!

    Congrats!!!!!
  2. What you had to give up for NS

    3 words: A NORMAL LIFE!!!!
  3. Heparin injections ?????

    According to Davis's Drug Guide: "Do not adminster IM because of danger of hematoma formation." And if I were to add to this...If we think about the blood vessels in the muscle (capillaries)...
  4. Thank YOU!!!

    I want to thank everyone too! This is the best group of people on the Internet, HANDS DOWN!!! I refer everyone in my program to Allnurses.
  5. Ok after sifting through all this racial-religious-political mumbo-jumbo. I thought I would add try IRSC IN FORT PIERCE. If you need more info about the program PM me.
  6. Hopelessness r/t nursing school

    hopelessness R/T nursing school AEB my social life is falling apart
  7. Pharmacology

    I know someone who went to medical school and wallpapered their room...house...with handwritten drugs and their properties. That's my plan too, for pharm.
  8. worried..

    This is my honest answer...in my school if you were not the top of each pre-req class then you if you made it on the program struggle from day one usually not making it past the first semester. Now that's my program. Other programs are not as demandi...
  9. Sleeping Habits

    "Sleeping! There's no sleeping in nursing school". All the other suggestions especially exercise in the AM help incredibly. And best of all, nursing books in bed, knock out all students where they are best used as pillows! Ambien helps to reset t...
  10. What specialty do you want and not want to work in?

    ED, Trauma, Trauma Hawk...never ever LTC or the "babies" (they scare the poop out of me)
  11. How much is school costing you?

    ZERO ZILCH NIL NADA as of yesterday and five hours of paper work I received a grant in Florida from a non profit organinazation called workforce solutions. Yeah! Hope you all give it a whirl.
  12. C Grade in Lower Level Math Class, Will it Hurt?

    As is with most nursing programs they are much harder than you core courses all of my fellow students were the top of their class with grades and now some of them are struggling to pass with the required 76. What I'm trying to get across is do not ge...
  13. one more thing to anyone taking advice from here or anywhere! There is no such thing as good nor bad advice it's all opinions from someone else's perspective...only you can make those decisions....
  14. Hiddencat: it was not to say... Don't follow your dreams, but to learn new things can change your dreams especially when someone else is paying. Of course I could have been a rockstar if I wanted was in a pretty successful band but... There was more ...
  15. You can't learn to to nursing but you may find a very good reason for becoming a nurse. There may be an area that you really like or may be passionate about. Nursing is a diverse ever changing field with developing opportunities. So if you don't have...
  16. here is a question for you

    I vote for dannibee's answer call doc because all other answers are stinky!...however minus the 5 hours 2L of O2 is good then call doc by priority. However if we use what is given the least stinky answer is call the doc...
  17. Adequate urine output

    I would like to add that these coomon values that we are taught are just that...common...for the 150 lbs 25 yr old male in good health. I would surely love to get any other values you may think of that need to be appropriately adjusted... I know man...
  18. 1st year nursing student

    Nurses of today were doctors of yesterday!
  19. I would like to become a nurse!

    Keep the motivation up! When studying anatomy learn your systems and how they work, don't just memorize their parts. This is the single most important message in anatomy. Not only does this help you to remember the parts, you will be better prepare...
  20. Hello everybody, I'm sharing this for all those prospective student to get a barometer of NS Another student (I will call Barb) in my Nursing school missed her clinical orientation and then the first 2 hrs of her 1st clinical day...Barb was set to sh...
  21. Missed Clinical Orient. May be Expelled

    Other issues: 1. missed original new student orientation. (1st probation) 2. was thought of as combative because she interrupted a proffessor. 3. Interrupted clinical instructor. I know that the clinical instructor interruption was because of fear/te...
  22. Missed Clinical Orient. May be Expelled

    I am in total agreeance with you elkpark. There were other issues previous which i found out last night.
  23. Missed Clinical Orient. May be Expelled

    I tried to put myself in the clinical instructors shoes... If I were leading the group I would tell them there is absolutely no excuses for being late! That means you should plan as if you were in an car accident on the way to clinicals to either get...
  24. Missed Clinical Orient. May be Expelled

    Here's the scoop...supposedly the clinical instructor said all appropriate info was giving in a timely manner and Barb was at fault. The clinical instructor wrote a letter to our proffessors stating this. The meeting Barb had was with our two lectur...
  25. Missed Clinical Orient. May be Expelled

    I think I'd agree with all of you. She finds out tomorrow@0900. I've spent a lifetime of being ontime/early and proactively informed on anything that may affect my future. The responsibilty is ours! Thank you all.