2ndyearstudent

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  1. What in the drug calculation is this???

    2ndyearstudent replied to UumiNurseX's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yeah, they like to use a couple different approximations for grains to mg and not explain why. As you know, one conversion is gr I = 65 mg. Hey, but there is another one. gr X = 600 mg Those two...

  2. Horrible at word problems

    2ndyearstudent replied to Darkpk55's topic in General Students

    Even though you go to some sort of alternative school, that school has to provide or help put you on contact with resources that can help you with the learning challenges you have described. Good...

  3. What in the drug calculation is this???

    2ndyearstudent replied to UumiNurseX's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Your co-instructor is incorrect. If you run into this question on other tests, just answer the question and don't use your crazy instructor's interpretation. What would be the maximum dosage the...

  4. Easy way to remember ABG's?

    2ndyearstudent replied to SerenityR.N.'s topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The very best way is to understand the underlying chemistry and physiology. Once you do that, you never need a

  5. Can anyone dumb down this Hesi thing for me?

    2ndyearstudent replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    The scores are rankings. You are at the top. You either knew your stuff way better than your classmates or you rolled some hot

  6. Horrible at word problems

    2ndyearstudent replied to Darkpk55's topic in General Students

    Are you in the United

  7. Maslow's First Level, sex?

    2ndyearstudent replied to MEDICJOHN's topic in General Students

    Can you tell me a little about how sex education is viewed in other developed countries as opposed to America? What are the rates of condom use and STD spread in the US as opposed to other developed...

  8. Horrible at word problems

    2ndyearstudent replied to Darkpk55's topic in General Students

    Hello, You have made many posts describing learning or skill deficiencies. I believe you said you are still in high school. Have you gone to your guidance counselors for help or possibly to be...

  9. Working w/ Home Health Agency

    2ndyearstudent replied to frogkicker's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    After a while this stuff doesn't even bother me, I just say "No way" and they can call the Case Manager if they want. I have one client whose daughter is a complete OCD neat freak. The Care Plan...

  10. Maslow's First Level, sex?

    2ndyearstudent replied to MEDICJOHN's topic in General Students

    Sexual health is part of the basic functioning of every human being. You and many others seem to be interpreting the placement in Maslow based only on how often someone has sex. This is a mistake, it...

  11. Maslow's First Level, sex?

    2ndyearstudent replied to MEDICJOHN's topic in General Students

    Choosing to remain celibate is vastly different from being celibate do to inability to be aroused or perform. The ability to be aroused and/or perform sexually are indeed basic physiological needs...

  12. Reading Nursing Fundamentals prior to NS?

    2ndyearstudent replied to Strwbrywne's topic in General Students

    I still hate my Perry and Potter Fundamentals book and am very glad I didn't read it at all before nursing school. I don't think I would have got anything out of independent study before starting the...

  13. F&E Test

    2ndyearstudent replied to adnrnstudent's topic in General Students

    I once presented to my instructors, in writing, concerns about shockingly low test scores among peers. The official response was, "They can make it up on future exams." No one found it that...

  14. Maslow's First Level, sex?

    2ndyearstudent replied to MEDICJOHN's topic in General Students

    It isn't about how much action a person is getting. Did you go for a year without sex because you were physically unable to have sex? If so, then your ability to live your left is hampered on the...

  15. Maslow's First Level, sex?

    2ndyearstudent replied to MEDICJOHN's topic in General Students

    Of course sex is a basic function and basic need. Why is everyone's undies so bunched by this? Think of your patients. You have a couple and one of them suddenly lacks any interest in sex. Is that...

  16. anyone else experience burnout before nursing school?

    2ndyearstudent replied to oklahomagal's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You haven't even started to feel burnout yet. You'll get through it

  17. Is chemistry important to become a nurse?

    2ndyearstudent replied to strawberryluv's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    People who insist on hating chemistry often cannot be convinced otherwise. These are often the very same people who stumbled through basic physiology because they thought that was stupid too. (Because...

  18. Second year of NS and not feeling smart enough

    2ndyearstudent replied to bella147's topic in General Students

    I felt like that too. I wasn't thinking ahead, I was going off the MAR. Partway through clinicals this semester, my wonderful instructor changed our clinical documentation a bit. We still had the...

  19. Working w/ Home Health Agency

    2ndyearstudent replied to frogkicker's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Great questions - I've been a Home Health and Hospice Aide for a year now. "I will be certified soon and I am trying to decide what avenue to take other than LTC." - I had to work in LTC for a couple...

  20. am i being unreasonable

    2ndyearstudent replied to titans767's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I often shifted to other floors at the nursing home and was happy to help out. Other CNAs flatly refused. I worked on the TCU so I might have a brand new admit I knew nothing about every day I worked....

  21. Accepted into the ADN program!

    2ndyearstudent replied to derky82's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Congrats!! Now remember....you asked for

  22. To the nurses on the floor at my clinical site

    2ndyearstudent replied to DolceVita's topic in General Students

    Great post. Mine were every bit as good and we told them

  23. Starting Clinicals, Hepatitis B Vaccine question

    2ndyearstudent replied to nursegc's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I am so glad the worm finally turned on this. A year or two ago if this subject was posted, the thread would be absolutely dominated by nut

  24. Remembering Cranial Nerves

    2ndyearstudent replied to ballerinagurl's topic in General Students

    Reminds me of my favorite mnemonic; Oh Oh Oh To Touch And Feel A Girl's lady parts, Ah Heaven! Classmates who have MDs for relatives told me this one; the girls in my study groups preferred it over...

  25. Appropriate or no?

    2ndyearstudent replied to Eponine's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I brought thank you cards to my professors' offices. I never even considered what anyone else would think of it. It's a thank you note; it is appropriate for a vast array of