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Look for a small endoscopy clinic. I did pre-op, post-op and loved it. You learn to start iv's, consents, put monitoring and charting. It can be fast paced but smaller clinics are more manageable.

Google interview questions and answers for nurses and then practice, practice, practice so you don't have to think about it and it just flows. I found some great answers to those questions like where do you see yourself in 5 years, etc. I have been o...

My tuition for a Masters in Nursing Leadership and Management is $3300 a semester but all reading material is included. You might think about that since you only get that much a year in reimbursement. Check prices first.

I have had 14 surgeries, 3 of which were back surgeries where the pain was so bad beforehand that I wanted to die. I find right after surgery I require a lot of pain meds but after about 3 days I can almost completely stop them with no issues. I was ...

I agree this is a physiological and a genetic issue. I have been on opioids for months at a time due to 3 back surgeries (all before becoming a nurse) and I have no trouble getting right off the meds. My husband was on opioids for 8 weeks after havin...

I agree completely. We gave these people the medications knowing they were addictive and now we are just stopping them? What do we do with the people who are still seriously in pain? When I had herniated discs in my lumbar spine, the pain was so bad ...

I am in the same boat. I got my ADN 6 years ago. Went in to home health. Got my BSN. Then did adolescent psyche. Then changed to Endoscopy at a small clinic. I am just not very good at IVs. Then I started my MSN in leadership & Mgt. we moved to a...

I am doing my MSN at WGU in Nsg leadership & Mgt right now. I am over half way thru. It is mostly papers. A few classes have tests and some have field assignments. You get a student mentor that follows you through school and each class assigns yo...

As a home health nurse you are in the client's home and become family some times. The relationship can become strong, especially when you care for them for months. I have called to say hello after the patient left my care on 2 occasions and went to p...

I became a RN at 51. I am not in great shape as some have said we need to be. I'm doing just fine. I started with an ADN in 2009, my BSN in 2013 and am now halfway thru my MSN. It's doable but you have to sacrifice a lot to get through school.

I wish they had had the chicken pox vaccine when I was a child. They are miserable. I can still remember it. Plus, now after seeing friends with Shingles, I paid for my own Shingles vaccine before the recommended age because I dang sure do not want t...

I have a friend that had Polio as a child and her leg has never been right. The older she gets, the worse it gets. It causes her pain every day and she has had multiple surgeries to correct the malformation, not to mention the teasing she got as a ch...

I could have written this exact post. Going to UTA was great but hard and I agree about the group projects. I quickly learned to take the lead because the one project I didn't was mediocre at best. Not being ugly but one woman turned in her plagerize...

I am an older student and got my BSN from University of Texas at Arlington. It was all online. It was not just papers. I already had my ADN so I had to take English, Algebra, Fine Art (Humanities), History, Statistics, etc. along with nursing classes...

Evidently you are not a professional and have never interviewed anyone for a position. As professionals, we need to look and act the part. In an interview you are up against many other applicants and need to present your best self even if it's a lie....

Exactly. RN's used to command respect from every one they worked with. It is not like that any more. And why are women so ugly to each other? Shouldn't we have each other's backs? I know there is always going to be that person you instantly dislike b...

I was brand new on a job and had one fellow nurse that had everyone fooled. She would smile and hug fellow employees and then turn around and say the nastiest things about them and me. I tried figuring out why she didn't like me and treated me so bad...

It's the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I tried an ADN program at 18 and didn't make it. Tried again at 50 and was one of only 7 out of original 30 that graduated without failing a class. My BSN was easier. Now my Masters is daunting in a...

I have the same problem in Texas. I have done home health, endoscopy and adolescent psyche since getting my ADN in 2009 and I got my BSN in 2012. I want to do the nursery or post-op. Since I am not looking for an intern position and have no hospital ...

As a relatively new nurse you already feel insecure because you don't know everything, haven't seen everything and even though you feel you can handle your job since you have learned o much since getting your license, these people ripped you apart. W...

My new employer asked for proof of graduation and a photo of my diploma was enough. I got my ADN 3 years ago and my BSN last December.

In Texas we get paid by the visit, depending what type of visit it is. I made $30,000 in 6 months but I put 10,000 miles on my car. I had to pay for gas, my own phone, my computer and paper to fill out all of the much dreaded paperwork. Plus that was...

I don't know so much that its ageism. I got my ADN at age 53 and just completed my BSN at 55. With both degrees, I got the first job I was interviewed for. Trying to get my first nursing job was the worst. No one wanted a new nurse. They all wanted e...

Doing IV's on the elderly can be tough with their tiny veins and no muscle or fat to hold them still. I too have that "OH NO" feeling and I'm an endoscopy nurse. You have to just grit your teeth and try it ONCE. Then ask someone else to try. You can'...

Write your state senators. The state of Texas has passed a bill to give nursing schools money to help expand their programs so that more nurses will be educated and graduate. I wrote mine (school project) to ask him to put some of that money aside to...