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    Home med lists make me crazy.

    RLtinker replied to imintrouble's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe you should wake up the DR. at 0300, then maybe they will start doing a complete med
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    cheating on NS

    RLtinker replied to AloeBlox's topic in General Students

    Never seen anyone do it, since I am always engrossed in my exams anyways. But I have heard of people going to some elaborate measures to cheat. You have to ask how ethical will these people be when...
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    Low GPA Options

    RLtinker replied to gnvant's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Honestly, you will just have to do the leg work. Every school has different admission requirements and a GPA minimum is a typical one. They have to weed out applicants some how. When I did my first...
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    How do you study with so many distractions?

    RLtinker replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    Oh this a grate idea, I wish I thought of it in semester
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    Hyperglycemia or Dehydration what to treat first

    RLtinker replied to hazzadis's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If you have lab values for K+, do you have the other lab values as well. The glucous has us all thinking this is a diabetic, but we don't know what type of diabetic the pt is. Anyway, whether it is...
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    I am SO mad.

    RLtinker replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    That's a good way to get kicked out of NS. Face book and ns are not a good
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    med error

    RLtinker replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Students

    Med errors are not good. But it is strange that there is a hold order on a long acting insulin like
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    Afraid of any math!!!!! Heellpp!!!!

    RLtinker replied to LALA_MA2bLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Dosage cal, isn't to complicated and you certainly shouldn't be scared of it. For the most part it is conversions and there are a few you will use over and over again. lb to kg mcg to mg to g to kg...
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    Need help learning A&P

    RLtinker replied to ILoveHealthCare's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Sounds like a typical AP class, however at my school AP1 and AP2 are part of the admission requirements. We are on a point based system. But anyways, AP is just a lot of memorization. Anatomy wise,...
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    Pharmacology - how hard is it?

    RLtinker replied to MTmomofsix's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I think this is one of the things that depends on the school and teacher. Our basic Pharm was 16 weeks and consisted of the first 8 chapters of the Pharm book. Now here is the stupid part, adv. pharm...
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    LVN student failed final exam

    RLtinker replied to smith_tiff06's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Depends on the class policy, usually the final is weighted as 2 exams or 20% of the final grade. Besides typically you can only take a class twice anyways and have it count. At least that is policy at...
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    Does your LPN program take off points for writing on tests?

    RLtinker replied to decoupe71's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Pirate? I think I need some explanation on this. But anyway, no we don't get count off, intact it is encouraged. It would be hard for them to use the same tests anyways since every exam has math...
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    Drug Cards are Lame!!

    RLtinker replied to Despareux's topic in General Students

    I have to
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    What is the average of a nursing student?

    RLtinker replied to mee9mee9's topic in General Students

    I'am 31 and I would say the majority of my classmates are in thier mid
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    Virtual Clinical Excursions

    RLtinker replied to Tracey2bRN's topic in General Students

    Good god do I hate VCE's and they take forever to complete. Turned in my last one Thursday for my OB/Peds class, I sure hope I don't have to do them
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    When do clinicals normally start?

    RLtinker replied to GodIs082010's topic in General Students

    We started on week 4 the 1st
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    Refusing a Clinical assignment

    RLtinker replied to SheldonCooperPHD's topic in General Students

    I don't think I could respond to this without knowing why or what you wanted to
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    What time do you start clinical?

    RLtinker replied to SBJustBreathe's topic in General Students

    6:30am with an hour commute, last semester we started at 12. God, I miss last
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    Morphine PCA

    RLtinker replied to hubcaps's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    What they teach us in school ( I am a nursing student) is that only the pt. can push the PCA button. I wonder if this peds rule is
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    Would you rather? An Application Process Discussion

    RLtinker replied to 2BRN123's topic in General Students

    My school is based of a point system. The points are based off of 4 classes and the TEAS. It works like this, we get x number of points for each letter grade in each of 4 subjects. An A in English and...
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    Nursing student afraid of urinary catheters!

    RLtinker replied to 49*1's topic in General Students

    As a guy myself, I can say you will quickly become numb to a lot of stuff that may have bugged you before. Our normal as nursing students makes normal mortals cringe. Caths, needles, blood, stool,...
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    Why is there so much rudeness?

    RLtinker replied to KB1975's topic in General Students

    I think there are many reasons, Is the poster just being strait to the point and is that coming off as rude when they don't mean too? Or are they just rude? Does the poster think the OP is being lazy...
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    Did you have to brush your classmates teeth?

    RLtinker replied to pixiestudent2's topic in General Students

    We did the basic ADLs on each other, including bed baths, brushing teeth, shaved each other,bed pans, ect. We used soap and water.And no we didn't clean each others peri areas, we had mannequins for...
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    Question About Scratch Paper

    RLtinker replied to xInspiredx's topic in TEAS Exam Help

    I think they gave us about 5 sheets, you needed it for the follow direction part of the test as well as the
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    The larger the gauge of the needle the smaller diameter???

    RLtinker replied to CrystalClear75's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The gauge is a reference to the diameter of the needle. Higher the gauge the smaller the needles diameter. The length is given as a different measurement. For an example for an IM you might use a 23 g...