FitMommyRN

Hi! I'll be in the dual role RN to MSN starting in the spring. Just finishing up my castlebranch stuff now.

A lot of us work. It all depends on what else is on your plate. I wouldn't recommend trying to work more than 20-30 hours a week. The most ideal job would be something you could schedule around exams and clinicals and check offs. I tend to work a...

Glad to hear they've implemented a limit again. We were glad it changed from the way it used to be but felt that there should be some incentive or gpc wouldn't have the skilled graduates like it has for so long.

I'm staring down my graduate date of May 1st. It's been a long, terrifying, exhausting experience. I don't really know what kind of advice to give. For me, I don't read the book. I study the power points, use outside sources like the "reviews and...

I found that most units require one semester of clinical. On the applications I was filling out, there was always a spot where you checked off whether you were an MA, CNA, or were currently enrolled in an accredited nursing program. I landed a te...

You should really, really consider buying previous editions of your textbooks. At most, the chapters may be in a different order, but I haven't noticed any differences in the information. This semester is Psych, Pediatrics, and my three required te...

Med-surg was waaaaaaaaaay way way WAAAAY WAY more interesting than fundamentals. Therefore, it was also kind of fun. It's like problem solving: you have some labs, some symptoms, or particular pain or any number of things so WHAT'S wrong with them?...

I'm like Jennie.K. I stopped reading the textbook after my very first nursing school exam and I've gotten all A's. I don't retain the information from these long-winded textbooks. I learn everything in lecture and clinical and use my books as a re...

I don't find time, I make time. That's the key. I work part-time, have a family, and am full-time in school. I lift (heavy lifting) for about 75-90 minutes a workout, 5 days a week. I listen to recorded lectures while I'm at the gym. Just like ...

The schedule says 7-7. Considering shift change starts at about 6:45 and we get our @sses handed to us if we miss report, we get there earlier. I try to get there around 5:30 to go over the chart. Our patients are assigned the day before but it's ...

Depends on where you are and the reputation of your program. I'm in an ADN program that churns out well prepared RNs with excellent skills who find work with few issues. Those who do spend months looking are usually the ones who want a specific hos...

Aren't there other capacities in which you could use your degree? I'm sorry you feel this way. My program is extremely nurturing, wildly difficult, and *gasp* fun. I also, while searching for tech jobs the other day, found 6 RN positions right up ...

I still manage to have a social life. Maybe I'm the exception. I usually found that I had one full day of fun and frivolity a week last semester (first semester of nursing courses) and I got an A. However, I also found fundamentals to be relativel...

It also depends on if programs accept the higher grade in a repeated course. Some programs average the two together (if you got an F and then an A, they'd average them). At some programs it counts against you if you retake a course. They don't wan...

I see a few peeking out of the scrubs of nurses and techs when I'm in clinical. I've seen a few half sleeves showing on a few docs. The only tattoos of mine that show are my arms and a chest piece. I simply wear a long sleeve shirt under my scrubs...

It sounds like you're at a different school entirely. I'm just starting 1930 (in the accelerated class) and I've pretty much loved every minute of it. I know of one clinical instructor who made it difficult from some of her students but she didn't ...

Clinicals during 1st semester are mostly Thursday and Friday from 7-3 (my group did 6:30-2:30) every other week. A few people got Saturday and Sunday clinicals. I was at Forsyth Northside which is about 15 minutes from my house. This summer I ende...

sweetjess321: Depending on your loans, you'll probably be able to do an in school deferment. You can choose to continue to pay interest, or nothing at all.

If you only need a 68.3 on ATI to pass and have a solid B in fundamentals, you'll be fine. As somebody else said, it mirrors your fundamental course work. It'll be different simply because the questions aren't written by your faculty, but it's esse...

I had myself nearly convinced that it would be impossible and I'd fail out in my first semester. I made it through with an A. While I managed to calm myself a little, it still crept back in RIGHT before the faculty said "you may start" for each exa...

Nursing Central app from unbound medicine has SAVED MY LIFE. It has Davis' Drug Guide, Davis' Lab and Diagnostic Tests, Diseases and Disorders: a Nurse's Theraputics Manual, Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis (aaaaaaaamazing), RNotes: Nurse's Clinical Po...

I meant that comment to be geared more toward administration. Regardless of what my patients may think of me, it's what the hire/fire folks think that gets me the job. I guess I'm saying that when it becomes more commonplace for the majority of pat...

I'm assuming if you use plugs instead of the rings then the hospital may never know. I'm covered in tattoos and just wear a long sleeve shirt under my scrubs. I remove my nose ring for clinicals and check offs. I've encountered nothing but warmhea...

I'm in Georgia too. The Hope Scholarship paid for my bachelor's at UGA (THANKS Lottery players!!!). Then I used some federal loans in graduate school to cover living expenses because my tuition was covered through my assistantship. I'm in an A...

I've only ever heard of programs that are at least 4-5 semesters of just nursing coursework. This is both ADN and BSN. If there ARE programs that can be completed in a year, I would absolutely die from the workload. That being said, considering yo...