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Hi all, Please excuse any typos I might have as I am typing 1 handed with my daughter asleep in the other..... Just wanting to ask some of you what you found most difficult about nursing school. From what I have read, the dropout rates are very high...

OK, I have been to a few other boards, so I figured I would come harass you all as well 🙂 Would a few of you please tell me what your day to day duties are? And as I have not started school yet, please tell me what is a Gastroenterology Nurse? Do you...

Ok listen, I never presumed that I knew everything about nursing and I know I wont understand how hard it is until I'm doing it.Now, I am getting defensive.I know that everyone gets frustrated but for some reason you have singled out everything that ...

thanks, the encouragement always helps!

I was a customer service representative for a loan company. It was only 8 bucks an hour but I had to do a lot of collections, and that was terrible. I even had to go to peoples homes to collect and give notices etc. It SUCKED.

Actually I'm not the poster who worked fast food. I worked as a CSR. 1,000x easier than nursing, but I did have to deal with a LOT of 'tude.

'malingering and abuse of caretakers is something else entirely." ******************************************************* Yep, I agree. Is there anything that can be done if a resident is abusive?

I'm going to school to be an lpn then fast track to Rn. My mom had 5 boys by her husband, they divorced and she remarried thats where I come in. They had no more children and soon divorced.My dad is an alcoholic, but the kindest soul. Although I'm no...

motorcycle mama, I think you are the one being defensive, not me. There are plenty of times that I wanted to tell someone to stop flapping their gums. Nursing isn't the only profession where you get screamed at, cussed at, belittled and generally tre...

You ABSOLUTELY deserve to be respected! I am not arguing that AT all. But just because some of the pts are jerks, does that mean the nurse should be too? I dont see anything wrong with saying " If you stopped screaming at me then maybe you could brea...

I do agree with you wholeheartedly that the nurses are doing what family members dont want to do. However, I dont think I need to "work in the trenches" before having an opinion on the way people should be treated. I think that is common sense and pr...

Hi all, I am trying to research some of the nursing fields that I am interested in. I would LOVE to be a nurse. However, I am very intimidated by the emergency room and what the nurses there do. :chair:They pretty much always seem to go 90 miles an h...

thanks for that

I know that the nclex is the test that you have to take to get your license but what excactly is it>? Do they give you pt situations and then you write down what you're supposed to do in that particular situation? thanks :) Tress

I took a practice exam last night that had 50 questions and I got 30 right. I havent even started LPN school yet so thats pretty reassuring :) That might be a bad score for a nurse but as I havent even started school yet, I have a little hope now:) T...

LOL! I am getting ready to take a position as a laundry attendant in a nursing home($6.50 hrly) while I go to school to get my LPN. After that, I will work as a LPN while I go to Nursing School to become an RN.(maybe $10.00 hrly for LPN). Those pay r...

thanks so much for all your replies! It is going to take me a while to find my niche I bet. But when I do, I know I wont regret it

Although I am not a nurse yet, I do have an opinion on this subject. Sometimes people forget that they are working with someones mother, or father, or grandparent. They aren't a person to them, they are a room number. I am certainly not saying this a...

Well after visiting the website of the school, I see that I have to take other general education classes first anyway! So hopefully that will help quite a bit, But it really sucks to have to spend a year in school just learning general stuff before I...

Thanks for all the replies, I can really tell that I am going to be here a LOT in the next year or two . I am going to study up on those conversions before I even start school!