MN-Nurse

MN-Nurse ASN, RN

Med Surg - Renal

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  1. I bought the "Exam Cram Practice Questions" book on a whim the other day. It looks good, has 1200 practice questions and is easy to carry around. However, it's riddled with errors. By question 50...
  2. How long to get ATT?

    Same here; about a week. Not all schools are the same though. I just talked to coworker going through some nightmare where her school is not releasing grades until after completion AND remediation...
  3. Is making friends in school important?

    It depends. Is making friends in general important to you? It is to me and the friendships I made helped make nursing school far more fulfilling and enjoyable. Some of these people will be in my...
  4. Career Switch Update

    Actually, I would think bank tellers have more stability than nurses these days. No one doubted you could support a family with a nursing degree. People did ask why you want to get a nursing degree...
  5. What makes med-surg class seem hard to you?

    In my program it was the pace. A LOT of topics and information to cover in a short time. I spent more time studying for M/S than any other class - and I'm glad I
  6. I believe they told us to leave it alone. No water or alcohol as long as everything is looking all
  7. Career Switch Update

    Am I reading your post correctly in that you might want to get a nursing degree so you can support yourself while you go to school for
  8. Is a tablet a good investment for nursing school

    Tablets look cool but I never saw anyone really use them for anything you wouldn't do with a small laptop or netbook. I used a Toshiba NB305 Netbook during nursing school the last two years and it...
  9. Chance of ADN to get a Hospital Job?

    Depends on where you are. One of my instructors put it this way. "The hospitals take the BSNs first. Then they move on/don't work out or whatever and then they look at the ADNs." I know a few...
  10. The real "debate" here seems to be people using false analogies. The fact that divers are trained to use compressed gases doesn't have anything to do with the fact that in a medical setting where...
  11. Drug Calculations class before Nursing School

    Get a used Dosage Calculations book and start going through it. We used the one by Pickar and it has lots of great practice problems. Good explanations too. We had to do like the first 5 chapters...
  12. Not really a volley, more of a mishit. You could compare water to atmospheric air, but you cannot compare it to 02 delivered from a concentrated source at all. Water (or steam, or ice) is simply...
  13. Lithium is naturally found on the earth you walk
  14. Depends on the situation. Anyone trained in CPR for Professional Rescuers can give O2 in an emergency (this includes nurses). It's a
  15. You will probably have to cut back on the working if you want to do well in all these classes. (Unless you have a job that allows you to study for many hours during work.) If getting Cs in these...
  16. Nurse/Student ratio at clinicals

    Yes, it's safe. In your second year clinicals you will (probably) be working with higher acuity patients and will be far too busy to be counting
  17. Good HESI review books?

    The NCLEX books are about as good as you can get. A lot of people bomb their first HESI tests and get better as time goes on. I am one of those. I was scoring in the 600-800s at first but got over...
  18. Is it worth it?

    I'm in the same boat. I know a few grads from last year who took a job at a SNF and left a couple months later for hospital jobs. If I don't get some nibbles on new grad jobs very soon after passing...
  19. Hello everyone, I am officially a Graduate Nurse! My ASN program ended on a very high note. After tallying up my score, I missed an A this semseter by 0.78 points (out of 671). As I was racking my...