timster1984

Hmm, if that many people have trouble with math I'm wondering whether I should do math tutoring at the college...especially once I finish my next algebra class I'd be able to tutor intermediate algebra and below. It seemed really easy to me so I'm wondering if maybe it's just bad teachers that make this subject so difficult?

Yeah that must be it, I'm going to a community college right now...blech. Talk about a difference in price. Well good luck!

And here I was complaining about $250.00 for books and $400.00 for tuition for four classes...I need to shut my mouth, eesh! That's expensive.

After reading all these posts I can't help but agree with something my EMT friend Paul said, since he's planning to go into nursing himself. I mentioned all the negative stuff I've heard and showed him this thread, and his response was that the largest complaints about nursing usually come from people who don't want to work and don't give a damn about their patients, healing, or any aspect of medicine. And after reading most of these posts, I can agree with him. Sure, you need to protect your right to fair work conditions and not let your employer, patients, etc. trample over you or treat you poorly, but there's a difference between keeping people from trampling on you and trampling on the entire profession of what you do. I don't know how it is outside California, but in California there's a patient ratio law...my friend said it was 5, I've read other people say it was 4, but either way it sounds like in California a nurse can't be in charge of more then 4-5 patients so the horrible understaffing conditions that have been mentioned here don't exist atleast in California. I would be very surprised if most states don't have the same thing. Regardless though, the more you discourage hopeful nursing students from becoming nurses, the more you're /contributing/ to crappy work conditions, understaffing where there's no law against it, and patients not getting the care and attention they need.

That's ridiculous for him to do that. I don't know how it is for the rest of you guys but it's "at will" employment here in California but that doesn't mean that they can fire you for anything. The only time an employer can do that and get away with it is if you let them. If you get fired for something like not being able to work due to an injury that you have a doctor's note for then every lawyer will be frothing at the mouth to take that case because it'll be an open and shut win. Everyone has a right to fair employment...if you have to sue your employer to maintain that right then so be it, that's their problem not yours at that point. Best of luck to you Danianne.

I think any state/government ran college like a state university or community college has a work study program of some sort don't they? It's a federal program so I would imagine they do...

Intermediate Algebra Reading & Composition General Psychology U.S. History II Introduction to Art A whole lot of general ed.

I dunno, I'm honestly actually bored, lol. I can't wait to go back to school just so I have something to do...kind of sad, especially since I /know/ im going to be wishing I did have some sort of break once I'm in medical school. Oh well, you don't appreciate something until you don't have it anymore. :)

I can definitely agree with everyone that anxiety or indecision is unique to nursing students or abnormal, I think from all walks of life people are going to deal with that since it's uncertainty of change that always makes someone pause before they do something that they haven't before. We all wonder about whether our next decision will be good or bad, regardless of what that decision is for. Hell, I'm going through the same thing myself, and I'm not even the student of what I'm shooting for, just pre-medical right now. I can't decide on nursing, medical transcription or something else as a backup plan in case the medical schools say no or whether I should even have the mindset of needing a backup plan to begin with. Follow your heart and like everyone says, take some time off, relax and just think about it. In anything, you have to weigh the pros and cons against each other and decide whether the cons are worth the pros. There may even be twenty cons to one pro, but as long as that pro is really worth it, then that should be your answer...just remember that anything worth having doesn't come easy, ya have to fight for it. I wish you the best of luck. :)

This has actually reminded me to ask this question now that I'm reading over this thread. It sounds like it won't be nearly as bad as shell shock as it might be in other states since I live in California, but if I did decide to do nursing, how bad are the unappealing parts of the job? Until I have an acceptance letter from a medical school, nursing is going to be an option for me since one way or another I want to be doing health care, and I would like to know what I'd be getting into if I did decide to go that route. I was already aware of the patient ratio law in California because my EMT friend in southern california mentioned that tonight, so it sounds like I won't have to deal with nightmare-ish understaffing, but I'm wondering what other negative aspects of the job a California nurse would have to deal with? I'm not worried about pay since either way it's going to be good enough, and I'm not worried about underappreciation or lack of respect since the latter I would refuse to let people trample over and the former...well, show me a job where you /are/ shown appreciation and I'll buy you a drink. In my experience, every job rewards idiocy and incompetence and ignores excellence so underappreciation is a myth in my opinion. The main thing I'm wondering about is specifically the stuff that isn't appealing, such as dealing with bodily fluids, etc....I've read plenty about the positive aspects and the negative aspects but I've seen people go into detail about the positive aspects but not the negative, so I'm curious about the negatives in more detail because it's always best to plan for the worst and hope for the best instead of vise versa. :)

General Biology - A Economics - A US History - A Basic Algebra - A Hopefully next semester I won't have so much free time leftover on my hands after work since im going to be taking more gen ed then I did this time....next semester is gonna be intermediate algebra, US history (last one was up to 1859, this one is 1859 to present), intro to art, general psychology, and english 1A. Maybe I'll go see if the Red Cross if they have one in a town this lame needs help with anything, atleast I wouldn't be wasting my time then. :)

Yeah I tried calling the school today but with all the holiday stuff I don't know if I'll get an answer until the next semester starts. Generally the people at my college don't know anything at all anyways. My college has some good teachers and it's alright, but the admissions and counselors...well, let me put it this way, there's some people who have gone there for over seven years and have no degree and I imagine it's from lack of help or guidance. I'm actually just going to call the AMR here and ask them if the course at Shasta College is satisfactory to meet the exams I would need to pass to work for them, because that's who I'd apply to anyways. :) Thanks for the info everyone, have a merry Christmas.

thanks for looking it up day, yeah i visited the nremt web site but couldn't exactly find what i was looking for. it sounds like my friend needs to be more specific on finding a nationally certified course versus a county certified one...it's starting to make more sense if there isn't an actual state license for it and it's county by county, hrm. i wish i could get in touch with him more, he's only on every millenium on msn. i'll keep searching though, thanks for the help.

Oh this is so confusing, agghhh!! Is anyone here presently or formerly an EMT who could help me out on this? I'm trying to find out if the EMT course at my college qualifies as a "real" one as my friend in southern Cali told me to look for, because he said there are both county and nationally certified courses. From what I've been able to dig up, the EMT course at my college is certified by the State of California (I think) because its approved by the Northern California Emergency Medical Services and they list in their FAQs in response to a "Where is my EMT certification valid?" that it's valid anywhere in the state of California....but I have no clue on whether it's nationally certified, or if that doesn't matter and nationally certified comes from taking the exam? I'm so confused. *smacks head against wall*

Right on, that sounds encouraging! The only thing I'm wondering about is the EMT basic course at the local college is state certified but I noticed that AMR only hires nationally certified EMTs, and I'm not sure if the EMT basic course here is nationally certified or if it needs to be. I'm not sure if it's just a second exam I take.