Streamline2010

Streamline2010

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  1. different between US and Asia Nursing education ?

    Streamline2010 replied to Hsiang Han Hsu's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'm still a nursing student, so I cannot offer you the most complete answer. But here is what I believe is the general overview of USA: Most people here in the USA don't get much actual vocational...

  2. Sending transcripts from 10 years ago??

    Streamline2010 replied to mkm81's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Most RN programs I applied to only used the specific prerequisite classes to determine GPA of applicants. You could have Fs or As in other classes but they were not used to numerically rank...

  3. Best way to save money when buying Text Books for BSN program?

    Streamline2010 replied to Sweetaprils's topic in General Students

    some thoughts regarding e-textbooks, from another discussion board: i don't know it that part i bolded is true. but check into it if it's relevant to your

  4. Best way to save money when buying Text Books for BSN program?

    Streamline2010 replied to Sweetaprils's topic in General Students

    I have managed to pick up some of them secondhand on eBay, and they did have the CDs and all with them. Once or twice someone sold me a "like new" book that was missing the extras, and I returned...

  5. How do you guys take notes

    Streamline2010 replied to nickster10's topic in General Students

    I only take notes in class. At a very rapid and sometimes messy scrawl, lol. To be truthful, nobody in the nursing program I'm in ever gets all of the reading done. We just have to cram as best as...

  6. Quitting my $63K job as a legal assistant for nursing school

    Streamline2010 replied to reed201's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oh, and if you know how I can get into a $63k desk and research job, I will gladly give nursing school the old heave-ho. Families, children, and child-rearing give me a huge, huge, pain. I'd love...

  7. Quitting my $63K job as a legal assistant for nursing school

    Streamline2010 replied to reed201's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    And all of this is based on being 60 and coming from a life-long career in nursing. I personally see no reason why someone who is say, 50-60, physically sound, and not all damaged and worn out, can't...

  8. Quitting my $63K job as a legal assistant for nursing school

    Streamline2010 replied to reed201's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    haha! EXACTLY! When Social Security retirement age was set at 65, not a lot of people lived much beyond that, and many actually didn't live that long. There is no reason why most people in good...

  9. Fellow student, BIG TIME user and cheater.

    Streamline2010 replied to hopeful_2013's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Weeded out pretty soon, at my school, lol! OP, don't worry about what others do or do not do. You'll have enough on your slate to accomplish with inadequate time to do it. The inadequately...

  10. It's going to take me 3 years to earn ADN. Does that sound right?

    Streamline2010 replied to my3mracles's topic in General Students

    'Way back, hospital-based diploma RN used to be always 3 years. Then the associate degree was created, and it might be possible to complete it in 2 years, but the only people I have actually seen...

  11. pet peeves when nursing students arrive

    Streamline2010 replied to sandanrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    Don't worry. I return equipment promptly after use, and usually even share it with the other students, out of necessity. The RNs for the most part have their personal stash of equipment available to...

  12. pet peeves when nursing students arrive

    Streamline2010 replied to sandanrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    I can't take time to read & see what's already said. But this is either advice we got or things that our instructors ranted at us students about: Respect patient confidentiality. If you are...

  13. Really, really surprised...........

    Streamline2010 replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    What would be unusual or unethical about somebody finding a job in today's economy, and then leaving it for something more attractive, or better-located, or higher-paid? Absolutely nothing. That...

  14. How did nursing school effect your health?

    Streamline2010 replied to RangeinPlace's topic in General Students

    Yeah, that, and also upped my low BP to the pre-hypertensive range, too. Seriously. From all the g.d SITTING! with no time for exercising and preparing decent

  15. Rolling cart instead of rolling backpack?

    Streamline2010 replied to imapsychrn's topic in General Students

    I hae owned 2 wheeled backpacks, and neither one of them lasted a semester b/c the wheels were mounted in plastic, which cracked and broke. If you buy a wheeled backpack, might as well spend for a...

  16. Nursing School Orientation. What to wear!?

    Streamline2010 replied to MegNeoNurse's topic in General Students

    Wear sensible shoes, because they might hike you all over the darned place and you'll need to wear something good for going up / down stairs and extensive walking on concrete

  17. 6 weeks into school we start clinicals! How on earth

    Streamline2010 replied to MammaNurse2Be's topic in General Students

    think about it: They start you out doing the kinds of tasks that nurse aides do. And nurse aid is, in a lot of places, an apprenticeship type or on-the-job type training. So, to start clinicals...

  18. 27 Changing careers ahhh!! Good Idea?

    Streamline2010 replied to 1manwlfpk's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Oh, and re. the social life: Give it up. Nobody in my class has a social life. The school has made it so tough to pass that over 50% of the class failed exam I and fully 75% to 80% failed exam 2,...

  19. 27 Changing careers ahhh!! Good Idea?

    Streamline2010 replied to 1manwlfpk's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I can tell you that nursing school will have you working all but 4-7 hours per day, 7 days a week, and you will have time for nothing but nursing unless you are on semester or term or other breaks....

  20. Funny Retro Look Back For The Day

    Streamline2010 replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing Humor

    Rumor has it that the hospital I'm in school at is going back to white uniforms, for just that reason. But they are still trying to determine what to use for caps, since their are male nurses...

  21. How much did you pay for your nursing prerequisites

    Streamline2010 replied to proudjournalistnurse2b's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I don't know the cost of that school. But 4 classes at 3cr each (or some at 4) would be full time. Call up and ask what the rates would be. In 2008, at a Penn State branch campus, I paid $2010...

  22. need some advice about school

    Streamline2010 replied to kristina24's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It's against their religion and holism to give anything extra to a student, I guess. I don't know what it is about nursing school, but it must be some kind of tradition to make each and every...

  23. need some advice about school

    Streamline2010 replied to kristina24's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It's against their religion and holism to give any freebie to a student, I guess. I don't know what it is about nursing school, but it must be some kind of tradition to make each and every student...

  24. So how different is nursing school?

    Streamline2010 replied to mamayogibear's topic in General Students

    I'll add that if you really go prepared, have a thorough understanding of the material on the test, have a great recall of everything you've read, have had time to thoroughly study everything in the...

  25. So how different is nursing school?

    Streamline2010 replied to mamayogibear's topic in General Students

    I disagree with "Guy" and I disagree with the people that say there isn't a lot of memorization. The amount of memorization and reading compared to my science classes is huge. I'd love to swap RN...