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It can be hard at times but it's doable. It sounds like you're doing fine. Hang in there! :)
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I feel your pain too OP. I'm coming on my final semester for my BSN. My wife is a 5th grade teacher, which means she brings a lot if work home and works late often, and we have twin 1 yr old girls. I just finished my Critical Care class and I never had time to start studying before 8:30pm at the earliest. The kids need so much attention and I want to be with them too. Now that its summer I have no class, it's my day off, and I'm going to sit in my dark living room and enjoy the quiet house. I just wish that bird would shut up outside."You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"I'm a little older coming into this game. I will graduate with my BSN one week before my 39th birthday. I think that many of the "old school" values that my father's generation passed down (he grew up in the Depression era Deep South) are gone for the most part. I try to really work hard at whatever I'm doing. Not being to best is ok, not trying to be the best isn't. I have two toddlers of my own and I plan on installing a lot of those "old school" values I them. Who knows, maybe one day the nurse they precepted might be. Inserting my Foley.How about San Antonio?I have looked at what each class ahead of me was doing and it has scared the ***** out of me. If you're program is like mine they will start you off with relatively small bites though you will be drinking from the firehose. Each semester will build on the last, try not to stress over getting to practice skills, your assessment is your bread and butter!Working will help. I work as an aid too, before nursing school I'd never worked in a health care setting. It helped me with a lot of exposure. Are you doing an ADN or BSN program? Try to find an externship as you get closer to graduation.Congrats on getting in! Nursing school is hard as all ****. If you have kids it's only more so. I have twin one year old girls and at times I feel like I am one deadline away from really breaking. Don't mean to be a downer, my coping skills are in the toilet. I'm sure you'll do great! Good luck to you!My school sold us kits for $40 that included one. I would get one in the$20 range and a penlight and scissors. I wouldn't get a super nice Littman because: a. It might get stolen, and b. you may decide you don't want to continue and your stuck with an expensive stethoscope; though I hope the latter doesn't happen. I also think getting a good cheaper one will make you work more to assess your heart, lung, and abdominal sounds. When you get a good one later you will appreciate what you've been missing. Good luck to you!Good guy for taking the hit for you. :)I guess it was because I didn't know them and I hot boxed them. (they were still waiting for discharge instructions when I left). I will burn a whole through the couch watching tv with my wife and laugh my butt off. As for the round of vitals their nurse asked for one more.Oh know. In fact this happened less than 30 sec after the doc left! I couldn't leave fast enough.