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1. I can not stand you two. I really don't understand how you two made it past the first semester. Every day you show up and ask "what are we doing today", "I don't get this - did you do yours already?", oh and the texts in which you ask me if I wanna "share/compare" answers to homework for a class in which you haven't been to in 3 weeks - HAHA - why on earth would I want to GIVE you answers that I spent my time on?! 2. Is it necessary to eat every single day in class while the instructor/guest speakers are talking?! So rude and distracting. Not to mention that over top the noise of you two eating you talk about where you want to go for lunch, what you're doing this weekend, how you haven't completed your homework and hope to finish it by the end of the class - AHHH shut up! I wanna hear what is being said! 3. Why have you been in the hospital as a patient so many times? And how come every time you've been you've had a bad experience? STOP asking the instructor questions about your stay at a hospital - "why did they give me this med?", "they did it this way when I was in the hospital". Everyone in the class rolls their eyes when you raise your hand because all you have are meaningless stories to share with the class. We all have stories - but we don't share them all - of course if any of us did I'm sure that you'd just raise your hand and top our story. 4. On your first day of clinical you came to school after wards and started to share your story about how it went and it started out like "Of course I started my day off by doing the one thing they told us to MAKE sure we didn't do...." and giggled while saying it - it's not funny! Why are you laughing about that?! 5. I understand the whole "there's not such thing as a stupid question" - but seriously, I'm sorry but some of the things you say, do and ask - I feel embarrassed for you. It's especially really bad when what you ask about is something the instructor just went over - or you do something wrong even though we were just told and shown exactly how to do it the proper way! 6. I'm glad to have a nursing school friend like you - best lab partner I could ask for and thank you for being prepared and having an understanding of what's going on.

Yes, our instructors often tell us how things are done differently in the local hospitals but tell us to do it the way we're being taught. What's done in nursing school does not = what's done in the real world.

Just did this lab in our class a few weeks ago - they made it very clear to use sterile gloves when actually putting more gauze into the wound. Clean gloves are used when removing the old dressing but sterile gloves must be used when putting a new dressing on a wound.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that you must go to a "prestigious" school for your BSN in order to become a NP - a lot is about your grades and if the school is accredited by either the NLN or CCNE. If you want to go to a "prestigious" school for your BSN then you'll more than likely be paying a pretty penny (on avg. Georgetown University is about 55,000/yr; or you could pay around 20,000 for a 4yr BSN degree that is accredited by the same association). Nursing scholarships are everywhere - just have the grades and show the need for the money. Also, where I live there are many local hospitals that will pay for the last two years of nursing school if you sign a contract saying that you will give them X amount of time once you receive your license (one is for every one year they pay = two years you work for them; another here is for every one year they pay = one year you give them - however, those too are limited as are scholarships).

Yes. It's a hairline fracture - they're very fine. You can have a hairline fracture for a long time and not know it - sometimes the only way you find out is when you do something that makes the fracture worse/bigger and you feel pain when it happens.

My dad had rotator cuff surgery about 3 years ago. He's still able to do almost everything he did at work before the surgery (he did all the physical therapy that he was told to do and of course there were a few months of recovery before he could go back to work (and then even more months before he was able to life anything heavy with that arm or do above-head work). Even though he does some over-head work he tries not to and his boss and coworkers are very willing to take care of something if it requires reaching above head. It does still cause him some pain too - when he uses it for extended periods of time at work of course and he can't sleep on that side anymore because of the pain - my mom says (even when he isn't sleeping on that side) that he will grab/rub his shoulder and make faces/noises as if it's hurting him. Be sure to do all the physical therapy and allow yourself enough time to heal!!

I'm currently attending one of the BSN programs at one of the Indiana Universities and they do go by GPA. They take your "nursing" GPA into account to see if you qualify compared to the other students applying and your cumulative GPA must be at least a 2.5. Of course though you don't just jump into the nursing program you must first take the prerequisites that are required to apply to the nursing program and so maybe you could bring up your GPA that way (by taking the prerequisites and getting good grades). But at something like Ivy Tech Community College they do have some type of point system, I don't know the specifics of it, but like IU you must take prerequisites before you're able to apply - also, there's tests to take to get in the program as well. Ivy Tech would probably be something to check into - they have a lot of campuses.