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I'm having a hard time not critiquing every single thing the nurses/Dr. I come into contact with are doing. Last week I had to take my child into the ER and a follow up with the primary today. The Dr. was the worst in the ER with procedure related ...

I know this thread started a year ago, but to help any newer viewers looking for tips: I recently started as a new grad on a mother/baby unit. Remember that culture dictates raising of children. There are so many different ways families take care of ...

I actually had the same thing happen to me, I didnt realize it would hit me so hard. I wouldnt say I am not "cut out for that kind of nursing" though.... I would say I had an unexpected reaction and will have to work on it. In school I have watch man...

Yes the focused reviews helped. I did the practice assessments and then was able to narrow down what I needed to study based on the assessments.

There is an ati app in the play store as well. Honestly read your book word for word. I had to remediate for fundamentals and every question I got wrong was in the book word for word. I have taken 4 ati tests now and the last 3 I have received level ...

We have our clinicals in hospitals. If thats what on site means. And yes the two programs are completely separate and have their own accreditations. Good luck to you as well :)

Speaking on woodbridge campus program only......Yes the program is very new and not regionally accredited. Those are the two major downsides to the program. However...... the program is ccne accredited and is good and strong and prepares students to ...

I have the hardest time with alzheimers/dementia/confused patients... I am not sure how to respectfully and effecivelty communicate with them. Those have been my most challenging moments. I wish I would have had more confidence to just deal my first ...

There is a poison ivy shot?!

They might be out there but I havent heard of any asn programs being 18 months prereqs to finishm like a pp mentioned many/most have at least a year of prereqs, sometimes three semesters, then an additional four semesterd of nursing core. In many BSN...

Yeah thats not what was happening.

This is exactly why I tend to struggle with saying something or not. And hand sanitizer is considered washing hands from what the hospitals have taught me. So even some hand sanitizer!

Youre absolutely right I am definitely going to need stop worrying about not offending people when standing up for stuff like..... immediately.

Suturing. I wasnt sure if it was surgical or medical so I didnt know when/if the way he was laying everything out was contaminating a sterile field or even if it was sterile or not. I havent studied that in class yet so I just didnt know. Plus.... re...

I struggle with some ocd stuff and figuring out what is normal germ awareness and what is hyper obsessive germ awareness (im talking about in therapy once a week for this) so my experiences since starting nursing school have been real confusing and h...

So a level one is like high 60s in oercentages depending on which test youre taking and when I take a test and get the assessment report it lists the class average and the national average and where my scores fall in that. I know for the fundamentals...

Ive taken two so far and in my opinion if you have read and read and read your ATI books you will do good. There is an ATI app that is helpful also. One free version and the paid. I havent upgraded yet but the free one is good. When you take the pra...

that taught me what NOT to do as a nurse. Trust me, it took me a full day to process the entire experience and put a positive spin on it so that I wasn't left with feeling like my day was a waste. We started at a new clinical site and after a few h...

I did classicdame. I did try to Get as much from the patient as I could and might end up using the pt for a care plan if I don't find another next week. I'd say bilateral PEs is a pretty good care plan patient I'd be interested in working with :)

All I know is I've seen people using $300 of SNAP (because all the snap cards look the same....) on frozen fried chicken appetizers, pizza rolls and huge boxes of fruit loops while I dont even walk down chip and dessert aisles in order to afford food...

My experience so far is that yes, peers try to ambush you.......not all but some. It is sneaky and selfish and makes no sense especially to those of us who genuinely dont want to see our friends fail. I do t want to go into specifics but lets just sa...

2. Unsanitary drinking water is a leading cause of illness in developing countries, bottled water is clean and free of pathogens.

So true on the first two. Im about to finish up my first semester as well and the whole subjectiveness of test questions has been hard to get used to. It has probably been my biggest challenge. It had even made me incredibly nervous to interact with ...