futurenursedd

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1. Have you ever had fellow students make you feel really stupid and incompetent?

   futurenursedd replied to futuresctRN's topic in General Students

   I had something similar happen to me. I am in my first semester of nursing school and we have a few people in our class that are EMT's or work in the medical field. Most of them like to make it known...

2. Helpful Reference Books

   futurenursedd replied to arkiebarbie's topic in General Students

   After not doing so well on my first exam I picked up a book recommended to my by one of the senior nursing students. Saunders Comprehensive NCLEX review, it is a really awesome book and has a lot of...

3. One thing

   futurenursedd replied to springchick1's topic in General Students

   I LOVE my clinicals. I don't understand why so many people hate them so much. I hear so many people complain about their instructor being too hard on them, but most are just being tough on you so that...

4. BP cuff not required?!

   futurenursedd replied to erint91DC's topic in General Students

   You will rarely use the BP cuff. The school will probably have them there for you. Honestly though I have only used mine a hand full of times at school. I mostly used it to practice on my fiance at...

5. Nurses that don't work holidays?

   futurenursedd replied to kegardne's topic in General Students

   My aunt is a nurse and worked in a doctors office before she switched jobs, she never worked a holiday in her life. I was totally turned off to the idea of working holidays also, till I got a job as a...

6. NCLEX style qeustions

   futurenursedd replied to nuse2b's topic in General Students

   I second the Saunders. I just got it yesterday and it is such an awesome

7. Didn't know where to put this, but help?

   futurenursedd replied to BeccaC623's topic in General Students

   I guess different schools have different rules. Our clinical instructor will assign us to patients on contact precautions, but it depends on why they are on it. I had a patient with MRSA a few weeks...

8. Jealous that I have no life

   futurenursedd replied to futurenursedd's topic in General Students

   I am honestly not resentful. I am truly just a little jealous. He works his ass off at 3 jobs so we can pay our bills so he totally deserves to go out and spend some time with friends. After hearing...

9. Jealous that I have no life

   futurenursedd replied to futurenursedd's topic in General Students

   Wow that was incredibly rude and judgmental. It's really none of your business, but I did not dump any of my friends for him we have the same group of friends. Actually one of the reasons this is hard...

10. Jealous that I have no life

    futurenursedd replied to futurenursedd's topic in General Students

    I don't know where you go to school, but from everyone I've talked to and my own experience first semester is one of the hardest. Getting used to the testing style and trying to break old testing...

11. Jealous that I have no life

    futurenursedd posted a topic in General Students

    I am in my first semester of nursing school and I spend most of my time studying. I don't really have much of a life outside of school and work other than hanging out with my fiance. My fiance has...

12. Failed my first exam =[

    futurenursedd replied to futurenursedd's topic in General Students

    75 is the lowest grade we need to pass the course. So there are 5 exams plus clinical and some online coursework. I calculated everything and all I would need to get the 75 is 78's on all the exams....

13. Failed my first exam =[

    futurenursedd posted a topic in General Students

    I failed my first nursing school exam. I got a 57. I probably could have studied more than I did, but I ended up taking the practice exam they gave us and doing some questions in the book and...

14. Talking to patients

    futurenursedd posted a topic in General Students

    I had my first day of clinical last week and it involved therapeutic/non-therapeutic conversation. I was dreading this since day 1. I am a little shy and sometimes have trouble starting conversations....