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    This semester is giving me the smack down - failing another test

    PedsHopeful replied to ArrowRN's topic in General Students

    I too was having trouble with Pharm especially this semester. Failed the first two exams cause my usual way of studying by making flashcards just didnt seem to be working for me at all with pharm. The...
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    Dosage Calculation Question

    PedsHopeful posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Ok, Im suppose to use DA for this and Im a bit confused about how to set it up: Ordered: Heparin gtt 21 u/kg/hr Supplied: 28,000 u/300ml Weight: 170lbs How many ml/hr will be administered? I have a...
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    Dosage Calculation Question

    PedsHopeful replied to PedsHopeful's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Bless
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    Dosage Calculation Question

    PedsHopeful replied to PedsHopeful's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    do you not do anything with the : Supplied: 28,000 u/300ml
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    Dosage Calculation Question

    PedsHopeful replied to PedsHopeful's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    How did you work that
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    Marijuana and Nursing School

    PedsHopeful replied to heather19's topic in General Students

    Gonna chime in here. I love smoking pot. LOVE IT. Prefer it over drinking and never smoked cigarettes. People self medicate all the time. Some use alcohol, some use cigarettes, some go get...
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    Best tablet to use?

    PedsHopeful replied to brandonw's topic in General Students

    Im getting a nexus 7 tomorrow. First of all I dont have Ipad money to spend. Second of all they have tons have great apps for nursing professionals thats reasonably priced. Third, they have a...
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    New Grads!!! There IS a way to SURVIVE!!

    PedsHopeful replied to LadyFree28's topic in First Year After Licensure

    How did you land a PICU job after 8 months of being "out of
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    CNN Article: For nursing jobs, new grads need not apply

    PedsHopeful posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/14/news/economy/nursing-jobs-new-grads/index.html?iid=HP_LN&hpt=hp_t2
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    St. Joseph - Marshfield Critical Care Internship

    PedsHopeful replied to mnscotti's topic in General Nursing

    What was the application process like, is there a lot of competition for spots? What are they looking for in applicant (to improve my chances). What was the residency/training like you for, did you...
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    St. Joseph - Marshfield Critical Care Internship

    PedsHopeful replied to mnscotti's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone have anymore experiences with this hospitals residency
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    Anyone waiting on Acceptance/Rejection Letter '2012

    PedsHopeful posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am now playing the waiting game. Applied to only 1 school for Spring of 2012, finished my pre-req's with a 3.7 GPA and passed the NLN in the 94 percentile. Now Im waiting to hear whether or not I...
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    A Success and Failure

    PedsHopeful replied to PedsHopeful's topic in General Students

    Thanks for the words of encouragement everyone. I felt bad about it for the day, but Im over it now. Especially when I found out course average was a 76. I did bad but it could have been much worse. I...
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    A Success and Failure

    PedsHopeful posted a topic in General Students

    We had our first tests this week in Nursing. I have 2 nursing classes, one has a lab, one has a clinical, so I guess its kind of like 4 classes. We had tests in our lecture portions this week and the...
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    Clinical tidbits I wish someone would've told me.

    PedsHopeful replied to Mully's topic in MICU, SICU

    Good topic, I hope others
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    Aurora Health Care - Milwaukee

    PedsHopeful replied to tdrynelle's topic in General Nursing

    What school did you go to? Im currently at Cardinal
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    Do you read the entire book?

    PedsHopeful replied to Tonks57's topic in General Students

    I just started my second semester and for the first week we had 3 chapters to read. I am a serious bookworm, always have been, so as soon as my syllabus got posted I started reading my chapters to try...
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    So...I definitely just failed Med-Surg :(

    PedsHopeful replied to Nursing_Mamacita's topic in General Students

    Then good luck to you, and hopefully you'll pass next
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    So...I definitely just failed Med-Surg :(

    PedsHopeful replied to Nursing_Mamacita's topic in General Students

    Even if you did manage to inhale all that info in just 5 weeks, its not eh same as really retaining it. You'd be pumping and dumping. Pumping it into your head, dumping it out on the test and...
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    Best online RN to BSN program....CHEAP?

    PedsHopeful replied to TonyaM73's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Regarding the University of Wyoming, their program no longer equires clinicals. Must have changed. From the FAQ's on their program website page: Do you require a clinical component in your program?...
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    Jobless, and hopeless

    PedsHopeful replied to Little0angel's topic in General Nursing

    Did you work as a CNA or Nurse Tech while in nursing
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    How many hours to work as a CNA in Nursing School??

    PedsHopeful posted a topic in General Students

    Im married with 3 children and my husband is a elementary school teacher. He doesnt make nearly enough to support all of us while I go to nursing school so I will have to work part-time as a CNA to...
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    Fall 2012 Jitters!

    PedsHopeful posted a topic in General Students

    I am starting my second semester this fall and will have my first set of REAL nursing classes (Physical assessment, clinicals, ect) since the first semester was mainly the last of my basic classes. I...
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    How many hours to work as a CNA in Nursing School??

    PedsHopeful replied to PedsHopeful's topic in General Students

    The jobs I have been looking at are mostly .5 positions which equals about 40 hours per every 2 weeks, so working 2 days 1 week, 3 days the next week. I am hoping to work main fridays, saturdays and...
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    Nursing Instructor Continuously Embarrassing Me

    PedsHopeful replied to Jlseeze's topic in General Students

    You are kind of proving his point. He is treating you like crap, and you are pretty much just taking it and not saying anything. His whole point is you have to learn to stand up and speak...