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I've been learning from Daytonite for years after her passing and only just discovered why she seemed to have disappeared from allnurses. RIP Daytonite, I appreciate your hard work for students and the profession of nursing!

so far skyscape is the number one free app I've found for looking up drugs and procedures. I've used medscape, webmd, epocrates and a couple others. None of them compare.

Every place will be different. I always took my backpack to every clinical, and would leave my valuables in it. Sometimes I'd leave my backpack in the staff room, sometimes right next next to the charge nurse depending on which rotation I was in. Jus...

My wife and I got into nursing school during the same semester, so we've gone through our clinicals and classes together. It's been a pretty great experience, she's a very dependable study partner!

Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. We have had the opposite experience for our rotations which may or may not be due to the fact that it's a teaching hospital. All of the nurses, docs etc expect to have students around and so far everybody...

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could you please explain the reasoning for requiring the following permission? thanks!

My experience was that the math was exactly the same, they'd just changed the numbers. I got 100% on the math and I owe it entirely to the ATI study guide.

While I don't know anything about the PAX review book, I do have experience with the official TEAS Study Guide that I purchased from Barnes and Noble for about $30. I studied the guide an hour or so a day for two weeks and got a 99th percentile score...

Study harder on the material in that book. I spent a week focusing on that ATI TEAS V study guide and got a 99th percentile score. I didn't see a single thing on the test that wasn't covered in the study guide somewhere.

My school only had about 120 applicants for 70 spots, but I was apparently on the bottom of the acceptance list with a 3.6 GPA (on ~10 core classes that they use for acceptance, my overall GPA was a 3.1 as well) and a 99th percentile TEAS score. The ...

I spent 4 days poring over the official ati study guide, took both of the practice tests that came in the back of the book, and then just went for it. I ended up with a 99th percentile score. I didn't see a single question that wasn't covered in the ...

I don't mind being deployed to Afghanistan a couple times, but I want to know if I can guarantee it will be as a nurse and not as a soldier. If the government pays for me to get a BSN they'll want me to use it, right? According to the recruiter I wou...

Hi folks, I'm a first semester BSN student thinking about joining the Army Reserve and ROTC program. The picture painted by my recruiter is enticing, but I'd like some outside input. According to a pamphlet titled "US Army Reserve and ROTC Benefits ...

There are about 15 guys in our class of 70, most of us are 25-30, but there are a few that are around 20.

My wife and I are both nursing students and have an 18 month old. He's in daycare until 5 and goes to bed around 8:30, we just make sure to spend those few hours with him, and spend the rest of the time studying. Seems to work so far.

No, but the questions on TEAS 5 are identical TYPES as the ones in the official ATI study guide. So basically if you understand the concept to ALL the questions in that study guide, you have no excuse for getting less than a 90%!

http://www.wesnorman.com/ - found this link awhile back while trying to study up. It's got some good information and is worth bookmarking.

Perhaps it depends on the school. It didn't in mine according to the advisor. We ended up with a 15% male class.

Our professors tell us that oxygen is considered a drug because you need a physicians order to give it to a patient. Assuming that is the case nationwide, then the argument is settled. Whether or not it is an actual drug, you are still required to tr...

Ask your advisor how they calculate entrance scores. For my school it was something like 50% comes from your grades, 30% comes from the TEAS, and 20% came from experience / volunteer work. They had a scale where if you'd worked so many number of hour...

The practice booklet is essential. It comes with two paper practice exams which are also very helpful. I used the study guide straight for about a week and ended up with a 99th percentile score. I can guarantee that without the study guide I would ha...

I was accepted into my school Idaho State University with a 3.56 gpa. They said that ~3.4-5 was the lowest that made it in even though they would accept as low as 3.0. There were only about 130 applications for 70 spots, which is pretty nice.

Bumping this thread because i am also interested... :)

I'm having trouble being consistent with the phase 1 systolic pressure. Using the same stethoscope as other students I'm often getting readings that are 6-8 below what they are hearing. I usually hear tiny sounds from myself or the patients slight mo...