[brendel]

hi. Im a senior nursing student from the Philippines. A requirement on career development necessitates that i ask a couple of nurses about their career path. anything about your career as a nurse will be welcomed --where you had your BSN, your life as student nurses, your first nursing position, your experiences in the wards, your relationship with your peers, how you juggled schooling with job rotations, the adjustment your families had to make.....everything!!!!I will be making a manuscript about your stories. Thanks in advance.

[JaneRNBSN]

Hi. I started nursing school at the age of 30 or so and took 6 years to get my BSN. Since I barely passed math in high school I had to teach myself algebra in order to pass my chem classes. I studied and did problems relentlessly until I passed all 3 chem classes. My husband and niece were lots of help since I had 1 child in high school and 2 in grade school. I never thought that nursing school would be easy....that is why it took me so long to start school in the first place. My best class was OB nursing and my worst was Pharmacology. But I made it! My first job was in a small rural hospital in the surgery dept. I started in PACU and eventually learned to circulate. Alas, the surgeons did their number on me. I was belittled, humiliated and eventually forced to leave that hospital to protect myself from surgeons bent on acting like spoiled little children. My success story is this: I persevered until I got my degree, tried it out and decided that it was enough for me.