ImThatGuy BSN, RN

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    Which of the nursing pre-reqs did you find the most difficult?

    ImThatGuy replied to guevarrar's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'd say chemistry was the hardest, of those listed, because it required meticulous lab work, which I despise, and lots of math. I didn't take chemistry as a nursing prereq. I took both of them with...
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    Which of these should I take in the same semester?

    ImThatGuy replied to MattL's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'd take pathophysiology after A&P 2 so that'd leave you with microbiology to take with A&P 2 which I'd think would be handy before patho. Or you could take real chemistry one and two with...
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    How should I study during nursing school??

    ImThatGuy replied to STU4ADN's topic in General Students

    I think there are two schools of thought. One, you can literally study over every detail of the book and lecture until your eyes bleed so that you put thought into all of it and commit all of it...
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    Lacking direction

    ImThatGuy replied to CharlotteDarcy's topic in General Students

    And that's bad
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    UGH! I Hate Psychiatric Nursing ....

    ImThatGuy replied to PacoUSA's topic in General Students

    We didn't have clinicals, but I really liked the lecture and made an A in it. I noticed most others in the class did not though. I had abnormal psychology back when I received my first degree...
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    Lacking direction

    ImThatGuy replied to CharlotteDarcy's topic in General Students

    My clinicals merely confirmed that med/surg-types of environments are NOT for me AT ALL, and that I'd jump off the Earth if I had to work in a nursing home for a living. I'm on the fence with the...
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    Lacking direction

    ImThatGuy replied to CharlotteDarcy's topic in General Students

    I want to go into the ER because it has a diverse array of visitors and they get funneled out quickly. Really I don't care. I just want the patients to move through my work space
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    Would you take the LPN test?

    ImThatGuy posted a topic in General Students

    If you could, would you take the LPN test assuming you'd finished enough of your RN or RN/BSN program to do so? The 13 of us in my cohort were informed the other day that at the end of the semester...
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    how to make the most of my peds clinical rotation?

    ImThatGuy replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in Pediatric

    I school nursed in my community health class this past Monday. It was kind of cool. It was for grades one through
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    how to make the most of my peds clinical rotation?

    ImThatGuy replied to ashleyisawesome's topic in Pediatric

    My peds rotation will consist of 12 hours of observation in a children's hospital, and that's
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    Do you actually read the assigned reading?

    ImThatGuy replied to windmill182's topic in General Students

    And that's why you're awesome. I thought I was a rebel for not buying the "required" workbooks. They make us (or try to) buy those and end up requiring only like one page out of the whole semester...
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    Do you actually read the assigned reading?

    ImThatGuy replied to windmill182's topic in General Students

    In a word, no. Would I ever consider it? No. Would I suggest it?
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    Become a successful Nurse if you hate A&P?

    ImThatGuy replied to Enmc412's topic in General Nursing

    I honestly don't know of any nurses or nursing students that liked A&P or any other science classes. I'm the oddball. I liked the science classes more than the nursing classes. Pathophysiology...
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    Is nursing for me?

    ImThatGuy replied to emptyboxcars's topic in General Students

    Yeah, an ideal job for me is randomly sitting in an office for a while, walking around, and then driving around maybe so I have an excuse to go get lunch and run errands while I talk to whoever...
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    How many credits will you have toward your degree?

    ImThatGuy replied to Despareux's topic in General Students

    Nah the paramedic thing was cheap and a good investment. The BS came with an academic scholarship. And tuition was less than half what it is now when I took the accounting courses. The BSN program is...
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    Nursing School Not For Me

    ImThatGuy replied to daniellevw's topic in General Students

    I'll lay out our core classes and rotations. Foundations: 9 days. 8 hours each. Worked out to about 5.5 hours of patient time. All nursing home. Acute Care: 9 days. 8 hours each. Worked out to...
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    Ob rotation

    ImThatGuy replied to CrazziiRN913's topic in General Students

    Rain coat and rubber boots. Births can be
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    How is it going so far?

    ImThatGuy replied to windmill182's topic in General Students

    Chaos. Complete disorganization in scheduling and curricular requirements. Everyother day they produce a new semester
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    How many credits will you have toward your degree?

    ImThatGuy replied to Despareux's topic in General Students

    Well, I have a bachelor's degree and around 60 credits on top of that from grad school and some business classes plus an additional 44 (I think) back from paramedic school pre-Bachelor's degree....
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    Pediatric or Psychiatry NP?

    ImThatGuy replied to **00**'s topic in General Nursing

    O The psych route seems to be a sound business strategy. There exists a shortage of psychiatrists and other prescribers eager to make a career out of writing psychotropics. It'd benefit your...
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    Is nursing for me?

    ImThatGuy replied to emptyboxcars's topic in General Students

    Thinking and knowing appeal to me more than doing also - or at least in regards to health and healthcare. I assumed nursing school would be more in depth than it really is since people always tout the...
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    med surg

    ImThatGuy replied to AngelofSeduction's topic in General Students

    Honestly I thought acute care, our equivalent of "med surg," was rather thoughtless, very boring, and not all that time consuming. The difficulty for all of us, not just me, was more in appearing...
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    How long did it take you to get into a program?

    ImThatGuy replied to willowita's topic in General Students

    Again, timing is often the key to life's successes. The program I got into was at my alma mater. I held a degree from there already with all prereqs completed in my prior degree sans nutrition which...
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    Nursing Diagnosis- NO MORE??

    ImThatGuy replied to Rachey467's topic in General Students

    I see nothing at all wrong with nurses being used to gather information and administer physician ordered treatments. I think NANDA diagnoses are stupid as well. If it's emphysema, as someone used as...
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    Second Career Nurses

    ImThatGuy replied to DAL2010's topic in General Students

    You don't have to know what you want to do or what you're going to do. I never did and had fun. I'm a career changer (if I do decide to change), and I know now that nursing isn't something I care to...