csmcj BSN, RN

It sounds to me like it was part of a simulation lab, not on a real patient.

I'm not a nurse yet, but I am in my last semester of nursing school. Ask questions in clinical. It's not enough to know how something is done, you need to know why it's done. Space your studying out. Cramming won't cut it at test time. Speaking of t...

I was lucky enough to be chosen to participate in DEU clinicals 3 times: Med/Surg, Pediatrics, and Mother and Child. It was an incredible experience. The level of autonomy I was given (with support from my preceptor when I needed it, of course) as ...

I only know of one school that does that, but it's a BSN program. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has a program called Pacesetter that front loads all your didactic classes then the last semester (or maybe two, I can't recall...

Check with the school and with your doctor, but I can say that when I got mine, I got the first two on schedule, but then life sort of got in the way and I didn't get the final shot until a year after I'd started the series. My school accepted it, bu...

I got in with a 3.1. However, I also had a 96 on the TEAS, and my school puts a lot of weight into the personal statement portion of the application along with interviews. So it is possible, but I'd have to say it depends on the school.

While UTMB is a very competitive school, they look beyond just the numbers. Your personal statement and interview(s) go a long way toward helping you get accepted. On paper, I was only a so-so candidate: while I had scored well on the TEAS (96%), my ...

As said before, it really depends. It depends on a lot of things, really, such as how competitive your particular application cycle is. For example, in one cycle the average GPA of those applying may be high, like 3.8 or 3.9, while in the next cycl...

Ooh, I know this one. In my pre-nursing-school life I was a linguistics major, if that gives any weight to what I say. Default/variant choice (in this case a/an) is driven by phonetics. Therefore when you say myocardial infarction, there is a conso...

My MacBook Pro is 7 years old and is running as strongly now as it ever has. In that time, the only money I've put into it is $60 for for two operating system upgrades ($30 each). I use a Windows based laptop for school, because some of the softwar...

We're allowed calculators, though we can't use our own. The school provides them for any test in which we have calculation questions. That said, it's been rare that I've needed one on any of our doscal tests. Most of the questions are simple enoug...

First semester, we started clinicals in the 3rd week of classes (after we'd learned/been checked out on assessment and vital signs). We also learned med admin in the first semester, about 6 weeks in, but we weren't allowed to do that until after we'...

Eh, as with any review site, you have to keep in mind that people are much more likely to leave a bad review than a good one, and take the bad reviews with a grain of salt. Also, when it comes to rating professors, many are unfairly given bad review...

I know for me (and I realize my situation doesn't apply to everyone), my wife and I had several long conversations about the kind of time commitments nursing school was going to require and what that might mean for us as a couple. Once I started and...

It's possible. Not easy, but possible. My first semester, I got all As, second, I dropped to mostly Bs, just because the the workload increased and I wasn't able to put any more time into studying. They told us at our orientation that if you were ...

We started with around 120, lost about 20 after the first semester. We just finished the second semester, and I know we've lost at least a couple, but I won't know for sure how many until classes start again in a month.

With the caveat that I still have two semesters to go, and realize that there's a very real possibility this could change: Want: Pediatric, ED, ICU, Burns Do Not Want: Psych. That's it. I'll be happy anywhere else, but I hated my psych class and ...

I'll finish with around $85K in debt. Add to that my wife's debt from her degree and we have enough student loan debt to buy a small house (around here, anyway. I know in other areas of the country the same amount would buy a much larger house down...

I have the cardiology III and I live it. On the rare occasions I've had to borrow classmates' stethoscopes, there's no comparison.

Yes, it does. When it comes to a/an, phonetics drive the choice to use the default/variant. Another example (used here: "a" or "an" before a consonant acronym?) would be "a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent" versus "an FBI agent." Since, phone...

I'm just gonna go off topic here a bit a dust off my previous non nursing education in linguistics. The rule governing the use of "a/an" is "a"-->"an"/__[vowel] which would be spoken as "a" (the default) becomes "an" (the variant) when it occurs b...

What you'll have to change will be different for everyone. For me, I started recording lectures and listening to them on my commute. I also had to start using resources outside my normal classroom resource. The textbook and lectures are great for ...

In my experience, the curriculum in nursing school is much more integrated. By that I mean that unlike the prerequisite courses where you're taking several classes together that are unrelated, or only tangentially related to each other, in nursing s...