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    Bed Bath Assessment?

    smf0903 replied to InsideWindow's topic in General Students

    So?? How did it go?? Hope you did
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    Most terrifying thing?

    smf0903 replied to cracklingkraken's topic in General Students

    I so agree with this. School itself is overwhelming and riddled with anxiety, but not terrifying. The only thing that comes close to "terrifying" for me is meds. However, like you said I use it to...
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    Bed Bath Assessment?

    smf0903 replied to InsideWindow's topic in General Students

    You can tell a lot about your patient while giving a bed bath. Unless a patient can obviously not help at all with their bath, I just ask if they'd like me to help with any part of the bath they may...
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    Can my nursing school be informed if I fail a pre-employment drug screen for job?

    smf0903 replied to anonymous1187's topic in General Students

    I want to add that while our school does no have a drug testing policy in place, many of the clinical facilities we are at DO require a drug test prior to stepping on the floor. Clinical facilities...
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    Help studying for exams for classes

    smf0903 replied to jarnoldpcpro's topic in General Students

    I agree with what the previous posters said! Another thing that helps is to read the question and think about what it's asking before looking at the answers, which sounds weird but does help. I even...
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    Beginning the journey

    smf0903 replied to JasonPB22's topic in General Students

    Hi! I have to say you are the first person who has mentioned needing genetics for a prereq. I took genetics during my prereqs just because I thought it was interesting, and it was a required class for...
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    Did anybody buy a nursing mannikin to practice skills at home?

    smf0903 replied to strawberryluv's topic in General Students

    That is hilarious Sounds like a bad, low-budget horror movie LOL Most of our manikins are named after members of the BeeGees
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    Nail and skin care

    smf0903 replied to Mandy110609's topic in General Students

    I don't know what soap we have at the hospitals I've been in, but I swear I'd love to have a barrel of that stuff for at home because my hands don't dry out and crack, as much as I wash them! I rarely...
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    Psych rotation? What should I expect?

    smf0903 replied to katie92's topic in General Students

    Our psych rotation was very similar as well. We also did not wear scrubs (we were told it was because the patients felt "institutionalized" when staff/students wore scrubs...even the staff nurses wore...
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    Did anybody buy a nursing mannikin to practice skills at home?

    smf0903 replied to strawberryluv's topic in General Students

    Now THAT is
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    Welp... survived my first week of nursing school!

    smf0903 replied to RookieRoo's topic in General Students

    Yay for you! And it's absolutely NOT silly to be nervous about your first injections...the first ANYTHING is always at least a little nerve wracking. In a year you'll be nervous about something else...
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    Be honest please, Am I Kray Kray?

    smf0903 replied to cee cee g's topic in General Students

    It depends on how you are. I took Spanish during my first semester of nursing classes, and it worked out fine. Were there days I wish I had that extra time to study my nursing stuff? Yes! But it...
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    I need help with note taking

    smf0903 replied to xomanderrzxo's topic in General Students

    I am one of those people who would never, ever remember what I typed...I have to write it all out. I do highlight my texts and I use yellow for key vocab terms, green for meds, pink for labs, orange...
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    Did anybody buy a nursing mannikin to practice skills at home?

    smf0903 replied to strawberryluv's topic in General Students

    I don't know about everyone else but we got a bag full of stuff at the beginning of our nursing classes. It has primary and secondary tubing, IV start kits, IV bags, syringes, sterile gloves, fake...
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    Squeamish...

    smf0903 replied to SpssSpss's topic in General Students

    I keep a little tiny bottle of those breath drops in my pocket just in case. I've smelled a lot so far (C-diff, vomit, all kinds of BMs, etc). The lymphedema weepage was probably the worst so far for...
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    Any Double Major Students Out There?

    smf0903 replied to lux libertas's topic in General Students

    I took dual degree classes until my second semester of actual nursing classes (was doing a bachelors of biology). I plan on finishing up the biology degree after I finish my ADN classes. There just...
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    Did anybody buy a nursing mannikin to practice skills at home?

    smf0903 replied to strawberryluv's topic in General Students

    I used a super squishy teddy bear at home for wound care and a piece of pool noodle for pretty much everything else. I taped a section of pool noodle to the back of a Rubbermaid container and used it...
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    DDC

    smf0903 replied to PurpleLover's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    2 teaspoons per dose is correct
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    counting respirations

    smf0903 replied to djb1284's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This is exactly what I do. I move it sometimes if I am having trouble hearing the breath sounds at the apical site. One day at clinicals I moved my steth to the right side of the chest and was...
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    Failing....? Your school's policy?

    smf0903 replied to KJoRN81's topic in General Students

    Ours is pass with 78% or better, clinicals and lab are pass/fail (if you fail clinical or lab, you fail the whole class). We have a math competency each semester that you get two chances on but have...
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    Favorite Nursing Class

    smf0903 replied to MizMaverick's topic in General Students

    Patho. It's the class where everything came together and finally made sense. It's the class that pulled all the systems together and helped me understand why this happening in system A made that...
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    Using "Medical" terms

    smf0903 replied to Episteme's topic in General Students

    Yes, we're allowed to put those things in the assessment data because many times they are important to the overall picture. I always word it as "Hx of X, Y, Z". The current medical dx I don't put in...
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    Using "Medical" terms

    smf0903 replied to Episteme's topic in General Students

    We were told never to use a medical diagnosis in our plans. However, we were told we could use "secondary to..." In our plans ("fatigue, secondary to anemia"...that type of thing) However, we still...
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    Tough Clinical Professor

    smf0903 replied to 2016New's topic in General Students

    You get no argument from me!! I learned a lot from her as far as how NOT to be, that's for sure. I don't think she got a clinical assignment this semester, I never saw her name on any sections. I have...
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    Tough Clinical Professor

    smf0903 replied to 2016New's topic in General Students

    I had one last semester. It was that clinical rotation that I breathed a sigh of blissful relief when we walked out on our last day. Our instructor would berate students on the floor and in front of...