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I am just finishing up LPN school. It was pretty fun nothing to hard, all round good learning experience. My advice: You will get use to feces vomit and mucus, don't run from them. You get out what you put in, study study and study. If in clinical a nurse says she has something she needs done, jump on it. You will be near the top of her list when "interesting" things come up. Never say "that's aid work" its like the kiss of death as far as instructors and nurses caring about you or aids helping you. People WILL remember you, think of every day at clinicals like a dress rehearsal for working at that facility. I had a Dr shadow me without realizing it, he later offered me a job after graduation. You never know if you might be applying for a job at that location down the road. Learn to ID and minimize your weak points. If you suck at A and P start putting up posters of body systems up around your house. My sticking point was memorizing all the REEDAS, BUBBLE HEs, and and lab values. I made a back ground for my PC and Ipod with info I need to get down and I read it every day. If math might be your hard subject go buy a pharm tech med calc. Buy It now and try to finish it ASAP. Don't wait till you start pharm or medical math. I can not stress enough START NOW. Oh, and remember the Walls have ears. We lost a girl because she decided to talk smack about a nurse on the elevator. Some one over heard it and reported her. When I was a pharm tech I was eating lunch with my co workers and some students were over heard making a HIPPA violation. Well one of the ladies I worked with got a righteous bug up her orifice and reported them all and several of them lost the right to stay at our hospital.

One day for kicks and giggles the pharmacy manager and the infection control nurse at the hospital I worked at decided start randomly culturing items up on the floors and the pharmacy. Our Pyxis machines were just behind the elevator buttons for total pathogens (and WAY ahead of nursing keyboards drinking fountains and wait for it the FLOOR!

Is there some confusion here between glass ampules and glass vials? The only time I ever used a filter for vials was on certain drugs that can crystallize in solution and the rare cases of coring the stopper an irreplaceable drug. (working in pharmacy) You need filters for amps because when you break then micro fine pieces fly everywhere. As part of my training to compound cardio drugs and blocks we had a demo about glass particles. They used a certain type of lens to record us breaking them and then played it back and I was shocked to see what had looked like a clean break released a fine cloud of glass in addition to the pieces you see. We then had to pull up the fluid and look at it under a microscope. There was a huge amount of suspended glass in the solution.

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As in Indian State? I'm looking at that school to. I would love to hear some real people give their opinions.

I use to live in Cape may and Wildwood. There are 2 hospitals down there, Ocean city and Cape May Courthouse. Its a freaking nice area, cost of living isent to bad either. We had a 2 bedroom apartment 2 blocks off the beach that cost us 550$ a month. Wildwood and Cape May Courthouse both have great schools. Tax wise the place is a teaparty utopia, I swear that my taxes seemed to go down when ever I earned a raise. The bad side is that traffic during the summer is unlike anything I have ever seen. It can take 1 hour to move 1 mile at times. (during the Fire fighter convention it took me 5 hours to drive 2/3 the way down the island of Wildwood) I myself use to ride a bike or walk during the summer. Also while renting is not to bad I have heard that the cost to buy a house is really Really high.