walkingonsunshine

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1. I got the job! Can you share any tips?

   walkingonsunshine replied to walkingonsunshine's topic in School

   Thank you firefightingRN! You must have sensed my feeling a little overwhelmed. I am taking a plunge into a deep pool and hoping I will able to swim! I have a lot to learn, and I know that this will not be an easy job. With all the budget cuts, I ha...

2. I got the job! Can you share any tips?

   walkingonsunshine posted a topic in School

   I am so excited I got the job as a high school nurse with 1500 students, but I have so much to figure out! I want to start the year out right. I got several books on school nursing but they are all so dry and academic. I just want the basics of how t...

3. Help! Which job should I take?

   walkingonsunshine replied to walkingonsunshine's topic in School

   To those that recommend elementary- is it because it is less students or less paperwork? Or that the kids are easier to deal with? I am really excited and happy. I am also scared-but I think that goes with all new jobs to some degree. It is a big ...

4. Help! Which job should I take?

   walkingonsunshine posted a topic in School

   I have never been a school nurse. But, I have two years experience in a peds hospital. I interviewed for a school nurse in a high school and in a Title I elementary school. I am torn which offer to take! At first, I thought I wanted high school. Then...

5. Do you enjoy being a school nurse?

   walkingonsunshine replied to walkingonsunshine's topic in School

   Thank you all for sharing. I am starting to worry since I have not got a call after my interviews. I thought they went well, but I am sure my competition was good too. The longer I wait the more I see how much I really want to do this. It seems like...

6. Do you enjoy being a school nurse?

   walkingonsunshine posted a topic in School

   I am pondering becoming a school nurse. I think I would like it and it would be a good match for my personality. But I have heard about many nurses doing school nursing and finding it too monotonous and going back to a hospital job. I have subbed (f...

7. Need help choosing 1st job....

   walkingonsunshine replied to walkingonsunshine's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, you are right that I leaned towards ICU. It is what I thought I wanted. But, I talked to a couple people who did ICU. One gal told me how she felt she barely scraped by her first year there. And, she is very, very smart. But, I think this lady i...

8. Need help choosing 1st job....

   walkingonsunshine posted a topic in General Nursing

   I really need your help! I graduate in about 7 weeks, and I don't know what I want to do. It's driving me crazy! I've waited to even apply anywhere, because if I got the job, I don't know if I want to say "yes." Our instructors recommend Med-Surg. B...

9. Nurses with MS or similar disorders

   walkingonsunshine replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

   i didn't say this in my last post, but wanted to share this with you. i had ms symptoms and was tested for lyme. my first lyme test was sent to a standard lab, and came back negative. over two years of hell later when i finally got in to see a lyme l...

10. Nurses with MS or similar disorders

    walkingonsunshine replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    MS is hard to diagnose sometimes. Did you have an MRI and a spinal tap? How about an Visual Evoked Potentials test? If you haven't done those, I would think about doing them. I went through all of that and was told that if my symptoms continued we w...

11. Research College of Nursing/Rockhurst ??

    walkingonsunshine replied to walkingonsunshine's topic in Missouri

    Hi SA2BDOCTOR, Tim's info has helped me so much as well. FYI: I will be in patho with you at Rockhurst this summer. Looking forward to it!

12. Do you have a diagnosis of mental illness?

    walkingonsunshine replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

    I am so inspired by what you said. I agree wholeheartedly. It is the same as any other illness. I can understand why some people don't want to tell however too. There are too many ignorant people who do discriminate. There should be no shame in ackno...

13. Need career advice

    walkingonsunshine posted a topic in General Nursing

    Could you share some pros and cons about nuclear medicine technologist vs. nursing? My heart is in nursing I think, but I am worried about the physical aspects of it. I know I cannot work the overnight shift, which I am afraid I will have to do being...

14. Research College of Nursing/Rockhurst ??

    walkingonsunshine replied to walkingonsunshine's topic in Missouri

    Tim, Thank you again for your help and encouragement. I am going to work really hard this year so that hopefully I will have a bit of a head start and next year won't be as bad. Please do reply in October and let me know what you think!! Best wishe...

15. Research College of Nursing/Rockhurst ??

    walkingonsunshine replied to walkingonsunshine's topic in Missouri

    Thank you so much for all the information. That is very helpful to me!!! I am somewhat concerned about how it will be for me to do a 15 hrs in that final summer, along with 19 hrs in the fall and 21 hrs in the spring. Do you know about how many assig...