February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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My Birthday!
Today, I turned 27 years old! Relevance to nursing, you ask? This time next year, I’ll only have one more semester of nursing school! #winning! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me!
Muah!
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Verdicts in!
Grades are posted, and in my first semester of nursing school I ended with 3 A’s and a B! God has truly blessed me! So very grateful for a 3.6 GPA and the ability to move on to semester #2!
Leh go!
T.
P.S. Getting a B in a 7-credit course clearly heavily affects a GPA — geesh! (But I’ll take it :))
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Just wrapped the last final and first semester of nursing school! This time next year I’ll only have ONE more to go! God is so awesome for getting me through these last few months! Never would have made it…
Hope all my fellow tumblr nursing buds are making it through their final exams…:)
Muah!
T.
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November 2011
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Kingston, Jamaica Countdown
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was selected to go to Kingston, Jamaica for a week to participate in service learning. I am so geeked and excited about this awesome opportunity to experience a different culture and get some good hands-on learning experience. I’m confident that this trip will give me more insight on the path I want to follow when Fall 2013 arrives and I begin the venture...
marcij asked: are you working on your BSN or MSN? Im currently a BSN nursing student at Valdosta sate
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October 2011
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Jamaica International Service Learning Trip
Just learned I’ll be participating in a week long service activity with vulnerable populations at the beginning of the new year in Jamaica. So BLESSED for this opportunity! There weren’t very many slots, so I’m beyond grateful to get this learning experience.
Loving life right now.
T.
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2 - exams
1 - 8 hour clinical rotation
1 -7:30 am clinical fundamentals lab
5 - sleepless nights
countless hours and frappuccinos at Starbucks
All equal nursing school HELL WEEK!
Thank god it’s over!
*naptime*
T.
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Cook Book Medicine -- Great Read -- Read for my... →
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Dora's Nursing: Nursing Job Shortage: Fact or... →
dorasnursing:
In today’s economy there is plenty of conversation about not enough jobs – across all sectors. This includes healthcare and definitely nursing. We have read articles, posts, tweets and blogs from nursing school students who cannot find a job. We have come across many reports on numbers of nursing…
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September 2011
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Thoughts:
I need to figure out how to get used to my Pt’s spouses/family members being in their room…they make me more nervous than the pt!
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Dora's Nursing: 30 things I’ve learned in nursing... →
dorasnursing:
Looking for a comprehensive guide that will get you through nursing school without a hitch? Well, we’re here to tell you that there is no such thing.
Nursing school is a whirlwind—it’s the nature of the beast! However, this list by nursing student Lelisa Beth Gross is full of indispensable…
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First Day = Success
I was freaked for no reason. Learned SO much in 8 hours today, and it was just orientation. Everything from shift hand-off reports; how to properly ambulate patients to “save my back”(which ironically already gives me problems), how to administer meds using Pyxis (super cool system) and how to prepare for my patients the night before shift; including lab reports, Hx/Physical info,...
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Drugs Anyone?
Drugs I need to know by tomorrow… My classmate says her mother, a retired nurse, suggested giving yourself 60secs to learn each drug. Gonna give it a whirl… Chime in with any adverse effects, pharmacokinetics, etc. if you’re familiar!
bethanechol epinephrine
neostigmine phenylephrine
atropine dobutamine
oxybutynin prazosin
propranolol carvedilol
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150cm-deactivated20111228 asked: i. feel. your. pain.
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let’s talk about why my study group and I spent 8 hours post my 7am 2.5 hour lab reviewing notes from ONE Patho/Pharmacology lecture. #death.
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Fellow Nursing Students: GET NURSING CENTRAL for... →
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Currently:
watching videos on enema insertions :)
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40....
The number of babies I’ll have to deliver on my own before I can graduate with my Masters as a Certified Nurse Midwife. Amazing….
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Labor Day 2014
That’s the next labor day I’ll likely actually “celebrate” because this one — and each subsequent labor day until then — consisted of me, buried in my books learning about nursing process, health assessments, subjective and objective data, hand hygiene, surgical asepsis, OLDCARTS, palpating, auscultating, percussing, inspecting, nursing diagnosis,...
Who knew learning how to wash your hands, bka “hand hygiene,” was so INTENSE. These videos are killing me.
August 2011
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Week 1...Done
This first week was crazy, and I haven’t even been to all my classes as of yet. I can truly say I’m loving it though. I’ve met some amazing ladies and am excited to take this 2 year journey with them. This week I touched on VS (vital signs), oral care, and bathing my patients (“clients”) as well as classifying types of preventive care. I want to work on 2 things a)...
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Orientation Day 1: Who says I have to wear scrubs?
Today, nursing school pretty much began. Well, it somewhat began last week when I had a ton of homework regarding learning how to approach exam questions using the “nursing process” and selecting and learning a preferred methodology for dosage and calculations — I went with dimensional analysis and find it to be well suited for yours truly. Do I sound “nursey”...