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I'm doing my preceptorship in Hospice (my 1st choice). Up until now, all of my clinical experience has been in a hospital and I've gotten pretty comfortable with assessments, charting, med passes, etc in the hospital setting. The last two weeks of m...

My mouth just dropped.

I can't answer your question personally, but my nursing instructors all swear by the ATI and Saunder's practice tests. Previous students agree. We have to take ATI tests throughout the entire program and the Dean swears that's why the school's NCLE...

That's because people haven't learned how to use the nifty little tool called the Search Box up in the top right-hand corner of the screen. It's amazing how much information one can find with just a little bit of homework. But no, they need to be c...

You didn't owe them an apology for taking a well-deserved break and they clearly didn't want to hear one....they just wanted to vent. Because of many encounters such as this, I apologize less frequently now. My response instead is "I'm here now. H...

Yes, yes, yes!!!

Wow, Ruby! My jaw dropped further and further with each story!

lpn2B2016 - I think this one made all of us sob and look forward to starting school. Congratulations on starting in January!!! I start my RN this August so we should be graduating around the same time. I read this article several months ago and ye...

Congratulations!!!

I've only attended 1 orientation meeting so far in my program (there are a total of 8 orientation meetings this Spring and then school officially starts this Fall). The Nursing Dean informed us we will have lecture tests and then we will have ATI te...

As wonderful as the VA opportunity sounds, it seems family is definitely your priority and the way you've painted it in just a few paragraphs, the strain on the family might be strong enough to warrant walking away from the VA (for now). We like to t...

I looked into the Poway and Grossmont ROP programs as well and they didn't fit my schedule. I took the weekend CNA program through California Medical College and they were very good. Excellent curriculum, phenomenal instructors. The facility we di...

Hi Dukesmama - I, too, was accepted into SD City's program. Maybe we'll run into each other in tomorrow's class. I applied to Southwestern, City, Mira Costa, Palomar and Grossmont. I was accepted into Southwestern and Mira Costa and turned them b...

ewww.....

O..M..G.. A $5 bottle of Rid, used twice, a week apart, works wonders. As a parent with 3 kids, all in public school, we get Pink Eye and Lice notices at least once a year. You know what I do with them?? Throw them in the trash. I got lice on...

WOW! Some serious deep breathing exercises were needed that day, huh? I mean, the urge to throttle an adult or 3 had to be incredibly intense! How can they treat children this way??? Okay, disinfecting a child is one thing. I can roll my eyes at...

She may have a complete about-face after some much needed sleep and this whole thing will be a non-issue. If not....side with her. She knows, just as well as anyone, that the lawyers get in the way on a regular basis. This release form is one of...

I really dislike the question "What kind of nurse do you want to be?" My answer "A good one". What they really mean, is what specialty? I never know how to answer that because I don't know what I don't know. Meaning....I know women's health sinc...

I had titers drawn for the whole list of immunizations because I'm in my mid-30s and most immunizations were done in childhood. I came back positive for everything except Chicken Pox (which my mom swears I had as a kid) and Hep B which wasn't availa...

When I was taking pre-reqs, I found 3 classmates who were like-minded. We each studied well. Our personalities meshed well. We were all "A" students and could be relied upon to do our share of each project. When we had group study sessions, we le...

" I'd like to go into monkey mode, fling poop and fire insults. "Oh, you're an orthopedic surgeon? Too bad you're ugly and smell like rotten pistachios... I'm sorry. I'm not even sure what that means. " This made me laugh. But seriously, ...

I concur with RunBabyRun 100%!! Why pay more than double for a class (and books) when you can get an excellent education at a JC? JCs have smaller class sizes which means not only are you saving on tuition, but you get more small-group assistance a...

You're braver than I am! I also have good grades but I applied to 5 programs. So far, I've been accepted by 3 and the other 2 are still evaluating apps. It would figure, the 2 I'm waiting on are higher on my preference list than the 3 who already ...

I don't think you could have handled it any more perfectly than that.

"Is this where I'm going to die?" A resident who had been admitted to the hospice wing of our facility asked me this question 1st thing in the morning on my 3rd clinical shift as a CNA student. He stopped me in my tracks. He asked it in a very matt...