WahineMakai

Lucky you! We also spent 4 weeks at a SNF, and the past 8 weeks in the hospital with 2 more weeks of class time and hospital clinicals to go til Christmas break! It's been a long semester. I cannot WAIT to have 17 days off!

I have specific underwear that's worn on clinical days (that would sound super weird to anyone NOT in nursing school ) -- I have nude-colored, a couple of white pairs, and a very light grey with light pink trim. None of them show through. However, I...

We aren't allowed to use smartphones or any handheld electronic devices during clinicals. We are expected to have our Tabers, our labs book, and drug guide with us (stashed in a closet or break room) at clinicals if we need to look something up. You...

You may want to wait and see if your instructors will allow you to have an iPad in class. I was considering it too, til I went to orientation and found out they were banning iPads and laptops during class hours, due to last year's class surfing the n...

I'd go for the second pair -- they will be much easier to clean and keep white than the first pair. My classmates' shoes with fabric on them always look dingier than those of us with clog style that can be cleaned easily.

Not sure if it works with all materials, but sometimes saturating the tight area with KY jelly and then wearing the shoes for a couple of hours will stretch them out.

I'm in Northern California, and my full-time 18 month (we're off for the winter holidays, spring break and summer) LVN program cost $6000. The part-time 24 month program at my school is the same price. Personally, I don't think I would've chosen a mo...

I wear Dansko Professionals (in white box leather) and I LOVE them! I have a super high arch, so was worried they'd hurt, and I am so pleased with them. The pair I have are larger than the size chart said I should wear (I wear 8-9 in regular shoes, s...

Are pockets passé? I can fit a whole lot of stuff in my scrub top and cargo pants pockets. Seems that wearing a fanny pack would just be another infection control issue. And no one looks good wearing one, sorry..

My school provided a checklist/questionnaire on medical history - the student and the doctor each had to fill out a portion. We had to have a full round of vaccinations unless you could provide documented proof of prior vaccines/titers. We had to hav...

My steth lives in one of my cargo pant pockets, or scrub top pocket.

Wow. Well, that site sure is damning toward those with tattoos. Find me something unbiased and maybe we can have a discussion about it. It's time that the stigma toward tattooed people is removed. It's incredible to me that in this day in age, the op...

I wear Danskos, and I cannot say enough wonderful things about them! I was hopeful that they'd work for me, as I injured my back fairly severely last year in a car accident and have lingering back pain issues. NO back pain, and my feet feel GREAT at ...

I wish I had started reading sooner. Sometimes it's hard to fit in reading 3-8 chapters of material after a long day at school. If I had started reading as soon as I got my textbooks (3 days before school started), I might have felt a little less str...

So far, so good! We've just finished week 4, and I feel like I'm really getting into the groove. I've got a 99.6% average so I'm pretty pleased about that! We've done numerous skills check-offs, and had 2 days of clinicals so far, and that's also go...

Maybe I'm missing something, but how are tattoos unsanitary?

Sorry to hear that! It sounds like you need to find a new way to study. Whatever you've been doing obviously isn't working, so you need to shake it up. Would a study group be helpful to you? Using flash cards? If you're allowed to record lectures, yo...

No worries, dude. I am a perfectionist too, I understand being super bummed about not getting the grade you hoped for/expected. As a fellow EMT who also breezed through her program.. I agree. There is a weird attitude that goes along with a lot of p...

I should hope that ALL schooling for professions that involve the responsibility for and risk of people's LIVES are difficult with extremely high standards.

Whoa, sister, back it on up. If you'll go back and look, I was quoting SOMEONE ELSE, not you. That other poster said that nursing school destroys self-esteem; again, nursing school isn't designed to pat us on the butt for a job well done -- doing wel...

I wasn't trying to be harsh. It's just reality! If the school makes it known that 75% is the lowest score you can get and still pass, then that's the requirement. This has NOTHING to do with self-esteem, and EVERYTHING to do with knowledge and compet...

I love love love Koi scrubs. Really cute and flattering!

It's not surprising that 80% = C. At my school, we must earn at least 75% to pass (anything below 75% = F). That can be tough with a 10-question test, but the grading makes sense. I don't understand how knowing the grading scale would've made a diffe...

I'm about to start my 4th week on Monday. I'd say I spend at least 2 hours every night reading & studying, and on the weekends, I study a lot more -- around 3+ hours on Saturdays after work, and pretty much all day Sundays. So far it's paying off...

I swear by flash cards!