I have just stumbled upon this website, and i figure it is the perfect place to meet women who have formerly been in my position probably wondering many of the same things that have crossed my mind. First, I'll introduce myself, My name is Toshia.. however my friends call me sunshine. I am wanting to go to school to be an OB GYN nurse and help and coach women through the births of their children. I have had this goal for myself since I was in the 7th grade, and then after having my own personal experience with natural birth in a hospital it gave me that much more motivation.
In that regard, I would love to speak with any women who are in the field i am aspiring to be in. I wonder, Is it more logical to get your LPN, to BSN, to RN.. or do you think its a better route to finish my general classes at the community college i anticipate to attend starting in january and apply those years to an Associates of the arts degree and attempt to get my RN that way?
Also, Were there any books that you felt made your life easier as a student that you would reccomend to me? I honestly do not know a single thing about the nursing field, and am a little nervous about me attending college due to all of the medical terminology, i am nervous i am going to be lost there for a bit. On that note, I was browsing things to possibly make the school life a bit easier, and I came across some voice recorders that are also transcribers so possibly they would take the notes from the professor and make them from digital to text format.. In that regard, has anyone heard of the Dragon software which from my understanding is pretty much the same thing.. and if you know anything about either please share you knowledge before I purchase something that is not really necessary [or worth the money for that matter!]
I don't mean to write a book, however.. I just really am not sure where else to turn. I am very open to suggestions. Thanks so much for your time and for reading! Happy holidays to all!
In my area, rural oklahoma, LPN/LVN's are employed in all the local hospitals and doctors offices and LTC centers. I think that it is a stepping stone for anyone that needs to get to work faster. My Family practitioners nurse is an LPN. Our local OB department has several LPN's employed as well. :-) I am assuming that you all are talking about bigger city hospitals not hiring LPN's?
Yeah. Right now I am currently located in columbus ohio. One of the main hospitals is actually part of the college [ohio state], as well as riverside [where i am wanting to be employed] has a very high rating espically in their OB unit [which is where i delivered my daughter :)] I have heard a lot of good things about them and from my personal experience in that hospital, i want to be part of something great.
I am assuming that you all are talking about bigger city hospitals not hiring LPN's?
The hospital I'm at is a smaller rural facility, however we are only about 60 miles from Chicago, so maybe that's the difference. Around here we don't see a lot of LPN's outside of nursing homes. There's nothing wrong with being an LPN, I just think that if you have the option to continue on and get a more advanced level of educational degree it will just make your options for work that much better.
I think that it is a stepping stone for anyone that needs to get to work faster.
Absolutely, but if you don't need to and you already know that your goal is RN, then just go for it.
I'm sure that there are tons of stories of people who can't find nursing jobs because they have an MSN or a doctorate and facilities don't want to hire them and have to pay more than for another degree, but in general I think more education opens more doors than it closes.
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With regard to a transcriber to take notes for you...I'd be against it. The reason is this....you don't learn something (and keep it in your head) the first time you come across it. You must "experience" it several times in order to remember it. Hearing it is one time. Seeing it is another. Writing it is another. Taking notes yourself helps fix the information in your mind as well as on the paper or in the computer.
Some instructors don't care one way or the other if you use a computer to take notes, or a recorder. Others do. Usually it's just because use of the equipment can make noise that's distracting. Ask 'em if they care if you want to use such things before you do it.
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Yeah. Right now I am currently located in columbus ohio. One of the main hospitals is actually part of the college [ohio state], as well as riverside [where i am wanting to be employed] has a very high rating espically in their OB unit [which is where i delivered my daughter :)] I have heard a lot of good things about them and from my personal experience in that hospital, i want to be part of something great.