ellaballet replied to ICURN3020's topic in Nursing
First week at my first CNA job ever - blind patient asked if he could hold my arm so I could guide him to the dining room for dinner. I offered my arm out and said "Of course, its right here!"....took me a couple of seconds that it wasn't too much he...
My accelerated program pretty much told us on the first day that if we tried to work we would fail out. Plenty of people in my program work part time and manage to make it work. Just get really good at time management and don't bite off more than you...
ellaballet replied to dudette10's topic in Student Assist
We aren't allowed to touch patients we aren't assigned to, some instructors at my program wont let students ambulate or even turn a patient without them. I always try to help out answering call lights but I always feel so bad when the patient despera...
ellaballet replied to Jasonat6034's topic in Pre-Nursing
I got in with a 2.9. I had a little too much fun in college . I took two years off, worked as a PCA, retook a class or two and it worked out. Been working my butt off and I have over a 3.9 now in my accelerated BSN program!
I've never been the over achiever type of student, I graduated from college with a B.S in Health Sciences and a 2.9 gpa. When I started nursing school I was really worried because I kept hearing about how hard school was and I never really thought of...
ellaballet replied to sarahjeanleach's topic in General Students
We can't choose. We can say "XYZ works best for me" if we have kids, etc. But for the most part we are at the mercy of the coordinator! I'm either in class all day and then I come home and study or I'm at clinical all day and I come home and study l...
Hahaha I saw that meme on facebook this morning and had a good laugh. Since we "front load" the first two weeks of every semester, we don't start our clinicals until 2-3 weeks in. Usually I find out where I'm a little before the first week of class, ...
We were told don't wear a lot of makeup. I wear a little bit of tinted moisturizer, undereye concealer and mascara just so I don't look totally dead lol. I wouldn't wear eyeliner or lipstick, but I guess it depends on your school's rules.
Friday night me and one of my school friends planned on having pizza and studying...We ended up drinking a little too much wine and played Wii ALL night. Sure we weren't very productive but we had so much fun. The best advice people gave to me before...
What is hard for me may be easy for you, and vice versa. Like the only thing that I've found really "hard" about my ABSN program is how fast the pace is, and especially the lack of breaks between semester. Some people might find that this makes the p...
