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Another option too, apart from all the great ones suggested above, is to check around and see if students from years ahead of you are planning to sell their old textbooks. If you buy a used text directly from another student, instead of through a boo...

I'm not positive, but I think breathing throught your mouth instead of through your nose should help get rid of yucky smells. Bypasses a lot of the olfactory receptors. Edited to add: Last week I saw something that topped my grossest thing seen so fa...

There's such a wide variety of classes that people are taking! I'm going into my last year of my BScN in Sept. and it's going to be a tough one. In the fall I'll be taking: Advanced Communication for Nurses Nursing Leadership Community Health and Co...

It depends on the semester. For e.g. during one semester in 2nd year of my nursing degree, I was only taking 3 classes but putting in about 20 hours of lecture/lab/tutorial time a week and then another 20-25 hours on top of the of studying. Thank goo...

I'm doing my "externship" (we call it a co-op job here) on the Detox unit at the local psych hospital. It wasn't my first choice of positions but I was number 58 on a list of 60 chosen nursing students and so I didn't get my first couple choices. My ...

Some of these are really gross!! The only thing I've encountered so far in clinical that I've actually gagged over (and had to leave the patient temporarily to busy myself at the sink cleaning something out because I didn't want to gag and retch in f...

Yes it is possible, but it does make it a little harder. I've been working part-time all through my degree program out of necessity (gotta eat somehow!!) and it's certainly been a challenge at times. I think it really helps if you're an organized per...

I'm graduating in Spring of 2005 from a BScN program and after a few years of honing my med-surg. skills and working as a clinic nurse for low-income and under-served urban populations, I want to work internationally. I have done a fair bit of intern...

Hi! Starting in about 2 weeks, I'm going to be doing a 6 week clinical placement on the Burns and Plastics unit at a major tertiary care centre here. I'm just finishing up 3rd year of nursing school and this is my fourth big med-surg rotation. I'm re...

At our school, we are not allowed to do IV pushes at all. My understanding of the reason is that a number of years ago, when students were allowed to, a student from the school made a MAJOR med error when doing an IV push. I'm not going to say the na...

At our school, we are not allowed to do IV pushes at all. My understanding of the reason is that a number of years ago, when students were allowed to, a student from the school made a MAJOR med error when doing an IV push. I'm not going to say the na...

Hi everyone, I'm putting this question here because I believe it does relate to hospice/palliative care, but if someone feels it is more suited elsewhere, then totally feel free to move it. My best friend's father has had Hep C for several decades an...

Hey, :) I think it depends on what services the PP offers and what type of volunteer program they have running. At the one where I volunteered they had 2 volunteer positions. There was a clinic position which involved labelling specimens and making s...

I am aware of the option of seeing a chaplain or her pastor. I am hoping though that there is something that I myself can do to help support her through this. It's hard being far away. Plus, her very fatalistic outlook on life is very influenced by h...

Like the previous posters, we are required to go in to our unit the day before clinical to get our patient assignments and read their charts. Basically our instructors expect us to get their admitting dx., any past medical hx or co-morbidities, what ...

I totally echo the previous posters responses and advice. Volunteering at Planned Parenthood can do nothing but help your career. It certainly isn't going to be any kind of black mark against you in terms of getting nursing jobs in the future, especi...

Without knowing what specific drugs the patient is on, I would go with B - Catsup, for the same reasons mentioned above (i.e. risk of fluid retention overloading the heart). You have to watch for not enough potassium with CHF patients just as you do ...

Hi all!! I'm finishing up my 3rd year of a BScN program. There are certainly aspects of the school and program that I don't like but overall I'm enjoying it and I feel I'm learning a lot. I certainly have no doubts at all that I'm in the right profes...

I'm just finishing up my third year of a four year nursing program and I've worked part-time ever since I started. I used to work about 20 hours a week at a local arts centre, supervising in the box office there. I really want to have a more nursing-...

I do understand and agree that the global economic situation today is terrible. But honestly, a little compassion for the poor customer service rep on the other end of the line can't hurt anyone. The people who work these jobs are just trying to work...

shanti means 'peace' in Hindi. I spent a fair bit of time working and travelling in India, around when I turned 21 and it was a huge part of 'growing up' for me. I learned a lot about myself and about people and about the world around me. I also real...

I can only give suggestions based on what my experience has been. I did part of a BA when I first graduated from high school, always knowing that I wanted eventually to go into nursing school. And then decided to take 2 years off.... work, travel, ex...

My understanding is that you start listening for bowel sounds in the lower left quadrant.... if you hear bowel sounds great, then you assess whether they hyper-, normo-, or hypo-active.... if you don't then you keep listening for 5 mins. (ideal world...

Dalhousie University in Halifax has a two year fast track nursing program for students with a full degree and the required pre-reqs. It's 2 years full-time, 24 straight months of classes. Dal also has a three year fast track program, which might be a...

Maybe someone with more knowledge can clarify this, but it was my understanding that it's really rare to have Hep C transmitted with sexual contact, unless that contact involved the exchange of blood. I'm pretty sure that almost all, if not all, Hep ...