missnursingstudent19

So I posted previously about not having a vehicle. We had to fill out an application today to do a clinical day at a certain site. I had open heart surgery 22 years ago, so I checked "heart problems" in the application box even though I haven't had a...

I'm 6 months away from graduating from nursing school. Yesterday my dad's old truck that I drive finally quit. I can't afford to get anything else. I don't have a way to get to my clinicals at this point. I am so worried, and I don't know what to do....

Thank you! Next stop - graduation!

Glad to know I'm not the only one who has these issues, thank you!

Update: One of my classmates has agreed to let me ride to clinicals with her, and I'm going to help her out with gas. I also e-mailed all of my instructors, so they're aware of the situation.

I don't know if/when I'll be able to get a vehicle, but my parents are trying to help me. I live right down the road from a hospital, so I'm hoping to get hired there once I graduate and then I could walk to work while saving for a vehicle. I realize...

I'll definitely make my clinical instructors aware of this if none of my classmates are willing to give me a ride, thanks!

Ridesharing is what I'm hoping to do. I haven't heard back from my classmates yet, but hopefully that works out!

A clinical for one of my classes this semester has basically been a disaster. We haven't given any meds, we haven't done any assessments...we haven't even been assigned a specific patient to take care of. Most days our instructor just hands us off to...

I am taking a class now that irks me to no end. We basically have a worksheet to do every week with about 15-20 questions on it. Not bad, right? Well, we are divided into groups, and each person in the group does about 2-3 questions apiece on these w...

Yep, it's me! I had to make a new account (AlmostThere19) because I forgot my password to the missnursingstudent19 account but then found later. Sorry for the confusion!

So I tutor a class that is lower in the nursing program than I am. We've had one meeting so far, and it didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped. The students were very quiet even when I tried prompting them with questions and getting them to come up and...

Today not one person showed up for the tutoring session. I spent hours and hours getting ready for it. Starting to wonder if this job is a waste of my time.

In one of my classes, we've been having tests back to back for the past 6 weeks. I've made B's on most of them, and my class average is a B. Of course I'd rather have an A, but I know I study as much as I possible can and give it my best effort. Some...

Nursing school is making me feel extremely drained lately. It's the constant fear that I'll make one wrong move and get kicked out of my program. The fear of failing an exam. The fear that I'm forgetting to do something because of the crazy amount of...

Thanks for your kind response! The mistakes are usually little things like that I double-booked myself and had signed up for a service-learning project that is scheduled on a day I have clinical. I fixed it in time, luckily, and will be doing a make-...

Well this is a L&D/Postpartum/Nursery clinical rotation, so that might be why this clinical is different from the others. Hopefully that's what it is!

Thanks for the advice everyone! For my next session, I'm going to try splitting them into groups of two. I'll have each group of two work on 3 questions that really require critical thinking and knowledge of the content. But each group of 2 will have...

I have gone my entire nursing school career (over a year) thinking that in CPR you are supposed to prioritize airway, then circulation, the breathing (ABC). I got a couple of test questions wrong on that, and the rationals in the review said it has c...

I've taken 2 CPR classes now, and I can't believe I missed this! At least I know now. Thank you guys for clearing this up for me!

In my class, we have a test tomorrow on unit 3. Today we finished lecturing on unit 5. Does it bother anyone else when professors lecture way past what the next test will be about? I get that they are pushed for time, and I know that's why they do it...

In the simulation lab, there are these one-way mirrors, and it's set up so that instructors are sitting in a room watching you through those mirrors, but you can't see them. Creepy much? It makes me so nervous that I can't think straight. This means ...

Yes, it was exactly like check offs! That was odd because we weren't told exactly what to expect. This wasn't intended to be a check off - they told us that it was ok to make mistakes because they would rather us make them in sim lab than in real lif...

Hey all! I'm a 2nd semester nursing student, and I tend to be pretty hard on myself. I want to be the "perfect" nurse, and it's hard for me to accept that I will never be the perfect nurse because that doesn't exist - especially when you're just in y...

Well, just this Monday at my IV push validation, I got so nervous that I completely forgot to do the second saline flush. Luckily my instructor just said "And what did you forget to do?" and I remembered. Plus I got lost in the hospital at clinical t...