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After Grad, Halifax started me at $19, they just had a thing where they were paying the per diems for not having insurance, then they tried to (or did) (I'm not sure) take a percentage away. It was in the Daytona Beach News Journal. I felt like I was chewed up and spit out every night when I got home. The people were all wonderful there to work with, but the work was rough for me. We had alot of crackheads with attitudes on our floor, and they were rough. I now work at a smaller place for much more and absolutely love it!

Almost a new grad here (DEC 12!!!) , I got a 7a-7p waiting for me on the floor where I want to be. I had to chuckle, I got the job now, I sent out the invites to pinning, now I HAVE to study! LOL!!

I never heard of that. I have a friend that swears by Topamax and Axert.

It's made it soooo musch better... I was able to get rid of his sorry A$$!!LOL!! In first semester, 8 out of 20 were there to get earning power to get rid of husbands. We can support our kids!

I finally bought my favorite t-shirt from my favorite t-shirt place! It says: "Nurse Betty says: I'm here to save your a$$, not kiss it!"

I don't work in a healthcare environment yet and I wear scrubs alot as I have no "civilian" clothes. I started eating my way out of clothes Med/surg semester and am just starting WW to lose those M&M's I found while studying!

Where we are doing our last semester clinicals now, the CNA's stand back and the RN's tell us to do the bed & baths in addition to our RN things we're learning. They say as RN's we are responsible for the total care of our patients CNA's or not. While that is true and I don't have a problem with that, the CNA's stand around talking in the halls alot. If I was an aide I'd be thrilled someone was there being made to do my work. Noone from our group will be applying there anyway at graduation. It's one of those places where you go to work because noone else will hire you. At the end of the semester we fill out a critique sheet on our instructors and one on our place of clinicals. I know these are passed on and looked at, because I worked in my hometown at the hospital when one came down from the college. Where we are now is hurtin'.

That's funny that you say that. I graduate in Dec ADN. I've been approved for more grants and loans that would come in handy for Christmas! I keep thinking...watercolor classes!!

Back when I was growing up, (many moons ago!) there was talk of suing for "alienation of affection" anyone ever hear of that?

I'm giving a scenario in about 2 weeks about how NOT to give report. I thought I'd give examples of real-life horrible reports and outcomes if you wouldn't mind sharing. Thanks! I know when I was an aide it was alot of things "suposedly" were done, but never were.

You're not alone. I grad in Dec. too and can't decide. I'm going to do Med/Surg while I figure it out.

It depends. In Florida you can get a letter from the school after Basic Nursing, Med Surg, OB and Peds. Several of my classmates did this.

I don't know anything about the LPN program there, but I do know that the LPN's going to RN joined us during our 3rd semester. It ends up being more money and time I think, where if you just did RN it's 5 semesters, the LPN would be however many they have initially plus 4 semesters.

Hi Green Mountains! I graduate this coming Dec. (2006) from DBCC. It is said there is a waiting list, but while I was doing my pre-reqs, I heard all kinds of things from a year to two years. I finished my Pre's in the Spring, and in the Summer I got a letter I would start the next year in the Spring. Then towards the end of the summer, I got another letter I would start in the Fall. So really, you never know. From the wait till the final test and care plan, it's just like eating an elephant, one bite at a time!!LOL!!) I went to South campus, and now that I'm nearing the end, I've had the opportunity to meet alot of the teachers from all the different campuses and they are all great. In all my classes I've only had one experience of a student being negative about DBCC (and she was a DBCC student in the program herself?!! Makes you wonder about some you'll meet!!LOL!!) Anyway, if you get all your prereqs done, it is soooo much better than having to do them while in the program! If you have any questions, give a holler... Have you done your A&P or Micro yet?

I looked so gooooood before school started!! I had done the "divorce diet"! LOL!! Then I rode my bicycle. Sometime during second semester, right after Halloween, I started in on my daughter's Halloween candy and didn't stop munchin'. Now I plan on having a routine, and bicycling again. I get SOB when I bend down and that's not comfortable. A sad joke I tell my friend (that's an LPN) is "I have to hurry up and eat this before I get diabetes." Usually it's a piece of cake... Anyway, I vote bicycle for me!

Can they just go get a pedicure from a manicurist? Or if you wanted to start that as a buisiness, just get a manicurists license and do it under that?

Not an April Fool's, but for my Hubbie atthetime's Bday, I got the truck arranged so he wouldn't go behind it and hung a sign, "HONK AND WAVE, IT'S MY 30th BIRTHDAY!" He said he was wondering why everyone was real friendly! It was on there until he went to lunch!

[quote name=panamama so nurses...how do you introduce yourself to patients if at all, and does it matter?[/quote] I worked with alot of "home folk" in a small hospital when I was an aide. Patch Adams is my favorite movie, so I usually said something like, "My name is Cat, and I'll be your main aggravation today!" I always got a smile. We had the white boards too, but had a hard time finding markers!!LOL! I finally bought my own!!

Just finished Mom/baby clinicals last semester. I was coming out of my assigned patient's room and the nurse asked me about the patient's discharge. I told her it was "scant". The nurse looked at me like I had lost my mind and then cracked up when she realized I didn't know the patient was going home that day! I constantly embarrass myself by not knowing how to pronounce meds. I asked the nurse once about my patient's Theo-file-een. She cracked up, I just told her it was that Southern medicine.... also in Peds I did a report on Ray-ez Syndrome...

hi aimee! i'm at dbcc graduating in dec 06! what caught my eye was that i'm from nc too! little washington! doing my psych rotation now, then on to 5th semester!! any tips?

How about if you're retired military yourself? I know at the Post Office you get preference. TIA