Streamline2010

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  1. Help - Psychology Major to Nursing School

    Streamline2010 replied to NabaKKhan's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If almost done with the psych degree, you probably should finish it. Some of it will transfer to RN programs. Look at the prerequisites for the various RN schools and you will see it varies with...

  2. Losing respect for nursing students

    Streamline2010 replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    Just a piece of advice from the other side of the fence: Nursing is far, far, far behind many other professions in regards to fair and respectful treatment of employees, the level of personnel...

  3. Losing respect for nursing students

    Streamline2010 replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    haha! Not only stand up for 8-12 hours, you're not supposed to take time to pee while you're on the clock, and you're supposed to skip your meal and skip all breaks, too. The job is not about you;...

  4. What type of stethoscope should I purchase for school?

    Streamline2010 replied to JS88's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Just fyi, at the hospital where we had clinicals, some but not all of the instructors forbade us to wear a stethoscope around the neck because that is considered a safety hazard. We had to carry the...

  5. shortest length of time you can finish nursing school?

    Streamline2010 replied to mee9mee9's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It will probably take you 24 months. The schools offer nursing courses on a very regimented schedule. A cohort moves through the same nursing courses at the same time. There are no "optional"...

  6. Tricks of the trade: Diversion- stories of the stupid and sly?

    Streamline2010 replied to SuzieVN's topic in General Nursing

    +1 And they fired a NURSE! for it, too. Imagine

  7. failed lift test, may have lost job offer..

    Streamline2010 replied to lovescapeRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Wrong answer. Whose side are you on? Not yours. Just because nursing has made unnecessary physical demands on nurses for decades does not make it the right thing to do. It's not unreasonable to...

  8. How do you improve your memory?

    Streamline2010 replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    Reduce your stress level. Increase your happiness and peacefulness. If you are always stressed too much and your body is in fight-or-flight or panic mode, you can't learn or

  9. Can nursing instructors see who's got what it takes?

    Streamline2010 replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Students

    Gives me a chill, for sure. I think the experienced instructors can spot the ones with talent, but they can also, alternately, just make life Hades for someone they personally don't like. The...

  10. The joys of ASN programs....

    Streamline2010 replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Students

    It's supply and demand. Nursing schools have far too many applicants for the number of seats available in the program(s). They give everyone a point ranking based on GPA and "other" that they can...

  11. Are You Allow To Review Your Dosage Calculations

    Streamline2010 replied to Itspossible's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Don't let dosage calcs beat you. You just need practice so that you learn to recognize what information you are given, and how you use it in your calculation. We had this book (info's at the end of...

  12. Looking for books with example questions for 1st year RN student

    Streamline2010 replied to busybee12's topic in General Students

    F.A. Davis nursing Success series is one you'll see recommended a lot for beginning students. I have Test and Fundamentals. Success Series books, ebooks,mobile, and online resources - F.A. Davis...

  13. Is it okay that I hate LTC?

    Streamline2010 replied to fresitachulita's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    In western Pennsylvania, it would not be okay. What is your school telling you about employers and employment prospects? Here, we are bluntly told that LPNs will mostly work in LTC and nursing...

  14. GPA too low from LPN to get into RN program

    Streamline2010 replied to momnurse84's topic in LPN to RN

    Choose a RN school whose requirements play to your strengths, and minimize the weak parts of your GPA. Most RN programs only look at specific prerequisite college courses. Which ones vary with the...

  15. Nurse with Disdain

    Streamline2010 replied to StuckInTheMiddle's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ^ Amen. I bought into that, too. Then after a year of RN school, and I still hadn't seen ANY use for my tech and science backgorund, except pharma and its calculations, I began to suspect I'd...

  16. Nurse with Disdain

    Streamline2010 replied to StuckInTheMiddle's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Bah. I think it's both. Nursing just may be too much futzing around without any clear "wins," for most of us who came to it from some career other than wife and mother. Closer to a motherhood...

  17. False accusations.

    Streamline2010 replied to Capp's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I like his attitude. It was VERY professional, just not Nursie Good Littel Girl. I think like a man, and I don't see anything wrong with it. 2 broken legs trumps any non-emergency. OP, hopefully...

  18. How to prepare for accelerated program

    Streamline2010 replied to Trenata's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Know the developmental theories of Erikson, Maslow, Piaget. Nursing instructors were always asking me to apply these theories or tell what stage of the developmental life cylcle a patient was in, in...

  19. How long are clinical shifts?

    Streamline2010 replied to mee9mee9's topic in General Students

    Diploma RN program, clinicals at that hospital that ran the school: Typically report at 6:30-6:45, to walk in as a group with the instructor, and then be on the floor 6:45 or 7AM to to 11AM or...

  20. What was the hardest course youve taken?

    Streamline2010 replied to MeekaNichole's topic in General Students

    Any pediatric nursing topics. (I went to a weird diploma school that had an "integrated" i.e. chopped-up and specially wonky curriculum instead of the reasonable and customary block curriculum...

  21. Im going to school for lpn. Is it worth it or not?

    Streamline2010 replied to jlopez92's topic in Nursing Career

    RN is usually 24 months for just the nursing courses, but it's 6 semesters of nursing, not 4, because you have two summer terms. Only the accelerated BSN programs are shorter, like 15-18 months. Or...

  22. Now what? Divorce after starting school.

    Streamline2010 replied to lollylee1969's topic in General Students

    TX history sounds like a fantactic class to take online, so I'd try to knock that one out right away. Take the chemistry, and get it out of the way. It's not that hard, especially if you can get a...

  23. What credits are needed for a BSN?

    Streamline2010 replied to Principessa22's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You'd have to look at the BR RN programs that you are most likely to enroll in. Most that I looked at didn't have history and government, fine art might work as an elective, etc. The more modern BS...

  24. BSN as entry into practice; why we decided against it.

    Streamline2010 replied to MunoRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    There was a time that the college / university BSN programs really didn't get much clinical time. My sister graduated with a BSN in 1984 and she said they were woefully ill-prepared for clinical...

  25. Nursing Dream or Reality?

    Streamline2010 replied to 42&mytime's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    https://allnurses.com/registered-nurses-diploma/few-years-all-505827-page3.html