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Run screaming in the other direction! I say this as a mother of a Type 1 son who diagnosed at age 13. I agree with everyone else. The kid should be doing his own injections. My son took command the moment he left the hospital. He is 16.5 now. T...

Glad to see I am not alone! I envision a committee sitting around with thesauruses coming up with a bunch of BS. My favorite from the Ackley Nursing Diagnosis book is Disturbed Energy Field.

I posted on another thread recently how nursing school is like "The Hunger Games." Today was a particularly rough day. I heard the cannon sound for several of my fellow classmates. They failed the required drug calculation test and have been dismi...

My teacher taught us the desired over have formula. Once you got it is a piece of cake! Everything is metric, which is a breeze as well. If the desired is in grams, and what you have from the pharmacy is in milligrams, you just move the decimal on ...

I am in my first semester and in fundamentals as well. The only thing I have found useful so far is my recorder. I find it easiest to print the power points and take notes on it during class. I have a kindle fire that I can download articles that ...

Thanks for sharing more info. I am sorry I came across rather cranky. Parents of a CWD tend to circle the wagons when care for our kids is being questioned, and it doesn't take much to make us feel that way, lol! I must say though, I have often fe...

Interesting timing of this post. My son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes two years ago at age 13. I homeschool my children. Always have, and always will. But sometimes it is not easy, since I am also a student in nursing school. However, this ev...

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I agree with a math prerequisite. An idea could be to have potential nursing students attend a workshop and learn how to read drug labels, do metric conversions, and how to do the "desired over have" method of calculations. Give them "x" amount of ...

Believe me, I am not underestimating the importance of the drug calculations test! I guess what is really bothering me is that so many students I know can't survive nursing school, but I know they did really well in A&P and Microbiology. The n...

YESSS!!!!!! The reason I found this thread is that I googled something like "The Hunger Games is like nursing school" to see if anyone else made the connection! I am in my first semester of a community college program. The number of students who ...

I bought a Batclip to use with my Littman classic II SE. I haven't used it yet because I just started classes. I liked the concept of it and that it is well made.

I start in two weeks as well. I agree with the others regarding getting your house in order. I plan on doing a thorough cleaning of my house so we can just work on maintaining it. I am also trying to come up with some menu ideas and work on doing l...

My son had to take steroids due to a nasty case of poison ivy. His blood sugar levels doubled! He was only on them for about a week, but we battled his numbers for several more. Before we went to the pediatrician I had read up the effects of stero...

In a previous post I mentioned that I have a son with Type 1 diabetes. We were basically given some training in the hospital (he was in DKA when admitted), a prescription for insulin, and sent home when he was stabilized. There was so much to lear...

Thank you for posting this! I am the mother of a child with Type 1 diabetes. He was diagnosed 1.5 years ago when he was 13. I am not a nurse yet, I just finished doing my pre-reqs and will be starting the nursing program next month. I am a member o...

i just got a littman classic s.e. ii with the rainbow finish chest piece. it is awesome! my previous stethoscope was a cheap prestige brand from the college bookstore that came with a blood pressure cuff. i agree with previous poster, make sure yo...

Thanks for posting this! I have printed it and put it in my helpful hints file. I start nursing school this fall and I will definitely use some of these tips.

I will be starting nursing classes this fall so I can't comment on those books, however, when I took A&P and Microbiology I always bought new books. One of the biggest reasons was that I like to use the online supplemental resources that the pub...

I will be starting an associates degree nursing program this fall. I eventually want to become a CDE. My son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes almost two years ago. I have looked at some of the websites regarding getting certification and I got a...

I agree! Our program does require it though. I already have one due to my Nurse Aid I and II classes. We did use ours at clinicals in the nursing home and hospital. Our teacher wanted us to do manual vital signs and we only used the "nurse-on-a-s...

i agree with showing a little bit of individualization! i just bought a littman c[color=#464646]lassic ii s.e. stethoscope at allheart.com. they are on sale right now for $69.99, i decided to go for the glory and pay extra for the one that has a ra...

This thread has been very informative. I start nursing school this fall, and I will definitely keeps some of this info in my mind. I took a Nurse Aid II class fall and looking back I feel so sorry for one of the poor nurses that we helped in clinic...

This could be an interesting concept, but I think it would depend on how it was administered. When I took my Nurse Aid I certification I had a written test and skills assessment test. I usually do not have test anxiety, but I admit to being a littl...

Thank you for this comment! I have just finished my pre-reqs and will be starting the nursing program this fall. I am a fairly good test taker when it comes to T-F and multiple choice. I can memorize and regurgitate with the best of them. However...