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  1. Pearson Vue Trick - Poll once you receive your results

    ggmugsy replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I live in North Idaho and tested in Spokane, Washington on June 6th. Completed 75 questions and was NOT feeling good about my chances. As soon as I got home I got the good pop-up. Today, quick results...

  2. What makes med-surg class seem hard to you?

    ggmugsy replied to northmississippi's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    For me, patho is the background of Med-Surg. What's in the forefront of most test questions is, "As a nurse, what do I need to do for this patient?" A good friend of mine is completely into patho and...

  3. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    ggmugsy posted a topic in General Students

    Hey everybody, I just finished my first year of an ADN program. One of the things I am unhappy with is the nurse/student ratio at clinicals. Very often - probably close to 75% of the time - the number...

  4. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    ggmugsy replied to ggmugsy's topic in General Students

    Thank you all so much! Reading your posts has been very eye-opening for me. In hindsight, I should have asked more questions about how the clinicals were run. This time next year, I'll be studying...

  5. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    ggmugsy replied to ggmugsy's topic in General Students

    Thank you all for your input!

  6. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    ggmugsy replied to ggmugsy's topic in General Students

    In my program, there is one clinical instructor for every 10 students. Students are normally spread between 4-5 different areas of the hospital so the instructor travels around as she can to...

  7. Final... Basically a test that is a final to end you

    ggmugsy replied to vizzle's topic in General Students

    Congratulations vizzle!! BIG HUG and best

  8. Final... Basically a test that is a final to end you

    ggmugsy replied to vizzle's topic in General Students

    I see your point . . . but . . . every question counts, and every question should be fair. If a student can prove that two answers are equally correct, we should have the opportunity to do so on every...

  9. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    ggmugsy replied to ggmugsy's topic in General Students

    That sort of ratio seems much safer to me than having more students than nurses. :) Thanks for your

  10. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    ggmugsy replied to ggmugsy's topic in General Students

    MN-Nurse, No personal attack upon me was necessary. I am not sitting around "counting nurses." I continually hear nurses say they "feel invaded" by the number of students on the floor. I was simply...

  11. Final... Basically a test that is a final to end you

    ggmugsy replied to vizzle's topic in General Students

    NSNA magazine had a great article in their last publication about Horizontal Violence and how it starts in nursing school with teachers being completely nasty to students. That article described how...

  12. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    ggmugsy replied to ggmugsy's topic in General Students

    Very often there would be 5 nurses on the floor - each with 4 or 5 patients and we would have 6 - 2nd semester nursing students on the floor - each with 2 patients. Often there were 1 or 2 - 2nd year...

  13. Final... Basically a test that is a final to end you

    ggmugsy replied to vizzle's topic in General Students

    Just talking in general. Different final, different

  14. Final... Basically a test that is a final to end you

    ggmugsy replied to vizzle's topic in General Students

    I hear ya!! On my way out the door I asked when the deadline would be to "challenge" test questions. I was informed that didn't "happen" with the final exam. That means our instructors can make up any...

  15. Just took NCLEX 75Q..need encouragement!

    ggmugsy replied to susan32's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    BUG HUG to you, Susan32! :) If you've been studying the same way for three tries, maybe changing up your study routine would help. Do you have a friend you could study with, or maybe start a study...

  16. Am I too old?

    ggmugsy replied to frann's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    mom and nurse, Thank you for your post! :) I'm a year or so behind where you stated. I am 44 and will be starting my first semester in an ADN program in the fall. Should pass NCLEX in the...

  17. How do the kidneys and nephrons work?

    ggmugsy replied to peachmouse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    My best friend in A&P was my butcher paper. I would take a 3' or 4' piece and draw out everything, the kidney (with afferent & efferent BV), where the juxtaglomerular apparatus was and the...

  18. nervous about the TEAS test...

    ggmugsy replied to nurse nina's topic in General Nursing

    There are free tests at testprepreview.com. You can start there and see where you may be having trouble. There are lots of books to help. I used the McGraw Hill book and found it helpful. I did...

  19. Pre-Nursing school worries

    ggmugsy replied to Jacie's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I wonder if you could get passionate about A&P? When I was doing my pre-reqs, I kept telling myself that A&P and Micro were the foundation of the career I want for the rest of my life. I was...

  20. Anybody else stressed out?

    ggmugsy replied to shesham's topic in General Nursing

    I hated that feeling that if I got a "B" I wouldn't make it in. I tried to focus on learning the material to the best of my ability and the grade worked itself out. To me, A&P & micro really...

  21. Guys, need your help please!!

    ggmugsy replied to Lexus02's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I had a 1st edition of the McGraw Hill Nursing School Entrance Exams book and it was FULL of errors. If you e-mail the publisher with the ISBN# of the book they will send you the list of known...

  22. What do you think of the Marieb workbooks for A and P?

    ggmugsy replied to katebean04's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I didn't use the workbooks, but I did use the website a lot to review information and found that to be very helpful. Also, if you are using the lab manual, there are questions at the end of every...

  23. Confusion on the NA/water relationship

    ggmugsy replied to swnewrngrad's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oops! I just re-read through and I had gotten it backwards in one of my posts. Thanks so much all you knowledgeable nurses for getting us all on the right

  24. Confusion on the NA/water relationship

    ggmugsy replied to swnewrngrad's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    That sounds like the same thing to me. WATER is leaving the body during vomiting. The salt in the cells remains. Water doesn't follow sodium. Sodium follows

  25. Confusion on the NA/water relationship

    ggmugsy replied to swnewrngrad's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I would think so. My A&P teacher must have said it 10,000 times . . . "Where sodium goes, water follows." Seriously, I still hear it in my dreams.