BacktotheBeach

BacktotheBeach ADN, BSN, RN

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  1. Vital Sign Skills Test

    BacktotheBeach replied to my4helpers's topic in General Students

    this site is amazing at training your ears how to listen for the sounds.

  2. Incredibly Easy Books

    BacktotheBeach replied to my4helpers's topic in General Students

    love the fluid and electrolytes

  3. Head to toe assessments on classmates?

    BacktotheBeach replied to Clovery's topic in General Students

    Believe me, I'm in my forties and I was dreading this...but I really think part of what they are teaching you is to put yourself in the patient's shoes and how vulnerable they must feel having to go...

  4. Head to toe assessments on classmates?

    BacktotheBeach replied to Clovery's topic in General Students

    We did have to wear shorts and sports bras. You kinda have to get in there to auscultate all areas of the lungs. Our legs and feet had to be exposed to find popliteal and pedal pulses. It wasn't that...

  5. Trouble with ventrogluteal injection site

    BacktotheBeach replied to mitral's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If you have a very skinny person in your lab, it is easiest to find the greater trochanter on them, my teenage son was perfect for this. Seems like once you find it on skinnier people, it's easier to...

  6. What do I do? Flunked my first exam

    BacktotheBeach replied to studentrnnurse's topic in General Students

    Get a couple good NCLEX books ASAP. I really like Saunders, it breaks down the important nuggets from lecture and your text. Another good one for mastering the NCLEX style questions is the Success...

  7. So, we don't learn how to do IVs in nursing school?

    BacktotheBeach replied to i<3u's topic in General Students

    In my program we have to learn it towards the end. I heard they send us to an outpatient surgery place where we practice it all day.

  8. I just don't get it.....

    BacktotheBeach replied to OB-nurse2013's topic in General Students

    I feel like we get absolutely no respect at my school. For instance, our fall quarter starts mid September. Clinicals begin immediately, the first week. Today is September first and we have still not...

  9. Newborn vital signs

    BacktotheBeach replied to sfstudentnurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It is really hard. My instructor told us to tap it with our fingers. It does get easier to count it the more you do it. For the RR, put your hand on their abdomen or just watch the tummy and its...

  10. 2nd week in Nursing school and freaking out

    BacktotheBeach replied to ekullerd's topic in General Students

    I would get another book like Pathophysiology Made Ridiculously Simply by Berkowitz. There's also one in the Made Incredibly Easy series that doesn't look too bad. It will explain things on a more...

  11. Do you really need a rolling backpack?

    BacktotheBeach replied to windmill182's topic in General Students

    I really don't carry books with me so I would wait and see!! All I use on a daily basis is a large binder. Books are used for study at home in my

  12. Dosing Calculation ... help!

    BacktotheBeach replied to grensa's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think you figure them out totally separate, then you are combining them in the one IM injection. So I get 0.7 mL from the demerol portion, 0.6 mL from the Versed portion, combined for a total IM...

  13. Buying books - copyrights important?

    BacktotheBeach replied to marathonmama's topic in General Students

    My program still has the page numbers of the previous edition in our notes. It drives me crazy when I spend the $$ for the new edition and find I would have been at an actual advantage with the older...

  14. The Made Incredibly Easy books

    BacktotheBeach replied to SunshineDaisy's topic in General Students

    Fluids and Electrolytes is a must

  15. Lab Values

    BacktotheBeach replied to soontobenurse2211's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    http://web.missouri.edu/~proste/lab/ this is a good site. http://labtestsonline.org/ and so is this

  16. Senior year!!

    BacktotheBeach replied to morningdew's topic in General Students

    me 2!! I start back in Mid September, trying to chill and enjoy my time

  17. optional books the professor recommended, are they worth it?

    BacktotheBeach replied to IUstudent's topic in General Students

    I really like the Davis Drug guide, that is what I use. I think a good medical dictionary is important, I use Taber's, but the one listed is probably fine. I am not familiar with the lab manual you...

  18. Biopsy and Ablation the week before school starts???

    BacktotheBeach replied to MammaNurse2Be's topic in General Students

    I had no meds for the biopsy and was perfectly normal after. I did not have a general for the ablation either. It was painful for about 45 seconds, literally. You have a cervical block. I would stay...

  19. Biopsy and Ablation the week before school starts???

    BacktotheBeach replied to MammaNurse2Be's topic in General Students

    I had the ablation done about a week before I started nursing school last year. It was no problem at all. I rested on the couch the day of the procedure, was up and around the house the next day, and...

  20. I may need a pack mule!!

    BacktotheBeach replied to Twinmom06's topic in General Students

    I do not take my books to class. I don't know anyone that

  21. First Semester ADN Students-Clinicals

    BacktotheBeach replied to Pia Mater's topic in General Students

    That sounds like my schedule for my first quarter, which was one year ago. Our hours were approximately 7am to 1pm including about an hour post conference. I doubt you will have it the day after...

  22. Nursing School Must Haves??

    BacktotheBeach replied to Servingshots's topic in General Students

    I really recommend the ipod touch. I got an older version on Ebay because it does not have a camera like the newer ones do. Saved me some $$ too! I use a 3rd generation Ipod Touch that I got for about...

  23. 6 weeks into school we start clinicals! How on earth

    BacktotheBeach replied to MammaNurse2Be's topic in General Students

    We started about week 2 or 3. It is really amazing how they start you out so slow, gradually adding skills. I think a lot of it at first is getting you comfortable with patient care, talking to...

  24. Med Surg Course

    BacktotheBeach replied to DPSGraduateNurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Saunders NCLEX book helps a lot. Just find the chapters that pertain to what your are doing in lecture. It breaks it down and the review questions are awesome. It makes all the difference in the world...

  25. has anyone used a "clicker" device for tests?

    BacktotheBeach replied to BacktotheBeach's topic in General Students

    We are all extremely nervous about having to test with these devices. I would love to hear from people who have used them for