meltnpointofwax

i struggled with this decision too. i read in a random book at B&N that a person picked nursing because he wanted to treat people, not diseases. that's pretty much how i decided nursing was the one for me. don't do anything for the money. yeah, ...

we always bring the floor nurses bagels from panera or donuts from dunkin. it's just a nice way to say thank you :) we also always chip in a few bucks to get our clinical instructors a giftcard. we go out and eat with our teacher on the last day, so ...

this is how i feel right now

i'm 21, but according to most of my patients i look like i'm in high school lol. i also work as a tech in a hospital, and every day at least one elderly patient asks me how old i am. i have found that sometimes a patient will listen to/believe an o...

hahhaah i just realized it's supposed to be "bear"

no!! enjoy your last summer of freedom while you can :)

...when you have conversations like this with your non-nursing friends: friend: my class is soo early! me: what time? friend: 8 a.m.! me: trying being at a hospital at 6:30 a.m. ready to start your day!

oh and another thing, about the doctor asking you why the patient was on contact isolation. you're the student, you should know? how about he's the DOCTOR, you think he would know?!?! i work in a hospital as a tech and i see this every day! the docto...

Every school and professor has different rules/expectations of you in clinicals. My experience has been pretty good so far. My first semester was kind of ehh. I felt more like a tech than a nurse, because we had to do bed baths, linen changes, basic ...

some teachers are just rude. back in prereqs, my anatomy lab professor told me i would never make it as a nurse because i couldn't memorize cat muscles during dissection. just grin and bare it and prove them wrong

when learning how to empty a colostomy bag with ease was the highlight of your week. ...and you have to text all your nursing buddies to tell them about it! but your boyfriend's appetite is GONE as you tell him about it on the way to dinner

I struggled with pre-reqs. I got a B in a&p II, a C+ in chem, and a C+ in micro. I got into an acredited nursing program at a state college on my first time applying. It's not impossible to get into nursing school with average grades. I am gettin...

yes, unfortunately. probably 5-10 pounds. it's all the damn sitting and studying and then being too tired to exercise lol. i'm such a bum.

also, i don't know what textbook you are supposed to have but i used this one: http://www.amazon.com/Pharmacology-Approach-Joyce-LeFever-Kee/dp/1416046631/ref=pd_sim_b_29 and it is one of the best books i've had in nursing school! everything is broke...

pharmacology was my favorite class! i found it really easy to study for because it basically is straight memorization. the best study tip i can give you for pharm is studying in a small group. we would create scenarios and quiz each other. "what wou...

the first semester of my nursing program was very stressful because we had 4 very demanding classes + clinicals. i usually just worked on the weekends very part time. now, in my second semester and continuing on until graduation, we will have one cla...

I'm about to finish my 2nd semester of nursing school. Only 2 more semesters to go after this! :yeah:I've been working as a nurse tech (we call ourselves ACP's here) for about a month and a half. I don't have my CNA certification. The only requiremen...

KT, I haven't had a problem with it and I get all A's and B's. Some people say it's impossible, but I think it's just time management. I'm not married and don't have children so that gives me more free time.

I have some friends that just graduated with their associates in nursing and just got jobs. They worked as ACP's though, so that may have helped them get their foot in the door over another graduate that didn't have any experience. We live in Jackson...

hey everyone. i saw earlier that everyone was talking about BSN vs ASN earlier and worried about finding jobs. i'm in term 2 right now, doing my clinicals at baptist beaches. there are a lot of nurses who only have associates. there are even LPNs who...

i'm so sorry this happened to you. just remember when one door closes, another one will open! i guess what i am wondering is: is your facebook "friends only"? or did they have some tracking software that found your post even if it was private?

i got hired at Baptist as an ACP. I don't have my CNA. You also can qualify if you've completed your first semester of nursing school and have your CPR certification

i'm in my second semester and i've attempted IVs on 3 patients. i was only successful with the first patient. she was an elderly lady with dementia and she screamed the entire time, which made me nervous. my professor walked me through it because my ...

please fight this! get lawyers or the local newspapers involved. no one wants bad press and no one has the right to tell you that you aren't allowed to wear a band aid! i'm in a program in florida and we can wear long sleeves under our uniform shirts...

cutoff for fall 2010 was 202.something but so many people declined their seats, people were being accepted up until like 2 days before class started.