jenkie01

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1. Nursing school didn't prepare me for reality

   jenkie01 replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

   Nursing school taught me how it should be not how it is in the real world.

2. Nursing school didn't prepare me for reality

   jenkie01 replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

   I am a new nurse LPN 2+ years and I work lots a real job and agency and after working in LTC (lots of tubes, a few trachs and vents) , for almost 1 -1/2 years I started in a hospital and was supposed to get orientation and was thrown to the wolves o...

3. Would you recommend nursing to your daughter?

   jenkie01 replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

   I have a daughter who is a few months shy of 16 and I am making her get her prereqs for nursing school this summer and next, so after high school she will only have the down and dirty nursing courses. I am going for RN from LPN myself . The work is...

4. ADVICE: 42 yr old Male: Nursing

   jenkie01 replied to ksgomez's topic in General Nursing

   If I had to do it again I would have went for RN, but money was a problem and I was out of school for so long I was unsure how I would do in a classroom. And I was able to get some aid for the LPN course that was not available for the RN couse. The...

5. ADVICE: 42 yr old Male: Nursing

   jenkie01 replied to ksgomez's topic in General Nursing

   I went back to nursing school at 43 to be an LPN as my employer of 14 years was going non uniun and I was the union steward and would have been pushed out of my job as a truckdriver for one reason or another. My wife went back to school to be an RN j...