groosegroose

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1. Excessive nursing applicants everywhere!

   groosegroose replied to ready2getoutofCT's topic in Maryland

   Elena, have you emphasized at all the fact that English isn't your first language? That might help, since you do have a trickier task than those of us taking tests in our native language.

2. Can move anywhere for work

   groosegroose posted a topic in New Nurse

   I realized recently I have an unusual luxury, in that I literally have nothing tying me down and I can basically move wherever to pursue work. Unfortunately, this is also tied with a declining budget post-school expenditures. I'm graduating in Janua...

3. Excessive nursing applicants everywhere!

   groosegroose replied to ready2getoutofCT's topic in Maryland

   As someone who's currently in nursing school, I just want to say, the people to pity are those going into nursing for the money/employment and not because they really want to do it. I am already seeing it with some people in my class who simply don'...

4. Do nurses really "eat their young?"

   groosegroose replied to Keko89's topic in General Nursing

   My nursing school clinical instructors (all experienced nurses, Masters students) certainly proved themselves vicious and confirmed the stereotype, but I've been thrilled to find during my preceptorship that floor nurses are a different species entir...

5. Why are you REALLY going into nursing? Honest answers please.

   groosegroose replied to Sheri257's topic in General Students

   I wanted to do something meaningful and help people. I had this idea in mind of working abroad with Doctors without Borders. Now I'm just nervous I'll become a RN and kill someone because I won't know what I'm doing.

6. Rant about my nursing school

   groosegroose posted a topic in General Students

   I'm halfway through an accelerated second degree BSN program and I just feel completely, and totally unprepared to be an nurse. First of all, when they were teaching us skills here, we would be shown a video, then perform it once in lab (one day a w...