carti BSN, RN

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    How to remember PEDS key milestones and toys?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    Sorry but I saw this on my ATI chapters, plus it was a question/rationale at the end of the chapter. asking for nclex/peds tests
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    Not Seeing Test Reviews

    carti replied to tropsnegRN's topic in General Students

    dude if your a class rep then definately approach the teacher and demand it to be overturnned especially if it was on the Syllabus. Syllabuses can't be changed just because. worst case sscenario, ask...
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    Nursing School Drug Testing

    carti replied to Egonza57's topic in General Students

    Thats the way it goes at my school and I have friends going to bsn schools throughout texas. Obviously if OP's school is different he/she will prepare differently for their drug test and behave...
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    Please help me! Public Health/Community Rotation

    carti replied to Squidney's topic in General Students

    we have a project on this semester. Doing a "windshield survery" it sounds like the biggest waste of time on earth to me. I thought doing "concept maps" was busy work until our instructor assigned...
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    Getting ready for nursing school

    carti replied to Farrah 34's topic in General Students

    start working as a PCT or nurse extern or something along those lines. honestly you probably won't even use anatomy much your first semester and you will probably forget it by the time medsurge...
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    Sobriety and NCLEX?

    carti replied to gchooljian's topic in Nurses Recovery

    nope don't tell them anything. tell the employers exactly what they want to hear. they are their for you, you are not their for
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti posted a topic in General Students

    Seriously, I just spent $300 on a required book for my OB class not to mention countless hours this semester I'm gonna be at clinical. Only like 1% of Male nurses even work in the OB field (obvious...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    wow, congrats, here is a cookie, maybe some nurse in this thread will see your post and congradulate your heroic efforts of not speaking upon B.S. and letting people walk all over you. the difference...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    You have been a nurse for 42 years. I don't think you're even going to be a patient in an OB floor, like ever. please do me a favor and leave this
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    My God, save me the self-righteous
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

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    Feeling discouraged about nursing school

    carti replied to Imnathalieim's topic in General Students

    read, watch youtube videos, read more. no one is born a good nursing student. if the average student from you school studies about 2 hours a day, you should study 4. dont be scared to try new things...
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    Kicked out before even starting

    carti replied to Confused_nurse2b's topic in General Students

    I would definitely call your admission counselor and set up an appointment in person and explain. I don't know how uploading your shots a few days late should terminate your spot, it sounds extremely...
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    'What's your plan of care?'

    carti replied to Delite's topic in General Students

    pretty much what is going to kill your patient first and how to stop it. I agree with your list. Is she Aox2 becomes it's normal for her due to her past conditions like dementia, or is that something...
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    First day of Nursing School

    carti replied to LavenderRN's topic in General Students

    my first day in lab was similar with BP stuff and bedside manners. Good news is pretty much every hospital has automated BP cuffs and I dont think i've ever seen someone manually check BP's since I've...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    Lol I totally got that point. I've already said, Diabetes is a condition that more than half the patients in hospitals have - yet you don't see Nursing schools dedicated an entire semester just to...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    bingo if only half the females realized in this thread realized I'm not complaining because I don't think pregnant stuff is useless but because only like 1% of men working in OB departments if only 1%...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    Yeah. I suck because I'm a dude who is spending about $1000 in tuition plus $350 on e-books and 100+ clinical/simulation hours + class time to take a semester long course in a specialty where men have...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    nope, it's barely August so obviously it's the beginning of the Semester. Haven't made anything less than a B and I go to a top BSN program in my state. Please, continue taking shots acting like you...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    yeah until you realize I'm spending my own money on tuition, useless books w/ online programs that are expensive, my time, etc. Lets cut the bs
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    Nursing School Drug Testing

    carti replied to Egonza57's topic in General Students

    I'm hoping OP is responsible enough to know not to show up under the influence during any clinical lol, but afaik, my program only tests you once in your first
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    1. The difference is females can easily work in OB as they please, meanwhile men have like a 1% job outlook in OB. That is literally why we are different and why this class is useless for men. This...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    Yeah, I'm going to spend an ENTIRE semester dedicated to learning about newborn/neonatal stuff in case of the rare occurrence that they come into the ED. That's literally why they have Pediatric ED's...
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Students

    there is plenty of diabetic people in this country. did we spend an ENTIRE semester learning about diabetic patients? you can literally say the exact same thing for any other conditon.
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    Nursing School Drug Testing

    carti replied to Egonza57's topic in General Students

    most of the time, they only drug test you when you are accepted into the program, and then you can do or partake in whatever activities you want after you pass that test because they never test you...