mavnurse

My goals are to actually pay attention in class and to not cram!!! (Yeah, right!):)

Yeah I hate this type of thing. Everyone asks me what I'm doing, and I say I'm in nursing school. "Oh, how do you like it at _________?" Um, no I'm going to a university, thanks a lot. I changed my response to "I'm a nursing major," but sometimes...

^^^Wow, you did great. I think the lowest number missed was 9 or 10 questions. Nooooo one made a 99 in our class.:)

^^^Wow, you did great. I think the lowest number missed was 9 or 10 questions. Nooooo one made a 99 in our class.:)

Yeah, not to scare you but we took the Fundamentals HESI this semester and it killed us. Our instructor worked wo hard with the HESI people to raise our grades as much as possible. This was the first time my school had used this test, and no one kn...

Yeah, not to scare you but we took the Fundamentals HESI this semester and it killed us. Our instructor worked wo hard with the HESI people to raise our grades as much as possible. This was the first time my school had used this test, and no one kn...

My steth came with a tag which I have yet to send away to be engraved. I've never had a problem with it, even thought at first I was soooooo protective of it. I kept it in the box it came in for weeks. What a nerd - I even carried the box to clini...

My steth came with a tag which I have yet to send away to be engraved. I've never had a problem with it, even thought at first I was soooooo protective of it. I kept it in the box it came in for weeks. What a nerd - I even carried the box to clini...

I think it's that some people just don't care. Not that I put in much study time, but there were some people who just flat out did nothing. For our final practicum in our assessment class there was one girl (a class wacko) who walked in and told th...

I think it's that some people just don't care. Not that I put in much study time, but there were some people who just flat out did nothing. For our final practicum in our assessment class there was one girl (a class wacko) who walked in and told th...

Don't forget about Texas Christian University in Fort Worth! Super easy to get into, but their BSN program is scheduled a little differently than most. They start actual nursing classes sophomore year, plus you are required to take religion classes...

Well let's see...UTA kinda wants you to have some classes there before they really consider you, but once you are enrolled it's not too hard. There are approx. 700 applicants for 100 spots a semester. My clinicals are spread over the DFW metroplex ...

PS It can't hurt to go ahead and apply to both schools now just in case there are long lists at both.

Hmm...I go to UTA but I know some people who went to TCC for prereqs or who applied there for nursing. I live in Arlington/Fort Worth. All I know about TCC is that the wait list is long, although it may be the same in Dallas. As for living, I woul...

I'm glad my first semester is over! It's ok...it's school and therefore it's something you do just because...you just do it. So I don't really have an opinion on it. It's kind of like going to high school - no one really likes it but you do it any...

^^^Please tell us how it goes. :)

I already know that's what my job is - high paid PCA, with the occasional Foley insertion or IV start. I'm ok with it though.

I'm starting soon. It'll be hard to go from no job to working 12 hours shifts along with school but I'm thinking of maybe just 1 shift a week. I'm PRN for now so they told me I could do that. I wanted night shift, and got day, but it's ok - I need...

We all feel like a dummy at some point, but after your retake you'll forget all about it! Trust me on this, I speak from experience. :imbar I was one of the few (and I do mean few) people who didn't get the required % on my assessment final pra...

No, you're not alone at all. I have nothing left this semester except for two finals - one on Monday and one on Tuesday. So that's what, four more days that I should spend studying? I can't get myself to do it. I'll probably just end up cramming.

Just change it all together and use the cop-out diagnosis we do in my group when we can't think of anything else: Risk for Falls. I think there were some people who used that every week.

For some reason I've lost patience with people who aren't in nursing because they just don't get it. I resent them in a way, because even though I know what I'm doing will be worth it later, I hate to know that they sleep in until 11 every day and o...

I LOVED my O.R. rotation too. :balloons: I was gushing about it for days. That's definitely where I want to work! No one else in my class seemed to like it though...I saw a radical mastectomy, and two cholecystectomies. The surgeon removed the last p...

I found out today that I got an A in my health promotions class! As for assessment, I'll be able to pull off an A but it'll take a lot of work. For foundations, if I make a 99 or above on the final, I make an A. If I make anything below, it'll be ...

I'm actually ok with everything - except spit. I cannot stand to be there when the nurse is suctioning, and if I ever have to do that myself...:uhoh21: Oh and the other day a patient had really bad gas and I had to go stand out in the hall until t...