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I agree. Go straight to an RN program and this is coming from an LVN.

Any of you LVN's skipping the first semester of nursing for advancement placement in your school's nursing program? It would be nice to take the NCLEX and get that "RN" next to my last name, but I won't be able to claim I graduated from my local college's nursing program and I can only use my license in California.

I like my job, but it's the NOC shift and some of my coworkers that's getting to me. It's time to transfer or quit.

I see where you're getting at. I'm actually chipper in the morning attending classes despite being "tired" working the NOC shift. I tried telling my manager that I wanted to go back to being per diem, but she needs me to work fulltime NOC. I actually never caused any kind of problems working the am and pm shift at my hospital. Maybe my last option is to quit or find another day shift job at another hospital. I better get my resume ready. :smilecoffeeIlovecof

Any of you nurses come to work just totally pissed off for no reason at all EVERYNIGHT? Just before my shift starts, I psyche myself up not to get pissed as soon as I get report, but 30 minutes into the shift, my blood pressure is already skyrocketing. It's gotten so bad that I take it out on my poor coworkers (I actually, genuinely, can't stand half of them) and I'm not even aware of my anger. God, it sucks to be me at night. The good news is, I'm trying to get help and I think it's time to change my lifestyle and get a physical check up as soon as possible. Hmmmm...maybe it's my diet messing with my mood. :smilecoffeeIlovecof

Why are classes such as history, chemistry, and math you've taken and passed counted overall in your school credit, but when it comes to microbiology, physiology, and anatomy....well, they have to have been taken within the past 7 years to get into the nursing program! To me, that's a bunch of bs! I'm sitting in my micro and physiology class this semester yawning my butt off because I've already taken these classes and passed all of them with grades of A's and a B. It's a complete waste of my time and students with my predicament. Regardless, I will pass Micro and Physiology, but I'd rather be in the nursing program doing clinicals rather than coloring a stupid physiology book on cell structure. As practicing LVN/LPN's, is there something we can do about this? :smilecoffeeIlovecof

Most of the females I've dated or had relationships with have all worked in healthcare in one way or another. :smilecoffeeIlovecof

Micro's fun when we're actually doing something in the lab. Yesterday, we got to play with the Proteus Mirabilis (causes UTI if you didn't know), Pseudomonas(common in plants I think), and Lactobacillus bacterias. My Physiology class? It's more like an art's and crafts class. :smilecoffeeIlovecof

You're lucky. Not a night goes by where I don't see Vtachs and some kind of blockages. I've had 2-3 tele patients die on my shift the past 1.5 years (Even had one go into PEA). :smilecoffeeIlovecof

He claims to have made that mistake on the carbon because he was up the whole night watching infotelevision. What the heck? :rotfl: Another thing that irritates me about this teacher is that he uses thin red ink rather than black ink. Okay...how good is your vision way back of the class? :chair:

If you're already a CNA with your hospital, that's a big plus. You know where supplies are. You've met the staff and MD's. You're somewhat familiar with documentation and the patient charts. Most importantly, you've been at the bedside. You're good to go in my book. If I were you, I'd start shadowing the nurses. Learn to anticipate what the doctors might order if you get new admissions(you probably took the weights, did vitals, valuable's check didn't you?). What did the RN's do on those admissions? SOAP/Assessment and ordered the clerk to get SCD's and IV Pumps(MS floor). That RN probably called or faxed the Pharmacy department for newly ordered meds. Be well rounded and learn from non-nursing staff as well. You're unit clerk is probably a wealth of information on how your unit runs. When I was a CNA with Kaiser Permanente back in the 90s, I wasn't just a typical CNA. Back then, I drew blood, did EKG's, inserted foley's, prepared and sent deceased patients to the morgue (worked on an AIDS ward) and took my RN's blood sugars. I even became a hybrid nurses aide and monitor tech. spent time as a unit clerk as well. *lol* I remember working the swing shift as a unit clerk, and when they were short on CNA's for NOC, I volunteered for a double overtime and worked on the floor as a CNA (or if the telemetry pagers went down, I worked as monitor tech until the pagers were fixed). Those were the days at San Francisco's Kaiser Permanente. Now I'm just this burnt out healthcare worker who can't get along with his coworkers *lol* Sorry... Am I ranting and raving?:chair:

Heck yeah! I've already taken Anatomy 3X (U.S. Army and my local community college), Physiology, and Microbiology with grades of "A" and "B". Just because I've taken them past 7 years ago, they won't accept them for nursing school. Now I'm taking them again and I'm just completely bored in class (except for my English class). It's funny, I've given the antibiotics used to kill the microbes my class will be studying this semester. I just get to refresh my mind again on why we need to kill spirochetes and abt resistant microbes.

What about monitor tech's ? I used to listen to my CD player back in the day on the NOC shift and I've never lost focus on my monitor screens. Heck, alot of them have portable DVD players. But yea, bedside nurses shouldn't have iPods. That's just plain stupidity. How are you going to hear that call light or worse: A confused patient attempting to get out of bed on his/her own. :chair:

Microbiology, Physiology, Anatomy, and English. Sounds alot, but if you're an LVN already, then these classes should be a breeze(stupid school won't accept my previous Anatomy/Physiology credits).

My teacher's pretty weird. Lectures wild and made the mistake of giving carbon an atomic number of 12 rather than 6. A fellow student had to correct him *lol* Obviously, we're on the chemistry chapter. I can't wait to grow some cultures.