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  1. How many nursing schools are you applying to?

    priorities2 replied to RHill9919's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I only applied to one. I was in my sophomore year of college and it was a BSN that had a two year nursing portion. It's in-state tuition but I'm moving 4 hrs away to attend there for the last two...

  2. Most Challenging Prereq?

    priorities2 replied to rednotebook's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I found micro fairly easy compared to anat and phsl, bio and chem totally doable. Physiology was hard, but for me, Anatomy was the hardest. It was just so much memorizing - it was hard for me to...

  3. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Look, I'm definitely not opposed to working at the bedside, cleaning poop, etc, in the context of providing patient care and helping a person in need. I think it's very important, and I would return...

  4. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Well yeah, I made this thread in order to become more prepared and ready. I do for sure plan on becoming an outpatient PMHNP though. If I change my mind, that would be my choice, and I would have...

  5. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Okay. Thanks for your feedback and advice, everyone. I am prepared to clean up poop every clinical (twice a week my first semester) or not often at all ... it sounds like your experiences really vary....

  6. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Sure, but I'm talking more about an outpatient clinic. I don't think that outpatient PMHNPs clean poop. I don't even think inpatient NPs do... not every single job that involves patient care also...

  7. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Ha. I want to work as an outpatient PMHNP, possibly opening up my own practice or working within someone else's one day. Or, I'd like to work in a substance abuse clinic. But yes.. I would like to get...

  8. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Point taken. I do think I can handle it and put myself in the shoes of the patient. I just wanted to know if it's an every day thing or not. Sounds like it could go either

  9. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    I mean, I don't plan to work as an RN much. Some people go to BSN school because they want to work in policy, CRNA or NP or PA. I never said anything about getting an aide to do any work. I just...

  10. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Chrisrn, I know I can handle it. I mean, I don't know, I feel your tone is a little judgmental/dismissive (it could just be the effect of the interwebs). I just was looking for factual...

  11. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Thank you for being specific, KKahn =) I'm just wondering- I want to be a PMHNP and bedside care is not exactly my dream career. So I just wanted a sense of how much of it truly goes on.. I have no...

  12. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Okay. I'm just asking about school though. So, every day in nursing clinicals in RN school you clean up

  13. How much poop/puke/cleaning of bodily fluids is there in nursing school?

    priorities2 replied to priorities2's topic in General Students

    Really? In nursing school? Don't they teach a variety of clinical

  14. Walden University - the latest on the FNP program

    priorities2 replied to msa9179's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    All of Mark's posts are about Walden. I'm gonna go ahead and say "user paid by Walden University to say good things about it on message boards" -- Capella puts a bunch of these people out there for...

  15. beginning nursing school in the fall...scared!

    priorities2 replied to GaNicuRN14's topic in General Students

    Hey! I start nursing school in the fall too, and the closest I've gotten to medical experience is volunteering in discharge at a hospital - in 8th-9th grade, lol. So I feel you there, I know that many...

  16. Forceful opinions

    priorities2 replied to mmcc26's topic in General Students

    Yeah, I mean my dad is supportive but my mom and stepdad have super strong opinions about everything (and they sometimes forget their opinions and have a different but equally strong opinion the same...

  17. Reactions to being a NP

    priorities2 replied to orangepink's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Wow, starting pay in my metro area is around 60k for new grad RN-BSNs. 80-95k for new grad NPs (lower at the VA). I mean, another "perk" aspect of nursing besides relatively high pay is that you get...

  18. Newly accepted Nursing Student with Fear of Needle Sticks

    priorities2 replied to Bpark8's topic in General Students

    If your fear persists, short-term psychotherapy exists to help reduce specific anxieties like that one. You could look into it. Good

  19. What do you think is an a "good" nursing school gpa?

    priorities2 replied to RNnewbie2014's topic in General Students

    Grad schools generally look at all your transcripts (nursing and pre-req even if taken at difft schools.... even previous degrees too ifi they don't have a credit cut-off). But I'm not sure how much...

  20. Reactions to being a NP

    priorities2 replied to orangepink's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    According to the BLS in 2012, the average NP in my metro area made 95k a year while the average lawyer made 130k. I agree that you should have a passion for healthcare, your specialty and helping...

  21. I Lost a Medication: Controlled Substance

    priorities2 replied to GreenApplesauce's topic in Patient Medications

    Ah.... I am just a nursing student and have not yet started clinicals, but I am SO absentminded and have a tendency to lose things. Any tips for avoiding something like this

  22. How much do they let you customize your program/select your clinicals at your school?

    priorities2 posted a topic in General Students

    I just had orientation and learned that we'll have 180 hrs of clinicals first semester that are randomly chosen for us. Second semester, we get a choice between various types of surgery and general...

  23. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    priorities2 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Hm. I guess I've heard on other forums that bringing old threads back can be helpful in terms of consolidating information in one place. Is there a downside to bringing an old thread back rather than...

  24. MDs dont own the physician title

    priorities2 replied to platon20's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Physicians do own the physician title. They do not own the "doctor"

  25. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    priorities2 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    No comments on this thread since '11... any updates on people's thoughts on becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience? I'm thinking about taking the plunge and applying during my senior year...