Carolll

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1. How old is too old to safely practice?

   Carolll replied to traumaRUs's topic in NP

   I'm 58 and am going to enroll in my NP in January. It will put my graduation out to about 60 1/2 years for me. I don't feel 58, I don't look 58 and I've even had management tell me I don't act like the other 50-somethings. It's all in your head, a...

2. I Left Work Sick- Can I be Charged With Patient Abandonment?

   Carolll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   We had one of our nurses sit at her desk and die. Go home if you're sick. You'll only make the other nurses sick and possibly your patients also. Besides, who wants to die at work........just nasty.

3. Help! Failed NCLEX five times, out of school for 9 years

   Carolll replied to cpmom's topic in Retired

   My school had a 100% pass rate. Our director made us do 3,000 questions from this book in the last semester. Do the Kaplan thing but do this also, I feel that it's the only reason that I passed. [h=2]Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-R...

4. So I kind of messed up

   Carolll replied to oopsmybad's topic in General Nursing

   I'd just cut my stress and go and enroll in a program at a different school.

5. 50 and making a dream come true.

   Carolll replied to Tigerlilley's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I started nursing school at 52, graduated with an ADN at 54 and just turned 57 this week and am in the last week of my BSN. I will continue with my schooling to get my NP by the age of 60. I cut my hair short, color it red and spike it with glue, I...

6. Circumstances it's OK to quit without notice??

   Carolll replied to Cola89's topic in Professionalism

   I quit a job that I had only worked for 8 weeks without a notice. It's the first time in my life I ever walked away. I felt that I was going to lose my license. I also worked weekends 110 miles away, my weekday organization wasn't even located in ...

7. How in this world do you ever get 1 year experience?

   Carolll replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

   I would trying just getting a foot into a hospital. Apply for Med-Surg or Tele and work for a year, then transfer from within to acute care. Why move?

8. Hospice: True Death Sentence?

   Carolll replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice

   I work Hospice. We lose patients all the time. Not to death, to aggressive care. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and they end up coming back. I see that younger people have a better chance than those that are older. It's an individual t...

9. Nursing is my passion but I feel like I am too dumb.

   Carolll replied to Katlin1315's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think you should give up.....and no, homeschooling doesn't have anything to do with it. You just need to learn a different way. Take a look at quizlet, youtube and anything that's free out there for you. There is an anatomy coloring book o...

10. Nursing and the supernatural

    Carolll replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    The first night that I worked in one of the Hospice Houses, about 3 am I saw someone in a red top walk through the kitchen, I went to look and there was no one there. The next morning, I mentioned it to the cook and she said that the volunteers wore...

11. Advice wanted, as an older RN student, what thing should I NOT do?

    Carolll replied to hamsterwheel's topic in LPN-RN

    Don't say anything and just get it into your head that you aren't going to be part of the "group". I went to RN school at the age of 52. I wasn't included in any study group because they had it at the local bars, and let's face it, how can you stud...

12. BSN does NOT open the door for better opportunies

    Carolll replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in Job Hunt

    Baby steps, a lot of the home health agencies don't hire nurses straight out of the hospital because the nurses find out they don't like to go into peoples homes, dogs, cats, roaches, rats.......I think you get the drift. Anyway, start out by applyi...

13. Nurses in trouble get second chances - Minnesota

    Carolll replied to Brian's topic in Career Support

    Wished I'm had come and worked for you. I was just licensed in June, got my first real nursing job in August at a nursing home. Put in my 2 week notice 4 weeks later. I was given 6 days orientation total, 3 on the floor. Given 19 patients my firs...

14. Feeling really down in the dumps and friend-less in nursing school...advice needed

    Carolll replied to willow298's topic in General Students

    I know someone that carried a 4.0 through the whole 16 months......and yes, the others were extremely nasty to her. Jokes on them because she's going to be the nurse that everyone wants, not the nurse that cheated on her tests, was lazy on her clinic...

15. Keiser University as of June 2010 reviews

    Carolll replied to bcthompson630's topic in Florida

    I can give you some feedback on Keiser. I have been a student there for 4 months. They transferred most of my gen eds from the local state college and the ones that I didn't have, I took. The classes are 1 month long, which fits me perfectly. You...