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I might approach your paper from a different angle, and a little lesser degree of severity. I'm thinking about hospitalist physicians that trust the nursing staff enough to issue very lenient standing med orders to prevent calling them in the middl...

Never heard of. We were told to start looking for a part time/PRN job at a hospital (doing PCT or similar) about halfway through nursing school. Just to get a foot in the door for an RN job after graduation.

What type of learner are you? I ask because I am highly kinetic and visual (on the VARK test) and the last thing I am is read/write. I can't look at black letters on a white paper and absorb it. Doesn't work for me. For me, I act stuff out or ma...

Did you just fail a couple classes? Can you retake those classes? If you've failed more than your allotted number of fails, our school will dismiss you. I can understand their reasoning. If you can't succeed in these classes after 2 attempts, the...

I am hearing impaired and I have the Littmann 3100. Without my hearing aids, I can barely make out heart sounds on any regular stethoscope (classic, lightweight, cardio, master, you name it), let alone any delicate vascular or breath sounds. My el...

Semester 2/4: Adult I Med-Surg + clinical - 5 hours Women's health (OB) + clinical - 5 hours Aging - 2 hrs (online) Research - 2 hrs (online) Groups - 2 hrs (online)

our end of semester HESI wasn't as bad as I anticipated. 1064 - 96.3% I'll take it!

And (aside from the ever present UTI fear with foleys) the biggest concern is clotting and foley tube blocking.

I was dead nervous about having to talk to patients during my first clinicals. The best advice I was given my first semester was to just be yourself. Do what is comfortable for you, but every day challenge yourself to do one tiny new thing. Touchin...

I gained weight through my pre-nursing school semesters. This is my first semester in nursing school and I've lost 15 so far. It's from being too poor to eat at the cafeteria, vending machines, starbucks, or fast food. Nursing school is expensive....

I see that as a tough situation. I love critters as well, but I didn't have a problem dissecting pigs. We used 1 pig per table (4 students) and used the same pig through the whole 4 week summer class, so at least we conserved while we learned. W...

I love happy stories like these! Great idea to start a positive thread!

I agree with and respect everything that has been said, but I would like to add two things that I have had to think about lately. 1. Especially first semester nursing students on their first clinicals - we want to see things, we want to have excit...

I would say that it depends on what city you live in. I'm in Dallas at TWU and we have many locations for clinicals. Most of the hospitals in Dallas have bus/train stops pretty close, and ours run early. In that case, yes it's possible, I have fri...

Thanks for bringing this topic up. It is something that I wouldn't have thought of and I'm glad I am since I'll be interviewing this spring. I agree with everyone else about the situation and Congrats on the job!!! Thinking about what I would say:...

Form: http://www.twu.edu/images/student-health-services/Demographic_Nursing_Dallas_04-15-2011.pdf Info: http://www.twu.edu/downloads/student-health-services/immunization-overview_09-12-12.pdf This is the form you need to have filled out by your d...

You learn to stand on your own two feet. Be confident in who you are. Don't rely on holding someone else's hand.

I agree with the above and sum up: SubQ is pinch an inch 45, pinch 2 inches 90 - is the general rule of thumb. Heparin/Lovenox is ALWAYS 90 degrees. And for cryin out loud, rubbing the injection site? Don't do it. SMH.

Check out HRSA, same idea, but through the government (h&hs) rather than through a hospital. Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program

Everyone in my group that has gotten pregnant has deferred their acceptance, dropped out, been forced to hold back a semester, or had to "pick a different route". Main reason was absences, we are only allowed 1 and being pregnant is not conducive to...

Wow. Consider that this is not the nursing advisors' first rodeo. They've done this every semester for quite a while. And, yes, it's a generic answer because a) they don't know an exact date and b) if they did tell everyone an exact date, would th...

Hi. I normally just stalk and check in on you guys, but I have to put in my 2 cents here to save you guys some sanity. I'm a J1 now at Dallas. I love it and I know you will too. Sorry to tell you, you don't get a choice in which professors you h...

I just finished Patho. It's hard. The book is 1800 pages and I have 120 typed pages of notes. Different teachers teach differently, so I can't give specific advice. Take it before you start nursing school. At our orientation they were pushing anyo...

I didn't say anything about a bump for 1st attempt A. See, I believe the water-cooler misinformation talk leads to more confusion and more paranoia, which is no bueno. I firmly believe in the theory of "if you want to know it, go ask the person wh...

Remember passing (to TWU) is considered a 64. And remember that you can only take the TEAS once per application cycle. Go read my other post earlier in this thread about the TEAS test help. Seriously, works. From the J's mouth: 64 is passing, 74 ...