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  1. Scholarship Info

    Make sure you fill out FAFSA, look at your state's website and see if there are any separate scholarship/financial aid applications there. My school also has its own general financial aid application...
  2. You can do it in 1-1.5 years if you take classes in the summer and winter sessions in addition to fall and spring. I could have easily done it in 1 year at my community
  3. I'm looking into nursing informatics too. You'd have to: - Finish most of nursing prerequisite classes. - Take the TEAS test - Apply for BSN programs - Get accepted - 4 years of nursing school - Pass...
  4. Does clinical do this to anyone else?

    Lol yeah. I plan on doing nothing after clinicals except sleep
  5. I'm so agitated right now! Mostly a vent.

    Omg. I went to the most incompetent community college ever. I had the same thing done with my transcripts and I got screwed over because of them. Ever since then, I either pick them up personally, or...
  6. Very important question regarding Nursing School

    Yuppppppppppppppppp.
  7. Organize your time well and you'll do fine. Do not be lazy, get up early, have a plan and stick to
  8. Easiest nursing job are the ones who are in those private practices who make appointments and go in to take your vital signs and then leave. Seriously. Maybe sometimes they'd give you your vaccine...
  9. what color uniforms does your school use?

    White tops and khaki pants In 1 of my rotations I went into the OR and changed into their surgical scrubs. Ooooomg.. I wish we could just wear those. So comfortable and probably cheaper. I'd rather...
  10. So what's your IGN?
  11. Business casual/street clothes for my psych rotation. No one wore scrubs at the facility I was
  12. Patient died...

    I'm also a 3rd semester student and although I haven't personally experienced a death, a lot of my classmates have. Mostly in our 2nd semester on the adult IMC unit... we even had to do postmortem...
  13. Nursing math class questions

    Oh. Then honestly, it doesn't really matter what you take. If I were you I would just take something that I could get an A in. It's senior year after all! And basic math/algebra/stoichiometry from...
  14. To gain experience

    Becoming a CNA is the best way to get experience as a pre-nursing student. I agree with Me-erThanMe, the CNA students that were in my class were much more confident and comfortable doing all the...
  15. would it help me get a job(after nursing school) or even get into nursing school if i can carry on a simple conversation in spanish? yes, i think being able to speak spanish can highly increase your...
  16. Nursing math class questions

    Not necessary in my opinion. Statistics was a prereq to apply to my nursing program. I would check your nursing program's requirements and see if it's required, and if it is, I'd take AP Stat to get...
  17. Did I miss my chance?

    No, you might still have a chance. I think you're acting a little paranoid. Wait a week and call back. Make sure that they're not interested in scheduling an interview with you anymore instead of...
  18. I have a question for nurses in outpatient settings. Does your practice currently use EHRs or in the process of implementing one? I am a nursing student and we're currently using Neehr Perfect, an...
  19. Small Scrubs?

    Pfernandez, get
  20. UMB FALL 2011

    Congrats to everyone who got accepted! I'm 1 semester ahead of you guys at the Shady Grove campus so i'll see some of you soon :) Let me know if you'd like to buy any textbooks from me once you get...
  21. UMB Spring 2011

    wrong
  22. Nurse fanny packs

    Hey everyone, I'm a first year nursing student and I JUST finished my first clinical and I have to say that the nurse that impressed me the most was the one with the fanny pack. She was SO prepared....
  23. shirts under scrubs

    I just wear long sleeve shirts I get from Target/Walmart/Khols/Hollister/AE/etcetcetc. Some people I know, mostly guys, they wear hoodies underneath their scrub tops if they're big
  24. Small Scrubs?

    I'm pretty much the same size and weight as you, haha. I got ended up with ScrubZone elastic waistband pants after trying on the whole store in x-small petite. I wanted draw string pants but...
  25. Married Male Nursing Students

    Most females in my class are already married, taken, or not interested anyway