monkeymonk

Hello everyone, this is excellent information I have been searching to find. I do have a few questions, pardon my ignorance. How far ahead will the companies allow me to take out these loans? A year? Six months? I wont even know if I will be accepted to CRNA program this far ahead. How do I justify how much I will need for school to these companies if I have no proof of acceptance to the program? Thank you so much in advance for all your help. I'm sure I will have more questions soon. monkeymonk :imbar:specs:

To put things clearly, I am an LPN at this time working on my RN bridge. Had I known that I was going to spend only half the time in school for the RN program than in the LPN program, I would have done so. The LPN program is Mon. - Fri. all day and sometimes clinicals on the weekends. You will be lectured on several diff. topics at the same time and expect a test everyday. At one point we were at the tail end of fundamentals, middle of A&P, and starting pharm. It is a lot of material jam packed into ten months. Correct me if I am wrong but most of my RN program friends are in class two to three days a week at most and one clinical day. LPNs are paid half what RNs make yet are expected to perform as RNs do. In my work place the only thing I cannot do is IV pushes. They have a way around everything to use the LPNs as RN. We are cheap labor. So stick to school, we might as well be paid for the job we do. Good luck.

Everyone, as you can see, has a different way of giving and taking report. You too will develope your own style soon. But as for that written report, just start from admitting diagnosis and the course of events during the hospital stay and the outcomes of the procedures/tests and further plans (what is the problem and what are we doing about it). Go through the head to toe assessment. This should cover any exceptions to the norm. Its should be understood by the nurse taking report that if you dont say lungs clear A&P bilat to the bases, and this patient is not a respiratory/pulmonary case, then it should be understood as lungs clear. How thorough you want the written report to be is up to you. As long as the pertinent info is included. If the oncomming nurse wants to find out more, it can always be researched in the chart or pts old records. There was a previous post about some people wanting to know everything; however, if you are giving and receiving report on six to twelve patients (depending on the floor and RN LPN ratio) there is no time for what color underwear the patient was wearing upon admit. Hope this helped, good luck.

teco- technical education center of osceola is in kissimmee. all you need is your high school transcript, the entrance test for teco, and the net (nurse entrance test). basic stuff. good luck.