I start this fall in my nursing program and Im extremely anxious!!! Im looking for any advice that will help me in school. Whats the thing you can NOT live w/o during nursing school? What was the best study method for you? Index cards, recorders, palm pilots? What should I take to clinicals? I know you all were anxious when u started!!!
thanks guys
p.s. ....im hoping this will end up being a HUGE thread that other anxious students can read
If they told you you can't tape lectures, you realize this pen still is taping the lectures? I am not one for breaking the rules but if you are going to sneak and tape the lectures with a recorder pen (which mind you stands out because it is different and you need a specific notebook) why not just hide your tape recorder and save the money??
It was tough for me to get used to not taping lectures but it wasn't worth risking getting out of the program IMHO
I have never heard of this so I looked it up I am ordering one in the morning. I am in my last year of nusing school and they decided this semester we couldn't use our tape players and I need mine. So thanks for the info I will sure be putting it to good use!!
They screen for all illegal drugs. If you are on a prescription med that falls into a similar category, typically you will have to show proof. Usually they will ask you what meds you take prior to the test however. When you say which wont show up are you referring to illegal or prescription meds? Some people worry that things like poppy seed bagels would show up as opiates (cocaine) but this is not true, you would have to eat literally a pound of poppy seeds not just a bagel a day.
That's not necessarily true...my husband tested positive years ago when getting his Q clearance and he had eaten poppy seeds on a bagel the day before. He has never done opiates or any other illegal drugs in his life and it did show up as trace, but still I would avoid poppy seeds for now to be safe,lol!
They can't tell you not to take a medication that you have an rx for but like the other poster said if your MD gives you a script for vicodin for example, your school and/or hospital can tell you that you can not come to clinical/work while taking it.
I agree. How could they possibly tell you not to take a prescribed med? That is bonkers.
That's right...the school can forbid you to attend clinicals while "under the influence" of certain meds, even when legally prescribed. They can also use disciplinary action when/if a student chooses to attend clinicals while under the influence if he/she does not reveal that. In other words, if there is some sort of accident or random drug testing is done a student might be disciplined for a positive test.
The tests are more accurate now than ever before, I think around 1998 they changed the threshold from 300ish ng to 2000 ng to prevent false positives. I am not sure when your husband took his test...I went through extensive training with my last job and was told poppy seed bagels would not show positive due to the high level needed for a positive.
Maybe I was misinformed, maybe not???
That's not necessarily true...my husband tested positive years ago when getting his Q clearance and he had eaten poppy seeds on a bagel the day before. He has never done opiates or any other illegal drugs in his life and it did show up as trace, but still I would avoid poppy seeds for now to be safe,lol!
If they told you you can't tape lectures, you realize this pen still is taping the lectures? I am not one for breaking the rules but if you are going to sneak and tape the lectures with a recorder pen (which mind you stands out because it is different and you need a specific notebook) why not just hide your tape recorder and save the money??
It was tough for me to get used to not taping lectures but it wasn't worth risking getting out of the program IMHO
I actually did think about that this morning so I didn't order it... I figured I have come to far to screw it up now!
The tests are more accurate now than ever before, I think around 1998 they changed the threshold from 300ish ng to 2000 ng to prevent false positives. I am not sure when your husband took his test...I went through extensive training with my last job and was told poppy seed bagels would not show positive due to the high level needed for a positive.
Maybe I was misinformed, maybe not???
Yeah it was before 1998, glad to know they have improved the testing!
Specializes in Pediatric Intensive Care, Long Term care.
So I had my first day of class yesterday!!!!!! I only have Fundamentals of Nursing on Mondays and we pretty much just went over our course requirements, the rules, and our pretty hefty syllabus. We have online quizzes every friday which she said is open book...which to me means no worries! But it really seems like a lot of our work is self study...and we are responsible for that info on the exams. I can see that being a potential problem if we are on a difficult section. BUT, she also seems very very supportive. We have a couple of chapters to read by friday.
Today was my first day of clinicals and its was cool enough. kinda boring because we just went over the syllabus but i think the studenst in my clinical group are nice and we all gelled well..for now at least.
! But it really seems like a lot of our work is self study...and we are responsible for that info on the exams. I can see that being a potential problem if we are on a difficult section. BUT, she also seems very very supportive. We have a couple of chapters to read by friday.
Yeah, lots of info like that. Why should instructors waste your time reading to you what you can read for yourself? I try to interpret what is in the book and make it relate to real life, make it come alive and make sense. But that depends on students having read what they were supposed to so we can expand on it together.
Do your best never to get behind in your reading! what I found helpful in grad school, was when the words started running together and not making sense, was to read it out loud to myself for a while. Kind of kept me on track, plus I was hearing the words as well as reading them.
I start this fall in my nursing program and Im extremely anxious!!! Im looking for any advice that will help me in school. Whats the thing you can NOT live w/o during nursing school? What was the best study method for you? Index cards, recorders, palm pilots? What should I take to clinicals? I know you all were anxious when u started!!!
thanks guys
p.s. ....im hoping this will end up being a HUGE thread that other anxious students can read
For me, the thiNgs you can NOT live without in nursing school, or your nursing student career are BOOKS!.. they're very essential in our course. Im a book worm, so what i do is, I read a lot and 1 week before the exams, I make summaries of our lessons and study every night, but 1 night before the exam, I don't go to sleep unless I know that I really understood everything.
The usual, during clinicals you bring the basic things, I'm sure your clinical instructor will tell you about the paraphernalias to be used during your clinicals.
TessaMae
292 Posts
If they told you you can't tape lectures, you realize this pen still is taping the lectures? I am not one for breaking the rules but if you are going to sneak and tape the lectures with a recorder pen (which mind you stands out because it is different and you need a specific notebook) why not just hide your tape recorder and save the money??
It was tough for me to get used to not taping lectures but it wasn't worth risking getting out of the program IMHO