Michaelxy

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  1. Physiology Help

    You could always ask your questions here. Also use online resources like http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/ap/vander8e/student_index.mhtml Many more. Just Google Online physiology. Other helpful tools are...
  2. Drug Testing

    Okay, so exactly how do you determine whether someone is an occasional user? If a person does show pos for drug use on the test, what exact criterion do you use to determine casual or otherwise?...
  3. Do you guys wear skirts or pants?

    I never understood why guys wear skirts? They always chafe my upper knees. :) As a guy:) I really can't say about skirts but they seem to look rather restrictive in movements to me, I would say go...
  4. Please Help!

    It seems that the common denominator in all these post to your query have been about honesty. So let me be honest for a minute and speak quite matter of factually. If you do a little soul searching...
  5. Drug Testing

    Well, since you asked nicely. Some of what you say is true along with a few misconceptions. Yes, an addict is always an addict. You will often here a clean and sober person of 20 years call themselves...
  6. Drug Testing

    I could not agree more, and if I may expand on this a bit further.The Hospital (Your employer) has an obligation to all its patients in that they offer safe medical treatment by a safe competent...
  7. Night Shifters... How do you do it?

    See your doctor.
  8. Drug Testing

    From another prospective. You did mention cocaine. As a former addict of meth and Coke (Ten years clean now), I am here to tell you there is no casual user of cocaine. Sure it might begin that way,...
  9. Am I doing the right thing?

    Have a look at this site for job postings in your area
  10. which hospital to volunteer at?

    Hmm, what the evaluators use to judge applicants. Now that would be the Holy grail to all nurse candidates. For my school, the volunteer work required is clinical work in an acute care clinic, no...
  11. Microbiology: Spring 2010

    Well, mathematically you still have an overall of 91% so relax and breath
  12. Who HATES the term MURSE?

    i hope he was covered under workmans comp
  13. Magnet - What Do You Think?

    But how would you keep the patients from sticking to the ceilings when using the bedpans? Now who took my stethoscope? Magnet, get it. er um... Okay, sounded funnier in my own
  14. Nursing school roadblocks

    Before I state my question, I feel a little background is in order. I am 48 yrs old and for the past 20 yrs I was working in the electronics industry. I was quite good in this field and well paid, but...
  15. Major issues with Chemisry!!!

    Well, you really don't make it easy to help you with a response like that. It sounds as though you may have already raised your hands in the air in surrender, and are giving up. Perhaps this is the...
  16. HELP....personal statement

    Good post and advice Sam. I now see that my post was a bit abrasive and I should have approached my response more as you did. I feel bad for that. I guess I was having an off day. After working on...
  17. Don't know what to do? Need advice.....

    If you scored poorly in biology class, then why oh why would you try to major in biology? A BS in Biology has many difficult classes like Physics, calculus, O-chem and Bio-chem, molecular bio, etc......
  18. HELP....personal statement

    some comments in red. end of thesis statement.sorry if that was harsh, but i write for a not for profit pediatric cancer research center so this is one of the things i know a little about. don't...
  19. A&P 1 Spring 2010

    One trick I found to help me with lab practicals was to find images similar to those shown in the lab and I would make power point slides with just the images, with answers on a key or such. Then...
  20. A&P 1 Spring 2010

    In the muscle, the capillaries would take in the water, I suppose they might swell, the plasma would then be diluted a bit, but other physiological processes in the body would compensate through...
  21. A&P 2 - which was the hardest system?

    Yeah, I hate dissection. In my Zoology class we dissected planeria, frogs, fish, birds, turtles, cats and sharks. Hated every minute of it. Is Chem not a required course for A&P II? Metabolism...
  22. Major issues with Chemisry!!!

    See my previous post. What are are you having trouble with? I have had 200 level gen chem and may be able to offer help. Once your halfway into the course it is hard to play catch
  23. A&P 1 Spring 2010

    In order to understand osmosis you need to understand diffusion. Osmosis is the diffusion of water across a semi permeable membrane. Molecules (Solutes) within the cell are intracellular and molecules...
  24. I feel so hopeless ! :(

    Just one more comment. When I got out of the Navy at the age of 23 I wanted to be a firefighter. I applied for the SDFD and took the entrance exams and such. Waited about 2 years and I was finally...
  25. SDSU Fall 2010 BSN program

    Thanks for the info, great to know. I was worried about those classes at transfer time. I guess assist.org is not the best for figuring out transfer