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to the OP, are you applying out of a BSN program or ASN?

Is anyone here in their program? i have heard that you are garenteed a job with FH if you graduate from their school & they will pay for you to complete your BSN. Anybody know anything about their program?

its not THAT bad. My advice, re-write your notes as soon as you get home, it stick better that way. The thing i love about nursing school is that its mostly common sense. review, review , review. Get CONCEPTS down. learn nursing care and inventions. NOBODY cares if you know how a virus replicated in the body, in nursing care they only care about WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR YOUR PATIENT.

study what you would do as a nurse. Study assesesing for certin conditions, interventions, and most importantly your paitient teaching! thats really all nursing tests are. In nursing school they dont care if you know the nitty gritty of a disease, what they want to know is WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? example, Your looking at your paitients urinary bag hangin off the side of his bed, you notice there is no unrine in there..what are you going to do? call the doctor? NOOOO... you go straight to your nursing processs, ASSES! assess, your paitient, look at the tubing on his catheter! is it all kniked up or tied up? this could be your issue. Learn to think like a nurse...same idea if your patients moniter is reading a pulse ox of 0%, dont run and call the doctor... ASSES! is the thing even on his finger!? hope this helps you some. Sorry for all the mispelled words =O)

You can prob print out your syllabus on blackbaord

you can wear whatever you want the first day. You only wear your blue polo an beige pants on lab days :]

im currently in the nursing program. ENJOY your free time while you have it lol

im so excited for you guys ! i remember my first day. TRUST me , the first week is going to be a whirlwind and your going to feel like quiting. DONT ! it gets better, YOU can do it :]

Ultimately it is her choice. I'd just hate to see her end up like ALOT of LPN's out there who got back to school when their in the 30's and say "i wish i had gone straight for my rn". I'm not saying LPN school is a waste of time, i just dont see the point unless like someone eles said early, there is a specific reason. She can Probably easily get a job paying what an LPN makes anywhere. I just dont see the point in sticking your toes in the water when your going to dive in anyway.

Honestly i would shoot stright for your RN. I have heard alot of people say that LPN is a dead end job. Alot of LPN's go back to school to become an RN and/or get their BSN. You sound pretty smart, i dont see why you should bothering taking the long route.

you can start reading the chapter on infection prevention and control in potter and perry..i think its 34. that was our first reading. It will most likely be yours too.

honestly, i dont think it is. Nursing is critical thinking and common sense. That comes naturally to me, i was never one of those 3.99999999999999 GPA students who memorize everything on a page from a book and get an A on every test. However, jsut b/c nursing school isnt structured like anything eles, i find myself excelling b/c the tests require you to think. Not cram and memorize. As far as working going, i would say it is possible... IF your job allows you to be able to study while your there. Thats the only reason it has worked for me thus far.

So you think its all some conspiricy ? I just don't understand the rational behind that..

Ok, I have obviously stated my question wrong. Sorry. What I mean is why is that were are talked into believing in this so called nursing shortage yet so many people complain of not being able to find a job ? This is what I don't understand.

im in my 2 month of my first semester, so far, its really not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its alot of reading...but thats about it. Reading and critical thinking. Thank god critcal thinking comes natural to me. I think the problem with most nursing students is that they were 4.0 students in their pre-reqs and mastered the skill of memorization. I was never good at that. I took apart everything and thought outside the box with anything and everything i was presented with. I'm finding much success in nursing simple because i know how to THINK .