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Hello everyone! I'm new here and I just wanted to say that this website is awesome! I recently found out that I got accepted into a nursing program and I'm excited to start :). While I wait for Fall, I decided to volunteer at a hospital to get a "fe...

I'm 3 weeks away from ending my first semester at my nursing program and I am not looking forward to next semester. Things have not been going so great for me and I am starting to feel very stressed out and unhappy. I just feel like I'm stuck and I a...

Yeah, I thought surgery would be best for me, but I don't actually know...I'm a first semester student so I haven't been in OB yet. I heard you either hate or love OB, so I honestly do not know. If I get to see surgeries, that would be great and I fe...

Thanks for the comments everyone. I couldn't help, but notice that someone mentioned that I thought nursing was beneath me and this is definitely not the case. Like I mentioned before, I respect nurses a lot and it is clear to me that they do a lot w...

Thanks for the comments :) That's the problem that I'm facing - I have no idea what to do otherwise. I can try entering into B.A. PA programs, but those require 5-6 years to finish & what are the chances they'll accept me? I had the chance to wor...

My 2 year nursing program (ADN) has clinicals every semester. We started about a month after we entered. They will each last about 3/4 months.

My skills class is going to end in about 6 weeks and I'm pretty disappointed with the way I have been doing. I'm sure you hear this a lot - an A student not doing as great as they thought they would, but I am having trouble studying and changing the ...

Thanks to everyone who has replied, it has helped a lot:). I am REALLY hard on myself and I'm always stressed because of this. I see that getting a A is possible so it makes me feel bad, but I shouldn't let this get to me.

I wouldn't worry about it - get the rolling backpack :). It's your health! In my class, all the females use rolling backpacks, but none of the males do (maybe they see it as feminine or weak?). I'm the only girl who doen't use them, but I feel fine ...

Hello everyone :) I have been feeling a bit down so I thought I'd ask for help. I just started my first semester of nursing school a week ago and I amazed by the amount of reading we have to do! I was not crazy about the first chapters (nursing hist...

Thanks for all the advice everyone :). I don't find the material hard and I'm used to spending a ton of time reading (bio degree), but I do find it boring. I just thought we'd jump more into medicine, but it's learning how to do beds, clean people, e...

They told us that 48 people applied this semester and that half got accepted. It used to be more than 100 each semester.

I never had a lot of luck with study groups, I always found them distracting. I had a couple during my time at my university, and we spent most of the time goofing around. I always tried to avoid them and I want to continue doing this. The people in ...

I had one course left to complete my B.S. in Biology, but I chose to return to community college to finish my pre-reqs and enter a nursing program. I was able to get a pell grant my first year, but I am unable to get anything this year because I have...

Not all college students are equal, but from my own personal experience as a tutor, I have seen a lot of failure when students take one major science course (ex: anatomy) let alone two or three. If you don't have much of a science background, I woul...

Less than 10 minutes . When I had no car, it took me about 25 minutes when I took the bus.

Hello everyone, I'm am about to start my RN program in about 3 weeks and I am pretty excited to start :). I, unfortunately, have come across a problem that has been stressing me out. At the end of Spring 12, I received an e-mail that I will no longe...

Sorry for the late reply! I am single - no kids, not married...etc. I live in Imperial Valley & I am attending Imperial Valley college. The area is small with about 160,000 residents. We have the highest unemployment in the U.S. (27.2%).....yea :...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone :). I have only applied for the part-time jobs that showed up on on the popular job sites (indeed.com, monster.com...etc), and I have not come across any restaurant type ones. I will have to check out restaurant w...

I ended up buying the ADC convertible cardiology stethoscope because of what you said (and other reviews). I thought about it and I really didn't want to spend too much money on it, but I also didn't want to get a cheap product. I waited a while and ...

I apologize if there is another place to post about textbooks, but I couldn't find it (if there is, please let me know). I was wondering if anyone here had to buy this? If you did, how was it? I just finished my first day of orientation, and I was s...

I have decided to buy a littmann stethoscope, but I'm not sure about which one to get (lightweight, classic,cardiology...). It looks like the cardiology one is the best one, but $130+ is a lot ! I am thinking about getting a classic ($75 - price stil...

I feel awful about quitting, but at the same time, it wasn't anything like I expected. I'm really not sure how this affects me if I were to consider getting a job at that particular hospital later on. I know some of you have mentioned it looking g...

Thank you for your post, this is EXACTLY how I feel. I have told my boyfriend countless times that I feel like I'm just doing the work they don't want to do. Today was the worst of all, I had to go through patient folders and look through every piece...

I've been volunteering for a while now and would like some input about what I should do :S. For the last couple of days, I have been volunteering 2 hours a day, twice a week. All I do now is dull and mind numbing office work (stapling, faxing..etc). ...