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I am in a program with roughly 100 students in my cohort. The instructors keep commenting how many men there are (roughly 35/100). Not one that I know of identifies as gay and we've all gotten to know each other very well in person and on Fb -- mos...

Angelica322, No, as long as the program is currently fully accredited (hugely important!) with a solid track record, you should be okay. However, if you are particularly concerned about this but still want to go the online route, I would suggest in...

In the BSN program I am in, fortunately, our clinicals include sitting in on shift reports and thorough post conferences. However, I have been told numerous times by several instructors that we (the nursing students in my cohort) are all going to gra...

I feel guilty when I go for a Chipotle run between classes.

Oh, LOL I didn't realize he asked a second question. The first question (which had 2 parts) asked for an answer in milligrams...which was why I was confused anyone was writing about flow rates. Okay my bad thanks! BTW SNurseKylam you explain thing...

I would not bring this episode up with anyone in the clinical setting. Why? Clinicals are often considered a job rehearsal, and the medical community can be quite small. Clinical instructors often work in a variety of clinical settings at any give...

I have never had any problems with med math, but someone else mentioned having to calculate the flow rate for this question. Perhaps it's the way the question is worded (that is messing me up), but I did not have to calculate the flow rate to get an...

Thanks for responding and for the clarification. I believe the nurse you were shadowing shares culpability for the medication error that occurred. Most mistakes involve an error chain, often with more than one person involved.

I agree with the admin's comments. A little fear can be a positive. A little fear going into your first job and a sense of concern for the safety of your patients will keep you on your toes and mindful. Obviously the key word is a "little" fear, b...

The student was punished. The student had to repeat a semester. I am very curious to know if the clinical instructor was punished. From what was described, some of the fault lies with the clinical instructor.

I'm not good at math and was terrible at math in high school. At community college, I was required to take developmental math (pre-algrebra) and then a non-transferable college algebra class. I attend a major state university, and they did not requ...

There is some great advice so far. I would only add that talking to students in your program who are a semester ahead of you can be invaluable. They can tell you which books for which classes are must-reads versus which ones you don't have to read ...

OP, congrats on being able to go to nursing school PT. I looked into any type of program in my area that would allow me to go PT so I could work my "real" job while I went to school -- I'm in N IL near Chicago, and could find no such program. AFAIK...

The APA Style Guide 2nd printing is incredibly un-user friendly. It's nearly impossible to look anything up. It needs more examples. Just give us a really long Reference List with lots of varied examples and I'm good. Also, OWL is not always corr...

Is it b/c I have not posted in a while? I cannot start a new topic. I was going to ask (in another area -- nurses or students -- not the "help" area) what "Readiness" means in a NANDA diagnosis. I know it's a really basic question, but I am a firs...

Okay great...that's what I thought. Thanks!!!

Yes read patho if your program has a separate pathophysiology class/ book. Getting a leg up on patho helps because it comes up again in other classes and semesters, and it's generally one of the toughest classes in the early semesters.

Greetings, I start a BSN program in 2 weeks. I've done well in my prerequisite classes, but have avoided taking more than 12 credit hours per semester. The program I am entering is a track program, and I am signed up for 15 credit hours. In orient...

Yeah, it would pretty much be impossible to get a job there as a non-Greek imo, unless you were highly skilled in an area that is in demand and no other Greeks were available to fill jobs in the sector. I would not move to Greece unless I had a job ...

Definite kudos to you for setting a goal for yourself, exploring it, and then deciding it was not right for you! You will always be able to look back with no regrets because you gave it a try. You should never have that "I wonder what would have be...

First off, congrats on completing your degree, prerequisites, and scoring really well on the TEAS test. A 12 month program, as much hell as it will be, is so much preferable to the FIVE semester track I'm about to begin in IL imo. That's 5 semester...

So true about crossing out/ ignoring the wrong answers. I had a study guide for a class with a bunch of practice tests, and I could not believe the number of times I could not remember the correct answer even when the question was identical to the p...

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I found that in Anatomy I often read the chapter summaries and looked at all the diagrams, etc. if I did not have time to read the entire chapter or just wanted a quick memory boost before an exam. I'm hoping some second ...

NIU is good. Aurora is good too but very expensive. Western Illinois -- Quad Cities campus has a BSN program, and I know that campus has undergone major upgrades and expansion in the past few years with more construction planned. QCA is a pretty q...

Okay, as a beginning RN student..I'm curious... how common is it for an RN to be instantly fired over a mistake like this? If you have a perfect record, and are an otherwise good employee (no complaints from co-workers or pts and always dependable)...