FiremedicMike

FiremedicMike BSN, RN, EMT-P

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  1. Skipping assigned reading?

    Seems like a bad idea to me, but I suppose it depends on how the exams are at your
  2. How much are your nursing school expenses?

    If you include my gen ED classes and textbooks, I’ll be at around $12k for my ASN, which is around $7k for nurs courses and $5k for gen ED.. I've been fortunate that through some help from...
  3. Seeking Advice! Failed 2-Year Program. Now What?

    I'm going to ask you to cite that reading/lecture are the most efficient method of instruction. Because this is the internet and you cant see my facial cues or tone, it sounds crass or aggressive to...
  4. Seeking Advice! Failed 2-Year Program. Now What?

    Is this in response to me? If so, I agree with your first sentence, but I think the part that should be emphasized is "to include" because it should incorporate all of those things. I personally...
  5. Seeking Advice! Failed 2-Year Program. Now What?

    To be clear, I wasn't blaming my program for lack of clinical, and I wasn't necessarily blaming the hospitals for shutting down to nursing students. I was merely reinforcing that nursing school...
  6. Seeking Advice! Failed 2-Year Program. Now What?

    Back to the topic of COVID and clinical... It was reasonable to shut down clinical in the very beginning when PPE was scarce, but as PPE became more available and COVID was more well understood, it is...
  7. Seeking Advice! Failed 2-Year Program. Now What?

    Well I don’t specifically know, but I think the big issue which I mentioned in your other thread, is that programs (my program at least) kept the same cut throat, strict pass fail, no points for...
  8. Seeking Advice! Failed 2-Year Program. Now What?

    And don't forget, a good clinical curriculum/instructor is exactly the place where skills and theory learned in the classroom that week are put to practice, helping students actually digest,...
  9. First Semester Nursing School - Tips??

    I am 2 semesters ahead of you. My biggest tip - DO NOT GET BEHIND. Make quality study guides (or complete, if your program is nice enough to provide them) for each exam and keep them handy so...
  10. Nursing Degree Program during a pandemic

    This thread would be better in the general students section. I'd love to share my overall thoughts, but I think I'll wait until after I graduate to fully unload. Big picture, I feel the...
  11. Seeking Advice! Failed 2-Year Program. Now What?

    With all due respect, if you weren’t a nursing student when covid hit, then I don’t think it’s fair for you to make that statement. Covid tossed a huge wrench into the system and nursing...
  12. Help! I failed nursing school.. What should I do?

    With all due respect (and I truly, honestly mean that), I am not a 19 year old fresh behind the ears college student, I am an experienced practitioner, an experienced student, and an experienced...
  13. Help! I failed nursing school.. What should I do?

    I'm working on RN as a second career. I've been involved in EMS for a very long time, and I've been involved in EMS education for a long time as well (more than 15 years). I also have a bachelors...
  14. Student Toon Caption Contest | Student Nurses Day

    She finally snapped when we asked her to APA cite her discussion board
  15. Quick backstory - I have a bachelors degree with honors that I breezed through and have never had any issue with college coursework or medical knowledge (20+ years as a medic, 15+ years as an...
  16. We Must Demolish Traditional Universities

    Online learning can be done right. Recorded lectures that you can complete at your own convenience. Weekly assignments. Weekly or biweekly synchronous meetings with the class and instructor. I...
  17. Need to vent - UPS lost "textbook".

    So I have to get it out there, my professors have been fanstastic through this. Working with the bookstore and the e-book site as well as emailing my concept questions and offered to loan me a book....
  18. Need to vent - UPS lost "textbook".

    So UPS lost my textbook.. To clarify, it's just a code to activate a digital textbook, which they refuse to just email, they must print it out on a card and physically mail.. I ordered last week...
  19. How can I be a better nursing professor?

    The days of hazing and a general lack of patience with your students "because that's what we went through" needs to end. Treat your students like
  20. Clinicals Advice

    1. ALWAYS be visible and ready to help 2. If you see a nurse scrambling around, ask if they need anything and offer to help. 3. If call lights are going off and you’re not in the middle...
  21. Failed clinical portion of nursing school during COVID

    Side note, I had 2 virtual clinicals last semester and they were a complete waste of everyone’s time.. But, I sat there on my zoom call and followed along with the instructions on how to fill...
  22. NP Hates from Physicians?

    Not like SDN is any better.. It's almost comical how literally every post can somehow devolve into NP/PA bashing.. "Hey guys, wondering if I should get an iPad for rounds?" "WHATS THE POINT,...
  23. Time to get rid of care plans?

    That didn’t really answer my
  24. Time to get rid of care plans?

    That’s just absurd.. Is it a BSN thing? Am I skating because I’m only in an ADN
  25. Police Officer in Nursing School

    Most of my instructors have been awesome.. Some have not. I do not make a deal of being a