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    Dosage Calculation Policies

    CrazierThanYou replied to nursingtodo11's topic in General Students

    We have Math for Meds that we used last semester. We did get some instruction last semester but with the IV stuff we
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    test question!

    CrazierThanYou replied to BA_anthropology's topic in General Students

    I'm thinking about this but I remember at the beginning of nursing school our teacher telling us that the course exams and the NCLEX are asking us about NURSING functions and that calling the...
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    Dosage Calculation Policies

    CrazierThanYou replied to nursingtodo11's topic in General Students

    I've got one better. We have an IV calculations exam on Monday and we've had ZERO instruction. That's right. NO instruction whatsoever. So, I'm planning to spend this weekend teaching myself how to do...
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    test question!

    CrazierThanYou replied to BA_anthropology's topic in General Students

    This question was on our exam
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    Irritating Classmates

    CrazierThanYou replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

    Sounds like you're in MY
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    Irritating Classmates

    CrazierThanYou replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

    We have an older lady who works as a receptionist in a doctor's office so she knows it all. ALL. And if she doesn't know it, she waits for someone else to say it and then she literally echoes it like...
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    Irritating Classmates

    CrazierThanYou replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

    Wow, sounds like my class. We have SO MANY annoying people its really mind blowing. We've got the woman who has family members with every disease, the guy who talks about nothing but getting drunk...
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    Does anyone else use 'lisa frank' school supplies as an adult?

    CrazierThanYou replied to katebean04's topic in General Students

    Give him a hug for me! I love people who aren't so hung up on image and the dreaded WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT
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    Terrified of clinicals

    CrazierThanYou replied to Brekka's topic in General Students

    I hate saying it but its true: I hate clinical. Hate
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    My Patient Died

    CrazierThanYou replied to sandyfeet's topic in General Students

    My very first patient ever was last semester. She was my patient on Wednesday and she died on Sunday. She had metastasized breast cancer but she wasn't expected to go so
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    Does anyone else use 'lisa frank' school supplies as an adult?

    CrazierThanYou replied to katebean04's topic in General Students

    I don't use Lisa Frank stuff but I can definitely see why one would be attracted to it. Cute pictures, bright colors... I can hardly resist bright
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    Dosage Calculation Policies

    CrazierThanYou replied to nursingtodo11's topic in General Students

    That's exactly how our program
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    Smokers in Nursing School--How Are You Treated?

    CrazierThanYou replied to SarahMaria's topic in General Students

    That's exactly what it is. I have never yet encountered a smoker who didn't
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    Mother-Baby careplan

    CrazierThanYou replied to pinkfan's topic in General Students

    I'm only a student so I'm not expert but maybe you could change the impaired skin integrity to RISK for impaired skin integrity. I'm thinking that you could leave out the impaired skin because you...
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    The sterile glove roll... need tips!

    CrazierThanYou replied to ky_grl82's topic in General Students

    Do your sterile gloves not come with the wrist cuffed down? If they do, I don't see how they would roll so far under as to cause your skin to touch the sterile outer surface. I'm trying to imagine it,...
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    How do you get through the last few months of nursing school?

    CrazierThanYou replied to bella147's topic in General Students

    I'm in my second semester and I already feel burned
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    Health Insurance

    CrazierThanYou replied to FutureUofARN's topic in General Students

    Thank God my school doesn't have this requirement... yet. If they did, I guess I'd be SOL because I would not be able to afford it. The university where I attended for my first degree did require us...
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    I tested positive for benzo and i do not take benzo help

    CrazierThanYou replied to kendel's topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine's husband had a drug test turn out positive for a benzo and it was discovered that another medication he was taking was suspected to have caused the positive. I can't remember what it...
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    Nursing student CNAs passing meds in ALF

    CrazierThanYou replied to blessed2bfree's topic in General Nursing

    That's how it is in my state as well. I'm an RN student, a CNA, and a certified medication aide. I can pass any kind of meds: narcs, BP, anti-convulsants, psychotropics, benzos, insulin, whatever my...
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    First IV stick!

    CrazierThanYou posted a topic in General Students

    I did my first IV stick today! Since I started nursing school, I've been afraid I wouldn't be able to start an IV but my first try was perfect! Afterward, my BS dropped and I think it was due to the...
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    medical assistant

    CrazierThanYou replied to sabita143's topic in General Students

    I agree it will depend on your area. In mine, there are approximately zero job opportunities. Yet, every semester, the MA classes at my school are crammed full. I know people who have had their MA...
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    How long does it take u to read

    CrazierThanYou replied to Darkpk55's topic in General Students

    I read all the assigned chapters but I don't read it all at once so its hard to say how long it takes. I usually read it all the weekend before the
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    Has anyone ever put down your career choice?

    CrazierThanYou replied to Servingshots's topic in General Students

    I hear they're VERY intense. There is an accelerated program at my alma mater and its 5 days a week, 9 hours a day, for 12
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    CONFUSED...I thought 1 yr into a 2yr RN program, you can b LPN???

    CrazierThanYou replied to fleurafor's topic in General Students

    In my state, it used to be allowed. Now, the nursing program requirements changed statewide and it is no longer allowed. Along these same lines, they are no longer doing the LPN-RN bridge anymore as...
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    Has anyone ever put down your career choice?

    CrazierThanYou replied to Servingshots's topic in General Students

    Oh my, this happens to be every time I have a conversation with my supervisor at my job. She was once in nursing school but couldn't hack it. Now, every time I turn around, she has comments aimed at...