Madhuri

Hi, I'm also a BSN student, graduating in December. We are in the process of making requests for our senior practicum -- I thought I'd tell you what my advisor told me: This last clinical is as much about passing the NCLEX as it is about refining skills. Our school doesn't allow us to do public health (for the practicum -- we do have a community health clinical), because it just doesn't offer as much in the way of NCLEX review as, say, med-surg. Med-surg will give you a broad skills review and an NCLEX review -- where ever you are hired in public health will hopefully give you the orientation you need after that....GOOD LUCK!

I am a nursing student and am amazed at the number of my fellow students who smoke, are obese, don't exercise, don't eat right...but, you know, nurses are human like everyone else. In school we are constantly being taught how to teach our patients about diet, exercise, smoking cessation, etc. But I've noticed that nursing school doesn't exactly promote healthy behaviors in future nurses -- I would love it if there was some aspect of nursing school that addressed helping nurses be healthier. In a perfect world nurses (and doctors, too) would model perfect healthy behavior. Until then...just know that when you do decide to quit you will have the life experience to truly help your patients that are ready to quit! ---a former smoker