sun1shine1

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1. new nurse graduate's concerns about Nclex

   sun1shine1 replied to bbpp's topic in New Nurse

   check your state board's website. most of your questions will be answered there. also once you have graduated from an accredited nursing school, they don't take away your diploma. you won't have to go back. :)

2. My Criminal Record

   sun1shine1 replied to Jeanne CLC's topic in General Students

   In Louisiana, we had to disclose everything at the time of our application to clinicals. We had to be okayed by the SBN before being allowed to start the program. I wrote a bad check once (false pretenses), it was a misdemeanor, I disclosed, I sent i...

3. Jobs at hospitals and credit checks...

   sun1shine1 replied to NO1_2NV's topic in General Students

   I also think that a verification through the SBN would be better than a credit check. My husband's been unemployed since July (just got a job last week :)), so right now our credit is really hurting. With all of the other tests, checks, and physicals...

4. What do you think has been the hardest/easiest classes you've taken in nursing school

   sun1shine1 replied to MarcyRN3385's topic in General Students

   Hardest: Med-Surg 2 (endocrine esp) - Nobody made an A in that class and 25% had to repeat it. I've heard that it's tons easier after that! Ob/Peds now (10 credit hours = 900 gazillion hrs/wk of reading, classes, working on yet another project) Psych...

5. IV's

   sun1shine1 replied to sofaraway04's topic in General Students

   We learned IVs in our 3rd (of 6) clinicals. We can do it all except verify blood (2 RN's) and physically connect the blood to the pt. Even though we just started clinicals this semester (Mardi Gras delayed us a bit ), my instructors this semester hav...

6. Struggling to pass Nursing III-any advice?

   sun1shine1 replied to beckabeckahi's topic in General Students

   Ew!! We got those question-to-unit ratios in Med-Surg II (our 3rd clinical course). Now it's not as bad!! I struggled with those pick the most correct/best answer questions. But I got the NCLEX Review made incredibly easy for this semester, and it's ...

7. I'm sorry, but some nursing diagnoses are just ridiculous!

   sun1shine1 replied to klone's topic in General Students

   I've actually used disturbed energy field. We had to do this crazy case study our first semester, and we had to include 12 (TWELVE) nsg dx. After about 5 or 6 on my guy who was only in for an open reduction following a fx @ work, I was really graspin...

8. Financial Aid gripe

   sun1shine1 replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Students

   I've been getting screwed by financial aid for years. Now that I'm almost done with school, I have no more eligibility. I worked 50+ hr/wk the entire year before I started nursing school, and now I only do 10 hr/wk federal workstudy (at 5.15/h). I do...

9. Nursing school harder than expected!!!

   sun1shine1 replied to Maria22's topic in General Students

   For pharm: I do the "enter a room and diagnose everybody" tactic. "oooh See that vein popping oiut of his head; he's prolly got HTN. I bet he takes an ACE I - those end in -pril. It does...; s/e are...; call the MD when...; I know it's working by...;...

10. Salary to expect as a new grad nurse

    sun1shine1 replied to ashfost's topic in New Nurse

    I'm hearing around the $20/hr range here in south Louisiana. Check salary.com. I was trying to figure this out earlier tonight too!!

11. Nurse Per Student Ratio in Clinicals?

    sun1shine1 replied to KristinWW's topic in General Nursing

    I am in my second semester of clinicals now. In my first semester we had 10 students per faculty member per clinical day (we only went one day a week per group. the instructors each had 2 days of clinicals = 20 students total.) Our care maps and d...