FiremedicMike

FiremedicMike BSN, RN, EMT-P

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  1. Justifying the cost of an Ivy League Nursing Education

    FiremedicMike replied to Barbiegirl1229's topic in General Students

    Certainly there are ultimate pass/fail metrics for these programs, right? I checked Yale's nursing student handbook and came up

  2. Justifying the cost of an Ivy League Nursing Education

    FiremedicMike replied to Barbiegirl1229's topic in General Students

    I was responding to a post that said you became an NP and not a PA because you were already a nurse. I would have been a direct entry student too but I couldn’t do the RN year full

  3. I need to post about how proud I am of myself

    FiremedicMike replied to Lynker's topic in General Students

    Are you guys allowed to use homework grades to make up for exam scores? If so, I'm jealous of that for sure. We need to get a 76% overall average on our exams before those scores are added to our...

  4. Justifying the cost of an Ivy League Nursing Education

    FiremedicMike replied to Barbiegirl1229's topic in General Students

    To be fair, FullGlass is pretty open about the fact that she was a direct entry NP student, transitioning from a different career entirely, and was not a

  5. A Message to Santa Claus

    FiremedicMike replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    Well I made it through peds.. Honestly left the testing center sure that I had failed.. I actually got one of the higher scores I've ever gotten on a nursing exam! I hope everyone else's...

  6. A Message to Santa Claus

    FiremedicMike replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    Next Wednesday is my final, then I have a break until the middle of January. I think I'm going to sleep for at least 2 weeks

  7. A Message to Santa Claus

    FiremedicMike replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    Our peds exam 1 is extremely hard.. Many fail it. I missed it by 2 questions. From past classes, the peds final is notoriously much easier than exam 1, but it doesn't make the stress any lower,...

  8. New Nursing Student Questions

    FiremedicMike replied to Clarinet's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I "breezed" through med-surg (didn't have to take fundamentals) by picking answers that seemed logical but only because I came with extensive prior healthcare knowledge. Once I hit the specialty...

  9. New Nursing Student Questions

    FiremedicMike replied to Clarinet's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So the countless stories of students who struggle with nursing school are just lies? I have a bachelors degree with honors and have been in healthcare for 20+ years. I know how to do college...

  10. Are most nursing programs a hot mess or is it just mine?

    FiremedicMike replied to LittleCa's topic in General Students

    Ever since the beginning of my program, I felt there were things that were needlessly painful merely because “that’s how nursing school was for us, so that’s what we’re doing to

  11. A Message to Santa Claus

    FiremedicMike replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    It’s a week and a half from

  12. A Message to Santa Claus

    FiremedicMike replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    The answers to my Peds

  13. Is peds 15 weeks of material in 7 weeks for everyone?

    FiremedicMike replied to FiremedicMike's topic in General Students

    IMHO, it’s everything we covered in med-surg but for kids, with the addition of developmental

  14. Is peds 15 weeks of material in 7 weeks for everyone?

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in General Students

    I just can't with this class. It's med surg all over again but for little people, plus adding in all the developmental milestones. Our last exam covered 12 chapters from our main book plus had some...

  15. Recommended tutoring services?

    FiremedicMike posted a topic in General Students

    Long story short, I need to pass my next peds exam or I will be done in this program. Are there paid tutoring services (via zoom would be great) that people would

  16. Nursing School and Working?

    FiremedicMike replied to emilynuhwin's topic in General Students

    I'm doing nursing school very part-time (had nearly every non-nursing class done before I started) and working 40 hours per week at a job that affords me some time during work to study.. It is...

  17. Maternity Class

    FiremedicMike replied to longdistancehiker's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I actually ended up doing very well, but the OB class at my program is well established and the curriculum is vetted and continuously tweaked. I’m now in Peds, and quite

  18. Re-admitting nursing students into the program after a failure

    FiremedicMike replied to historyfan's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    If your program has ever re-admitted students who were removed from the program, look at all of the circumstances surrounding those cases and start there. You may find a common

  19. Classmates Using Test Banks

    FiremedicMike replied to Pot8rsk8r's topic in General Students

    I’m just curious to know about this rule and how far it reaches? I assume you mean they are talking about the online review questions that you can purchase from various companies? Does that extend...

  20. I am a male nursing student - What Did I Get Myself Into?!?!?

    FiremedicMike replied to nomadd917's topic in Male Nursing Students

    1 thing that's been great - the mens room is NEVER busy..

  21. Maternity Class

    FiremedicMike replied to longdistancehiker's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Headed in for my final in just a little bit. I have a decent amount of breathing room but still nervous.. Overall I didn't hate OB as much as I thought I would, but definitely won't be my...

  22. Things nurse students complain about

    FiremedicMike replied to MarkMyWords's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    If you know the text is harder to understand than it needs to be, then it’s your job to find a way to simplify it and explain it so that your students understand. If a piece of material seems...

  23. Health Assessment Breast Exams

    FiremedicMike replied to Nu2it's topic in General Students

    Just wrapping up OB now, we did "breast exams" on various breast shaped foam and or silicon props that had tumors staged at various points. We had similar props for testicular

  24. Nurses have to know so much - partly play the role of doctor and pharmacist!

    FiremedicMike replied to Nunurse0821's topic in General Students

    It’s not about you being responsible for their mistakes, it’s about you preventing harm to the patient by recognizing and pointing out

  25. "A&P 1" and "Lifespan Growth and Development" Question

    FiremedicMike replied to drvb's topic in General Students

    My growth and development class was a lot of easy busy work. It was very easy, but it was definitely 3ish hours per week of