Reddy,RN

A&P is short for Anatomy and Physiology. http://books.google.com/books?id=Dzr2pRTzxaEC&dq=anatomy+and+physiology&printsec=frontcover&source=bll&ots=AIlNXIi__Z&sig=sQxaqsHd65YS5kAZWxm8zUQdlmo&hl=en&ei=1ClES5SlGJS1lAeDqp2iBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13&ved=0CDwQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

You will love being a nursing student because at first your clinicals will give you time to listen to stories. As a nurse, listening for the patient's cues that could show physical or mental issues are the skills needed. Not small talk.

The rewarding moments are tantalizingly few and far between. Also, the interruptions are themselves interrupted, sometimes to a laughable degree, but laughing is not encouraged.

My advice is enjoy your day job with weekends off and your 65K. Neither is realistically possible for a new RN. Start taking the prereqs in the evenings to see how it goes. Nursing is not a stepping stone to Physician Assistant AFAIK. It can be surprisingly rewarding in many ways though. Good luck.

It might be morally outrageous but a negative pressure room would work.

Mental Illness Chemical Abuse (MICA)

True. I even remember a House episode where a perfectly healthy woman in Antarctica had an undiagnosed broken toe. It created fat emboli which traveled through her system and caused all sorts of symptoms. Not a likely scenario but a possibility. Letting someone know what to watch for doesn't have to happen in an ER but it does have to happen.

The video of the UMass Amherst Nursing Clinical Sim Lab makes it look like a really great place to get to practice what you need to know before meeting real patients. Thanks.

Whew! What a thread. These may be in pages 25 to 89 but they're my pet peeves so, in no particular order: 1.) jewelry is not joo-ler-ee. It's jew-el-ry. 2.) unique doesn't get qualified: nothing can be most unique. 3.) Why not use "use?" Why "utilize?" 4.) Why not use "see?" Why "visualize?" Thanks. I didn't expect to feel better but I do.

Sorry it didn't work out the first time for you. Glad to hear you're determined. I stand by my advice in the other thread. Good luck. https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/i-need-help-382650.html#post3548282

Thanks for your post. The NCLEX was the single most disorienting test of my life, including the GRE. I remember getting angry too at so many "You are the nurse..." questions. I remember clicking those answers wishing I could tell someone in person why I was prioritizing the way I was. That feeling is still alive and well in me. I think it helps on the job.

Less time a day than TOG but closer to 4 weeks. And yes, every bit of that little book was mine by the time I was done. One thing that proved enormously helpful in practice and on GRE day was to start writing 1 2 3 4 in columns over and over before the test began so that I could draw a line through the number(s) of obviously wrong answers. That way, I didn't waste any time on rethinking possibilities or second guessing myself.

I think a guide of some sort makes sense. A few years ago The Princeton Review Crash Course for the GRE 2d edition gave me what I needed in Verbal, Math and Analytical Writing. Even more, it gave me the confidence tha I was as well prepared as I could be. That tiny $10 paperback did help me make my nursing dream come true.

Some posts really make me wonder. Some make me think. A student who has ebonics deeply ingrained? Seriously? Who talks about ebonics any more? No learning contract at all this semester for him? No faculty or faculty/ administration "word to the wise" that this semester is in jeopardy? Earlier someone wrote, I do believe that some of the humiliation and rage I felt at the words and actions of some clinical instructors I knew was no accident. These feelings were provoked to plumb my disposition. I can't say I'm a better nurse for the experience. But I am a much less naive one.

I agree to get in and transfer ASAP. Whatever the answers about a transfer, do you really need to know them when you are signing papers? Maybe holding off on those sorts of questions would keep you from sounding like you aren't happy before you even work a day.