elijahvegas ASN, RN, EMT-P

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    Grade venting!

    elijahvegas posted a topic in General Students

    So i just took yet another exam (3rd test in 4 weeks 0_0) so far so good im doing well. finally scored a 90 on this one, which is giving me hope to actually aim for an A because my last 2 scores were...
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    Grade venting!

    elijahvegas replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Students

    ordinarily, a B would be perfectly acceptable to me. Heck, in medic school, i was pretty content with my c average (of course, the grading scale was skewed for this program, and an 85 was still...
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    Grade venting!

    elijahvegas replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Students

    Ought the karma This past exam was probably one of the easier ones, if not easiest all semester. Everyone did so well. Even the ones that are generally lost in class. And I still only managed an 84 :/...
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    How many men in your cohort?

    elijahvegas replied to Caribbean Character's topic in Male Nursing Students

    That sounds amazing. 20 is
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    Aside from microbio, those are all first level classed that you can bang out within a year. Never heard of dosage and calc as a class ever. That stuff is just our hw. If you'd like to be called...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    You're actually saying a fresh new grad can handle a busy icu ? And I was referring to an ADN not
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    Yup, because clearly the education brought on by 2 years of nursing school prepared a new grad to run and stabilize 9 drips on a single patient whereas the ma would have crashed and burned getting...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    when I said fluff such as ethics and legal and safety, I'm talking a out the questions on exams I get where the right answer is to label a defective bp machine and take itnto an engineer rather than...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    That's something that actually annoys me about nursing curriculum. It seems like its designed to weed out professionals that would otherwise be quite great at their jobs. Its beginning to seem more...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    Its not snark. And I'm not offended by the question regardless, since I've been asked the very same thing by my friends and family after having started the program. The answer is, I wasn't (and still...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    as someone posted earlier, I fail to see what an rn knows, that an ma can't learn with some experience. Most of everything we learn as medical professionals is through experience. We can have it beat...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    People keep saying this and the like and I reply why ? What's the point other than to answer questions that your patient may or may not ask that you'll have to explain in layman's terms anyway? Hey...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    elijahvegas replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    statements like these as of late have really been beginning to irk me. Im all in favor of knowledge of pharmacology an pathophysiology, but you're not a low/mid level provider to act autonomously....
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    Grade venting!

    elijahvegas replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Students

    bahaha classic. they do like to throw in a lot of distractors and extra information in those drip calcs i cannot
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    I failed my Blood pressure assessment

    elijahvegas replied to Bluebrown's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    well for starters...you dont "hear" the diastolic..what you hear is the systolic blood pressure. the initial tapping is where the systolic is recorded, and at whatever point you CEASE to hear the...
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    Grade venting!

    elijahvegas replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Students

    oh wow 80 is passing ? that sounds rough that would definitely give me some testing anxiety. As far as my studying goes, ive realized that all of my notes are completely useless. Our exams are...
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    IRSC ADN Applying for fall 2013

    elijahvegas replied to Explorerone's topic in Florida Nursing

    good luck. Get ready to do a lot of reading. The most stressful part is just after being accepted, theres a million item to-do list that if you slip up on any part of it, you get dropped. after that...
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    Where do YOU sit in class?

    elijahvegas replied to Caribbean Character's topic in General Students

    i used to sit closer to the front up until i got my glasses. Now i generally sit in the back as so far my curriculum is pretty much self taught, i really dont even need to be in class at all lol. Ill...
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    not what i expected

    elijahvegas posted a topic in General Students

    3rd week into nursing school. Ive been doing a decent amount of studying and reading. It is more time consuming than I had realized (not that i didnt think id be spending majority of my time studying,...
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    not what i expected

    elijahvegas replied to elijahvegas's topic in General Students

    Yeah I kinda am in between whether I want anything to do with anyone or be on my own. I study better in a group that I can bounce ideas off of-- only when they know what's Going on. If I'm constantly...
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    How many men in your cohort?

    elijahvegas replied to Caribbean Character's topic in Male Nursing Students

    in class right now, roughly about 20 give or take, total of 74
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    Aspiring Male Nurse - Expectations?

    elijahvegas replied to d4rkenrahl's topic in Male Nursing Students

    couldn't tell you how canada works, might wanna switch over to the internation forum for that. But i can tell you that you can spend "a couple years" working your way up the corporate ladder trying to...
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    IRSC ADN Applying for fall 2013

    elijahvegas replied to Explorerone's topic in Florida Nursing

    what chapters should we have read by the first day of class? cant seem to find my syllabus atm
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    IRSC ADN Applying for fall 2013

    elijahvegas replied to Explorerone's topic in Florida Nursing

    scott, i had the same issue. if you log in and click on my account (granted you've registered correctly) itll show your "Paper/Pencil ID #" needed for the first
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    Class of 2015

    elijahvegas replied to MommaTy's topic in General Students

    What?? That's