AnneF

I feel like I have the opposite fear. I'll be graduating in a year with my BSN, but I have no work experience. I worry that the BSN title will come with increased expectations, like "You have a BSN you should know this..." While i'm there just trying not to pee my pants. These kinds of divisions can be really dangerous you know? If I get on the floor and can't get any help or advice from the ADNs and LPNs... I'm screwed. Very proud of my education but at the end of the day we all work the same floor

"Planned Parenthood currently serves about half of the 130,000 women in the Women's Health Program, and none of the Planned Parenthood clinics that participate in the program offer abortions." via huffington post So their funding is being taken away because their affiliates offer abortions? Wow that is ridiculous. No wonder Perry's political career can't survive outside of Texas. Good Luck on your petition! I will definitely sign

I actually like my nursing texts (thought I know many do not) what I found was it's all about where you look. Most of the time in the text it will give a lengthy explanation on the pathophys of the disease, and then afterward it will go into what the patient will actually experience, and what as a nurse you have to look out for (at risk and actual nursing dx etc...). I just realized I was spending too much time on the patho (which is still important) but not enough on the nursing aspect, which is the majority of the test.

Great post!! Thank you for sharing. The tests for me were a total shock to the system as well. The whole "Every answer is right, but which one is the best?" Drove me insane for my first few terms. I would come out of so many exams feeling great thinking I aced, just to get the test back with a C because I got all of the SELECT ALL THAT APPLY questions wrong. Also to note when studying diseases, don't just study the basics for the disease, study the patient interventions!! I remember thinking the questions would be "What is Parkinson's disease?" lol they are not at all, you gotta know the meds (side effects, black box, interventions, dosing), symptoms, complications, and how you will deal with that patient on the day to day. Then I go to clinical and my nurse tells me, "beware... nursing school is NOT nursing..." say what?!?! lol anyway thanks for the post!!!