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My friend works in an office where the nurses were given gift cards and treated to a group lunch outside the facility at a restaurant just down the block. She said it was fun and relaxing and she felt special. Where I work? I didn't realize it wa...

Front desk will pass the call back to the RN's line. If the RN is busy (and I usually am) that call goes to VM and the RN will return the calls in order of priority. The VM prompts the caller with what info to leave for the nurse to return the call. ...

Holy cats, I'm wondering if I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote your post myself. You're me in another place, my friend. And you'll be cool. Your subconscious is just telling your "what will be will be" attitude that this test costs som...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! And please do not apologize for posting too much info on how you passed the boards. I'm always just happy to see proof positive that hard work and studying pays off. You go, you RN, you!

Face your insecurities, know they are there, know others have them as well, and move on. You're not great right now and you're not going to be -- no one expects you to be great right now. And others in your class who are telling you it should be ea...

I am right there with you. Three months to go and I am having such trouble motivating to continue to learn (see, I'm right here now!!!) But I know if I stop now, even with all I've learned so far, there's a chance I won't pass the semester. There's...

At my age, I have no modesty left (well, not much, anyway), but I was a tad nervous about going in on my first round of clinicals to do the physical assessments. I was looking for advice and the best I found was from a nun who trained other RNs who ...

Stop stressing it. Everybody has a different path and not just those who have had work as CNAs get hired. I have a list of varied job experiences and twenty years of childraising behind me and I'm not going to let any of them lower my confidence in...

Oh, ugh.... Ignore, ignore, ignore. We have several who apparently never listen in class and spend all their time on fb asking questions (about meeting times, counseling appts, etc) when if they'd listened in class they would know. Ignore, ignore,...

The teachers who recite from their power points which are taken verbatim (and yet, somehow still contain grammatical errors?) from the books we were supposed to read before lecture? Those teachers get poor evaluations from me every time, every semes...

Consider when you are going through the rotation that you are learning how best to help those who need it most. As you said, not every baby is born into a family bursting to care for it to their very best ability. Learn those assessment skills, get...

I was instructed this previous semester to palpate the DP bilaterally at the same time, as well, to judge differences in quality of each. Sometimes it's hard to find those pedal pulses in sick patients, but keep at it. They know you're learning.

THANK you for posting this at a time when there are so many of us slogging through finals, through the ends of long clinical rotations, and hearing how hard it is going to be to find work. THIS is what I'm looking for and it's up to ME to find it by...

Okay, first, STOP allowing all non-productive thinking. Focus right this minute on passing, passing, passing. Learn that material. If you don't, you'll never have to even think about why there are people in your class who don't like you. They don...

Some people are ugly. Some of them are simply thoughtless about the discomfort they may be causing to another person, and some people are just trying to claw their way to the "top" and don't care whom they may step on to get there. I had a girl att...

I know there are those who manage to breeze through nursing school with hardly a worry about passing exams, and believe you me, if I could manage to do the same, I sure would. Some of us don't "get it" naturally and for those of us who do have to bu...

Yes, you're being too sensitive. :) That said, grab your initiative and call them out on it. It's probable they just don't know you well enough yet to trust they can speak freely in front of you, rather than their conversation being ABOUT you. I'd...

Do not forget to point out that when it's all over and you have your degree, the two of you can sit together again and completely re-work job priorities, housework priorities, schedule vacations and dates, etcetera. Promise to do that. And then jus...

We have several students in my class who passed the TEAS without having taken A&P I or II yet. They are taking them on-schedule with the nursing classes. So yes, it can be done. :) You may as well go in and give it a try!

I think it's up to your own level of organization and how much sleep you need and how you let anxiety affect you as to what is do-able for you. For me, first semester would have SUCKED even more if I'd loaded micro into it. The nursing school cultu...

My two cents is this: never, ever, ever listen to what "they" say. Everything is "hard" and you're going to "study your head off to keep up" and "it's the worst few years of your life" to get through school. Take a deep breath and evaluate your op...

The first thing I would do if I were you is rethink your ideas about math and science, especially science. The math isn't hard, but if you have a brain block going that says, "I don't like it, I'm not good at math," you won't be able to learn it eff...

I have trouble focusing in a group situation. Even in class it seems the material just floats into my brain and only when I am alone and quiet can I synthesize it into concepts and information that is sensible to me. When others talk and talk and t...

One, nursing school really ISN'T like studying for other degrees. I've done that and this is WAY more difficult, just due to the time crunch demanded. If nursing students were given a full four years to complete the actual nursing requirements, pro...

Feel better? LOL. You will never be the only one worried about this in THIS profession. White scrub pants are stupid anyway. Thank goodness ours are darker, but I still double up at THAT time. It's not like we have tons of time for bathroom break...