Nicolecn

Hello, I worked at a hospital about 4 years ago( I was 19 at the time) and I was hired to assist in PT. I honestly shouldn't have taken that job at the time because I was struggling with debilitating migraines, but being young and immature I didn't really think about that and was just so excited to be able to work at a hospital, so I took the job. Needless to say, I hardly ever made it to work due to my ocular/hemiplegic migraines that I was experiencing at the time. I worked there for maybe a couple of months and ended up deciding to leave to take care of my medical issues. It also wasn't the job for my anyways. I had previously worked as a caregiver/CNA and it was a totally different type of work that I was not good at. They did not fire me or ever say anything to me about it, but I know it looked bad taking the job in the first place. When I left they said I probably shouldn't list them as a reference because I worked there for such a little amount of time, but they said I may be able to reapply in the future when healthy. Fast forward and now I am currently in nursing school and have been doing my clinicals at that hospital. We are able to request where we want our clinicals, so I'm wondering if its a waste of time doing them there because they wouldn't hire me when I'm done with school anyways, or if it's a possibly they would hire me back? Would they have told me if I was ineligible for rehire? I'm just not sure what to do and it stresses me out that I may have ruined my chances at this hospital due to my poor choice to take that job even though it's a totally different department. I am in a much better place now physically and mentally and have done really well throughout nursing school and I just hope I get the chance to show that. Opinions? Thank you!

I find it a little funny that everyone assumes I must not have a stressful life because I said I don't find nursing school that difficult. I wasn't putting anyone down that has a difficult time, it just shows that people absolutely cannot be happy for other people's success or happy someone isn't struggling. My boyfriend actually was in a nearly fatal car accident right before nursing school started and he lost one leg and severely injured the other and was in a wheelchair for months. I was a caregiver, a student, AND I worked and was solely responsible for paying all bills and completing all household chores until this last month. I just didn't feel it was necessary to explain all of this, but apparently everyone assumes I'm "boasting" and have an easy life. LOL

Yeah that’s why I said I tend to go along with what they’re saying even though I don’t agree with it because I know it would most likely irritate them. And according to my professors, the first two terms are the hardest as far as the course load and that’s where they lost the most students in the past. They said if we can make it through the first couples terms we will most likely make it through the entire program. I do not have kids though and I know a lot of people do and I honestly cannot imagine how much more difficult that would make it. I do work 30 hours a week though, aside from weeks that I am studying for midterms/finals and I have a great support system. This post isn’t mean to brag at all, but I kinda wish I would’ve heard more positivity when I first started out because all of the comments I heard were so negative and I came into it with a TON of anxiety.. but this post isn’t meant to put anyone down that is struggling. I just wanted a different perspective and to see if anyone else felt the same way as me and to perhaps offer a more positive perspective to others considering nursing. However, I don’t really appreciate you assuming “mom and dad” take care of everything and that no matter what, I must have zero idea what I’m in for. ? my parents don’t help me at all. I’ve been emancipated since 17(I’m 23 now) and pay for all of my own schooling and cost of living. Thanks though ?

I am about to finish my second term of nursing school and have completed difficult classes such as pathophysiology, pharmacology, chronic illness, etc.. and I honestly haven’t found it that hard. Idk if I was just expecting it to be a lot worse because everyone talked so negatively about it or what.. I’m in the program with people who are talking about having constant meltdowns and crying and I haven’t had one mental breakdown while in school.. am I missing something? Don’t get me wrong, it’s stressful at times and you have to put in the work, but people make it sound nearly impossible and like they’re losing their minds over it.. Whenever other students talk to me about how difficult it is I feel like I have to go along with it or they’re going to be annoyed by me not thinking it’s that hard..

Hello, I just started my second term of my ADN program and am super nervous and looking for some advice. For our first term we had clinicals in the community and they weren’t very intense. This term I will be in the hospital for the first time and I got placed on oncology. I start in a few days. I’m super stoked and have actually considered oncology nursing I just wasn’t expecting getting placed there my first term in the hospital and feel like it’s kind of a difficult place to start. I am sooo nervous going into this and I don’t want to make a complete fool of myself. I think I feel even more nervous because I feel like patients with cancer have been through enough and the last thing they want is some inexperienced student “practicing” on them. Any tips on how to calm nerves or advice from someone who has oncology experience?

Today we had nursing check offs for our first term that included vitals, cbg and immunizations and I passed vitals and immunizations and sadly failed cbg(the easiest one) because my nerves got the best of me. I was so nervous that I went to poke my partner and realized the cap was still on, so I took the cap off and went to poke again without recleansing the area and my instructor had to stop me and tell me I didn't clean the area so I couldn't proceed, so I got a no pass. I know that I made a mistake and shouldn't have passed for that because the instructors told us in the beginning that if they had to stop or prompt us that it would be a no pass. My issue is that later in the day when we were doing immunizations a girl in my group was going to give the shot after she repeatedly touched the cleansed skin with her gloves and my instructor stopped her and ASKED her if there was anything she should do before poking her, so then she realized her mistake and recleansed the area and she still passed her. I just feel like it wasn't really fair because they said they aren't supposed to prompt us and if she had stopped and prompted me, then I probably would have passed. Just seemed like unfair treatment to me and I'm a little hurt and confused by it, but I don't want to animosity towards my instructor. Any opinions on the matter? Also, I redo the check off in a few days, so tips on how to remain calm would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. I just feel like an idiot and so embarrassed that I failed the easiest thing.

Hello everyone, I will be starting my first term of my ADN program this fall and am currently enrolled in 12 credits of NRS classes as well as statistics. I need statistics for my BSN, which I plan on pursuing and it is my last term to take it otherwise I will have to start over with math or place back into statistics later on, which I'm not confident I could do. However, I do not want to overload myself because my main priority is my nursing classes. How difficult is statistics and would you recommend me getting it over with or do you think I'd be setting myself up for failure? I'm not naturally good at math. I got an A in my last math class, but I spent LOTS of time studying and I'm afraid I won't have that kind of time to focus on math with all of my other classes. Opinions?!

I just got accepted into a RN program and we didn't have to do any background checks to get into school, so it didn't impact our acceptance. However, all of the hospitals where we do clinicals do background checks, so the bigger issue is going to be whether or not they would allow you to do clinical rotations at their clinical sites.

You may be happy being a LPN if you want to work in a doctor's office, nursing home, memory care facility, etc.. but from what I've been told if you want to work in a hospital setting you pretty much have to get your RN/BSN. At least in Oregon anyways.

I was just accepted into the RN program at my community college and am getting nervous because I've been told the majority of the people that got in have their CNA license and that the first term is all CNA related stuff and am worried I'll be behind everyone else. I have previous caregiving/med aide experience and worked for 3 years in memory care. I have experience helping with daily activities of living such as feeding, bathing changing, bed baths, transferring, using hoyer lift, etc. I also passed medications after being trained by an RN and was the person in charge of other staff when a nurse wasn't present and I evaluated and sent residents to the hospital, performed basic wound care, changed ostomy bags, checked vital signs(including manual blood pressures) charted, and faxed doctors. I am wondering if my experience as a med aide/caregiver will be enough or if it would be worth it for me to take a CNA class this summer before the RN program starts in the fall. I just haven't wanted to waste my time in the past because I felt that I had most of the same skills/training as a CNA, but wanted to get the opinion of other nurses and/or student nurses, so that I can be as successful as possible when the program starts. Thank you so much!