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  1. managing Hypoglycemia during clinicals?

    sjalv replied to Danilu14's topic in General Students

    I'm not diabetic but I've never had an issue where I couldn't use the restroom or eat a snack if I needed to during clinical. Just check on your patient before you do either, and ask the nurse of the...

  2. 16 Common Nursing School Interview Questions & Answers

    sjalv replied to TheCommuter's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I've always thought my school was peculiar in that it doesn't have interviews for admission. That's not to say it isn't hard to get into; it's the only ADN program within a 50 mile radius. There's...

  3. Professors fail everyone?

    sjalv replied to PerkyNurse55's topic in General Students

    All that aside, I'll never understand why some people post threads asking for insight on scenarios that only their teachers/school can help them with. We know nothing about the OP's past academic...

  4. Professors fail everyone?

    sjalv replied to PerkyNurse55's topic in General Students

    What's appalling is that a presumably adult student would expect their grade to be bumped up based on

  5. Excited about starting nursing school this spring

    sjalv replied to dannygurl84's topic in General Students

    Congrats to all of y'all. I graduate in the spring and I must say that nothing can really prepare you for nursing school. You kind of just survive. One of my instructors put it this way: Nursing...

  6. Orientation Question

    sjalv replied to JACSN's topic in General Students

    This is for school orientation, though, not a clinical orientation. In any case, orientation at a clinical site will usually require the student to be in their scrubs

  7. Orientation Question

    sjalv replied to JACSN's topic in General Students

    People seem to recommend business casual from what I have read in past threads. However, at my orientation for RN school, it was very casual like the previous poster described. What you do there will...

  8. Professors fail everyone?

    sjalv replied to PerkyNurse55's topic in General Students

    I can't tell if this is a serious question. You get the grade that you earn. That is almost always determined by how well you do on assigned papers / lecture exams. The effort you put forth is a...

  9. Post semester blues

    sjalv replied to BertG77's topic in General Students

    No, I'm in an ADN program. 2nd semester, in my program, is when med/surg is first introduced and clinicals begin in the hospital setting. Test questions got a lot harder, there were more exams so less...

  10. Post semester blues

    sjalv replied to BertG77's topic in General Students

    This is how it was in my program. 2nd semester was killer and we started that semester with 31 and ended with

  11. Post semester blues

    sjalv replied to BertG77's topic in General Students

    You don't really learn anything in the first semester of RN school. That may be a controversial opinion but really, what do you learn? Basic lab values? Signs and symptoms of too much potassium, if...

  12. Dear Nursing Instructor

    sjalv replied to Fearless_leader's topic in General Students

    I consider myself a relaxed person too. All I'm saying is that the fluency with which one speaks English is usually a factor others consider when determining how credible that person is. By using poor...

  13. Dear Nursing Instructor

    sjalv replied to Fearless_leader's topic in General Students

    I can personally say, as someone who spends a considerable amount of time on the Internet, that I take people less seriously if they use incorrect

  14. What type of laptop should I get?

    sjalv replied to Miss-kate's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It is my personal opinion that I do not see the point in spending $1k+ on an Apple laptop (whether it be a Macbook Air, MBP, etc) when you could spend like $500 at Best Buy getting a Windows laptop...

  15. How to prepare for nursing school?

    sjalv replied to JACSN's topic in General Students

    As a student about to go into his final semester of RN school, I can honestly say there is no way I could have prepared for nursing

  16. Language etiquette?

    sjalv replied to sweetmama81's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There was a heated thread about this a few months ago. I speak Swedish and Spanish and my opinion is you shouldn't speak a foreign language in the company of those who do not speak it, at least not in...

  17. Perfume at work?

    sjalv replied to fawnmarie's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I'm a guy and wear cologne almost everywhere, but not to work/clinicals. I was taught it could worsen a person's work of breathing, or just be generally

  18. Who else has had great instructors?

    sjalv posted a topic in General Students

    We often see threads about instructors who are cruel, unreasonable, and catty. This will be one about instructors who want students to succeed and show it. I'm entering my final semester of RN school...

  19. Dear Nursing Instructor

    sjalv replied to Fearless_leader's topic in General Students

    After reading this thread, I'm glad I'm a male and don't have to worry about

  20. The most annoying student

    sjalv replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in General Students

    I'm glad you recognize how flawed your thought process

  21. The most annoying student

    sjalv replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in General Students

    People tend to get defensive when others insinuate they are lying without a reason provided for thinking

  22. The most annoying student

    sjalv replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in General Students

    Yes, because nursing students have time to write fictitious accounts about their clinical mates on a public forum, and it sits so high on their list of

  23. Name one of your favorite things about being a male nurse.

    sjalv replied to DatMurse's topic in Men in Nursing

    Totes mirin brah #gymdouche #hashtagsonAllNurses #thisisntInstagram. Have to wake up in 6 hours to meet my #gymbro at the gym so I should be asleep but #yolo ^I tried to make that post as douchey as...

  24. Dear Nursing Instructor

    sjalv replied to Fearless_leader's topic in General Students

    I read about horror stories concerning experiences with nursing instructors all the time on this site, so I count myself lucky that I have had wonderful nursing instructors all around. That's...

  25. Unreasonable instructor?

    sjalv replied to MunozLisa's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    First off, if your instructor is on this forum, he's going to know you're talking about him regardless if you specified the school or not. These are very detailed and specific instances. In my...