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  1. Who 'da man!!!!

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    Ok - it's only the end of the first semester...but I (and everyone else left in the class) passed the final exam. Grades are not posted yet so I don't know what I got yet. But Thursday my family and I...

  2. Failed, I need some advice!

    semester1kid replied to kindofageek's topic in General Students

    Glad to hear you say that since I'm an ADN student...which brings up another option - I don't know what schools in your area offer, but at my school, they have a feeder program with a four year...

  3. Failed, I need some advice!

    semester1kid replied to kindofageek's topic in General Students

    I agree with this line of questioning - it's what my college allows (up to 2 times)...My only question is if they don't intend on allowing you to pass the program (even via by repeating a course), why...

  4. Fluids, Electolytes and Acid Base

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    OK - after hearing the horror stories of former students, they've succeeded to scare the dickens out of a number of us students who are now venturing into this topic. I've read most of the chapter so...

  5. Fluids, Electolytes and Acid Base

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    Thanks a lot - definitely good advice. As an aside, if I go back to my A&P days, your example has something to do with the 'crossing bridges' process of muscle contraction - because 'something or...

  6. Fluids, Electolytes and Acid Base

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    Thanks a lot - I just want to make sure I don't focus in on this so much, that I neglect the other chapters that will also be on the test (pain perception and management, IV Infusion, Infections and...

  7. A&P I

    semester1kid replied to heavenleedesire's topic in General Students

    AP 1 (and in fact 2 for the most part) is generally a game of memorization - a lot of it is easy (as long as you put your time into studying) but there are some more in depth topics that take a little...

  8. Accelerated Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2

    semester1kid replied to TXStudent78's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Here is my experience - I took the two courses separately. However, due to work schedule and the fact that in-explicitly AP2 was not offered as an evening course (unlike AP1), I ended up having to...

  9. Assessment talk(help needed)

    semester1kid replied to MissDilini's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    That's true - asking what (if anything) the patient ate recently prior to the appointment would be one (subjective) part of the assessment that is important. Also, if nothing concrete can be...

  10. Question about avoiding constipation

    semester1kid replied to MEDICJOHN's topic in General Students

    I agree with the last post - You're body will compensate by taking fluid from the intestines when dehydrated, adding to the risk of constipation - and will do the opposite when there is an abundance...

  11. Rectus Femoris/Vastus Lateralis

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    Thanks a lot - it went good without a

  12. Rectus Femoris/Vastus Lateralis

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    In my book and in the suggested videos, it mentions these two sites as two distinctive sites. However, they are found using the same landmarks and thus far, all examples I saw referenced the injection...

  13. Rectus Femoris/Vastus Lateralis

    semester1kid replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    Actually, I remember that thread now - it is a big help,

  14. Got my acceptance letter - NOT excited

    semester1kid replied to NYSstudent's topic in General Students

    As a few have mentioned above, you should be excited about where you'll be when you're done - sure, it's daunting (heck, I'm in the middle of my first semester as we speak)...But as my instructor...

  15. failed my competency

    semester1kid replied to LoLa.M's topic in General Students

    If you want to hear something funny/scary at the same time, I sort of plan of failing my competency tomorrow night on administration of parential meds...Actually 'planned' is not a good way of wording...

  16. Hospitals not hiring LPN's???? What's ur input??

    semester1kid replied to scrublifenurse10's topic in General Students

    I my area (MA), from what I understand hospitals in Boston will not hire LPNs. You can still find a job in some areas - but that's dwindling as well. Conversely, the long term facility where I'm going...

  17. Need A Good Bag For School????

    semester1kid replied to Misslady113's topic in General Students

    LOL - I practically use luggage that I travel with to tote all my books into lecture...seriously. Last July, after being accepted, but prior to starting the nursing program, I decided to treat myself...

  18. Slightly discouraged from grades

    semester1kid posted a topic in General Students

    We just completed our third exam of our first semester (ADN NU100) and although I haven't actually failed a test yet, they've been slowly sinking by several points each and now this last one was only...

  19. Question I got wrong on my test!

    semester1kid replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    I do understand your point and even acknowledged it was valid - but my point is that the tugor test is no more a valid answer than is weight, regardless of how the question was structured (sans...

  20. Question I got wrong on my test!

    semester1kid replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    You have a valid point regarding no baseline...however, given that, then there would be no right answer since while the skin turgor test can point you in the right direction, it - unto itself - cannot...

  21. Test Question

    semester1kid replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

    Add me as another who would select this

  22. easy way to remember different insulins

    semester1kid replied to lambechopper's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Rapid=Analogue Short=Regular Regular=NPH Long...would be your Lantus/Glargine(the most common) or Levmir/Determir Humulin R=Regular Humulin N=NPH If you start with that, you got about half of what...

  23. Question I got wrong on my test!

    semester1kid replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    Would you do that just for a general diagnosis or can you specify how much fluid loss is occurring by the tests you suggest? I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that the patient was admitted to the hospital...

  24. Question I got wrong on my test!

    semester1kid replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    Well, I still don't see how skin turgor unto itself would give you 'extent' since it's only an general indictor. For me, a skin turgor test that didn't result in good, elastic skin only tells me to...

  25. Need lots of advice for a failed nursing student.

    semester1kid replied to khmendoza24's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Good for you for looking to move forward and finishing this thing...there is one thing I'd advise to be careful about, although this re-req rule may only apply to some schools and not others - the...