Jaynie_Marie

I graduated my ADN program last May and was immediately blessed by receiving a job offer from the facility where I worked as a CNA during school...I accepted the job and loved working there! However, due to family reasons, I had to relocate at the en...

I'm working on my first care plan and the instructor is requiring that we have 10 nursing diagnoses, which need to be prioritized into a list using Maslow's hierarchy as our guide (physiologic, safety & security, love and belonging, self-esteem, ...

As far as I am aware, they are all NANDA approved diagnoses. When writing up nursing diagoses for the care plan I do need list the R/Ts and AEBs, and I do have them for the diagnoses I listed, I just didn't type them up here because I don't have inte...

The book I'm using using is "Nursing Diagnosis, Application to Clinical Practice" by Lynda Carpenito. Its the required book for my program and the book which my nursing diagnoses must come from. The Ackley book is one that my instructor recommended a...

First semester rocks!!! I am loving it!!! I study a lot and do all of the reading (of which there is a ton, of course...), but it is worth it. I got a 98% on my first Fundamental's exam, a 86 on my first Pharmacology exam (not really the score I wan...

I try to sit in the first or second row. I am a very visual person, and sitting further back provides sooo many more distractions (people seat-dancing, playing with pencils, windows, etc)! Of course I also find it very hard to sit still during lectur...

You dissected a potato?! Ok, first of all - thats awesome!! Second, why? for what purpose?

I have done both (at the same time) and the adult family home is definitely less stressful. The home I worked at had two residents - both of whom needed some assistance with showering and making sure they took care of daily personal hygiene, but it w...

A cow eye, sheep brain, sheep heart, sheep kidney, and something else that I can't remember right now. My instructor for the course is a vet (he works primarily with farm animals) so he has access to animal parts at a decent price.

Thank you so much for sharing your story! Also (and even more than the first) thank you so much for your service to our country!!!

There are many people in this world, in this country, who do not have access to healthcare. My desire is to provide healthcare to these people and make an impact on even just a few lives.

I would check with the hospital and with your instructors to see if one of them would be willing to work with you on this. However, at my school (no matter what semester you are in) if you miss the first day of class you automatically forfeit your sp...

Congratulations!! That is awesome! Yipee Hurray!! :-)

I've been wondering about storage clipboards, as well, and I even looked at them at Office Max the other day. Thanks for asking about them OP, and I will be very interested in the responses you get. :-)

Always take any information which you might need to fill out an application! Speaking as someone who made hiring decisions at a precious job, having that information with you shows your readyiness and enthusiasm for the position. Also, if you fill ou...

Clearly I'm not familiar with the CNA exam in Ohio...sorry! I'm in Wisconsin and here you don't have to say that you are checking it. I'm hoping and praying that you passed!

I've almost finished accumulating the books that I'm going to need for nursing school this fall (I start my ADN program on August 19th), and even though there are a couple books that haven't been delivered yet I already have almost fifty pounds of bo...

I believe so, yes. Office Max told me that they would unbind and 3-hole punch textbooks for approx $2.50 each. They didn't give me a maximum page limit, rather they said they could do anything up to 2 inches.

I don't have any advice to give as I don't start til Aug 19...but I just wanted to say good luck to you today!! You're gonna rock!!! :-)

I feel so blessed to have God direct me to this thread today...it was just what I needed as I start the RN program at my local technical college in one week! Nursing is not where I saw myself going, and but for the grace and direction of the Lord I w...

Thanks for your post - it is refreshing and encouraging to be reminded that everyone has a different experience with nursing school. One of the nurses at work keeps telling me that I will sit in class the first few days wondering what in the world I ...

I'm going into my first semester and our clinicals will be in LTC - there are two facilities where we can do clinicals (depending on the day) and neither one is in town: one is about 20 minutes away and the other is 40 minutes away.

I know how hard it is to be a brand new CNA in LTC...and after about a month I was seriously ready to throw in the towel and just quit - but I'm starting my ADN program thia fall and I knew if I quit that I would probably give up on this as well. It ...