paulaking1978

Thank you for your advice!! I have 2 youg children of my own, and was a little worried with the Pediatric aspect of the Er. I know as a mother how I feel when my children are sick. And working with this population in the Er is what makes me somewhat nervous. But I hope to turn this into an aspect that makes me a good nurse in the ER when it comes to working with Peds. And absolutely, the techs will have my utmost repsect!! They sometimes know as much as RN's!!!

This is all great advice!! Keep em coming!! LOL Whether good or bad, I want to hear it all!! Only way I will know!!

Thanks for the replies!!

I currently work on a heart and vascular intermediate care unit and have been a nurse for 1 year. We do take ICU pt's at times. My main concern is the change in atmosphere. What to expect? How to deal with pediatric population/and families of. And anything else you want to throw at me! Thanks!

This is the end my first semester in nursing school. We are taking a Hesi exam next week :uhoh21:. We were told by our instructor that there was no certain way to study for the exam, other than go over every thing since the beginning :icon_question:. YAY

I am definetly in.......I just had a baby in October 2006.....and due to the fact that I craved any type of sweat I could get my hands on, I gained 60 lbs....WOW......Plus I quit smoking about 3 months before I got pregnant....which made everything double tastey....LOL......I have already started walking a mile or 2 every day.....and I have cut my portions of eating in half and have added more veggies to my diet.....I began the diet part about a month ago and the walking part about 2 weeks ago and I have lost almost 10 lbs. I figure since my father has had a heart attack and 2 stents and my mother has had a heart attack and 3 stents.....I should start taking better care of myself....My goal is to loose the 60lbs I gained.....

So you had to be on call to work ICU....I had thought about trying to get on at kd after I finished school....and had thought about ICU..... when u hired in you had to sign a 2 year contract?.....I am new to how they hire....i was going to try to do the student loan forgiveness program....but I don't know if the hospitals around here offer it.....what was your starting pay?? I was told that OLBH starts out more money????

Which part did you work at KD......Any certain reason why you left?

Has anyone taken Microbiology on-line and if so, through which school? And how was the course, easy, hard, ?????

My 2 beautiful daughters......And being accepted in to Shawnee State Univ. Nursing Program..........

:yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat: :yeahthat: It is a shame we all don't live in the " Radical Right-Wing" world. :trout:

WOW.....What is you grade in this class......Are you half way through... You must have a prof from hell And It's not the end of the world if you drop the class.....you have a heavy load with the other 2 classes you have. If you think that you are going to fail this course...then definetly drop it....and take it again when your course load isn't so heavy.....I am suprised that your advisor didn't warn you about how difficult your course load was going to be.....Taking A&P, Micro, and Stats, in the same semester would be very hard.....I would think??? I am taking A&P II beginning in April's quarter....we are in quarters at the college I attend....and going to semesters starting this summer.....I am going to take my micr this summer....but the summer quarter is shorter than before because of the change to semester....so that will either be good or bad....anyway....don't worry if you have to drop the class....main concern is your GPA, You definetly want to keep up your GPA....

Rumor is that at the school I attend, they accept around 80 students.....and locally there are 3 other colleges that have nursing programs....

This was through the state in which you lived in? Was it given to you during school? The plan I am speaking of pays your loans after you are out of school.....if I understood what I read correctly? I live in KY, I don't know if the state has such a program here.

If you go to the US Human Health and Services Resource link on the web, then go to the finacial aid page, you will find the Nursing loan and education repayment program....... I was wondering if anyone has looked into this?????