daisygarten

daisygarten

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About daisygarten

Happy Wife, Mom and Stepmom of 5

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  1. CPR certification

    After Thursday, I'll have taken both American Red Cross AND American Heart Association-- because I didn't realize there were options. Now I'll be a CPR expert.
  2. Older Nursing Students

    I start my ADN this fall... I'll be 43 when I'm eligible to sit for my RN exam. I'm excited to bring all my life experience to the bedside in helping my patients to heal. We are an awesome asset to this field!!
  3. Changing paths

    I concur with your research, you will ultimately have to get a second Bachelor's Degree. If you are like me though, and want to get started on your new path sooner rather than later, you may find a program that lets that happen. For me its ADN, the...
  4. Fresh from Orientation: iPads are required equipment!

    iPads were the recommendation at my school, but there was mention of an comparable large platform android tablet, excluding kindle and nook. Having worked in construction where I literally watched hand-drawn plans become ancient history in the face ...
  5. Fresh from Orientation: iPads are required equipment!

    @HouTx Not a huge eReader gal, but I guess I'm going to be! Thanks for the advice on the keyboard, sounds like the perfect accessory. @classicdame I'm all for streamlining equipment too! The amazing thing to me about this "little" revelation, w...
  6. How fast our world is changing... When I got my BA in the early 1990s, the internet was just a weird peripheral idea. Now ALL of our nursing school's textbooks will be delivered online through the Kno.com format. A lot of the orientation group gro...
  7. Grades or a Job - Decisions

    The experience and networking would be great. I understand your reluctance though, leaving the family on the weekends is not the best feeling.
  8. New here.

    Congrats and welcome! I'm also going the ADN route to start.
  9. Congratulations!!! I'm right beside you-- orientation 4/30/ start date August 22... Can't wait!!!
  10. Accepted!

    Great News!!! Excellent.
  11. May I introduce . . .

    Fantastic!!! Wonderful News!
  12. Any career switchers starting in the Fall?

    @Everline I come from a long line of worriers!!! I feel your pain :) When I started teaching for the first time, I tossed and turned for weeks-- then I took Tylenol PM. That sounds awful, but it worked. You sound like a contentious person, I'm sur...
  13. Any career switchers starting in the Fall?

    @Lolita34 Have you told your school that you won't be back? That's my next concern. I wonder if I should wait until the end of the school year, after my nursing school orientation, or sooner. Don't want to burn bridges, but don't want to show my h...
  14. Any career switchers starting in the Fall?

    @Stacie29 Are you in nursing school still or have your started working as a nurse already? How long did you teach?
  15. My nursing program coordinates placement of PCTs and nursing student volunteers and has a close affiliation with a choice hospital system. Have you inquired if yours has connected programming to refer you for placement or interview?