stephalina6 BSN, RN

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    Med-Surg sentence

    stephalina6 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I wish we could give each other a hug, lol! I'm also on nights. Everything started out great but I'm learning real fast that I cannot handle confused patients at all, mentally I can't handle them (new...
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    Love night shift....not confused pt's!

    stephalina6 replied to stephalina6's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone. With restraints, our floor manager says we are not allowed to use restraints on our floor. Apparently, a few years ago, a patient died in restraints. I don't know the full story...
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    Keiser University for Nursing???

    stephalina6 replied to kmarch1008's topic in Florida Nursing

    I had a great experience with Keiser in Tampa. For me, personally, it was worth to pay the extra to get in and start right away vs having to play the waiting game with a community college and their...
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    Keiser Accelerated BSN 2016

    stephalina6 replied to Ped12345's topic in Florida Nursing

    I know Keiser has an accelerated ASN program that is 16 months long but they also have a BSN that is 16 months long?? Or is it the RN-BSN
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    I feel hopeless...

    stephalina6 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been on my own now as a new nurse in bed side nursing for 2 months and I just don't want to do bed side nursing any longer. It is just not for me. My background includes a BS in Business...
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    I feel hopeless...

    stephalina6 replied to stephalina6's topic in General Nursing

    I really liked my clinicals and I did well ... but our teachers said we were "glorified CNA's" during clinicals, true story. So I spent a lot of time with pt's and their families instead of following...
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    USF RN to BSN

    stephalina6 replied to AlaBro2010's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hi! Was hoping you could provide an update on your experience with the program. What kind of clinical hours do they require? I currently work on a telemetry unit at a hospital ... do you just fulfill...
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    Tampa/Clearwater/St. Pete cities- Help!

    stephalina6 replied to Swanks916's topic in Florida Nursing

    I've lived in Pinellas County my whole life and can say Dunedin, Tarpon Springs, and Safety Harbor are lovely places to visit for the day and live! I noticed you did not have Seminole listed ... not...
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    staRN program??? Questions...

    stephalina6 replied to ccer99's topic in Florida Nursing

    I just got accepted into the StaRN program in the Tampa Bay area and start in March. How do you like it so
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    Galen College of Nursing[ 2 Year RN @ St pete FL Campus]

    stephalina6 replied to JenileeAshe's topic in Florida Nursing

    Are they accredited
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    Keiser - Tampa

    stephalina6 posted a topic in Florida Nursing

    Looking for opinions on Kesier in Tampa from anyone that is in the program or has recently graduated. I have my BS in Business Management so this is a career change and since time is against me,...
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    Keiser university tampa campus !!

    stephalina6 replied to Clr_1391's topic in General Students

    I'm in my 2nd semester at KU in Tampa now... which area of Tampa were you looking to move to - or are you not sure yet?
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    How to give correct dosage of Lovenox

    stephalina6 replied to darajanan's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Agreed.
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    What is your school's grading scale like?

    stephalina6 replied to vc01ca's topic in General Students

    We have the 90-100=A, etc but you have to have a 76% to move onto the next semester and they don't round up. So a 75.9% means you're
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    "For-profit" schools... As bad as they say?

    stephalina6 replied to eyesopen_mouthshut's topic in General Students

    What's that saying... You get out what you put in..? Something like that, lol! But it's true. Not sure what the other person meant when they said they can't pass the NCLEX because they "must have"...
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    Additional study material for Funds and Pharm...

    stephalina6 replied to stephalina6's topic in General Students

    Thank
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    Additional study material for Funds and Pharm...

    stephalina6 posted a topic in General Students

    Hello - I am not doing very well in Fundamentals or Pharmacology right now and was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations on additional material to study with other than my text book. One...
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    Pregnant during clinicals?

    stephalina6 posted a topic in General Students

    Has any nursing student been pregnant during clinical while in school? If so, just curious on how you were able to complete the clinicals for
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    Keiser University ?

    stephalina6 replied to KeiserRN2011's topic in Florida Nursing

    This is by far from being true - public universities will accept the classes if you choose to transfer to complete the BSN portion... just call up the school you are interested in going to after you...
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    Keiser University PSL - Nursing Orientation

    stephalina6 replied to bellafsu89's topic in School, College Programs

    My orientation is Dec 10-12 at the Tampa campus - I also start in January. What campus are you
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    What to do when your patient adores you?

    stephalina6 replied to dsf43's topic in General Students

    I'm just at awe on these posts - majority of them are just unnecessary and definitely has me thinking twice before asking for any type of advise in this forum. OP - I wish you all the very best and...
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    What to do when your patient adores you?

    stephalina6 replied to dsf43's topic in General Students

    Wow - I'm surprised by some of these judgmental posts, people assuming "young with a lot of life experiences to earn yet....". This is insane.... and to say "can't imagine your school would be...
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    Keiser University for Nursing???

    stephalina6 replied to kmarch1008's topic in Florida Nursing

    I'm currently at Keiser in Tampa but start the nursing program in January. Please do not give up - especially if this is something you are passionate about. You could always go into the community...
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    done with AA~denied Fall 2012 Program now what?

    stephalina6 replied to momcologist's topic in Florida Nursing

    Great news about your daughter!! I understand you said you didn't want to do a private school... but I just signed up for Keiser in Tampa and honestly I highly recommend it. I know it has a huge...
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    RN-BSN

    stephalina6 replied to kcdunlap's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    After I completed my AS and BS for Business Management, I had them both listed on my resume - 2 different schools. However when I started my pre-req's for nursing, I removed the AS school and just...