sarahamelia

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1. New grad RNs and NPs: has any employer asked to see your transcript...

   sarahamelia posted a topic in Career Support

   Or wanted you to be at the top of your class when you graduated? I'm not NP but I asked because I'm curious and would like to become one. Hopefully this is in the right place. If not, sorry about that. also, for anyone curious about my situation I'm...

2. Are you required to do nights when you do your practicum?

   sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in General Students

   I'm not in the nursing program yet. I only applied a couple weeks ago but I want get as much info as possible. I also posted this so read about others' experience.

3. Are you required to do nights when you do your practicum?

   sarahamelia posted a topic in General Students

   Most people that do their practicum do days and nights but I'm not sure if you can only do days. Also, can you choose where your clinicals are it seems most are in hospitals, what about nursing homes, hospice or doctor offices?

4. How to eat during clinicals

   sarahamelia posted a topic in General Students

   Hello everyone. I'm not going to make this a big deal although it is a little of a concern. I'm very nervous about doing clinicals for the first time. I also have acid reflux and I hear some how nurses and nursing students going all day without peein...

5. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

   sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Because a lot of nurses use this site. I want the honest truth, I'm only determined to try. I have decided to shadow and do what I can to see if I have what it takes but I haven't completely decided weather I'll actually 'apply' to any programs. I'm ...

6. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

   sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

   thanks I will be shadowing soon!

7. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

   sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

   thanks :) I called a few hospitals for information on shadowing nurses but they don't do that and if I want to volunteer I will only do staff support which is filing stuff and doing inventory. I want to try to observe so I can be exposed to blood, st...

8. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

   sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

   Yeah hopefully it'll be easy. I've never had pets before so they actually helped me handle that stuff lol.

9. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

   sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I think your right!! I've seen my family changed a baby diaper but I never did it myself, I only watched it smelt bad but not really it was tolerable not much of a big deal. I've had a pet throw up and had diarrhea all over the floor in my garage an...

10. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

    sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Thanks and and I will. Yeah I need to work on that choosing the easy way was a bad habit of mine, I plan on changing that. Also, thanks to everyone that was honest and gave good advice. I'll be reporting back in 1-2 weeks!

11. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

    sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Well i I still want to try. People are sick and there will be stuff all around that I have to deal with but I've never actually seen face to face what nurses do. I'm just not accustom to things like vomit, stool, mucus etc. so at first I'll probably ...

12. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

    sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I decided to switch to legal studies last year. At the time when I started college and I saw how hard nursing was into nursing school I just decided to do something easy. I've been in college for three years now and I'm not afraid of hard work anymor...

13. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

    sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Thanks for being honest

14. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

    sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

    What do you mean?

15. Should I be a nurse? Fears, bodily fluids etc

    sarahamelia replied to sarahamelia's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Sorry for so many typos I was typing so fast. Just to clarify the doctor told me that the family member has sepsis. And I didn't know what sepsis was so I had to google it.