ThatBigGuy

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  1. Help Transferring into Nursing for Pediatric Oncology

    ThatBigGuy replied to newsygirl's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    First of all, becoming a nurse practitioner will require a DNP, starting in 2015. Before you get a DNP, you'll need to start with your BSN. So for now, don't worry about being an NP until you get your...

  2. Really need some great advice

    ThatBigGuy replied to Ms.Frank's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Before you try finding loopholes in order to boost your GPA, you need to self-evaluate and figure out why you have two C's and two withdrawals. Odds are you won't be able to get in, much less pass...

  3. Personal issues while a student?

    ThatBigGuy replied to atmosphericmelody's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    If your school has a counseling service, you need to go there ASAP. They will have the resources and tools to help guide you to receiving the proper attention you need to stay healthy. Inform you...

  4. Accepted to two nursing programs...What to do?

    ThatBigGuy replied to canthardlywait2brn's topic in General Students

    +1 for this. I would also check out the NCLEX pass rates. The other thing is that accelerated programs are CRAZY. You have to cover the same amount of material in half the time. There's a reason why...

  5. Any Advice for New Nursing Students?

    ThatBigGuy replied to jrabbit0811's topic in General Students

    1. Read, read, read. The professor doesn't have enough time to cover 1500 pages in three hours a week via PowerPoint. 2. Be flexible. I can't tell you how many times sim lab times will be changed, or...

  6. SO sick

    ThatBigGuy replied to RookieRoo's topic in General Students

    Stay in contact with your professors! They're much more likely to work with you about attendance issues at the end of the semester if you were upfront about it when it was happening. They all...

  7. Preceptorship

    ThatBigGuy replied to newRN_2014's topic in General Students

    Don't worry, hiring managers know you are a new grad, and won't put you in a position to fail. They need you to succeed, and you will have a ton of resources at your disposal as you begin your new...

  8. Having trouble with Kaplan/standardized tests

    ThatBigGuy replied to cafegoer's topic in General Students

    For our Kaplan NCLEX class, we get a tool that let's us know if we switched from right-to-wrong answers or vice versa. I would see if your integrated tests have that tool. You claim to change your...

  9. What Do You Eat?

    ThatBigGuy replied to tbbtpeach's topic in General Students

    I'm a big guy (6'6", 270lbs) who needs plenty of fuel throughout the day. I try to eat healthy: protein packed breakfast, small amounts of caffeine and sugar, light lunches, fresh fruit and veggie...

  10. Health Insurance

    ThatBigGuy replied to Kar10's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    If you're working 30 hours a month at $20 an hour, that's $600 a month. With federal and state income taxes, you're looking at take home of ~$530 a month. That should be enough to buy you insurance....

  11. Is a BS with an RN degree as competitive in the job market as a BSN? In Bremerton, WA

    ThatBigGuy replied to Jpalmer3's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Another vote for BSN over ADN with another BS. Nursing is making a slow but steady move toward higher education for the same job, which will leave ADNs in a career limbo, eventually. The program I'm...

  12. Summer Work

    ThatBigGuy replied to kmn5091's topic in General Students

    I'm not sure that these family practices would be willing to take on more salary in order to do something that volunteers can do. I would suggest looking into a caregiver role at an LTC or assisted...

  13. Cost of Living and Loans

    ThatBigGuy replied to Davis.M's topic in General Students

    You have a couple options as I see it. 1. Use your phone to record lectures and listen to them on your commute. This is the easiest because you keep your current income, but turn your main negative...

  14. Research Paper Ideas

    ThatBigGuy replied to LEOWifey's topic in General Students

    Go to scholar.google.com. This is like a normal Google search, but it only searches scholarly articles. I typed in "epilepsy medications for children" and got 124,000 results. You can use a filter on...

  15. Starting a family during nursing school or after?

    ThatBigGuy replied to God'sLittleNurse2b's topic in General Students

    I'm a guy, so I will not begin to think I can dispense advice to you. However, four classmates of mine gave birth during this past spring semester (our 7th semester out of 8), so I asked them what...

  16. Impromptu Nursing Essay Topics

    ThatBigGuy replied to nbdelilah04's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Why don't you write a practice essay for each of the 5 topics you've given us? Spend some time on them, making sure you've structured the essays well and shown critical thinking. There's a good chance...

  17. New Nursing Student

    ThatBigGuy replied to kdpatula's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    1. READ READ READ. There is so much material that even the world's best instructor can't teach it to you in the limited amount of class time. My Mother/Baby textbook is 1947 pages long. My Pharm...

  18. What can I do to better my odds of getting into my school's BSN program?

    ThatBigGuy replied to doc_Huffman's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    From my quick math, you don't sound like you have a lot of total credits, right? I mean, if 2 calculus classes affected your grade so much that you're sitting on a 2.8, then I assume you're looking at...

  19. Pierced ears; need advice

    ThatBigGuy replied to Burno's topic in Male Nursing Students

    You have 3 options: 1. Suck it up and follow the rules. 2. Choose a different school or workplace. 3. Fight the rule via the standard manners in place for such issues, but be prepared to go back to #1...

  20. Nursing school schedule

    ThatBigGuy replied to Gottawanna's topic in General Students

    Another vote for lock-step. For this last semester, we had one class all online, self paced. Our class was split in half because it's so large (95 students). Half of the class had 2 classes all day on...

  21. Frustrated, pre-nursing student. Will my grades catch admissions attention?

    ThatBigGuy replied to mozer92's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If the schools only accept 10% of the students, they can afford to be very picky. Out of 600+ students, there's a good chance that 60 students have better grades than you. However, that's not...

  22. In need of advice

    ThatBigGuy replied to CurlyLife's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    First off, take all that crap life has given you and turn it into a killer admission essay. Don't whine about it, but prove how it's made you stronger or a better person. Secondly, becoming a nurse...

  23. Is it possible to work full-time and be a full-time nursing student?

    ThatBigGuy replied to futureRN_'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You have 3 priorities, but you can only pick two: family, school, work. Nursing school is very difficult, so school has to be one of the two: if you fail out of school, all the effort was wasted....

  24. It's Not Fair!

    ThatBigGuy replied to sparky605's topic in General Students

    If the grade was changed, the "complainer" probably had a reasonable rationale. There's not enough time in nursing school to worry about what others are

  25. Uniform Inspection

    ThatBigGuy replied to saraCOS's topic in General Students

    We had people get kicked out of sim lab because their socks didn't cover their ankles (sock-covered ankles were required as part of the uniform). One guy received an official verbal warning for coming...