Crazyone

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1. OR nurse training

   Crazyone replied to kdmcook's topic in Operating Room

   I am currently in an OR training program at a large hospital & I am a new grad (6/07). I am in month 4 right now. We are doing the perioperative 101 course from AORN. We have an instructor who in 11 days (8 hours of lectures) ran us through 3 lar...

2. Am I too old to go to nursing school and into a nursing career?

   Crazyone replied to is58tooold's topic in General Nursing

   FYI: I know of a nurse that is in her 70's & works in the OR with an orthopedic surgeon. She is the one he always has working with him. She loves her job. Yes she has aches & pain but you never hear that from her. It was the young nurses who ...

3. Am I too old to go to nursing school and into a nursing career?

   Crazyone replied to is58tooold's topic in General Nursing

   Go for it! I just graduated & passed my RN Nclex & I am 49. My friend did the same & she is 58. Our graduating class got jobs as: One went to a burn center, a few to long-term care, many to med/surg, dialysis, OR. We were all worried abou...

4. Anyone who really thought they failed

   Crazyone replied to boyboyincali's topic in NCLEX

   I took the Nclex-PN on 7/15. I really thought I had failed. The computer shut off at 85 & I just wanted to vomit. The questions were on diseases and drugs, etc that we had not gone over this past year. So I had to fall back on the ABC's, drug suf...