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  1. Test questions taken directly from random NCLEX book. Unfair?

    anonymousstudent replied to Kboylan1's topic in General Students

    Honestly, you should be glad. I wish my instructors would take NCLEX style test questions out of the massive number of resources available to them instead of trying to write their own and telling us...

  2. when did you have your OR clinicals?

    anonymousstudent replied to jusstme's topic in General Students

    This is exactly how my ADN program is too. My CI this term (last!!!!!! woohoo!!!!!) is awesome and said she'd arrange for us to go down to the OR again, so I'm pretty

  3. Ethical Exam Question

    anonymousstudent replied to oschaus's topic in General Students

    If it were clear in this question that the patient had HIV/AIDS, I'd have gone with the "correct" answer. However, it's not clear what he's got at this point, though those symptoms don't scream life...

  4. ADN Program Failure rate

    anonymousstudent replied to omaragg's topic in General Students

    Many ADN programs are proprietary. Those schools will hemorrhage students, it seems like that's how they're set up. We've not lost nearly that many at my CC

  5. waiting lists at community colleges

    anonymousstudent replied to ginaw623's topic in General Students

    Here, the CC I'm at has a ridiculous waiting list - only for their typical program. They also have a fast track program if you already have a degree, and they don't retain a waiting list for that,...

  6. Foley Catheter issues - yikes!

    anonymousstudent replied to 1969's topic in General Students

    lol - Depending on various factors, you could make that mistake MANY

  7. Feeling incompetent...need advice

    anonymousstudent replied to WantAccel.BSN's topic in General Students

    Skills are a stumbling block sometimes. It's so different from regular course work. I was absolutely TERRIBLE at skills for a while. My issue was mostly anxiety based. What worked for me was...

  8. ONLINE Classes for nursing....are they worth it

    anonymousstudent replied to pat8585's topic in General Students

    I have done my entire associate degree online, except for the clinical portion. It's been fine. A lot of students struggle with it though. It's a lot more reading, since you don't really get...

  9. Would an NCLEX RN study guide be useful for nursing school?

    anonymousstudent replied to Lucidity's topic in General Students

    Saunders and Davis' are my favorites. I don't even do test questions from my book, I only use them and I do just

  10. what is an IV drip medication?

    anonymousstudent replied to konp's topic in General Students

    That may very well be technically correct, but here, anything that's running over a period of time, through a line, with a drip calculation, is a drip. If it's a push or bolus, that's

  11. what is an IV drip medication?

    anonymousstudent replied to konp's topic in General Students

    IV drip just means it's running through tubing - dripping into a drop chamber. You could set that manually or with a pump. Manually you are literally counting those drops in the chamber, with a pump...

  12. HOME STRETCH

    anonymousstudent posted a topic in General Students

    I never thought it would happen. I'm in my LAST term of nursing school. I'll be done at the end of May. DONE! Who else is in my very fortunate and hard earned

  13. Med cards for clinical

    anonymousstudent replied to I<3PedsRN's topic in General Students

    I don't actually use them. I tried to my first quarter, and I just ended up pouring hours and hours into making cards that were mildly helpful. I figured out really quick that I better have a good...

  14. Is there a lot of bullying in nursing?

    anonymousstudent replied to sakiohma's topic in General Students

    Bullying?! WHAT!? I have never once been or seen anybody else bullied in nursing school. That's ridiculous to even think

  15. Frustrated after exam grade...the way the questions are asked..

    anonymousstudent replied to danceportal's topic in General Students

    Saunder's NCLEX review book Davis' Med Surg Success You can't just know the material, it's never that easy. And it's going to become more and more abstract. You have to practice lots of questions to...

  16. blood compatibility

    anonymousstudent replied to vg1003's topic in General Students

    Blood is complicated. You still have to learn about the antigens. I have a little saying that helps me remember the basics though - It's OK for sad (negative) to become happy (positive) but not for...

  17. Tired of never feeling good about nursing school!

    anonymousstudent replied to BelleNscrubs04's topic in General Students

    Sadly, I could have written a lot of this post. Sometimes I think it's the old way of educating nurses creeping into the present. Like bad parents, who are bad parents because they were parented...

  18. Can stupid people pass nursing school?

    anonymousstudent replied to countrygirl1234's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Grades are not directly indicative of intelligence. Just because you get B's and C's doesn't mean you're stupid. What it probably means is that you need to take a good look at how you are studying,...

  19. Should I wear makeup to my psych clinicals if I'll be around sex offenders?

    anonymousstudent replied to Kuniklo's topic in General Students

    If what you have always worn is appropriate, DO NOT CHANGE YOURSELF. This will be an excellent opportunity for you to learn boundary setting. Check that behavior. Humans act in predictable...

  20. Cry Baby

    anonymousstudent replied to mpink74's topic in General Students

    It's a good quality, don't lose it. It means you won't be suited to handle some working environments, and that's OK. I am similar. I see myself in oncolgy, or hospice, or HIV/AIDS...

  21. do you address bogus emails about drugs?

    anonymousstudent posted a topic in General Students

    Once in a while, a few people I know who are generally paranoid, send out cautions about drugs and advise that I don't take them anymore. I'm sure I'm not the only one getting these? I usually start...

  22. do your instructors do this?

    anonymousstudent replied to Dre2416's topic in General Students

    Reading off of publisher created PP's drives me crazy. That is the epitome of lazy

  23. Swearing: hugely unprofessional, mildly irritating or a normal part of speech.

    anonymousstudent replied to loveoutloud's topic in General Students

    It depends on the culture. It seems that most nursing floors are tightly knit. So are most schools. Never in front of a patient. But I don't think it's so simple to say it's unprofessional in a...

  24. When you are failing

    anonymousstudent replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    IMO, failing clinical skills is much more of a problem than failing theory. You can know everything you need to know from the book and be a terrible, unsafe nurse because you don't have the skill...

  25. No Motivation to Study! Help!

    anonymousstudent replied to roemerr's topic in General Students

    Nothing for you...I'm staring blankly at an absolutely terrible set of questions, and I just can't do