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    6 weeks into school we start clinicals! How on earth

    CrazierThanYou replied to MammaNurse2Be's topic in General Students

    We start clinicals the second week of every
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    Fundamentals of Nursing, Pharmacology, Medical-Surgical Nursing

    CrazierThanYou replied to mikethethinker's topic in General Students

    I don't really 'study' per se. I call it studying but what I do is basically read everything. If there are concepts that are similar or hard to remember, I'll take notes. For example: I would take...
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    A funny thing that happened to me today

    CrazierThanYou replied to 3xmom's topic in General Students

    That is a FANTASTIC
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    Clinicals in nursing homes?

    CrazierThanYou replied to ExodusPaige66's topic in General Students

    I don't know. I've heard of career colleges doing their clinicals at day care centers. I wouldn't be surprised if they did them all in
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    Apology to Nursing Staff

    CrazierThanYou replied to DariaM's topic in General Students

    I'm a bit confused. Is the question to her about what you did wrong during the sterile procedure all there is to this story? Or is there more? Because if that was all it was, it seems this whole...
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    Highlighting?

    CrazierThanYou replied to princsheather's topic in General Students

    I don't highlight. I think its a waste of time. If I am going to take notes on what I'm reading, I will use a yellow highlighter to make a small mark next to whatever it is that I think is important....
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    Nervous about getting a spot in this semester's nursing/clinical sequence...

    CrazierThanYou replied to studentnursepupmom's topic in General Students

    I've heard of some schools making their students apply for clinical. Crazy. What if you don't get in? At my school, we got to choose our day if we got signed up before the slots ran out. But now, they...
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    Clinicals in nursing homes?

    CrazierThanYou replied to ExodusPaige66's topic in General Students

    I've been curious about this for a while. Why would anyone go to one of these "career colleges" that offer outrageous tuition costs, questionable qualifications, and iffy job prospects when there are...
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    optional books the professor recommended, are they worth it?

    CrazierThanYou replied to IUstudent's topic in General Students

    I use Mosby's Drug Book and Tabor's Medical. We can't just use Google because our instructors want to SEE us using the Tabor's at clinical. I bought Fundamentals Success for the first semester and it...
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    Nursing school schedule-vent !

    CrazierThanYou replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    our clinicals begin at 6 am and are anywhere from 1-2 hours away. our classes are also 2 hours away from where i live, even longer for some of my classmates depending on where they
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    First Semester

    CrazierThanYou replied to JonB04's topic in General Students

    My first semester was the hardest. Everyone says it gets harder but 3 semesters in, it has gotten easier, I
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    Expect to fail at least one nursing course, is this true

    CrazierThanYou replied to Bridgettea83's topic in General Students

    Yep, us too. If you fail, you are out for AT LEAST one year waiting for the courses to roll around
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    early reading

    CrazierThanYou replied to mistyvenne's topic in General Students

    I'm sure some will disagree and everyone's experiences are different but I've completed 3/5ths of my program and really, I haven't found nursing school to be the hell that most people make it out to...
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    What procedure/situation are you most nervous about encountering?

    CrazierThanYou replied to studentsara's topic in General Students

    We do learn IVs in school and I've done them in the clinical setting but its been a little while. Yes, we can only attempt twice, too. I've done IM injections on newborns only, lots of SQ injections,...
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    What procedure/situation are you most nervous about encountering?

    CrazierThanYou replied to studentsara's topic in General Students

    No, I haven't gotten to do one on a patient but I went with a classmate to do one on a baby. She was so nervous she nearly fainted. The nurse ended up being the one to actually do
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    What procedure/situation are you most nervous about encountering?

    CrazierThanYou replied to studentsara's topic in General Students

    We did our NG tubes in the lab. I volunteered to let someone put one down in me but the instructor vetoed
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    What procedure/situation are you most nervous about encountering?

    CrazierThanYou replied to studentsara's topic in General Students

    I've done IMs on newborns and that's it. No adults or children so
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    Rate your professors!!!

    CrazierThanYou replied to RangeinPlace's topic in General Students

    It still has no educational value AND the whole test would be that
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    What procedure/situation are you most nervous about encountering?

    CrazierThanYou replied to studentsara's topic in General Students

    Rose scented adhesive?? What is
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    No papers

    CrazierThanYou replied to bloodlikefire's topic in General Students

    Currently, I'm working on my
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    Senior year!!

    CrazierThanYou replied to morningdew's topic in General Students

    We are part of a consortium. That's why we switch to another school for second year. I am hating it,
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    How often do you get sick? More or less often than

    CrazierThanYou replied to MammaNurse2Be's topic in General Students

    I have a teaching degree although I have never worked as a teacher. But when I was doing my student teaching, I stayed sick the entire year. In clinicals, I haven't gotten sick so far, 3 semesters in....
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    1st Medical Surgical semester

    CrazierThanYou replied to Soon2bMrsHess's topic in General Students

    When we started med surg, only 3 of us out of 20 were passing. Everyone managed to pull through, although I'm not sure everything was on the up and
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    we cannot have acrylic fingernails

    CrazierThanYou replied to jh56031's topic in General Students

    We aren't allowed to have acrylic nails at clinical and we have been lectured at length on the dangers of bacteria that can grow under those hideous things. Seems there was a string of infant deaths...
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    What procedure/situation are you most nervous about encountering?

    CrazierThanYou replied to studentsara's topic in General Students

    Geez, yes, that dang sterile