douxmusique

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  1. Things I should be doing

    It seems to me this type of studying only happens to me when I need to do very well on a test .... convenient...... I have been this way all
  2. Chemistry has been my hardest prereq!

    Yes oh my chem was crazy difficult for me I hated it! I took it in my last semester before nursing and I reslly wish I had taken it before everything else because it finally made me understand...
  3. It is *not* a pannus...

    Yeah thatsa fupa. .. fatty upper ..."private".... area (member or slang -----). And I always considered lady partss to be an internal location not necessarily
  4. Prerequisites and the actual nursing program

    You will want to know cardiac, respiratory, renal and diffusion reeeeeally well. That will help you a lot. At least at first. I cant really tell you much abkut anything other than the
  5. Nursing Studens and Depression and/or anxiety

    Could you speakbwith your dr and try to find a medication that wont cause you to lose
  6. Prioritizing help

    I dont know the exact questions because we arent allowed to write them down, just reference pages and im cramming so much into my head right now I dont remember everything exactly. Everything you...
  7. Prioritizing help

    Hello! I am looking for a bit of direction in figuring out how to seriously get the hang of prioritizing and assessing. I am about to finish Med Surge I and I am getting really frustrated with the...
  8. Prioritizing help

    Yeah. I get the whole abcs and maslows. When it comes down to choosing between two answers for specific conditions.... like auscultate lungs or check pulse ox, it seems like the answers change...
  9. Pathophysiology!

    Normally the textbook comes with online resources to are helpful. Khan academy on youtube is pretty great. Honestly you can type in any condition on youtube and there normally a nice scientific...
  10. "Soon to be Military Spouse" NEEDS advice

    I agree. Leaving a job before 1 year for a brief 4/6 months is a bad idea. As a military spouse of 11 years and one who had my soldier leave for Bct two months after our wedding and then multiple...
  11. Reading for pleasure

    My deal with myself is study during the day read in bed st night.... for every two hours studying I earn 30 mins reading. I need it as "me time". So I get some good books in here and there. Although...
  12. Think about what a nurse does. I know its frustrating as a pre nursing student to be expected to just know what nurses do aside from what we see as non nurses in the hospital and on tv (which shows...
  13. Undecided

    I say the one closest to your house. Less money spent in gas, less time traveling more studying (you will start counting down mins you could be studying). 2nd advantage is that it is a quicker...
  14. thank you notes?

    Its ok to give the nurse I was with for clinicals a thank you note, right? I know people are uptight about some things, I wouldnt want to do something totally inappropriate by thanking a nurse. I...
  15. thank you notes?

    Thank you
  16. thank you notes?

    I dont know sometimes what I think is appropriate gets people a stern typing to in this forun :) I see new naive nurses get new ones handed to them for something they had no clue about so I didnt know...
  17. There's nothing worse than a FAT nurse!

    As a patient I dont have a preference on what my nurse looks like fat skinny old young ugly gorgeous (I wouldnt mind a cute male though, of im being honest). I recently lost 70 lbs and relocated...
  18. The Insanity That Is APA in Nursing School

    I dont understand the confusion or difficulty
  19. Not sure what to do....

    If you do not want to be a nurse then dont apply and dint consider it an option. There are too many dedicated hard working individuals who deeply desire to be accepted into limited nursing schools...
  20. Nursing staff & curriculum being reviewed.

    Only three chapters a week? Nursing school is hard. That's all I really
  21. ati app?

    Hey has anybody bought the full ATI app and found it incredibly useful? I had my confidence shaken with my first ATI test and am determined to be better prepared. So im just wondering how usefuk it...
  22. ati app?

    Super! Thanks! I got the free app and have been weighing whether or not to pay for the full version. I figured for $20 it can't suck
  23. ati app?

    Does the full version present more questions than the practice assessments you can do from the ati website? bi like those but I only get the 60 questions which arent really whats on the
  24. I mean........ it can be traumatic..... maybe you should try researchjng some affirmations and positive self talk techniques to help you get over
  25. ^^^this and.......... everyone has a thing. Youll get over