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  1. not what i was expecting

    krisiepoo replied to freckles23's topic in General Students

    The thing is, this happens. I've gone into tests thinking I knew the info and then didn't do well. suck it up and finish the rest of the class, you're still passing so in the end, that's the main...

  2. Where are there TB tests in Indianapolis?

    krisiepoo replied to GnikKing3's topic in General Students

    where have you checked? who told you there's a shortage? I got mine done at the Target

  3. medical error injection

    krisiepoo replied to jennifer009's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    yikes yikes and double yikes... it would be good to know what your role is at this

  4. trying to figure out my grade

    krisiepoo replied to Reese2012's topic in General Students

    you're confusing test average wtih final

  5. Strategy for selecting clinical sites

    krisiepoo replied to INN_777's topic in General Students

    Personally, I liked going to different hospitals because you could see how different systems worked. How one hospital does things may not work in another hospital. If I had had the opportunity to...

  6. leadership in nursing

    krisiepoo replied to amnah mohammed's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It looks like you and your classmate were just given a new assignment since you've posted the exact same thing :) How about from YOUR view, or from YOUR readings? I would assume your instructor is...

  7. Questioning the nurse during clinical

    krisiepoo replied to motay68's topic in General Students

    I'm hoping you said this because you missed the wink as she said it. Without humor, what do we have left? Sounds like it was a truly awesome RN who did good by the student AND her patient. good job,...

  8. Ideas in communicating with deaf and mute patient

    krisiepoo replied to hlsg90's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    How exciting! I love choosing patients that have something unique (or more unique than we would normally see) Do you guys do any pre-clinical prep? Do you get to learn about him reading the files...

  9. Can I wear my scrubs to an interview?

    krisiepoo replied to uhohbube's topic in General Students

    wear your scrubs under your clothes and peel the clothes off as you run to class

  10. Nursing & Workplace Conflict: Resolution !

    krisiepoo replied to The_Optimist's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of my nursing instructors says, "confront to heal, not hurt" and I take that with me wherever I go because I love that

  11. Too cheerful to be a nurse?

    krisiepoo replied to FlowersInTheWindow's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I sometimes think that our instructors project feelings onto the patients by way of how they feel... I doubt a patient actually said that about you, however the instructor may have noticed the patient...

  12. What does your countdown look like?

    krisiepoo replied to krisiepoo's topic in General Students

    I understand what you're saying but I've busted my butt to get where I am. I am so proud I've made it this far and my countdown is what keeps me going :) I enjoy the clinicals, but I'm too busy...

  13. Morning report: what does soft and positive bowel sounds mean?

    krisiepoo replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    I would read that as abdomen soft and all BS are

  14. Help! Has anyone been kicked out for failing technical standards

    krisiepoo replied to interestedparty's topic in General Students

    quite honestly, they can fail you if they want to. It's too bad it's gotten to this point, but I would sit down and talk about how you can modify the behavior they're worried about. be

  15. Worried about paying off student loan debt

    krisiepoo replied to metallicaman1031's topic in General Students

    How is this costing $100k? I don't understand that at all! You ARE going to be killing yourself to pay it all off,

  16. did you have trouble buying a house?

    krisiepoo replied to 16mm's topic in General Nursing

    I had around 50k when I bought my house. It depends on how much the repayments are, not the total amts and it's better than credit card

  17. Patient Advocacy - has it changed over the years?

    krisiepoo replied to summer510's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    not to be a Debbie downer, but how does posting this on an anonymous website constitute

  18. Just got accepted but have a question...

    krisiepoo replied to Liverloo's topic in General Students

    yup, we had this, it was Kaplan and didn't count towards anything. We then took it at the beginning of the last semester to see if/how our critical thinking

  19. Good Practice

    krisiepoo posted a topic in General Students

    I was working with my patient last night as a nursing student, doing my final assessment and ready to get off the floor for post-clinical conference when... her illeostomy bag became undone with the...

  20. Good Practice

    krisiepoo replied to krisiepoo's topic in General Students

    Thank you very much. I graduate in 35 days and I'm going to be an AWESOME nurse

  21. I am failing

    krisiepoo replied to jead's topic in General Students

    you can do it. now you know how they ask the questions, you have an idea of what meds are important. you know how the classifications work. you should be able to absolutely ACE that final, right!?...

  22. Transferring to another nursing program

    krisiepoo replied to gxrod's topic in General Students

    In my area, nursing program classes are not transferrable. you would have to start at the beginning, however if you're in your first semester it wouldn't be such a big

  23. Previous felony convictions, 1400 percent increase!

    krisiepoo replied to ITSSOSIMPLE's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    We had to have (and pay for ourselves of course) an extensive background check for school and THEN once a year after that to prove we were still safe to work at the hospitals. I'm surprised so many...

  24. I'm tired.

    krisiepoo replied to Julesmama28's topic in General Students

    welcome to nursing school, LOL for what it's worth, I got less tired when I started taking better care of myself. A solid nights sleep (when I could), exercise, healthy foods. It made a world of...

  25. Required textbooks vs. simplified topic specific texbooks

    krisiepoo replied to saltgeorge's topic in General Students

    there's going to be a lot of information that you'll likely need your text book for, the other books are just a supplement to what you are learning, sometimes. I found that the teachers will put...