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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

  16. New Nursing Students- Spring/Fall 2012

    MU Nursingstudent replied to PedsHopeful's topic in General Students

    Awww, not my place to chime in but I can't help but reminisce. I was reading and writing on these threads this time last year. I remember the anticipation, every week waiting to start like a year :)...

  17. Owe an outrageous amount of money to community college

    MU Nursingstudent replied to AddisonLawrence03's topic in General Students

    ahhhhhh i'm

  18. Biology Prerequisites

    MU Nursingstudent replied to Clever Username's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We had A and P together but there a few schools by me that do them seperate as well. Even though mine was together they still were taught seperate and I found anatomy to be the easiest because it was...

  19. Mean nursing instructors

    MU Nursingstudent replied to nicki123's topic in General Students

    There is a huge difference between being an instructor being tough on a student and creating an enviroment where students become so intimidated by their instructors that they cannot even ask simple...

  20. Mean nursing instructors

    MU Nursingstudent replied to nicki123's topic in General Students

    Wow, I have to completely agree with the post above me. It's not okay and it doesn't help anyone learn better in an enviroment were you are scared to ask questions for fear of standing out and making...

  21. Awkward situation

    MU Nursingstudent replied to Student7881's topic in General Students

    I understand that it is ind of like gossiping but I honestly don't feel like talking to your sister who doesn't even know the people that she's talking about is really gossip. She's not spreading...

  22. funny

    MU Nursingstudent replied to nurse12b's topic in General Students

    Hahhaa I was just watching that the other day :) I used to watch it with my aunt when I was little because she would always watch it cause she's a

  23. Summer before Nursing!

    MU Nursingstudent replied to greenwackus's topic in General Students

    Relax and enjoy! I know it's hard though, I was so excited to start I didn't enjoy my time before starting at all! I wish I had though because it's so stressful I don't have a lot of time to do as...

  24. Got my rejection letter today..

    MU Nursingstudent replied to tnearthmama's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I hope everything works out for you! I know its hard and it may be a good idea to look around if you have other schools near beause a lot of schools do have that rule about forgiving past grades so...

  25. Accepted!!! (interview questions discussed)

    MU Nursingstudent replied to laurah4k's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Congratulations!!!!!!!! That is wonderful and good luck!!