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Personally, I don't care if someone has tattoos/dyed hair and wouldn't think they were incompetent. HOWEVER...this seems like a bad idea since you already know that your manager isn't super into it. Why don't you get those clip on dyed hair strands ...

Our instructors always had us perform the task with them watching, or went in to talk to the patient about the level of care. Even if our instructor was passing meds with a few students, she would either have us wait to do the assessment before watc...

I agree with Jedrnurse. Also I would say that usually the first two weeks of a program are probably fairly easy, with the least amount of work so you should be able to push through. It won't be fun, but it will be nice to have it out of the way kno...

Thank you! I just wanted to make sure I shouldn't be running out to buy scrubs...I don't have any! The last area I was in required nurses to wear certain scrub colors or uniforms from the hospital so I didn't want to waste money on fun scrubs if we ...

Does anyone know anything about what happens after our first day of orientation? It was explained to me that there would be mostly classroom type activities for the first couple of weeks, but I have no idea on the dress code/locations of this. any ...

Seriously that's how I felt. I got a couple questions regarding the same topic and was like...oh no, I certainly didn't learn this in nursing school! But I must have known more than I thought I did since I passed. Apparently this feeling of thinki...

Do they have any specific instructions regarding contacting them? When I applied for my job it specifically stated not to contact them because they had too many applicants to be receiving update emails from. If there isn't that policy though, I wou...

You can't listen to other people on this one, really. You know how you were in previous school environments, so you really need to learn and take note from that. Personally I was an excellent student in high school, average in college (non-nursing ...

I would encourage you to think about this a bit more. Only reason being that your exhaustion working as an assistant may be stemming from the fact that you are stressed in general with school as well. Do you think you would feel different about nur...

I don't personally have a Surface, but a lot of my friends do and love it. The fact that you can use it as both a tablet and laptop is really neat, and it is very light. You can also get a discount on it for being a student! I will say however that...

Did you send a thank you to the person you interviewed with? If not, you could always send an email thanking them for the interview and say that you're interested in the position and see if that gets you a response. I don't think it seems unreasona...

I think maybe one of the issues at play is whether or not the new grads have had a job before. I used to work at a non-nursing job that required 12+ hour days, weekends, holidays, random hour long shifts at night, etc. I never had an issue with it,...

You could always make a quick little budget to make sure it will work for you. Obviously you can't count the benefit of having better hours in general, but I would want to make sure that with a pay cut I would be able to make ends meet. Things woul...

I was dropping in to say the same thing. There are fine nurses everywhere - and thank goodness for that!

Although I'm sure this would increase the amount of people continuing their education, you have to remember that everyone is not cut out for college or wants to go to college. My brother, for example, would have been able to go to school if he chose...

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You might do well with using UWorld this time around! I know that helped me for sure, especially with the select all that apply questions. I think the most important part is learning how to tease out the correct answer, even if you are unsure of th...

Was just watching Everybody Loves Raymond last night and Ray decides to volunteer at a hospital. As he was signing in at the desk, a nurse walks past and dumps a bag of blood on the desk and says "Another one for the fridge!" and just leaves it sitt...

I think that was the worst part for me also, the students who were great in high school and couldn't handle nursing school...but honestly I never met those people. The people who did really awful in my school were the ones who slacked off and got ar...

What is it going to take to change the nursing culture? I'm not talking about nurses eating their young necessarily, but just the superiority attitudes in general. Here's my example: I went to the zoo the other day to take my mind off the NCLEX that...

Only you will know what kind of course load you can handle. That being said, if the only reason you want to switch to math is that you can start your ADN program sooner, I don't think that's a good idea. If you want to take math because you think ...

You might see if you can qualify for in state tuition since your husband is in the military. I have no idea if that works at that school/in that state, but I know people who have gotten in state tuition due military relocations. Also, I think you sh...

What is Stranger Things about? On topic, I learned about Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome! It is a very rare disease that is without a cure currently, and involves capillary malformation/lymph system issues. I watched a video about a woman who was quite ...

Really discuss with your wife the impact that this will have on your family, good or bad. Allow her to be completely honest. Ask yourself if you have been/will be supportive of her future desires to return to school/pursue a hobby she hasn't been a...

Do you want a job where you make a difference or have you always considered nursing? Nursing is a lot about making a difference, but if you wouldn't be passionate about it there are plenty of jobs in other fields that make direct impacts on people (...