COB rollcall

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Hey, I am feeling giddy today. Sooooo....will ask for COB rollcall and year graduated from *first* nursing school (whether that be LPN/LVN or RN or even throw in the CNA date)...

I graduated in 1990 with my LPN. I was a CNA for at least 6 months prior to that. :)

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Nurse's Aide 1976 (no certification needed, learned on the job)

LPN 1985

AAS 1992

BSN 2002

MN 2008

You've earned your bat wings time and again...lol

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.
Aspiring COB here! CNA--1997, ADN--2003, BSN--2015

I don't know....1997, and nurse 2003....I think you might be in the realm.... Not far to go, if at all! haha

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Specializes in long term care Alzheimers Patients.

Nurse s Aide 1974

LPN 2007

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Specializes in nurseline,med surg, PD.

Most of you are still babies. I graduated from IU in 1971 ADN then 1974 BSN. Been working for 44 years.

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Most of you are still babies. I graduated from IU in 1971 ADN then 1974 BSN. Been working for 44 years.

This is why I don't think I'm a COB yet. The are so many older nurses still doing it right and walking the walk, and while I am crustier than some, I'm not nearly as crusty as those I admire.

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CNA 1988

RN 2011

I have no clue what that makes me.

I'm too new a nurse to really be an official COB, but I've been around long enough as a CNA (23 years!) to be rather crusty...

So what am I???

Good times: had a tech tell me I didn't know "how hard" their job was... I was thrilled to tell them I did their exact same job in the exact same facility for seven years with another 17 years elsewhere on top of it. They shut up and I felt crusty :bored:

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
Most of you are still babies. I graduated from IU in 1971 ADN then 1974 BSN. Been working for 44 years.

Wait a minute...if you're 53y, how did you graduate from college in 1971? You would have only been 9y! Your bio says you've been working for 32y, so how can you have been working 44y? Is my math bad?

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
This is why I don't think I'm a COB yet. The are so many older nurses still doing it right and walking the walk, and while I am crustier than some, I'm not nearly as crusty as those I admire.

If you've got over 20y exp., you're a bat.

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Specializes in ER.
CNA 1988

RN 2011

I have no clue what that makes me.

I'm too new a nurse to really be an official COB, but I've been around long enough as a CNA (23 years!) to be rather crusty...

So what am I???

Good times: had a tech tell me I didn't know "how hard" their job was... I was thrilled to tell them I did their exact same job in the exact same facility for seven years with another 17 years elsewhere on top of it. They shut up and I felt crusty :bored:

I've met some pretty encrusted CNAs in my time. They are scary!

You're a COB!

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Specializes in Cardiac, Transplant, Intermediate Care.

Business major in the 80s (everyone was), CNA 2003, technical school for ADN 2006, will graduate with BSN December 2015, Lord willing...

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Specializes in Medical Oncology, Alzheimer/dementia.

I think I might be a COB in years, but definitely in my state of mind.

Graduated from LPN in 2001. Got nice and crusty for 11years. ASN in 2012. BSN in 2014.

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Most of you are still babies. I graduated from IU in 1971 ADN then 1974 BSN. Been working for 44 years.

You have been "through the war", as the "old" saying goes. :) Still working too! You have it going on!

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