MountainBikeChick

I read thread after thread about everyone hating med-surg! As a new grad about to go into med-surg/tele, it's disheartening. I know there are people out there that love it, however. I am extremely excited to dive into my new job, and I am most excit...

I've searched the forums and the internet, and have not come to a clear answer - when using the "anchor sleep" approach, do you still take an afternoon nap before you go in for your first night shift? I'm a new grad and work 3 nights on, 4 off. My p...

Wow, seems like I'm the odd duck here! I ALWAYS have food when I get home, whether night or day shift. If I don't, I feel awful the next day - moreso than I would be if I didn't sleep. I have celiac disease so I am gluten free, and our cafeteria isn'...

If you consider CNA work to be "low of a decision", I'd like to request you not do it and stick with the fast food job that you're finding difficult to handle. (I worked at Jack in the Box when I was 14 for a year and managed to handle it easily...) ...

I had posted about possibly getting pregnant a little while ago, and asked whether I should wait until school was over or not. With the help of the insightful comments here, my husband and I ultimately decided to completely wait until school was done...

​As an update, since I'm sure other students will search this topic eventually - Shortly after posting here I got way sick with hyperemesis gravidarum (look it up, nurses! It's so misunderstood!) and lost 30 pounds and got a Zofran pump (like an in...

You'll get there! Take it day by day, not year by year.

Everyone gave great advice! I'll break down my community college (CC) and university (U) requirements as an 'example' for you. My CC and U basically had the same pre-reqs! So before you could start the CC program, there was about a year of pre-reqs a...

I agree with Pixie - don't just do reading! You've already determined that it is not the best way for you to study. If you are auditory, I recommend looking up YouTube videos on the nursing process you are trying to understand. I used some of TootRNs...

I am an introvert and talking about tedious things like, "Oh the weather is so great today!" just sucks.my.soul. So at first, talking with patients was exhausting to me. But over time I was able to learn to have in-depth conversations that were actua...

Agree with many of the above - no caffeine (though after 1pm for me!), multiple alarms in the morning, and have everything packed. I'll even go so far as to put my breakfast bagel on a plate in the fridge so it's ready. My bags need to be in the car ...

I bet this person is in high school, hence the 'training after high school' question. I'm an introvert, so I understand not wanting to interview someone in person.

This reminds me of a member in an ACLS class that I took - she said if she came upon an unknown child that needed CPR, she would not do mouth to mouth. At first I thought, "Ya, I guess that makes sense. You don't know if they have a disease or someth...

I read that Pearson changed their payment stuff a week or two ago, and that it's even less reliable than before! As akulahawk said, check your BON page. Mine posted about 24 hours after the test, a day before QR was available.

Congrats! I was pregnant in nursing school and worked at the hospital as well (and had a Zofran pump for 5 months of it because of hyperemesis gravidarum!). I worked/was in school until the end, and had my daughter the day after a 12 hour clinical. I...

Woohoo, thank you all! I was admittedly sad at first that I didn't get the critical care job that my heart was set on, but then I realized I got along with the hiring managers wayyyy better and the patients would all be so different. Now every time I...

I graduated May 13th, got my ATT on June 4, and took (and passed!) the test June 14th. I started studying about a week after graduation. Take it as soon as possible! ETA: I started my paperwork and paid for my test around March. My school sent us out...

I agree with Vintage above - just sniff it! Usually that is good enough for me. If not, I just put a dab right on the tip of my nose. Then it's powerful for me, but less likely for others to smell. It'd be as if I were eating a peppermint candy or so...

As some others have said - it depends on what YOU think you can handle! I had my daughter in February, in the middle of my second critical care semester. I had hyperemesis gravidarum (EXTREME morning sickness) so during the fall semester, I went to c...

I'm in the NAU traditional program, so not the same program exactly, but wanted to say congrats!

Congrats! Jumping on the 3-page med summary as well, I feel like that is my weakest. [email protected] Thank you!!

I just had my baby 7 weeks ago in the middle of the semester! I took the max of two weeks off (I did assignments to make up the clinical hours) and had a big test the day I got back and aced it. I'm in third semester, so this is my critical care seme...

Like a few of the others have said (and I'm honestly surprised there aren't more), if you are willing to give up on nursing because of a couple weddings, it probably isn't for you. You won't even be in the actual program yet! If something exciting an...

I had a lot of people like that in my pre-nursing classes, and they were the ones that ended up not getting in the program! There is one girl like that in the program now (nothing is her fault, the world is out to get her, everything is unfair) and I...

I am due at the end of February (I'll be in my third semester, though) and plan on continuing! Just talk to your teachers ahead of time and see what kind of accomodations they can offer. I can only miss one class and one clinical all semester (that I...