Advice my profs gave before we started our clinical, don't take anything negative from patients or nurses personally. Working any job it's hard NOT to take things personal, sometimes people say...
In NW houston, I've seen them at a Med Supply store on 1960 and Steepletop near Cyfair Hospital behind Amegy Bank. There's also a scrub shop called Uniform Destination at the Houston Premium Outlet...
We get assigned to a nurse who has about 4 patients, I can pick which patient I want to do my paperwork on. It's nice because I get to chose, I don't have to have the elderly patient on a thousand...
Kaybee24 replied to Southern Magnolia's topic in General Students
My school only required the 3 like you mentioned. But it definitely sounds like you have the right plan. Study guides and memorizing conversions will really help you. Only slightly helpful thing I...
I don't start until next week, but I feel you. It's been nice having a break and I'm kind of dreading having to get back into the swing of things. But I'm hoping that by the time that school really...
Our nursing kit was included in tuition and we had to select our bp cuff and steth on our own. Our kit came with more than enough stuff and I still have plenty of that stuff left over. Came in handy...
Study more than you think you need to and resist the urge to put things off. Being organized helps a lot. I'm a hardcore former procrastinator and fortunately got over it before I entered nursing...
Used and older editions FTW. Buying older editions saves a ridiculous amount of money, Dosages Calculations by Pickar? The bookstore wanted 80 bucks, I bought the 7th edition for 5 dollars including...
All the tech suggestions are good I love my laptop and ipod touch. It's nice to have all your email forwarded to a mobile device because you'll never miss an email from your professor. I love my...
Kaybee24 replied to Kaybee24's topic in Texas Nursing
The first week went well, I think everyone was overwhelmed but by now starting to hit a groove. There's a lot of reading as you can probably guess, but they were nice enough to give us a reading list...
Kaybee24 replied to Kaybee24's topic in Texas Nursing
Wow I really enrolled in the wrong class lol, yes I have Loftin. As far as the book we're using Focus on Nursing Pharmacology ed 5. As far as reading, we're reading two sections of the book a week...
Kaybee24 replied to Kaybee24's topic in Texas Nursing
Candice I'm in the Kingwood online class too. Yea just a few dosage calulations thought that was strange. Did you get that email about the study group? I haven't gotten a response yet. I did call...