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I am 26 and have a BSN with one and a half years working nightshift in inpatient physical rehab nursing. I feel like becoming a nurse has made me a better person, but I feel like I am not growing anymore in my current job and I have been thinking a ...

I am a nursing student and a Christian. I go to a state school in a very Christian area, so many of the teachers and students in my program also come from a Christian background. Of course, though, we do not about Christian aspects of nursing becaus...

It depends on which program you're enrolling in; is it an ADN or BSN program? Where I live, the ADN program required these classes before beginning: Composition 1, intro to Psych, Introduction to Biology, human anatomy, intro. to chem., & CNA cer...

We need all the prayer we can get. One of the nurses where I work, prays quietly for the patients and staff every shift, she does so silently. I feel very encouraged knowing this. I am a Baptist, personally I believe we should only pray to God, but ...

Thanks for writing your thoughts... I've thought about ICU when I graduate, and then I wonder how ICU nurses work with this issue. Does it change how you view life?

I'm also in nursing school. It's sort of hard to deal with the fact that there are some patients we can't help enough. You seem very conscientious about your nursing, and I have also been worried that I might miss something important which could hu...

Take a deep breath and try to put that day out of your mind so you can concentrate on your next tasks. I hope your next clinical goes very well.

CNA work is lowly in that it is hard, there are easier jobs that pay just as much, and you don't have to have as much education. But I have seen so many good CNAs that are so dedicated and really have a heart for this work. It should be considered ...

Um, yes, I've felt stressed. Going in, I told myself the stress couldn't be that bad; after all, my dad died of cancer when I was a kid and I found my pre-reqs enjoyable because I'm a nerd. Unfortunately, that didn't make me immune to nursing scho...

Try to find time to connect with your real-life, non-nursing school friends. You probably have deeper friendships than the gossipers can earn by putting others down.

I have used them, especially the one for maternal-newborn nursing, and they are the most relevant materials to my classes - other than ATI Reviews - and much more complete and explanatory. The cds with the books, will not work with my laptop, though...

You don't have enough to go on, you need to listen to breath sounds, ask the patient when the pain began, and get vital signs. Ask if the patient is using accessory muscles to breathe; if she is breathing evenly in each lung. It could be that the d...

I am sorry that this is happening to you. I would think that your high GPA would allow you to transfer and more academic nursing schools would understand if you transferred, but I am still in nursing school myself. With the extreme amount of informa...

I started in my last year of nursing school because I didn't feel I had as much experience as the other nursing students who did do tech work. It has helped me be more comfortable in communicating and interacting with patients and I felt I needed it...

I would say to try to stay with "your nurse" and to ignore their behavior as much as possible. If you don't have to have lunch together, then don't. There's plenty of stress enough to be taking care of patients during clinicals without having them ...

Basically, I am a quiet person. It seems like everyone else in my class is pretty talkative and that nurses, in general, are talkative, outgoing people. In nursing school I've had to really work on this and am generally able to succeed in having sma...

I did phlebotomy before nursing school but it was not as relevant to nursing as the work I've done as a nurse tech. You might consider seeing if your state allows nursing students to work as nurse techs (CNA work), that way you could get a job over...

Are you taking them in a regular semester or trying to take them both over the summer? Anatomy is basically memorization; microbiology has harder concepts such as the metabolic cycle and detailed lab work. For microbiology you really do have to re...

Our psych rotation was very different from our other clinicals. Have you thought about shadowing? Then you could see what it is like in an average day in psych nursing, psychology, and sociology jobs.

I didn't need a CNA to get into my program: it was based on prerequisite completion and grades. But I did notice that the people who are CNAs in my program were much more comfortable working with patients. I had done phlebotomy before, but it didn'...

I was homeschooled too, and my mom was not very strict and scheduled with my schoolwork and did not teach very well. But I read, and read, and read. I taught myself algebra with a couple helpful visits to a tutor, I took concurrent enrollment class...