cjulian214

Hey, I graduated from NMSU in May. No, I didn't LOVE the program while I was going through it, but after being out there in the nursing world nursing school sounds about the same everywhere. You get what you put in, its tough as hell, but the NMSU pr...

Hey all! I am having to prepare a teaching plan involving condom use/safe sex for MIDDLE SCHOOLERS next week during my pediatric school nurse clinicals. I'm a little nervous about this, because back when I was in middle school, we giggled when someon...

Oh yeah- While I was trying to prepare the presentation over the weekend when I thought I still had to do it on condoms, I called my good friend who is a lesbian and asked her what safe sex practices she used. She said she has NEVER had safe sex and ...

Thanks for all of the help and information...It was really appreciated! I was actually saved by some legalities. The school nurse was under the impression that because the School-Based Health Center (an actual health clinic located on school grounds)...

WIC also provides free breast pumps...here anyway, and REALLY support breastfeeding.

Thanks for all the ideas! I guess I was just trying to find ways to not focus on the condom bit...I'm feeling a little uncomfortable talking to little kids about it. Also, I worry about the thought process of kids that age. I don't think they really ...

OK everyone, tell me what you think... I am trying to incorporate the following ideas into a teaching plan, so help! First, I want to have a segment where I split up the kids into a few small groups and have them fill out a short hand out that asks w...

I promise, I am not trying to piss anyone off here. This school district is not in my city..I have to commute an hour, its a little town on the border of TX and NM and this area has INCREDIBLY high teen pregnancy rates (including 13 yr olds, etc). Th...

Maybe I can get the teachers to split them up, but I doubt it, because there is just me, and what is the health class going to do with the other half when I am teaching just the girls, then just the boys? I was thinking that it would increase the kid...

It will be hard of course, but its not like nursing school is that easy to begin with! We have had 3 girls get pregnant and deliver so far in nursing school, and we are just entering our second (and LAST- YAY) year, and all three are still with us an...

My mother in law has lupus and goes through periods where she is very sick, weak and tired. However, she is still a nurse. She just has to find where she fits. There are a ton of different types of nursing out there. HOWEVER- the biggest challenge to...

Thanks for the info :) I guess I sort of zeroed in on LA because I want a big teaching/research hospital with a good reputation, both for taking good care of its patients and treating its employees well, and one that has a really good new grad progra...

Hi everyone! I will be graduating with my BSN in May 2008 and am looking into the LA area as a possibility after graduation. I really like the idea of moving to California, primarily because of the ratio law! However, I know it is incredibly expensiv...

CST, See, thats something that I am very much afraid of. I grew up in a little town in NM (about 30,000 people) and of course my parents are telling me how screwed up my kids will be if I move to LA. Thing is, there's a TON of screwed up kids around ...

Although it SOUNDS like a short commute, is the traffic bad?

Although it SOUNDS like a short commute, is the traffic bad?

Thanks for the advice! One thing I REALLY like is the new grad program at CHLA...it sounds amazing, and would prefer to get a job at that hospital, if possible. Would it be better to commute in to CHLA (assuming I get the job) which is located at 46...

Hey! I just read through your thread and was wondering if you had heard anything back about your positions?

Thank you for your response...its very encouraging to know that I am not the only one wanting to do this. My kids will be 5 and almost 3 when I graduate, with the older one starting school that august. I'm a little worried about how he will handle tw...

If you go to the Dept of Labor and ask about a program called WIA (Workforce Investment Act), they will pay up to $7000 for nursing school (usually the last two years of actual nursing classes). Good luck!

At our school, our instructor signs off on our meds and everything with us, so I'm guessing they are held atleast partially responsible. Second- When I'm working with a patient, most of the time the nurse has not entered a room once, unless I go to i...

This post scares me. I am in my second semester of nursing school with two left after this. I have been doing clinicals both semesters, at two hospitals, and at both places it has been the same...too many patients per nurse, and the nurse unable to d...

I am in my first semester of nursing school, and the different clinical groups are starting to get their grades back from our first hospital clinicals. EVERY SINGLE PERSON in one clinical group (the first) failed (Our grading is 76-83 = C, 84-91= B, ...

I have GREAT news! (For me) I got my clinical grades back today and I did just fine. I guess its just a couple of the clinical groups that are having difficulty because of 2-3 clinical instructors (of 6) that grade the way I was talking about in my f...

Although this is a little repetitive....Here, the Community college is much easier to get into GPA-wise, and there is not too much of a waiting list. The BSN program is more competitive with GPA, and you also have a lot more prereqs...atleast two yea...