jss1985

jss1985 ASN, RN

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  1. Advice please? I feel like I made a huge mistake...

    jss1985 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I posted something related to this here 2 months ago back when I was considering switching from evening shift to night shift. I had ultimately decided to remain on evening until something in days...

  2. Advice please? I feel like I made a huge mistake...

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    One thing I think worth mentioning is that during my interview for this "shift change" to mornings, the manager asked me "If there's anything I feel would prevent me from doing the shift?" I'm...

  3. Advice please? I feel like I made a huge mistake...

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    Winter, both you and 'been there' made me smile. Ain't nothing like sitting with your wife in the living room, everyone else asleep, with some smooth tunes playing while we talk. If I do go back to...

  4. Advice please? I feel like I made a huge mistake...

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. That's been pretty much my experience lately, feeling tired after 3:30pm. Look at me right now, 11:24pm where I'm at and I'm supposed to get up at 5-5:30am tomorrow lol. Wifey doesn't come...

  5. Pre-recs BMCC/COCHARAN SCHOOL OF NURSING

    jss1985 replied to YAS95's topic in School, College Programs

    I'm also looking at cochran, for Spring 2018 start. I'm currently at Lehman College, finishing up pre-reqs. I'm taking Nutrition over the summer and Chemistry in the fall. What exactly is Math 104? I...

  6. Switching from evening (3-11) to day shift (7-3)... advice?

    jss1985 posted a topic in General Students

    I'm a PCT who has been working evenings 3-11 for 5 years in psych. At my job, evening and night shifts both get paid 10% diff which equates to an extra $65 per week AFTER tax ($260/month). I never had...

  7. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Im assuming you're talking about the C+ in A&P I... I took it at a community college where i was attempting to get into an ADN program. They had their own special nursing prerequisite that wasn't...

  8. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    So here's the deal, I kind of degree-hopped about 5 times (Nursing, Social Work, Speech Pathology, Accounting, now back to Nursing). I have 66 credits so far and 3.80 GPA. As far as nursing pre-reqs...

  9. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I choose B. Everything else would be followed by C (by provider Im assuming call for "help/additional medical staff"?), D, and A. After providing O2 for X amount of time, i would recheck pulse ox to...

  10. Should I take Essential/Gen Chem over the summer?

    jss1985 posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm considering taking Essentials of Gen Chem over a 4 week summer semester. It's like an introduction to gen chem I guess? It's gen chem for pre-nursing sutdents, basically. This is the description...

  11. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    My union lets you work part time while maintaining a full time schedule, as long as you get accepted in a program. So I'm covered there. In terms of being overwhelmed, well this semester has been...

  12. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I spoke to 2 BSN schools and 1 ADN school. All private. The ADN takes C+ and above but doesn't require statistics so im safe there. The BSNs... Both require statistics but one is C and above while the...

  13. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Lol i guess im having confidence

  14. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Jbudd, Glad to hear I'm not the only one who messed up a bit in prereq sciences :) Everytime I hear of nursing students who pulled As and B+s in them, I sort of mentally beat myself up about it, like...

  15. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    On a side note. I did ask my neighbor, who has been a private accountant for 30 years now, what he thought. He voted nursing because, to him, 1) accounting is boring work compared to nursing and 2) a...

  16. Are your pre-req grades a predictor of your grades in nursing school?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well, I'll say it doesn't seem as intimidating as nursing school, that's for sure. But in terms of pre req grades though, do you think they might be a predictor/sign in my case? I mean surely there...

  17. I suck at phlebotomy... Help?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    I want to thank you guys for making me feel better about this. But what do you do if you run into a job that lists "Must be comfortable with phlebotomy" or something to that extent? And then when they...

  18. Obamacare Repeal - Should we worry about losing our jobs?

    jss1985 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Im a PCT and my wife is a CNA. We are part of a union. Today there were union reps at our jobs giving us a card to call our congressmen and tell them to vote no for getting rid of obamacare. Our union...

  19. Confused about sick day/occurence policy

    jss1985 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Im a tech who works a union job. We have 5 day work weeks and 2 sick days count as one occurence and dont require doctors note. We can have 2 occurences in a yearly quarter (3 month period). However...

  20. Confused about sick day/occurence policy

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    I see. So even if u have only 3 occurences(48 hours) for the whole year, then that would trigger the consequences of my state's 40 hour sick law? On a separate note, what if you only use 1 sick day...

  21. Obamacare Repeal - Should we worry about losing our jobs?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    Well from what i hear, if i understand correctly, it will cut out medicaid/medicare patients and we will lose new patients as a result. I dont remember word for

  22. Switching to night shift... A good choice?

    jss1985 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work as a PCT 3-11 for 6 years now. But im about to start nights 11-7 in 2 weeks. I asked to transfer to it for few reasons: 1. More flexibility in nursing school (even tho my union will give...

  23. Switching to night shift... A good choice?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone... so an update on my decision: After getting mandated at work due to the snowstorm (meaning I had to stay overnight), I thought long and hard about this. I felt like a zombie all night,...

  24. Switching to night shift... A good choice?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    I totally understand. Im just asking what choice you would make in my

  25. Switching to night shift... A good choice?

    jss1985 replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    Well i have 2 prereqs left (micro and chem) before going to any nursing school. But i can say is when i get in my union will let nursing students work only 3 days a week (2 days off) but maintain a...