I also have a woman in her 40's in my class, I'm 50! but she acts like she knows everything because she works in a hospital dong charting. I'm a medical assistant for 15 years! I can also make remarks about some of the subjects because I've been in t...
Since the first day of lecture we have been told many times that all reading was our responsibility. Every week we have 3 -7 chapters to read before next lecture. But our instructor does not cover every chapter in the lecture, I assume she is just co...
Thanks everyone for your input! Some of the other nurses there were very sweet to us, unfortunately we weren't really dealing with them. In answer to one of the post, all the students were with their patients most of the time, we even did more than w...
On our second day of clinicals the nurse on the floor was the nastiest person I have ever met! Our clinical instructor told us if we had any questions or problems and couldn't find her to ask the nurse that she would help us. Well when we first met t...
I agree with you, 6:30 am is way too early. I'm in Brooklyn doing clinicals at Lutheran Medical Center. We start at 8:00 am suppose to go till 2:00 but usually leave by 12:30 bc we skip any coffee breaks and lunch. Congragulations on graduating!!!!!
Here in NY we don't learn ratios (not needed) they teach us dimensional analysis, much easier. But the first two weeks of class we had to memorize our conversions: if 3 tsp. = 1oz. then 2oz. = 6 tsps. So if you can memorize most of the conversions fo...
It really can be done, don't get discouraged. I worked full time and did my pre-reqs 5 nights a week. Now that I'm in the nursing program I have cut my working hours back. I took an additional loan to fall back on in case the money from cutting my ho...
Hi everyone, new to this web site. Home: Brooklyn, NY Status: Pre-clinical this Tuesday Age: 51 Kids: 3 grown ones, two grandchildren Current Job: MA for pediatrician, 15 years Wants to be: Pediatric Nurse
MA's that refer to themselves as nurses make me sick! :angryfire I'm an MA for a pediatrician for 15 years. I have never called myself a nurse. Our office has an RN,MA and two receptionist. No one not even the Dr. has called anyone a nurse except for...
Hi i am mary, i'm a "new" but "old" student bc i'm 51 years old. I have three grown children. One is married, my daughter is in medical school and my youngest is studying to be a pharmacist. I've been a medical assistant to a pediatrician for 15 year...