Greetings from a newbie as well

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Specializes in Acute care, LTC, Home health Case Manage.

Hello to everyone.

I am a RN from NW Iowa. I have acute care experience but my area of expertise is LTC(x 15 years.) That is where I began and is what I drift back to and feel most at home. I am currently a unit mgr. in a SCF. I am also a certified legal nurse consultant. I live on a farm, have 2 children, 16 and 20- and we all manage to keep busy. I am brand spanking new to this site. I am looking forward to navigating and learning with all of you. Drop a line if you wish. Nice to assocaite with all of you!

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

Hello zigs,

:balloons: Welcome to allnurses.com...the best cyber-home for nurses by a nurse! Great concept, eh? :)

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Specializes in Acute care, LTC, Home health Case Manage.

Dear cheerfuldoer

Thanks for your response. I hope I can find time to get onto this site and chat and learn frequently. Chat later

Zigs

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Hi Zigs,

This is my first time posting too. I have spent quite a bit of time lurking and reading the posts here ever since one of my professors gave us an assignment to look at nursing sites...this was one of her choices.

I am a first year nursing student at DMACC in Ankeny. I should be able to go for the LPN boards in late spring and then the RN boards the year after.

Biggest problem I have is.....I want to spend all my time reading the posts here and ignore my studies...LOL

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Specializes in Acute care, LTC, Home health Case Manage.

Dear debbylynn13

I am glad to hear you are pursuing your nursing degree. I just read an article that said that by 2020 thee will be a need for at least 250,000 more nurses that they have no idea how they will produce. In other words it sounds like the nursing shortage is here to stay for awhile. Job security. Yeah- I know what you mean by wanting to read all the posts- it can take time and the time seems to fly. Well good luck to you and stay in touch. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Zigs

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Specializes in Home Health Care.

Hello everyone! It's nice to see you here :)

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Hi Tanz,

Glad to see another face on here. So where are you taking your pre-reqs and ADN?

I am going the ADN route too, basically because of my age and money constraints. I have considered going on to Iowa after I graduate and get my BSN slowwwwwwwwww ly....LOL

Deb

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debblynn13

I'm not sure if you know this or not, but I just wanted to let you in on this. U of Iowa has a 1 year, 1 day per week RN to BSN program. I thought I would let you know since you said that you were going to pursue slowly. I'm planning on looking into it myself.

francine

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Specializes in Home Health Care.
Originally posted by debblynn13

Hi Tanz,

Glad to see another face on here. So where are you taking your pre-reqs and ADN?

I am going the ADN route too, basically because of my age and money constraints. I have considered going on to Iowa after I graduate and get my BSN slowwwwwwwwww ly....LOL

Deb

:) Nice to see you too Deb!

I'm currently enrolled at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa and hope to get my ADN through there as well. Where are you attending?

I would also like to bridge over to the BSN,.. the U of I , 1 yr program, looks good!

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Specializes in Home Health Care.

OOps , I should have read the entire post before i asked where you (Deb)are attending school! :imbar

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Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.

zigs and debblynn, welcome!

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Specializes in Assisted Living nursing, LTC/SNF nursing.

Merry Christmas, I too am an ADN Student located in north central Iowa going to NIACC. Just finished Nursing III. with one more semester to go, yippy It was so nice to get together with my study buddies yesterday and make Christmas goodies instead of studying non-stop for a change :chuckle

I wish you all a Happy New Year and an aspiring year of happiness and Joy, be it Nursing or in school.

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