nobodywarnedme

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  1. Change from 5 8 hour shifts s week to 12 hour rotations.

    We work 8 hour shifts, our problem is that we are always short staffed & our 8 hr shifts turn into 10 hour shifts (usually w/out breaks). I am too burned out when I leave work to do anything & my days off are spent catching up on sleep misse...
  2. I know in my state the first few classes of nursing school could be used in place of CNA classes & you just have to take the test. Also, around here hospitals hire PCAs, which is a different class. Cnas work in LTC.
  3. How important is it to get clinical experience in the beginning?

    Thanks for the input. I definitely have some thinking to do regarding where I see myself in the future (short term & long term). I am thinking I might ask for an interview to get a better feel for the environment & go from there. Truthfull...
  4. I am currently sending out resumes & interviewing for my first RN position. Everyone seems to think going into the hospital & getting clinical experience is the way to go in nursing. I have found several jobs that are not acute/sub-acute ca...
  5. Venting, majority of class did poorly on test

    Not sure which method would be better... the cons to "flipping the class" IMO- If the whole dept is made to do this then like you said unqualified teachers will fail, the text book has to be excellent if students are to teach themselves (there are m...
  6. Venting, majority of class did poorly on test

    Thanks all for the responses. The problem wasn't that the whole class (including the 4.0 students) didn't study hard or crack open their books for the test. We all didn't make is this far for nothing. The lousy teaching was a part of the reason e...
  7. Truthfully... I am still getting a B & can pull off a B+ (have gotten all A's in previous courses) if do really well on my final, but this still bugging so I need to just vent a little here. We are in our 4th semester of an ADN program, so most ...