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    How much math is involved in nursing school?

    CrazierThanYou replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Students

    We aren't tested on the chapters. Basically, we use the book to learn the dosage calculations pretty much on our own. Then we have a dosage calculation test that we have to pass in 3 tries. Only one...
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    What was the toughest part of Nursing school for you?

    CrazierThanYou replied to LADYFLOWER's topic in General Students

    Our is 2 years for the nursing
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    What was the toughest part of Nursing school for you?

    CrazierThanYou replied to LADYFLOWER's topic in General Students

    This is a little different but back when I was working on CNA, we had an instructor whom I swear was senile. It was like she had receptive aphasia or something. She would totally misunderstand...
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    How much math is involved in nursing school?

    CrazierThanYou replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Students

    That's the book we use to learn dosage
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    Giving Thank you gifts

    CrazierThanYou replied to Hopeful3's topic in General Students

    Our class instructors ARE our clinical
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    % of people failing your program?

    CrazierThanYou replied to woahmelly's topic in General Students

    We didn't lose too many during the first semester but I'm anxious to see how many are there for the spring
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    % of people failing your program?

    CrazierThanYou replied to woahmelly's topic in General Students

    Well, in ours, people aren't asked to leave, per se, its just that if your average falls below a 78, you're out automatically. I posted earlier about how many people have failed so far. Yesterday at...
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    Does the program get harder as the semesters go on?

    CrazierThanYou replied to cobee's topic in General Students

    I've heard this same thing about my
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    Is this the path for ME? RN,,then bsn online?

    CrazierThanYou replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    Only you know what is best for
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    Giving Thank you gifts

    CrazierThanYou replied to Hopeful3's topic in General Students

    I'm sorry, but I'm not buying any gifts for my instructors. It's not like they are there out of the kindness of their hearts or anything. That is their job. I apologize if that sounds callus or...
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    What Exactly Is Nursing Fundamentals

    CrazierThanYou replied to blueyesue's topic in General Students

    We had to do the workbook. It was 5% of our grade. But it was useless. For us, it was a guide to what WASN'T on the
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    What Exactly Is Nursing Fundamentals

    CrazierThanYou replied to blueyesue's topic in General Students

    I'm just finishing up my first semester of nursing school and my fundamentals class. We DEFINITELY did care plans. On our unit test yesterday we had to write one off the top of our
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    How do you even begin to study for the FINAL??

    CrazierThanYou replied to rnintwo's topic in General Students

    I am studying by reviewing the PowerPoints we used for class. Like you said, there is no way you can review 3000+ pages. Our instructors made the PPT's with the most important info so perhaps that...
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    Best shoes for school

    CrazierThanYou replied to kay_bee's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I tried on a pair of Danskos but it was like standing on concrete for me! So, there aren't any "best" shoes for everyone because what some find super comfy, others don't. On another "best shoes"...
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    Best shoes for school

    CrazierThanYou replied to kay_bee's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have Crocs Saffron nursing shoes. I really like them. I want to get a black pair to wear day to day. I also bought a pair of Shape-Ups. I wore them once, my right knee hurt so bad I thought it was...
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    Drug Testing for NS

    CrazierThanYou replied to PhiladelphiaLove's topic in General Students

    We haven't so far but we've already been told that when we start clinicals at the metro hospital last semester we will be drug tested and background
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    Leaving Meds at the Bedside?

    CrazierThanYou replied to joanna73's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm a student nurse and I haven't been allowed to give meds yet since I'm first semester. However, I am also a medication tech at my job. I always watch my residents take their meds. We have one with...
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    A trainwreck!

    CrazierThanYou replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in General Students

    Yeah, that is the cap. The thing is only two of them are finals. One is a unit test and one is the HESI. We were actually supposed to take the HESI last week but our college's computers were blocking...
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    A trainwreck!

    CrazierThanYou posted a topic in General Students

    So, here we are at finals week. :yeah:We have our last Fundamentals unit test, our Fund final, and our Pharm final IN ADDITION TO the HESI. So, Sunday rolled around and guess what? It snowed. So, no...
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    % of people failing your program?

    CrazierThanYou replied to woahmelly's topic in General Students

    I'm just finishing up my first semester. We started with 30 and now we're down to 23, I think. We lost 1 to absences, 1 to changed mind, 1 couldn't pass drug calc test, 1 to a family crisis, 1 to...
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    home remedies you would NEVER try

    CrazierThanYou replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I recently read that in the 40's and 50's there was a product marketed as a douche. It was really just Clorox and
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    home remedies you would NEVER try

    CrazierThanYou replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Ginger is awesome! I took capsules the whole time I was pregnant with my son. Phenergan and Zofran did nothing for the nausea except either knock me out (phenergan) or make the nausea worse (Zofran)....
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    home remedies you would NEVER try

    CrazierThanYou replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    My grandmother had polio as a child. She swallowed a heaping tablespoon of Vaseline every day as a treatment for polio. I'm not sure if there is any truth to that remedy or
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    home remedies you would NEVER try

    CrazierThanYou replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    In my area, there used to be a Cherokee medicine man who would cure thrush in a baby's mouth by blowing into
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    Am I over-thinking, or are these just bad test questions?

    CrazierThanYou replied to chicken1's topic in General Students

    Maybe not. But it WAS listed in our textbook as a lifestyle risk