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    Starting my first job as a CNA...offered two jobs. Need help deciding! :(

    LoriRNCM replied to WestKyKing's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Wow twelve hour shifts while doing nursing school would kill me. I just started my CNA position while finishing my first year of NS and I can see it is going to be a real challenge due to the...
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    Cna ready to set forth in to Nursing School

    LoriRNCM replied to charmonique2009's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I'm in that position but kind of the opposite. I am finishing up my first year of nursing school (ADN) and since I'm paying tuition out of pocket I had to get a job! So I got my CNA a month ago and...
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    How does nursing school and clinicals work?

    LoriRNCM replied to GEB16's topic in General Students

    You do things in lab and get checked off on them before being allowed to do them on an actual patient in clinical. So injections, dressing changes, etc...... lab first, then clinical. One day a week...
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    Care Plans

    LoriRNCM replied to emde's topic in General Students

    LOL I had to laugh because not one bit of that would have made sense to me for the first few weeks of my first semester. Yes, we had to do them right from jump, and at that time, I didn't even know...
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    Jumping for joy!

    LoriRNCM replied to lkv246's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You can start a thread for ODU. I've seen them for TCC and I think TNCC. Congrats on your
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    pharmacology

    LoriRNCM replied to scotthyco28's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My school combines it with assessment and pharmacology in first semester, then with medsurg second semester so there would be no way to take it ahead of
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    entering core nursing classes!!

    LoriRNCM replied to anggee's topic in General Students

    Be on time for class and clinicals. Nursing school is a little like bootcamp and you are being judged surreptitiously on how serious you take it. Being consistently late is not good. And don't...
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    How does "online class" work?

    LoriRNCM replied to bluesky94's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    When I took online courses there were no lectures, recorded or otherwise. There were reading assignments, quizzes, and proctored
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    Passed out during clinical

    LoriRNCM replied to HeartsAndLungsRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I just did my OR clinical and stood on one place for so long that I did calf pumps to keep the blood flowing. Wasn't worried about passing out from the procedures, just the blood pooling in my legs!...
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    Totally discouraged by clinicals

    LoriRNCM replied to KellyMLS's topic in General Students

    If you put in a foley on your first clinical day, then you are way ahead of the
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    I would like to get some feedback about my issue

    LoriRNCM replied to BelieveNovember's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am in my 2nd semester of NS. Just got my CNA cert a couple weeks ago and start next week. I did that for two reasons. One, I pay my own way through NS, no grants or loans, so I needed the job! And...
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    Failed my first exam!!!

    LoriRNCM replied to lth1123's topic in General Students

    I think studying everyday for 2 weeks is plenty sufficient, especially if you made it to all the lectures and did any assigned work. Don't beat yourself up over it. When your instructor opens up the...
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    Non-traditional Nursing Hopefuls

    LoriRNCM replied to BeachsideRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Older than dirt (50) in 2nd semester of NS. Our numbers are
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    If you are not a nurse, do NOT use the title, please

    LoriRNCM replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Students

    Finally!!!! Something to ease my nearly insurmountable boredom on this Sunday afternoon after spending the day studying for my Community Nursing test for when I am a real nurse, which I am not....
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    Spring Break Countdown

    LoriRNCM replied to twss2323's topic in General Students

    Mine is over, back to the grind tomorrow and no break in sight til end of April. Test as soon as we get back. Didn't do much studying for it over break so I am cramming today. Fortunately it's...
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    If you are not a nurse, do NOT use the title, please

    LoriRNCM replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Students

    Werd.
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    Three months to kill before Nursing School... what to do

    LoriRNCM replied to Myoclonicjerk's topic in General Students

    If you want to prepare yourself for NS there are a couple of school related things that absolutely will help you, in addition to what PPs said and enjoy yourself! Memorize the lab values of the most...
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    Trouble in clinical. Prioritizing. Help

    LoriRNCM replied to bella14k's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    We listen in on report in the morning and in post conference we have to "give report" to our clinical instructor and classmates. It's very helpful because we learn not to prattle on about our patient...
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    Am I too old?

    LoriRNCM replied to ollieanne's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Started NS 6 days after my 50th birthday. I'll be 51 when I graduate next May (2015). Old
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    Doseage calculations

    LoriRNCM replied to aeris99's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Kris, I got Math Attack too. I couldn't get past the grammatical errors in the book to even begin focusing on the math. I'm such a
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    CNA test after 5 years

    LoriRNCM replied to meloda07's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I just took it two weeks ago in Virginia. I am a nursing student (an old one, at that). The Virginia BON has a pamphlet you can download that tells you all of the possible scenerios you will be tested...
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    Doseage calculations

    LoriRNCM replied to aeris99's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Dosage Calculations for Dummies is my favorite one. And I'm mathematically challenged so I tried a few. I passed my first dosage calc exam with a
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    Low self esteem throughout program?

    LoriRNCM replied to stargirl018's topic in General Students

    Ugh.... math. My self esteem is in the toilet when it comes to math because I have been "bad" at it all my life. Yet I passed my med dosage course and my medical math course with an A and I passed my...
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    First Clinicals; what to bring?!

    LoriRNCM replied to adnstudent44's topic in General Students

    I don't know why you would need bandage or trauma shears or tape in your pocket during your first clinical in LTC. Besides your steth, BP cuff and penlight, you'll need your writing pen, a small pad,...
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    Need help

    LoriRNCM replied to Babylonne's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Esme to the rescue.... again! Saved your medsurg doc....