I don't know anything about the hospitals, but high stress/high learning curve 1st position, plus hour & half commute plus young children equals greater possibility of burnout. What about the...
What about taking preAlgebra or whatever the class is before the class you're struggling with? Also, check out khanacademy.org -- I think they do a great job teaching all levels of math and it's
If the school(s) you want to apply to will use your highest or most recent grade if you retake the class and if it's too late to get your money back, I'd stick out the class and just do your darnest...
That's a tough choice. I would first take location out of the equation and ask yourself which job do you feel more drawn to, which fits better in terms of your overall career goals (sounds like the...
I'm not even a nursing student yet but a couple general things leapt out for me. If you do decide to put your clinical experience on your resume (and my understanding is that people on AN have...
Sent you a PM. Also, you can try hospices -- Medicaid mandates that a certain amount of a hospice provider's services are provided by volunteers. You have to go through a pretty lenghty training that...
nt2002 replied to godlycreations's topic in Geriatric, LTC
This is a lovely post and wonderfully written. Thanks! When I started reading and came to the part about you having to take your "dreaded" job I thought this was going to be a negative rant about...
It seems weird to me that the neuro training is THAT much shorter. Personally, if this was my first job, I would go with the one that offers the longer training period. (BTW, I'm even a not even a...
You might want to take a year off after you get your degree -- maybe work in a health-related field and/or volunteer with a hospital or hospice or something similar just to make sure that you really...
Call HR. If no response in a couple of days after you call HR ( I'm assuming you'll go to voice mail) then I would call or email the nurse manager and say that on your last conversation she told you...
Very cool! I would maybe follow up with an email in a few days reminding him off the interaction, thanking him for the contact info and letting him know that when you graduate on X date you plan to...
Ok, this is just me brainstorming because I haven't been in your position (yet), although I can certainly imagine being there -- so take it for what it's worth . . . . What about going into the...