IndyElmer

It's my relatively inexperienced opinion that really stellar reference letters and work experience can help make up for a GPA that is closer to the minimum requirement GPA for a school (and not all schools have the same minimum so check out programs ...

Some of my classmates have already declared that they will NOT be working nights (which suprised me as I thought it was a lucky new grad who managed to get a day shift job while many new grads "pay their dues" working nights until they have enough se...

Whether or not it's "mess of boxes & circles" depends on how your instructor requires you to do the concept map. The ones required by my instructors are not as crazy looking as some that I've seen. Ours have the reason for visit/care in the cente...

My instructor REQUIRES Carpenito for some portions of a care plan / concept map but allows us to use other nursing diagnosis books for other parts. Most people ahead of me seem to really like Ackley/Ladwig (considerably better than Carpenito) but I'm...

However you keep track of important things that you'd never miss --- doctor appointments, shifts at work, a kid's music recital, dinner with friends --- whether that's a paper calendar/planner, a web-based calendar or something in your smartphone, yo...

I've actually seen up to 10 rights, but as others have said, the "official" 5 are the five listed plus documentation as the most common additional right. There's a list of the "10" rights in this article (which is admittedly not the most scientific, ...

Are you 100% sure of the spelling of the term?

One way that I think nurses have to be (or at least feel) vulnerable is when you have to admit a mistake or near miss. While it is absolutely the right thing to do, admitting a mistake or near miss brings negative attention to yourself. Depending on ...

I had access to both Netter and Kaplan anatomy flashcards. I thought the Kaplan cards were adequate for the job at hand, though I didn't really think they were necessary. I liked the cards for bones and even for anatomical reference terms, but I didn...

What do you want to format? A hard drive? A paper?

I just got a 2011 IV drug guide for $1! If I end up refering to it a lot, I'll get the 2012. In case they might be useful to you, these are some of the sites that my pharm instructor suggested (some of which I've continued to use): www.drugs.com www...

Try to talk to people ahead of you in the program before you buy the 8th edition. People in the cohorts ahead of me keep telling me that they SELDOM looked at their textbooks, except for occasional clarification of something that they didn't understa...

I'm also able to find that information in Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses (though some drugs appear to not have antidotes listed).

You can even form opinions based on speculation! You have the right to think that Obamacare is going to be a wildly expensive, poorly managed disaster, but you must state that as an opinion, not fact. If you're so inclined you can even back up your...

Tarotale, to say that we are going to be required to have chips implanted in us is not an OPINION, that is a FACT. Facts should be verifiable by documentation or observation. Before getting up-in-arms about this supposed chip requirement, people want...

I'm curious about this too. There are plenty of students in the cohorts ahead of me who are selling their books as soon as (or even a few days before) their classes end. Since I bought one-edition older for $5-$10 (including shipping) per book, I pro...

Although others have addressed the OP's misunderstanding of this passage, I'm not sure that anyone has explained it simply enough for the OP to understand, so first, an analogy... You know how from time to time, car manufacturers will realize that ...

Thank you! While the first post did have ridiculous misinformation, some responses have seemed just barely shy of being uncivil.

Are you struggling more with the physiology part of anatomy and physiology? (Not so much the identification of parts and positional relationships of said parts which I would consider the anatomy part?)

Although my previous post detailed the reasons I've found online courses to be subpar, I'm not actually the kind of person who needs/prefers to go sit in a classroom every week. Ironically, I loved my "on-campus" classes that had lecture audio (and s...

That rigid "white" requirement seems funny considering that flesh-toned underclothing is generally less obtrusive under white. [i had a colored classmate in CNA training many years ago and the instructor insisted that she MUST wear white undergarmen...

I have to admit that I"m glad that if I must wear all white, then at least they gave us freedom in choosing brand/style of white scrubs. Some of the ones that I tried on where much better than others! (And we no longer have to sew on patches!)

If you pick up the Reviews & Rationales book used, make sure it comes with the CD. Each chapter has 50 questions with 20 of them in the book and on the CD and another 30 "CD only" questions, so it's a bit of a rip-off if you get the book without ...

At my school, anatomy and physiology were separate and an intro biology course (either general intro or human bio) was not a pre-requisite. For some of my classmates, this created quite a struggle the first week or two of classes because my instructo...

Micro and pharmacology were my two least favorite courses. They seemed really heavy on memorization of lists of facts rather than needing to understand concepts. Don't get me wrong, there certainly are concepts to grasp in each, but to much more of i...