CalRNtoBe2013

I just graduated from a 2 year program in December. Over half of my class, including myself, has either started as a GN or has a position being held for after the NCLEX. I have to respectfully disagree with your statement that a 2 year degree won't g...

The fact that there are 167 posts on a derogatory, judgmental, and discriminatory thread is absolutely unbelievable to me.

That explains why it is always so easy to find journal articles r/t nursing! I like it as a resource because the content is credible with references. It's easier than "googling" because you don't have to weed out all the nonsense.

Forgive me for sounding harsh, but you seem to have an excuse for everything. There are a tremendous amount of resources and I doubt they are all out of the question. People keep making suggestions to try to help and you shoot everything down. Do you...

Does your school give you access to EbscoHost? I use it as a search engine anytime I need a professional article. It's a little difficult to navigate at first, but once you get the hang of it, reliable articles are easy to find. At my school, it is ...

You are going to have moments where 'positive' seems impossible. There will be tears & what-ifs. Fight through them. I promise every nursing student has these moments and they will pass. It's the people who can fight through the down times that m...

I work in ICU and the nurses have to calculate almost every titratable drip, usually by mg/kg/hr. They also have to do quick drug calcs when mixing drugs like Neo, levophed, etc during codes. If the drug is ordered, it will come from pharmacy mixed, ...

My entire class bombed our first test.... Or two. I am currently starting my last semester & am in the top 3 in my class. Don't worry and do NOT give up. Your study habits will come to you. If you have the desire and drive, you will make it. One ...

Usually the publisher website has audio reviews. You just have to register your textbooks.

Is there a chance that your benzos were beyond a therapeutic level? I take 0.5 mg Ativan for test anxiety on exam days (once every 1.5-2 weeks) and have never even tested positive because its such a minimal amount.

I agree 100%!!!

I start my last semester in a few weeks, so it's time to start putting my résumé together. I've worked as a nursing assistant in ICU since my first semester. I LOVE my job, including the nurses and Intensivists I work with. They are amazing teachers ...

We are just starting our final semester, so we have not taken our RN Predictor yet (we use ATI). However, we have 10 practice ATIs due this semester to help prepare. We have to get above a 90% on each an submit the focused review. I've done about 4 s...

All of our lectures are power point & our instructors post them online ahead of time. I print them before class, take notes directly on the pp during lecture, and then add info from the chapters directly onto the pages. A lot of people in my clas...

We started the first week of our program! We didn't do LTC; we went straight to med-surg. Now that we are in our last semester, we have two 8 hr clinical days each week for 10 weeks. Then, we do a preceptorship for the last 5 weeks at a MINIMUM of 24...

It's my last semester, too, and I've accepted the fact that I have to abandon my life. I refuse to let anything stand in my way of graduating.

We have 2 kids (one first grader, one toddler), he works full time, and I have school & work weekends. We NEVER see each other during the semester. I make sure that we have dinner as a family together Mon-Thur and take a walk/play a game together...

One of my very first clinical instructors used to say, "pain is perception and perception is reality". That has stuck in my head the whole way through NS. it has helped me stay non-judgmental about how a patient experiences pain.

If we want hard copies, we have to print them. Too bad printer ink isn't included in tuition :)