Alice b.

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1. Yahoo! Don't have to wear a nursing cap for grad pics!!

   Alice b. replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Nursing

   Sorry, meant to post this in the nursing student section and not sure how to move it!

2. Yahoo! Don't have to wear a nursing cap for grad pics!!

   Alice b. posted a topic in General Nursing

   Just had to share. A group of us at our school who are graduating in May (yeah!!) really did not want to have to wear a nursing cap in our graduation picture. These pictures adorn the long hallway in our nursing school and go back a few decades. I...

3. To cap or not to cap!

   Alice b. replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Students

   Hey everyone! Thanks for all the replies. It's funny, the replies are very much divided, just exactly like my class! I really do support the desires of those graduates who want to wear the hat and I love the idea of those students having special pho...

4. To cap or not to cap!

   Alice b. posted a topic in General Students

   I would love to hear feedback and/or opinions from other students on the whole nursing cap issue. I am graduating in May....Yeah! and there's a lot of controversy around the wearing of the nursing cap for pictures and pinning ceremony. In previous ...

5. How did you 1st NG tube and cath go??

   Alice b. posted a topic in General Students

   Seems like during the first semester we spent 150 SOLID hours on bedmaking! Don't get me wrong.. I learned lot's, passed lot's of meds, feeding tube stuff and injections but, not anything really invasive. We practiced caths and NG tubes this week (...

6. Need help deciding...

   Alice b. replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Nursing

   Yes, here after you have finished your first year of nursing school you can work as a nursing assisstant w/o having a CNA licence.

7. Need help deciding...

   Alice b. replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Nursing

   Yikes!! I didn't even consider that aspect! I would have to work at the same hospital as an aid first and then a nurse next May. Bad idea??

8. Need help deciding...

   Alice b. posted a topic in General Nursing

   The question is... lounge around and play this summer or work as a nursing assistant? I will be finished with my first year of nursing school in May. I don't go back to school until end of August. Unfortunately there is no nurse appretence progam...

9. Don't laugh, but... what if I throw up??

   Alice b. posted a topic in General Nursing

   I begin an RN program in August. I have worked hard in school and can't wait to start but... the one thing that does have me worried is what if I'm changing a diaper or something and the smell makes me gag?? Some of you may be cracking up right now!...

10. Starting Clinicals and a little nervous

    Alice b. posted a topic in General Students

    I am starting RN program next month and clinicals start shortly thereafter. I am not really nervous about the academics or working with patients(I have been a massage therapist for 8 years), what I am worried about is: can I handle the poop and throw...

11. Help please! Will this stethescope work?

    Alice b. posted a topic in Uniform/Gear

    Hi, I am starting an RN program in August, Yeah!!. My very kind neighbor who retired from nursing about 30 years ago gave me her stethescope. I has a bell seperate from the diaphram and a little switch you move back and forth to active one or the ot...

12. Will the stethescope I was given work?

    Alice b. posted a topic in Uniform/Gear

    Hi, I am starting an RN program at the end of August. Yeah!! My neighbor who was a nurse about 40 years ago, very sweetly gave me her old stethescope. It has a diaphram and a bell. The bell is seperate from the diaphram and there is a little switc...