noyesno MSN, APRN, NP

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    How often do you get drug tested?

    In my two year program: once before beginning the program and another time at the half way
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    Please review my resignation letter!

    really great! only thing: i think there should be a comma after, "after much consideration." after much consideration, it is with regret that i write this letter of
  3. You are welcome. ? That sounds like a good plan. I hope I don't come across as too much of an RD hater, but you asked... I think nursing is better for a variety of reasons: 1....
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    Seriously hating clinicals - please help

    I just finished my third round of clinicals and, like you, I felt like a bother throughout my second semester (and also during my first). Towards the end of third semester, the whole "I'm a bother"...
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    Fear of blood

    People also ask me how I am going to be a nurse too. I usually just say, "I'll figure it out," and
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    Fear of blood

    I'm a nursing student and have been working to overcome the exact same challenge you describe. I'm fine with injections but blood draws make me dizzy. I get especially grossed out when they shake up...
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    smokers

    When I was in A+P I became friends with this random bunch of chain smokers. I had never had any friends who smoked so I always felt kind awkward or left out when I accompanied them during their smoke...
  8. We (the nursing students) want to give the nursing staff at our clinical site some sort of food gift on the last day of clinical. Our instructor suggested bagels or donuts but I thought this was not...
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    Thank you food from nursing students

    Thanks Moogie!
  10. I also have a BS in Nutrition (concentration Dietetics), and like L&Dnurse2be, I am now doing nursing. To answer your question, I do not believe there is a program out there for RNs to become RDs...
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    NLN exit exam as a final exam?

    Congrats! I had a feeling you would! Great job!
  12. We take the NLN tests twice a semester now. This semester I took the two med/surg ones. I found the tests difficult (because some of the information we have not been taught yet) but I did well on both...
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    Question about going from BS (nonnursing) to MSN

    Programs like this exist. I know of two in the Chicago area: Rush and Depaul. Here is the link to Rush's: Rush > A. Nursing Master's for Non-Nurses Here is Depaul's: DePaul University College...
  14. I would go with B. Gaining 1 lb per day is A LOT. Albumin is an indicator of nutritional
  15. Why don't they hire the
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    NLN exit exam as a final exam?

    Thanks!!! :) I agree, its a great place for support. Answers usually come quickly too. Our fellow classmates are
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    NLN exit exam as a final exam?

    If you are doing well on the ATIs, I bet you'll do well on the NLN too. I was going to mention to study the Saunders book too but I wasn't sure if you were familiar with it and I didn't want to stress...
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    NLN exit exam as a final exam?

    We are taking two NLN exams a semester now. We took Nursing Care of Adult 1 and Nursing Care of Adult 2. Based on what percentage we scored in relation to how other 1300 people in the nation who took...
  19. Have you thought about doing a MSN directly? I know some schools offer going from an ADN to a MSN if you have a bachelors in another field. You do have to take a few bridge courses (around three...
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    Study groups... To be or not to be?

    We work together to compile study guides (as in: we each are assigned a section to write up and then we email out our parts to the group). We all review these study guides on our own
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    Adderall and nursing school

    Check out this link, it addresses your question! :) Nurse with ADD - Nursing for
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    smokers

    Lung cancer is just one of the cancers that smoking is linked to
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    Where should I start in the nursing field?

    I'm in an ADN program and it can be done in two years but most students complete it in a longer period of time because the 7 and 9 credit hour nursing classes really take up around 20 hours of...
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    Thank you food from nursing students

    We ended up bringing in an edible arrangement, bagels/cream cheese, and donuts. We also put together an album of pictures that we had taken with various staff throughout the semester. It went over...