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I started my next to last rotation about 3 weeks ago, and ended up in Hospice for my Home Health rotation. I am the only one in the class who wanted to go to Hospice. I am also the only LPN in the class, and most likely the only one who has experie...

I just found this site in my ramblings on the net. Might be of some use to some of you. I think it is awesome! Marla http://nursing.about.com/cs/clinicaltools/

I am working in our Palliative Care/Hospice Unit at our hospital. I am with the most incredible set of nurses! I've never met nurses like these. They are all the most loving and compassionate nurses I know. We have a 14 bed unit, and occasionally ...

I'm not sure how I managed to pass the NCLEX, because most of the questions were things that I think I had NO clue about. I must have been blessed with a smarter mouse than I thought I would get! :) It was hard! I cried all the way home, cause I th...

Thanks for all the good wishes. Well, when the exam started, I sat and looked at the screen, and shook my head, because I felt like, "Was I there that day?" Some of the questions were so obscure, I couldn't even tell what in the heck they wanted me ...

Prayers are with you in this. Hugs from all around. MRed

I certainly will tell her. I tell her when I see her doing something special, and I ask a lot of "why did you do it that way" questions. She is so patient. :)

Chemistry. Have NO clue as to what in the H*** I was supposed to be learning. The prof was a MS in Chem, and was a paper mill chemical engineer, trying to teach a bunch of nursing students about atoms and other miscellania.......never did get it. ...

I loved my coloring books. I am very much a visual learner, and that really cemented the facts for me. I used a lot of flash cards, the Hole's anatomy site, and various diagrams and sayings and etc to memorize all the info. I also used taped lectur...

Me, too! Me too! I graduate May 22, but school is over on the 16th. I am currently a LPN, working as a temp. I think I will stay with this for a while and build up some $$ to move out of state. I also will enjoy just working and not running frant...

I also taped the lectures, listened to them all the time. Flash cards worked good for me. Transcribing my notes onto a word processor helped, too. Decide what kind of a learner you are, and do it that way. I am a visual learner, and the more I cop...

I ALWAYS have a calculator in my grubby little pocket! I am the worst of the math impaired in my school, I think! We can use them for tests and etc. in school. They warned us not to come to class without them. I've never heard anyone say we couldn'...

Happened to me, too. I wanted so badly to graduate with honors. Now I am just wanting to GRADUATE, period. I wanna get this torture over with so I can go out there and do some nursing. Hang in there. It won't matter once school is over. M

Way to go! I ended Nursing III with a C, but earned every bit of it, considering 20 people FAILED the final! I am very happy with my C. I wanted an A, and had an A average when I started this class, but NOBODY got an A, so I am not complaining. Get...

OH! Those are awesome sites!!!! Thanks! M

I wanted to tell him that they would amputate it at the neck, but restrained myself. This is not a very nice kid, but when you are a nurse and pain is there, you have to do something. I wanted to slap his mother, she was more hysterical than the ki...

When you keep a "24 hour report book" on the kitchen counter, and the kids write about how they feel in nurse terms in it! Funny, my kids know that if there isn't PROFUSE blood, bones sticking out, or the house has burnt down around their ears, that ...

WTG! Have a long and happy new career! Congratulations. M

RED??????? You GO, girl! I want a red dining room, with I think forest green accents. But I have to graduate, pass the boards, and earn enough cash to buy my dream house.......... 8 bedroom Victorian with a turret. Dreams are nice. I might have ...

Well, all I have is Nursing 4! Then I am DONE! I think it is Management in LTC, and Home Health. Class Monday from 8-2, clinicals T & W, and the rest of the week free! YIPPEE! M

It's all dimensional analysis. You use the fractions. It's not that hard. Check out the sites, they help a lot. M

I will NEVER remember all of this garbage for the final on Monday..............! Phooey. Marla

If you choose to go to LTC, you will do them more often than yoy think. A lot of clinic nurses do them, too. I do them on an average of about 2 a week. So I am getting REAL good at them. M

What I am not sure of is WHY most of the class failed the final????? I think there is something wrong that not many of us did very well throughout the whole semester. It sure wasn't lack of studying. At least not on my part. And, we didn't get a...

OH! I am NOT the only MEAN mother. I have done that with the ball!!!!!! I haven't sawed any trees, but I have been darned tempted to do so. One more fight and the ninteno controller goes down the toilet......! M