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  1. Where were u 9/11/01?

    firstyearstudent replied to k_cole21's topic in General Nursing

    I was standing in my kitchen and my husband was sittiing at his computer reading the New York Times online. He said, "A plane just hit the world trade center." I said, "Somebody hijacked the website....

  2. Cheating on nursing exams

    firstyearstudent replied to MiaNJ's topic in General Nursing

    It seems like you are making a lot of assumptions here about what your instructor(s) would or wouldn't consider cheating. It isn't necessaily black and white. There is a grey area here. I was just...

  3. Cheating on nursing exams

    firstyearstudent replied to MiaNJ's topic in General Nursing

    Why not have a dialogue about this in class... Ask the instructor about what is or is not considered acceptable in terms of sharing knowledge about exam questions. We asked our instructor and she...

  4. Cheating on nursing exams

    firstyearstudent replied to MiaNJ's topic in General Nursing

    After thinking about it, I wonder if keeping your anonymity or being private about this is best after all. If I was feeling particularly ballsy, I might raise my hand before the next exam review and...

  5. Cheating on nursing exams

    firstyearstudent replied to MiaNJ's topic in General Nursing

    I feel the poster has a legitimate ethical dilemma. When we see others do wrong we have a responsibility to do something about it. I might have a private conversation with the instructor or drop an...

  6. MRSA Concerns

    firstyearstudent posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I didn't intend to ask for medical advice with my last post, but I guess it could have been construed that way. And my children are quite healthy, actually, despite their mother's anxiety. Let's...

  7. How do veteran nurses react to...

    firstyearstudent replied to Asklepios's topic in General Nursing

    As a student who is actually past 40, one of the issues I've had to deal with is the opposite -- taking advice and instruction from RNs during clinical who are literally young enough to be my...

  8. Ultrasound vs. Nursing

    firstyearstudent replied to Yannie021's topic in General Nursing

    I debated whether to become an ultrasound tech or nurse when considering a second career. Ultrasound appealed to me because I like technology, it's non-invasive and patients generally do not HATE it,...

  9. MRSA Fears and Protecting Family

    firstyearstudent posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been seeing more in the media about MRSA. Today there was a story in the New York Times science section that mentioned cases of children getting infections (in the community, not in the hospital)...

  10. Will King/Drew Succeed? Any takers?

    firstyearstudent replied to BSamburu's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    you're obviouosly right. how could i, as a new grad, improve things when i don't what i'm

  11. Will King/Drew Succeed? Any takers?

    firstyearstudent replied to BSamburu's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am going into my second year of nursing school and am considering working there (if) and when I graduate and if it's still there. I have heard that L.A. County has great benefits and lots of...

  12. Condition H

    firstyearstudent replied to LaNorteBellaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I saw this Nightline recent http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9818616/ this man was at his wife's bedside and kept trying to get help for her while her condition deteriorated, but no one thought it was as...

  13. Condition H

    firstyearstudent replied to LaNorteBellaRN's topic in General Nursing

    The real or perceived need for this seems to me to be a result of chronic

  14. Allowing more than RN on name badge?

    firstyearstudent replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm. I would think that most people who would think like that would have advanced

  15. Guys, how should I handle this?

    firstyearstudent replied to jov's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I don't know if I should be here, since I'm a woman, but I thought I would say that there might be a double standard here. Women are always saying racy stuff in my classes and everyone just laughs....

  16. Over 20 years at the hospital, left and not even a "thank you"????????

    firstyearstudent replied to 27YearRN's topic in General Nursing

    Management is always looking at the bottom line, but why didn't coworkers join together to see these nurses

  17. Allowing more than RN on name badge?

    firstyearstudent replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a nurse, and I know that BSN is a difficult major, and that BSN nurses are proud of their degrees and rightly so. But I can't think of another industry where people feel the need to flaunt a...

  18. Changing career to nursing, last minute fear

    firstyearstudent replied to mmr2's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing vs. IT: You can't outsource an enema to India. What's ironic is I knew an RN in the late '80s who'd gone back to school to get a computer science degree to cash in on the high-tech boom. I...

  19. An actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article

    firstyearstudent replied to MuddaMia's topic in General Nursing

    I know what you mean. I'd like one of those old-fashioned mail order brides myself, but the government says two women can't get legally married!

  20. Confused - Associates or BS

    firstyearstudent replied to Miss Apprehensive's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm. I went the ADN route because of the money. Maybe I'll regret it one day, but I just could not justify the extra

  21. An actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article

    firstyearstudent replied to MuddaMia's topic in General Nursing

    Outdated?!? I occasionally lurk on fundamentalist and conservative Christian bulletin boards and plenty of women still believe in putting their husbands first and deferring all decision making to him....

  22. dimensional analysis vs. ratio/proportion

    firstyearstudent replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Students

    Now I'm getting confused, isn't desired/have the same thing as dimensional

  23. Pathophysiology

    firstyearstudent replied to SA2BDOCTOR's topic in General Students

    I always use index cards to make a nightmarishly high stack of flash cards for any concept or idea or fact that I think I either don't already know or am likely to forget quickly. I make them during...

  24. dimensional analysis vs. ratio/proportion

    firstyearstudent replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Students

    I always go with dimensional analysis. I guess because it make mores "sense" to me after using it so much in chemistry during pre-reqs. I'm not great with math to begin with. With DA, I feel like...

  25. Getting "Called Off"

    firstyearstudent replied to peds4now's topic in General Nursing

    Is this the case even in union