MadameFreckles

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1. new job, bad anxiety

   MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Stress 101

   I worked the next night and got even less sleep than the first:eek: I was able to sleep the last night that I was home, but today I still feel terrible. I feel terrible anxious, shivering, very naseous. The first time I worked 3 nights in a row, I ...

2. new job, bad anxiety

   MadameFreckles posted a topic in Stress 101

   This is mostly a vent, I am just so frustrated right now. I am starting nursing school this semester, next week actually, and got a job as a PCA in home care. My position is nights, 2x a week. Even though it's nights I only work for abot 3 hours at n...

3. what does it take to be a good psych nurse?

   MadameFreckles posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Just wondering, what kind of special skills/abilities/personality does it take to be a good fit for psych nursing. I have worked various psych related non-nursing jobs such as respite foster care (lots of kids with mental health issues) home for auti...

4. Can't lift patient- help!

   MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Technicians

   Thank you guys. The situation is that I just work in their home, so it's just me and his wife is usually around. He is very much able to talk and very active and employed. He does have partial use of his arms, only the tricepts and (so I guess maybe...

5. Too young/ early in life to be in Nursing Program?

   MadameFreckles replied to futuresctRN's topic in General Students

   I think the reason many people in nursing school are older is that for many it's a second career and they attracted to it bc of the perceived flexibility and ease of getting a job.I am just in NS and bit older (in my mid twenties) and have a fami...

6. Can't lift patient- help!

   MadameFreckles posted a topic in Technicians

   Hopefully someone can offer me some helpful advice. I am starting nursing school in a few weeks and just got a job as a PCA for a quadriplegic man who needs to be transferred from his wheelchair to bed and back, plus the shower chair. When I was hire...

7. Anyone currently enrolled in UMSL's BSN part-time evening program

   MadameFreckles replied to wink4clover's topic in Missouri

   I am also interested to hear more about the program. I am finishing up my science prereqs this summer and will be applying to start in Spring of '13. How competitive is admissions to the program. I am so nervous I won't get in! Also, what days are yo...

8. Chem Finals

   MadameFreckles replied to bigboi's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I just took mine this evening. My professor let us start earlier than the allotted time and it took me 3.5 hrs in all. My brain is completely fried . Oh man, I just hope I have kept my A, bc it was really hard, and it's 25% of our grade. I'm pretty p...

9. psych tech to psych nurse?

   MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Psychiatric

   I just wanted to update. I haven't heard back from the psych hospital, but I did get hired at another large hospital for a job working with kids. It's not exactly psych nursing related, more community health, but I decided to take it since the job...

10. Anyone here had any trouble finding a job after graduating from Chamberlain?

    MadameFreckles replied to Kuniklo's topic in Missouri

    I am not a nurse yet but I just wanted to say that I volunteer on a floor where Chamberlain students do one of their clinicals, so I've met many of them. Any time I meet a nurse or nursing student I hound them for information lol. Most of them seem v...

11. psych tech to psych nurse?

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I am a pre-nursing student and just applied for a psych tech position at a children's psychiatric hospital. I don't have a psychology degree but have always been very interested in psych and was going to go for an MSW before deciding on nursing. My ...

12. Schools

    MadameFreckles replied to xxdday2009's topic in Missouri

    I've heard from people who went to Maryville that you need to do your first two years there to get into the BSN program, they favor people who did their pre-reqs there. I am taking pre-reqs at STLCC right now, and plan to apply to Barnes and UMSL. I...

13. Using "connections" to get a job

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Career Support

    I'll start off by saying I am not a nurse yet, I am still doing my pre-nursing classes. I have a B.A. from 2007 but I have only worked part time, with a gap in my in my history due to being a stay-at -home parent and having 2 kids in two years. The l...

14. Volunteering in Maternity and PP-what do I need to know?

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Today was my second day of volunteering and it went much better. I was placed in triage where there were only two nurses and they were really busy. One of them showed me around and I followed her around for a while seeing what she does. By the end of...

15. Volunteering in Maternity and PP-what do I need to know?

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Ok, so I just got back from volunteering. Sadly, the nurse manager for the floor who had requested a volunteer was at a meeting the whole time, so I got put with the unit secretary. I mostly just helped do some paperwork and ran back and forth from L...