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I start in Spring 2011. Sooo psyched!

This drives me up a WALL, my fiancee's mom does this all the time! Or slowly "backs off" on a medication she feels like she doesn't need... UGH. :spam:

I went to a big state university for my pre-reqs, and I noticed a huge problem with cliquishness in general. Living off campus (and an hour away, no less) meant that by the time I got to my first class, people who lived in dorms had already made the...

Would vomiting and extreme nausea be considered an allergy or a sensitivity? I've got that rx to Vicodin and Sulfa antibiotics, and I've been told that it's merely a sensitivity and that it *could* be prescribed to me again, it just "might not be c...

I've heard from some folks that taking pharmacology with Nursing I is pretty challenging at the ADN program I'll be starting in Spring '11, and that it's a lot of memorization. So I was trying to think of ways to get a head start on studying medicat...

Congrats! I was in the same position a month ago and the glow of being accepted still hasn't gone away, haha. Welcome to the first real steps into the nursing career!

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You don't have to reinstall everything when you upgrade the OS, it saves it all for you. Thanks for this link, I'm going to go snag them all now!

Thank you so much for that link! I've converted the list into a Powerpoint Study Guide! If anyone else is interested in viewing it you can download my Powerpoint document here. Just click the "download now" link. (I don't think that sharing this i...

congrats!

I live in Ocala and my mother-in-law's receiving home health care, her nurses always seem to have full schedules, places to go and people to see. So maybe business is doing decent around here. I know ocala4sale.com has a Medical Employment section ...

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that you guys! did you ask to be put on the waiting list to get into the spring program? supposedly a bunch of people drop out before the start of spring term. good luck on getting in!

I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel like this!

I was just on an airline flight with a hijabi flight attendant. I felt bad for her because I'm sure people would give her a hard time a lot. It must be a brave thing to wear such an obvious symbol of Muslim faith to her job in this day and age wher...

Hey OcalaMom, I was just thinking about you and wondering how you did. Congrats big time! With luck you'll get into the spring class and we'll have classes together, that would be awesome. I think you did better on the HESI than I did, LOL! Whew,...

Clearly no one would do it if they thought it was something they were going to hate. Only after investing time and money in nursing school do they find out it's not for them. On the other hand, I don't think there are many--if any--nurses on AllNurs...

I think your response was good... but that her question was inappropriate and had nothing to do with your aptitude as a nurse. I could be wrong, but your personal relationships should have nothing to do with getting a job or not.

HESI A2 is the same thing, yes. But a 70 is only what was required for my particular nursing school, def. check out where you want to go and see 1) what sections of the test are required and 2) what score you have to get on them all. All scores are...

About the vocabulary part: Apparently a ton of the people at my school haven't done well on the vocab either--so much so that the nursing school says they only have to have a 70 grade in it instead of the 80 required for everything else. Personally...

The grammar part was not hard for me, because I'm naturally very good at writing/grammar/etc. but if English is your second language or if you were never very good at to begin with, I recommend learning basic punctuation use, ESPECIALLY when to use a...

I had a thread about this a while back and I got a lot of good information, then after I passed the test (with all 90%+ in the areas I needed!) I gave advice to the next people. You might want to look it over. HESI Questions Encouragement Needed! -...

Hadn't even seen Caliottoe's response, but same question as tag2007. =)

Glad to be of some assistance. I have a HESI study guide in PDF form I could email to you, it's got most of the types of stuff that was on the test, and I found the math section to be especially helpful as I was weak in division, fractions, and deci...

They warned us it could take up to a week to get the results (the website emails them to you) but I got mine four hours after I was done with it. Supposedly it varies depending on how busy the testing company is at any given time. Edit: Don't hesita...

I would def. get on it ASAP! Try to take the test next Wednesday if you possibly can (they do it every Wednesday) and get your essay written by then so you can turn the entire application in on Thursday. Spots fill up super-fast, I'm told. I didn...