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I'm also a nursing student, 6 weeks from the end of my second semester, and the only thing I want to do is work in NICU!!! I'm hoping to get into a nurse extern program in NICU, and then I am applying for the new grad program at the children's hospi...

First semester was Microbiology on Tuesdays (3 hours of class, 2 hours of lab, with an hour for lunch), Study Skills (1 hour) and Chemistry (2 hours of class, 2 hours of lab) on Wednesday, Nursing 100 theory & lab (2 hours), and Human Growth and ...

We met the Albuquerque campus' nursing director a couple months ago, and she seems really great! She toured our campus and spent a couple of days observing the classes. Be prepared to study A LOT!! Of course, that goes for any nursing program, bu...

I am about to finish my first sequence (16 weeks) at PMI, and I have to say I love it! The teachers are great, and really willing to help you, as long as you ask for the help!!! Yes, the classes are hard...but I'd rather have hard classes and know th...

I started working on my prereqs when I was 45...I'm now 48 and start the nursing program in January. So no, you are far from too old!!!! Age is a number, and since we all live longer and have to work longer in our lives than people did before, why ...

I have heard too many bad stories about Maryvale (Scaryvale) to ever work there! I won't say what I've heard due to confidentiality, but Maryvale is at the bottom of my list!!!! I haven't heard anything about their ER though.

I work with Jason (Dr. Knight) a LOT!!! He's a good guy! Lucille is a sweetie...very funny...but very demanding! Told me my first night in ER that she expects the copier to be full when she comes in!!!! LOL But I took her at her word and make su...

If you're ever working at County through agency (I don't know if you ever work nights), go through ER and see if Terre is listed on the assignment board as the HUC. If so, come and say hi! Did you know Lucille, Sara, Kim, or Marc (the day & swi...

They are all there still! Most of those nurses work day shift, and since I work nights, I don't work with them much, but I know all of them and they are great people. Dr. Blackburn is a hoot!!!! I work with him a lot when he's attending in ER at n...

Haven't had time to post since school started! I just finished my 2nd week of A&P2. We are doing the endocrine system, and it's pretty interesting, other than trying to memorize all the hormones! We only have four tests in the semester in class...

A couple of the nurses I work with had a great suggestion that I thought I would share. They suggested getting a digital voice recorder to record all the lectures. I found one on eBay for $40, and it downloads to your PC, so you can save the lectur...

My first day is Jan. 17th, both lecture and lab, and I am actually anxious to get started!!! Not that I'm not enjoying the break, but I am ready to get started again. (Actually, I'm ready to be finished...getting really burned out on school and wor...

Using the Tortora one too, but it's the 11th edition. For A&P1, we used the 10th, so I had to buy the new book. Found it on eBay for about $30 less than at the school bookstore though, which was good! Terre

I don't know about the LPN to RN bridge, but I have done all the testing, interviews, essay, etc. for the full nursing associates degree program at Pima Medical, and if I get in (which it looks like my chances are good), I will be going there. I'm n...

Thank God they're over!!!! For the next month, I am not thinking about school (well, gonna try anyway!), then on to A&P 2. Terre

I agree...I know the LPN's I work with are capable of doing the job!!! It's just the hospital "scope of practice" thing that prevents it. Same with me...I am an EMT-B, but work as a health unit coordinator while I go to nursing school. We have had...

Well, there are some things that an RN does that an LPN doesn't, at least in the hospital I work in. LPN's can't push narcotics, and they must have an RN take or sign off on their telephone orders, and I'm sure that there are some other things, but ...

It's been 3 semesters for me since I took A&P 1 (not by choice...the A&P 2 class fills up FAST!!!) But since it's the only science I am taking, I'm hoping that I will do fine with it. I was going to take Micro in the same semester, but deci...

i am also starting a&p 2 in january. thanks so much for the links for all the sites!!! those could come in very handy!!! one of them i already had, because the link was for my a&p 1 instructors site!!!! http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~minckle...

Hi Mary, I only have two prereqs left, A&P 2 and Micro (since they are taking out the CNA requirement.) That's why I am in such a dilemma. If I take them both this semester and pass, I'm done with it and can apply to the MCC program during this...

I wasn't able to get into McGaughey's class (It filled up fast! I think everyone wants to get into her class! I was there an hour and a half before registration started, and still didn't get into her class.) I have Aaron for A&P 2 (I hear he's...

Actually, I wanted to take one of the classes online through Rio, or both...but because I have financial aid through MCC, they said I couldn't do it without paying for it myself, and I don't have the money to do that right now. I love online classes...

I am finishing my prereqs next semester, I think. (I am registered for A&P 2 and micro in the spring, but am having second thoughts about taking the two together, since I have found out a little more about the teachers and how tough it's going t...

I took ENG102 online, and as long as you have the discipline, plus the essay writing ability, it's a good way to do it. I believe we wrote 5 essays over the entire semester, you can do it on your own time, and don't have to sit in class. (I enjoy E...