alex1987

Hi there! I've been a nurse for a little over three years but only have 10 months of experience (adult telemetry/IMC). I quit my telemetry job in January 2015 and haven't worked since then due to family reasons. My ideal job is in the NICU but after ...

Thank you so much for your response! I think I'm more worried about the clinical part of the interview, so I definitely need to review a bunch of stuff :/

May I ask you how was the interview? I'm not a new grad but only have 10 months experience (telemetry - and adults!) and I've been out of work for 2 years. Today I got a call for a PICU interview at Texas Children's west campus and I'm super nervous...

I applied to Cy-Fair a year ago (Spring 2012) and was wait listed (with a score of 11.47) but accepted a month later :)

I applied to Cy-Fair for Spring 12 with an 11.47 and was an alternate. They eventually acepted me 2 months before the start date. I guess the lower score for acceptance during that session was an 11.5

My program accepts 50 people but they split us for lecture so 25 people go to the morning session and the other 25 to the afternoon session. 10 people in each clinical group mixing people from the morning and afternoon session.

I would take A&P 1, Psychology, and English together... but if you're not working full time and don't have many responsibilities at home, I think you could also try taking Micro as well. It can be doable if you have the right instructors and the ...

I took it with English 1, Psychology, a PE class, and a beginner piano class :). It was very doable and I got an A in all of them. For me A&P 2 was more difficult, but also more interesting than A&P 1.

I took my Med Surg 2 final today. I needed at least a 66 to get a B in the class or a 100 to get an A lol.. ended up getting an 87.5 and am very happy about that. Had to take also my Mid Term Hesi and got a 947 / 84% which my teacher says is a really...

A&P II and Micro. I didn't take them together cause I was scared lol, and decided to take A&P with a bunch of other gen ed classes. Then when I took Micro the following semester I noticed I could have taken them together without complications...

I'll spend my time sleeping and studying for the government class I'll be taking during the minimester. I'm about to finish my 3rd semester of NS and I'm so tired I wish I could spend my Christmas break relaxing, sleeping, and having fun... but my go...

Well in that case I understand your concern, but I think that even if you get to spend several hours in lab every week, you still feel insecure every time you go to the hospital and try to do those skills on your pt. I'm in my 3rd semester and I stil...

So do you have 10 hours of lab (practice) and just 1 hour to be signed off every other week or do you only get 1 hour every other week to practice and be signed off by your instructor? If it is the second one then I agree... that's nothing and it's ...

BSN usually takes 2 years to complete... the amount of time you spend in the community college taking your pre-reqs depends on how many credits you can take each semester and how many pre reqs you have to take before being able to apply to the nursin...

Next semester will be my 4th semester of Nursing school (I'm so tired! lol, but so happy I'm getting close to graduation :)) I'll be taking the specialties: Mental health OB Pediatrics Total: 11 credits And I will probably also take a gen ed class (...

We take all of our tests in the computer. We get our grades after everyone has taken the test and after the instructor checks the statistics because sometimes some questions might need to be dropped. After all of that we usually review the whole test...

I'm not going to lie... I read everything because school is my full time job and I don't have any other responsibilities. But my instructors always say that if you don't have time to read the whole chapter then you should focus on knowing what would ...

I use these: a'>Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses,Prioritized Interventions and Rationales: Marilynn Doenges,Mary Moorhouse,Alice Murr: 9780803622340: Amazon.com: Books nd this: All-In-One Care Planning Resource,3e: Pamela L. Swearingen RN: 9780323...

Are you practicing NCLEX style questions before taking your tests? Using books such as the Success series? (med surg succes, fundamental succes, etc - there's one for each course) You need to learn how to think critically and the best way to do it is...

Are you using NCLEX books to do practice questions before the test? if you're not then you should be doing that! As everybody already said you need to think about your ABCs, prioritization, and all that stuff when taking the test. But to really learn...

I had to do this as well during my first semester for two of my classes: nursing skills and health assessment. For my first practicum in skills I had to do a dressing change and for the second one I had to administer insulin. For health assessment th...

Atelectasis is a good one. For some reason I like Hemoptysis and Dysphagia

For an ADN progam you have to go to community college so it's pretty cheap compared to a 4 year university even if you have to pay as an international student. But you would have to look at the requierements to practice as an RN in Australia since m...

I'm in the 3rd semester of an ADN program. Is it hard? Yes. Is it stressful? Yes. Is it impossible to do? No. When you start nursing school make sure you're dedicating the right amount of time to reading, studying, and doing your clinical paperwork. ...

An ADN program is not the first 2 years of a BSN. Actually, both programs usually last 2 years taking almost the same courses, the major difference between them (at least in my area) is that the BSN requires you to take a few more theory/leadership c...