MU Nursingstudent

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1. why is med/surg so difficult?

   MU Nursingstudent replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

   It obviously is regional because we do take evidence-based research nursing as well the other sciences that I previously wrote about in this thread that I took. No we didn't take a "special"...

2. why is med/surg so difficult?

   MU Nursingstudent replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

   I'm always amazed by this. It must be other states are like this because where I live its not like that. As pre-req's I had to take organic chemistry, general chemistry, REAL microbiology (now the...

3. Your first semester/quarter grades

   MU Nursingstudent replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

   I know I wrote I had A's, B and B- lol and I'm sure people that got D's obviously are not in nursing school anymore. Also at my school an A is hard to get, a B has an abnormally large range, and a...

4. Does your school use a "test center"?

   MU Nursingstudent replied to Clovery's topic in General Students

   Welll c'mon at least you can choose if you'ld like to look at the wall or computer screen hahahahah seriously????? Thats crazy and sad that even adults are treated that way. Sad that there is that...

5. Attendance policy at your school

   MU Nursingstudent replied to lelafin's topic in General Students

   That may be... I'm in a BSN

6. Anyone taken Informatics

   MU Nursingstudent replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

   Ughhhhh that was the easiest and most boring class I think I took. We looked at informatics in lots of health-care aspects, such as: phone diagnostics for people at home, robotic surgery, virtual...

7. Attendance policy at your school

   MU Nursingstudent replied to lelafin's topic in General Students

   Wow thats nuts! You're adults in college..My school could care less if you attend, I mean they say students do better if attending but that we're adults and its our choice. Clinical and lab are...

8. How many people did you lose?

   MU Nursingstudent replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

   I can never count because we always seem to gain so many students. I don't know about the class in front of is.....I know we've lost 1 or 2 a semester but seems like we 5 or more from the class ahead...

9. Your first semester/quarter grades

   MU Nursingstudent replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

   I had a B+, A, A, and

10. Equipment needed for School

    MU Nursingstudent replied to number8's topic in General Students

    I bought a nice lil pair of scissors taht are small and work better then the hospital ones and I love em. I use them all the time at the hospital for wound care which seems to be everyone. They cost...

11. Equipment needed for School

    MU Nursingstudent replied to number8's topic in General Students

    I secondf and third the gift cards to starbucks..also nice bandage scissors not the big huge ones that my school had us buy that couldnt fit in ur scrubs but i bought some nice smaller metal ones. I...

12. How to use pain as a vital sign?

    MU Nursingstudent replied to maanggohs's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Not sure what you mean..Pain is still pain.. Anyhow if you're asking about charting it then every place is different a little. The hospital I'm at now has a place were you chart your pain assessment...

13. What do you ACTUALLY DO in clinicals?

    MU Nursingstudent replied to Nolander's topic in General Students

    We started clinicals in our second semester and we do lots and lots. Med.'s, injections, cath's, tube feedings, wound dressing changes, watched hemodialysis and a hepatic stent placement, central...

14. My worst fear come true.

    MU Nursingstudent replied to decembergrad2011's topic in General Students

    I'm so sorry for what you're going through. I can see how easy it is to make a mistake during clinicals, the enviroment itself makes it easy. Anyhow, I am thinking in my head about your med error...

15. How do you balance the demands of nursing school and life

    MU Nursingstudent replied to rntobe1105's topic in General Students

    not