NewJA

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1. My doubts about a future in nursing

   NewJA replied to NewJA's topic in General Nursing

   I am reposting the original post to see if I can get paragraph breaks. Someone suggested that I edit it, but I don't see an edit option for these forums. Thanks all for the feedback. I have decided to post my doubts about a career in nursing. I wil...

2. My doubts about a future in nursing

   NewJA replied to NewJA's topic in General Nursing

   Indeed, the kind of person even capable of the sincerity and compassion that I would automatically need to bring with me to nursing, as I bring it with me everywhere, would have their spirit stifled, their health compromised, and their mind torn apar...

3. My doubts about a future in nursing

   NewJA posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'll preface this by saying that I did not write this as a solid pragraph. Having spent some time trying to figure out why it's not keeping my breaks, I'll just have to go and post it as it is changing it. I have decided to post my doubts about a c...

4. My doubts about a future in nursing

   NewJA posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have decided to post my doubts about a career in nursing. I will present a serious of doubts and drawbacks, and what I am after is some people who may dispel erroneous or self limiting cynicisms. I originally was attracted to three things: 1) T...

5. New nurses: night shift to day shift?

   NewJA replied to Angie_Baby's topic in General Nursing

   nursemomceo, you are saying that you get an extra 15% above base pay for floating, and this somehow puts you in the high 30's. are you talking about thousands per year, or dollars per hour? i ask, because it seems that base for starting rn in th...

6. New nurses: night shift to day shift?

   NewJA replied to Angie_Baby's topic in General Nursing

   Well, Med school would probably cost you at least 150,000 out of pocket and would take approximately 10-12 years from when you first start school, not to mention the extremely competitive and demanding entry requirements. Your ADN program you say c...

7. New nurses: night shift to day shift?

   NewJA replied to Angie_Baby's topic in General Nursing

   Some of this information sounds incredibly incongruous with the typical statistics and conditions in nursing around the country. It is hard to believe that there is a place where the abundance of nurses is so high that it takes 9 years to get a day j...

8. Revisiting the question of shift times:

   NewJA replied to NewJA's topic in Arizona

   The question has been clarified now. I am a top advocate of "never say never", so that is merely an expression used for emphasis in this case. I can not know what I will be able or want to do in 2 or 3 years; I am merely trying to make a logical and...

9. Revisiting the question of shift times:

   NewJA posted a topic in Arizona

   I posted this in the Cali forum also, in an attempt to get info about the situation there also, since that is probably where I would work after nursing school. I am wondering what are the commonly available shifts for nurses in Arizona, and in the na...

10. Shift availability for nurses in Cali (& elsewhere)

    NewJA posted a topic in California

    I am wondering what are the commonly available shifts for nurses in California, and in the nation in general. This is crucial to me, because I am starting a bachelor's nursing program in January and I need to know if I can expect to work at hours th...

11. Ethics question for Arizona Nurses

    NewJA posted a topic in Arizona

    Thanks for the help! I've pretty much obsessively studied the book for the past week, and I also asked the AZ nursing board about which agency nurses report to for these types of issues, although as indicated previously, I don't believe that I had to...

12. "ratios"? and pay in California?

    NewJA replied to NewJA's topic in California

    When you feel like complaining, just think of how much worse things could be, and that should brighten you right up. If the patient is not at risk, then don't complain. If the patient is at risk, then don't gripe, just try to do something about it.

13. "ratios"? and pay in California?

    NewJA replied to NewJA's topic in California

    In other words the law is very clear, and not open to deliberate abuse. Good, all the more reason for me to try to live in California... Although that looks highly improbably based on all of my recent research lately which has shown me the extreme u...

14. Questions regarding Maricopa CC's Nursing program

    NewJA replied to NewJA's topic in Arizona

    Globe is a tiny desert mining town, last time I was there (3 yrs ago). Desert = no snow. The "pass" through the mountains into Globe is hardly a pass at all, and they barely qualify as mountains. Might get a couple inches of snow one day per winter...

15. BIO 201 Debacle for ASU!

    NewJA replied to NewJA's topic in Arizona

    Ah hah... Never heard of that. I may look into it, ty.