KatieM123

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1. Would you be a nurse if you knew then, what you know now?

   KatieM123 replied to I love the OR's topic in General Nursing

   I think the pharm is funny. I have a few friends with the PharmD and they are miserable. Tired of being screamed at all day by angry people over insurance issues. Tired of making no difference. All a matter of perspective I guess....they all swea...

2. Financing your education

   KatieM123 replied to newbeginnings07's topic in General Nursing

   I have a BS in a non-nursing field and about 30K in loans from that. Which actually wasn't too bad since many friends had a lot more it was over 30K a year there. I don't want to add any loans to my total so instead of doing a local BSN program tha...

3. How do you pay your sign-on bonus back?

   KatieM123 replied to st4wb3rr33sh0rtc4k3's topic in General Nursing

   I'm guessing there is no specific law for paying back a sign on bonus. It would fall under contract law and you'd be binded by the contract you signed with the facility. Whatever they put in the contract you signed would be the law unless they also...

4. Nursing degrees???

   KatieM123 replied to xxgreenfirexx's topic in General Nursing

   I finished my MBA and then applied to nursing schools. I have to finish a few pre reqs at a community college. For me personally it was far more affordable to do an ASN program with some community college pre reqs. My long term goals include BSN a...

5. Do CNA's know what they are supposed to do or...

   KatieM123 replied to *ac*'s topic in General Nursing

   I was a PCA (patient care associate) on a med/surg floor in a pretty busy floor. Nurses were swamped but never seemed as unhappy as some on here say. There were generally 3 PCAs one for each "wing" and each wing generally had 2 nurses so each PCA h...

6. Who has had the biggest influence on your nursing practice?

   KatieM123 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   I'm just a hopeful student but the reason I continue to go on is a friend who I was an aid to in college. He has MS and was wheelchair bound. He got through his days very literally with the assistance of aids. Aids who were fellow students like my...

7. Do you have a best friend at work?

   KatieM123 replied to sleepyndopey's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not a nurse yet but at my current job I have a best friend and work would be hell with out her! I know I can vent and be honest and frustrated and it will never leave her office and she knows she can do the same. I needed a letter of reference ...

8. Need some advice!!!!

   KatieM123 replied to mused11's topic in General Nursing

   I really thought I wanted to be a doctor, so I got a job as a patient care associate at on a busy Med/Surg floor at a teaching hospital. I saw all the new residents start that summer. I worked with some fantastic nurses who when they had the time n...

9. I think I really screwed up choosing nursing

   KatieM123 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

   I understand how you feel, I'm just on an opposite end! I work in business I have a BS in management and an MBA. I make a good bit more than a nurse and I Hate my job. HATE IT. I hate going to work and getting the sh!t kicked out of me b/c financ...

10. Working full time and school

    KatieM123 replied to KatieM123's topic in General Students

    GREAT idea about going to the school. I know it's through a good hospital but I don't know the track record of this program, that's an excellent idea. And it would help me to have fellow students with similar schedules so we can support each other ...

11. Working full time and school

    KatieM123 replied to KatieM123's topic in General Students

    Good! My micro wasn't medicinal based either. My micro prof was a PhD his wife an MD and most of my class were fast track MD students (I went to a prestigious undergrad that had a program with the closest medical college, students were direct admit...

12. Working full time and school

    KatieM123 replied to KatieM123's topic in General Students

    I will only have class one night a week from what I understand. But as you say the other nights will be full of reading and work. I will have clinical every other weekend Saturday and Sunday all day -- I can only imagine the work I will have to put...

13. Working full time and school

    KatieM123 replied to KatieM123's topic in General Students

    This is kind of part time -- they expect the pre-reqs done, the gen ed that students need to get a degree I have completed long ago in my BS, and it's extend like 26 or 28 months -- going summers -- to help break things up a little. It's geared for ...

14. Working full time and school

    KatieM123 replied to KatieM123's topic in General Students

    Well I will pretty much JUST be taking nursing classes -- no other gen. ed. requirements because I have a BS and a MS so I have everything completed except the nursing courses and a nutrition course I can take online in the summer before nursing. So...

15. Working full time and school

    KatieM123 replied to KatieM123's topic in General Students

    Luckily I have no kids, just a husband who is very supportive of this change because I'll actually enjoy what I do! So I can be a hermit for 26 months....