How did you spend your first nursing paycheck?

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I just got my first nursing paycheck and didn't spend it on anything interesting. I used half of it towards my student loans and the other half I used on a shopping trip because I've had the same wardrobe for the past four years and I didn't have very many clothes besides scrubs. I'm curious to know how other people spent their first nursing paycheck :)

Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Bills, bills, and more bills.

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You student to competent nurse comment struck me. I'm apply for my ADN program next month. I know real world is different than school. But how so?

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Specializes in peds.

I paid bills.

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Specializes in Adult ICU/PICU/NICU.

My first paycheck was so long ago that I probably used it for something nice to decorate my log cabin.

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Auto insurance, full tank of gas, groceries and a pair of Jimmy Choo pumps :)

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Ar 15

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Booked the next flight outta Cali to Virginia. While there I visited Washington D.C. and Annapolis, Maryland. Student life had not afforded me much of vacay.

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Specializes in ICU; Telephone Triage Nurse.

Bills. They haunt me.

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Can't wait until I can say "I got my first nurse pay check!" I'd probably cry and take my kids out since we're poor and I've never been able to truly spoil them. ������ Struggles of the road to nursing.

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