I am not ignoring you folks. I check the threads regularly. I just never have time to provide the witty, brilliant and hilarious responses you all have come to expect from me
This assistant director gig is running me ragged. Not at ALL what was promised during my interview and nothing could have prepared me for this job. I'm feeling a little stuck and I am driving my new husband batty with all my crying about work.
I've been doing some reflecting and trying to remember the last time I was really happy with work. The answer was, obviously, when I was working in the school. It really was the most fulfilling job I've ever had and I miss it so much. And I miss you guys, the best coworkers ever.
I am glad to hear that things are starting to come together. They passed a law in NJ this past year that tweaked the requirements to be a school nurse -http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2016/Bills/PL17/70_.HTM the reason why i give you this info - when i went through my cert the college wanted me to do so much more than was required by the state. A school nurse I was talking to about going through the process gently recommended that I get my records audited by the state - boom- instead of the 5 or 6 more classes that the college wanted me to take i only had to take one to finish my cert. Oh happy day!
life is funny. I ended up applying to a hospital thinking i'd do bedside to make some extra cash and ended up getting hired on in an administrative role. I ended up working there for over 4 years. Now I am working other side jobs not related to nursing and taking steps to get my masters in a field outside of nursing. I am looking down the line to when i retire - not soon but in the grand scheme of things not terrible far off - and what i'll do then.
Specializes in med-surg, IMC, school nursing, NICU.
Ok... slight detour. I got my bill for my first class in the quest to obtain my school nurse certification. Grad school, as it turns out, is pretty expensive. Like, 5 grand per class expensive. They don't tell you that when you apply that's for sure.
Mr. Tomato and I are trying to buy a house and that, too, is very expensive. So I came to the executive decision to hold off on school for a few months until we 1) have a place to live and 2) I am settled in at my new job. A little disappointing but nothing major. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.
I am also going to apply to different programs because 5k per class is going to suck regardless of where I am in life!! But that's what going on right now in the Garden State.
Flare, ASN, BSN
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I am glad to hear that things are starting to come together. They passed a law in NJ this past year that tweaked the requirements to be a school nurse -http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2016/Bills/PL17/70_.HTM the reason why i give you this info - when i went through my cert the college wanted me to do so much more than was required by the state. A school nurse I was talking to about going through the process gently recommended that I get my records audited by the state - boom- instead of the 5 or 6 more classes that the college wanted me to take i only had to take one to finish my cert. Oh happy day!
life is funny. I ended up applying to a hospital thinking i'd do bedside to make some extra cash and ended up getting hired on in an administrative role. I ended up working there for over 4 years. Now I am working other side jobs not related to nursing and taking steps to get my masters in a field outside of nursing. I am looking down the line to when i retire - not soon but in the grand scheme of things not terrible far off - and what i'll do then.