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Just wanted to say good luck. I'll be graduating from this program in 9 days & 15 hrs!! I don't know how many they originally started with but it was probably 50 or 60 and we will graduate with 35 I think, 10 of those are LPNs that started this yr. I got to skip the 1st yr and started in 3rd semester. I highly suggest studying the book no matter what handouts or notes they give you. Clinicals are easy, the teachers really just look at it as a learning experience. Anyway Good luck again. You'll be so busy that time will fly by!

The win job center has funding. I think it's called WIA.

I dressed my then 3yr old up as a nurse for Halloween last yr. White hose, dress, & nursing hat w/ a stethoscope around her neck. I said "you're a nurse like mommy" and she replied very loudly "NO, I'M A DOCTOR!!" She still answers that she's gonna be a dr. Of course, she also says her little sister is gonna be a "kitty cat" when she grows up(that was her costume). LOL:jester:

devine, I sent you an email.

Did you apply to the Ridgeland or Grenada campus?

Anybody waiting on acceptance/decline letters for Holmes CC in Ridgeland? Also would love to know the schedule for the 2nd yr students.

maroon

So I've been reading the posts here(found the info in Lunahs esp helpful) and decided this week to get my butt in gear!! I ordered mystudygroup101 notes and applied online today. Any one else here just starting out?

Please do not bring your 3 small kids under 5 to your pelvic exam and expect the nurse to babysit for you!!

What about MS/AL area?

I was worried too! I started Nsg. school with a newborn(gained 75 lbs during pregnancy). But the Landau uniforms size 3x fit me and I'm glad to know that our program is not the only one using the sewn in seem down the middle of the pants! Oh but even being a big girl the Landau top our school picked still looks like a maternity top on everyone(fluffy and the super skinny). Imagine a group of 25 students going on to the clinical floor and we all look about 6 months preg!!!

Any suggestions of where a new LPN can look for a job around Jackson?

Don't freak out, it's basic math and reading.

I'm in LPN school right now. 2nd semester. We change alot of briefs! Most of us really don't mind but please don't be like this one girl in our class. She'll come in to "help" and sometimes she stays and just stands there not doing anything. Our instructors think she's working just as hard as we are but she just stands there. Drives me crazy!!!! She's a good worker and begs to do dsg. changes, peg feedings, draw blood. Anything that doesn't involve BM The other day she saw a couple of students going into a room and came in to see what was going on. . Well when she saw we were about to clean up an XXL loose BM on a rather large woman, she left the room and I found out later that she asked the instructor to take her brake right then. There was a couple of students in there already but we sure could of used the help turning. Of course a couple hr's later she almost pissed on herself to do something more "nursey like." I hate her. Sorry so long winded but if you really wanna be a nurse, go for it. But just know that it ain't all pretty or fun but it's all to help someone else. That's what nurses do. Just try to think about if it were your parents. I know if it were my dad, I'd sure want him clean and happy. Some of those people have lived along time and deserve to rest with some dignity. PS. I want to work LTC when I get out of school because I worked in one as a CNA. You never know what you'll like to you try it.

I had a C-section c my daughter. Loved it and I hope I never have to push if I decide to have another child. I've heard a lot of women complain about the recovery time but I had no problem. Asked to go home after 1.5 days and was cooking dinner that night . Was back to work waiting on tables and carrying trays(AMA) 3 weeks later. Needed the money then. Good luck.