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  1. Conflict with a coworker

    krisiepoo replied to phlebo2rn's topic in General Students

    ps, there is NO conflict here except what you're making of it. Which is something out of

  2. What is your grading scale?

    krisiepoo replied to smoup's topic in General Students

    96-100 A 94-96 A- 90-94 B+ 86-90 B 82-86 B- 79-82 C Below 79% is

  3. Conflict with a coworker

    krisiepoo replied to phlebo2rn's topic in General Students

    I've lived in another country before and spoke their language. However, when I would be around other English speakers, I immediately switched to English because it is my native language and I could...

  4. which test prep?

    krisiepoo replied to jescalynn's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm doing the Kaplan classes right now. It's 100% questions but they have online content info (in the form of pretaped videos) available. It's making me feel like I just might

  5. Failed first semester by very small amount...

    krisiepoo replied to hopefulRN23's topic in General Students

    at my school, we called it "resequencing", ie you resequenced into the course as it was linear and set up accordingly. we were given one chance to resequence and many of those people failed the next...

  6. night/weekend nursing schools

    krisiepoo replied to pistolfannie's topic in General Students

    every school I'm sure is different, but I did my degree on nights and weekends and worked FT the whole way through we had 4 classes at night during the week. Clinicals were e/o weekend from 6-3 (we...

  7. Blogging through pre reqs/nursing school?

    krisiepoo replied to SaraMC's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There are some really good ones out there that I loved to follow when i was in school. If you have what it takes to engage people, I say go for

  8. Getting hired!

    krisiepoo replied to dkmcd2000's topic in California Nursing

    If you go under the "career" tab there's a bunch of subsections about first year nursing, etc... it seems CA is a really hard state to get hired in (there's also a CA nurisng tab up there) and...

  9. To Continue Working or Not?

    krisiepoo replied to smoup's topic in General Students

    I say don't quit until you get the syllabus and class calendar and you can see what you're up against. Give it a little time and if you feel like you need that time, you can quit

  10. Half a nurse :) two semesters to go

    krisiepoo replied to Camwill's topic in General Students

    I just graduated, it's an amazing feeling. YOU got this, stick to your course and you'll be

  11. What to do with medications if patient is NPO

    krisiepoo replied to JTLewis93's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I'd like to add that the pharmacy can be very helpful in situations like this as well. A couple hospitals I had clinicals in there were pharmacists available (one even had his own station on the...

  12. Nclex review courses that actually give you the "green light" to test???

    krisiepoo replied to motheroftwokids's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Kaplan has been integrated into our program and I know they give us the "green light" to test, but I don't know if they provide documentation or not I think Kaplan, Hurst and ATI are the main NCLEX...

  13. Studying during break...

    krisiepoo replied to rosyariana's topic in General Students

    give yourself a week or two, enjoy the holidays. you owe at least that much to

  14. Feeling inadequate?

    krisiepoo replied to EmergencyChocolate's topic in General Students

    quite honestly, while you are in school I would do as little as I could to stand out. I would keep my head down and continue being my awesome self. Don't worry about what everyone else is doing...

  15. 3rd semester

    krisiepoo replied to momtojosh's topic in General Students

    congrats!! 3rd semester was the hardest one for

  16. Failed first semester by very small amount...

    krisiepoo replied to hopefulRN23's topic in General Students

    My school didn't even round up, so you could have (and would have) failed with a

  17. Should I miss the first day of nursing class?

    krisiepoo replied to brianna1's topic in General Students

    If we miss the first day, we lose our spot in the program I'd take the school over the job if you can't reschedule the

  18. Do I really need ebooks?

    krisiepoo replied to blindcheeseit3's topic in General Students

    I never buy anything from the school bookstore... there's nothing there that I can't find elsewhere cheaper. Personally, I don't even like reading a regular book on an ebook let alone a nursing book....

  19. Kaplan Predictor 64.7%

    krisiepoo replied to krisiepoo's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    only 1/2 the class took it on tuesday, the other half will take it tonight so maybe just us dummies were testing on

  20. Kaplan Predictor 64.7%

    krisiepoo posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Our school partnered with Kaplan and we just had our predictor exam and the benchmark is 65%. If we hit the benchmark tonight, they release our grades to the BON this week so we can get the ATT...

  21. Asked to give advice to new nursing students

    krisiepoo replied to PapaBearRN's topic in General Students

    before you can take care of others, you need to take care of yourself. Eat well, get exercise and get sleep. You won't learn if you're tired, put the book down and go for a run, or get

  22. Kaplan Predictor 64.7%

    krisiepoo replied to krisiepoo's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    yeah, one of my instructors said that when the moment came when I was dreaming in NCLEX questions, I would be ready, LOL I'm just mad at myself that I didn't get one more question right so I can at...

  23. Kaplan Predictor 64.7%

    krisiepoo replied to krisiepoo's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Will I ever feel ready?

  24. Passed First Semester-now I need your help

    krisiepoo replied to BeccaC623's topic in General Students

    This won't help you sell your books back, but I took my books to Kinko's and had the binding cut off and the pages hole punched and put in a binder. Then I took the pages I needed for each exam and...

  25. Simultaneous admissions (vent)

    krisiepoo replied to Morainey's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a real nurse yet, but every floor I've done clinicals on (3 different hospitals) the nurses did their own