HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!

[KarrdeKNR]

Done with Nursing School semester 3 (notably the worst one). I think I managed to pull my A out (need to have a grade of greater than 93%). God though it feels good to have a life again for the next month I'm just being lazy as **** after sleeping for 11 hours last night. This is awesome.

 

[Dokutayuu]

That's great to hear. 93% really does sound pretty impressive. Enjoy your month, it really does sound like you deserve it.

Don't worry about sleeping too much. I've managed 14 hours on a regular day.

 

[The Deco]

Well, your in the academy, im in my last year in the high school.

Doing my sociology work now, (on my ALL Hanuka vacation) and it takes all my life. I am getting crazy. And that doesn't even include the upcoming civics and mathematics tests I need to study for, on my Hanuka vacation.

But yeah, im sure what im doing now is NOTHING compared to the academy :\

 

[imkongkong]

Well, your in the academy, im in my last year in the high school.

Doing my sociology work now, (on my ALL Hanuka vacation) and it takes all my life. I am getting crazy. And that doesn't even include the upcoming civics and mathematics tests I need to study for, on my Hanuka vacation.

But yeah, im sure what im doing now is NOTHING compared to the academy :\

you can't compare nursing to high school. let me give you a quick overview of my experience in the nursing program:

1. knowing the names, side effects, adverse effects, duration, dosage for well over 30+ medications a week
2. 8-10 hours of lecture weekly
3. waking up 5 in the morning, being at the hospital 15 hours a week
4. hospital work includes
-dealing with the other nurses/doctors/patients/families. some of them are so demanding from your time and patience as well
-managing a patient's medication schedule (some have over 15 medications),
-type of care (some need total body care),
-dealing with their condition (some may need to be fully covered if they're infectious every time you enter the room),
-making sure you give the correct medication dosage, the right time, the right patient, the right medication. any errors in this can harm a patient's health
-imagine doing all that for 4 patients
-having your instructor on your back watching everything you do
-hospital procedures (injections, inserting foleys, inserting IVs, drawing blood)
5. studying for super hard tests well over 20-30 hours a week. and mind you the test
6. usually 20% of the students from the first semester actually pass the program. out of 100 students who start, only 20 make it through two years
7. missing a few days of class or clinic can definitely fail you
8. people CRY in the nursing program. they cry their eyes out
9. you go through every aspect of nursing care, from medical surgery, cancer patients, ICU, ER, pediatrics (kids), obstetrics (conception to birth), geriatrics (old people), psychiatrics, etc. you learn so much about everything
10. the smartest people are also in nursing, and the avg score on tests were 78-85 %. people who normally received a's were averaging c's in nursing! you can NOT get lower than a 75% or it is considered a failure. a 74.9% is still considered failing! you're only allowed to fail twice in the program, the third time is a total removal from that nursing program in the school! you can NEVER go back to the same school for the nursing program if you fail three times!
11. include 20-30 pages of paperwork weekly turned in

yeah. you can't compare nursing to just any regular schooling. so i'm happy for you for passing 93% is pretty good

 

[Chakra-X]

you can't compare nursing to high school. let me give you a quick overview of my experience in the nursing program:

1. knowing the names, side effects, adverse effects, duration, dosage for well over 30+ medications a week
2. 8-10 hours of lecture weekly
3. waking up 5 in the morning, being at the hospital 15 hours a week
4. hospital work includes
-dealing with the other nurses/doctors/patients/families. some of them are so demanding from your time and patience as well
-managing a patient's medication schedule (some have over 15 medications),
-type of care (some need total body care),
-dealing with their condition (some may need to be fully covered if they're infectious every time you enter the room),
-making sure you give the correct medication dosage, the right time, the right patient, the right medication. any errors in this can harm a patient's health
-imagine doing all that for 4 patients
-having your instructor on your back watching everything you do
-hospital procedures (injections, inserting foleys, inserting IVs, drawing blood)
5. studying for super hard tests well over 20-30 hours a week. and mind you the test
6. usually 20% of the students from the first semester actually pass the program. out of 100 students who start, only 20 make it through two years
7. missing a few days of class or clinic can definitely fail you
8. people CRY in the nursing program. they cry their eyes out
9. you go through every aspect of nursing care, from medical surgery, cancer patients, ICU, ER, pediatrics (kids), obstetrics (conception to birth), geriatrics (old people), psychiatrics, etc. you learn so much about everything
10. the smartest people are also in nursing, and the avg score on tests were 78-85 %. people who normally received a's were averaging c's in nursing! you can NOT get lower than a 75% or it is considered a failure. a 74.9% is still considered failing! you're only allowed to fail twice in the program, the third time is a total removal from that nursing program in the school! you can NEVER go back to the same school for the nursing program if you fail three times!
11. include 20-30 pages of paperwork weekly turned in

yeah. you can't compare nursing to just any regular schooling. so i'm happy for you for passing 93% is pretty good

Jesus Christ. I an attest that art school is harder than liberal arts school, but that takes the cake .

How come nurses don't get payed millions of dollars O_O

 

[The Deco]

waitwaitwaitwait, THIS IS FOR NURSING ONLY?? NURSING? FFS, the doctors get all the credits! So what you gonna do to be a doctor?

 

[Optional]

waitwaitwaitwait, THIS IS FOR NURSING ONLY?? NURSING? FFS, the doctors get all the credits! So what you gonna do to be a doctor?

Rape children.

 

[Damaera]

Karrde's winter goal: GET THE SOLDIERS TO WIN!

 

[KarrdeKNR]

Karrde's winter goal: GET THE SOLDIERS TO WIN!

Truth right here

Jesus Christ. I an attest that art school is harder than liberal arts school, but that takes the cake .

How come nurses don't get payed millions of dollars O_O

Hi, welcome to hell. I'm not hugely motivated by money tbh. But I'd say the reason is that any anyone in any field generally seen as the "work" of any oppressed minority, in this case, women, is always going to get paid a lot less than traditional "white, male" professions.

 

[Majin_You]

So what you gonna do to be a doctor?

A lot of the same, though different courses in hard science. From my experience, medicine puts more focus on anatomy, physiology, and pathology than it does on drug interactions or organizing the care of patients before and after they've seen the appropriate care-giver (that's why nurses and pharmacists are indispensable as a part of a working healthcare system. Collectively, they all focus on some common and some different elements that allow for, more or less, a complete coverage of the health and wellness of the patient). On top of that, there's all of the clinical skills to pick up, including (but not limited to) examination, history-taking, and differentials.

Suffice it to say that, in either case - nursing or medicine - you need to know a lot, and you need to do a lot to get it all straightened out. Neither is the place to be if it's not something you're certain you want. Trust me.

 

[KarrdeKNR]

Easier to think of it in these terms.

Doctors are Anatomy and Physiology specialists, though nurses need to know a lot of it too. They also have prescriptive authority and do things such as surgery.

Nurses deal in responses to actual, potential, or perceived problems in the care of a patient. This can be physical, mental, emotional, etc. IE hypertension is a response to say coronary artery disease. By the same token, grief is a response to the death of a loved one. It's way more complicated than this, but it's hard to explain it to those who don't know it.

 

[Synth]

I wonder if the medic from TF2 inspired Karrde to get into medicine.

That scares me.