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  1. What is considered a positive TB test, 10mm or 15mm?

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    Asians have a high prevalence of TB. My ex is filipino and she wanted to be a CNA so she had to get tested for TB. She tested positive via the shot, then had X-ray done and was tested positive for...

  2. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    Wow, that sounds a lot better than an eye surgeon. Yours sounds more connected with pathophsyiology because yours probably sees all kinds of things vs mine is just on eyes. Mine is an

  3. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    Oh yeah, A word I noticed in the cardiology chapter I'm reading had thromboembolism and embolism. I thought what was the difference between the two? I had to look it up and I guess they're literally...

  4. Failed first pathophysiology exam

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I've encouraged couples to do that. I guess because their S/O doesn't have the patience to be able to listen to a carpet bomb of jargon, they just tell them "when I tell you something, just say yes or...

  5. What happens if you are injured on your way to clinical due to weather?

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to invitemeplz's topic in General Students

    I agree, that school will tell you "We don't owe you ****. And don't even say to us 'I'm a student, paying good money to be there, and I expect my school work to be easy and appease to my time I'm...

  6. What happens if you are injured on your way to clinical due to weather?

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to invitemeplz's topic in General Students

    When I worked medical manufacturing for a non-profit hospital in Knoxville Tn, there were occasionally snow storms and my manager would send us a text, "Uh, if you get stuck out there, you better...

  7. 130k Student debt for Entry MSN worth it?

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to ns90's topic in General Students

    I believe I read somewhere that MSN is usually a nurse practioner or Nurse anesthetist (am I saying that right? The nurse that deals with the gas? CRNA whatever?) and those two heavily demanded fields...

  8. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    The back of the chapters that we've been assigned to read so far don't have practice questions. They just factualize which is like reading the answer at the back of a chapter.Theres no practice...

  9. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    You could not be anymore

  10. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I swear to god I will put in 10-12 hours a day of studying. I didn't think studying has to be that intense, but what else can I do? If I spend all day writing down notes in different colors (Blue pen...

  11. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    As in, when he went to med school, how did he understand what he studied? How did he practice what he conceptualized? Were books written back in those days of high quality literature? I can't afford...

  12. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I enjoy learning but I would like practice with what I'm learning so that I know what I've wasted my time doing has paid off instead of finding out after the exam like "oh well, your study skills are...

  13. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    A friend of mine in another nursing program that I originally wanted to go into told me that the book we're using in class is the same book they are going to use in Pharmacology. I thought that was...

  14. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I have both Lippincott books, made visual and made easy. although I noticed the books will not teach two things at the same time. One teaches hypertension, the other

  15. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I've been having to do a lot of self-teaching like the difference between an embolus and a thrombus when talking about diseases of the vein like SVCS and

  16. Failed first pathophysiology exam

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I'll have to look into doing that. I recently did that with course hero but that was for an untimed, online quiz. And the quiz, imo, had nothing to do with what the exams looked like. I'm just like...

  17. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    Pathophys. This class is a pre-requisite for the program I'd like to get

  18. Surgeon for an instructor

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I never said he wasn't a nice guy based off the questions he asks. He's just not a nice person to talk to. He has that "get out of my face" type personality. I understand his job is hard, but I'm sure...

  19. Failed first pathophysiology exam

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    I've talked to him asking if he knew of any websites that he bases his test questions off of and he said no. No books, no nothing. His expansion of knowledge is widespread. He's crazy. It's nothing...

  20. Does anyone ever get tired of people thinking Nursing is easy?

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Nsco2018's topic in General Nursing

    For the men, I would say, "I get paid more than you to do such an easy job. Why not be a real man, work smarter and not harder, and 'become a nurse'?" For the sphyg question, I would say, "What does a...

  21. Failed first pathophysiology exam

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    Is your instructor an eye surgeon? Mine is and likes to ask weird surgeon questions like instead of saying erythropoietin, he'll instead use a word like erythopoinapathy or something like that. The...

  22. The overwhelming stress of nursing school

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to OsceanSN2018's topic in General Students

    I really hope a real shortage REALLY comes to the point where nursing schools are like less "this isn't for you", and more "we'll try and make this as straightfoward as we can". That's all this is is...

  23. Failed first pathophysiology exam

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    Was there a way you guys knew when to not read something that you didn't need

  24. Failed first pathophysiology exam

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    Yeah, our book has a study guide sold separately, which I bought, and I personally think it goes into super detail. We don't have any other kind of program other than the Elsevier that might be what...

  25. Failed first pathophysiology exam

    Beldar_the_Cenobite replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    This comment is so true. F'ing thank you! There were two select all that apply and I got one, or both, wrong because I missed one choice. I've heard from nurses who took the nclex where it was one...