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I live a daytime life when not at work. If possible... your first couple of weeks working nights, do not work several nights in a row. You'll just be screwed up for a few weeks, no matter what, and accepting that makes it easier. :) When I first beg...

It's much easier for this to come naturally when there are no strangers around and people are in their own homes. I'd suspect it's far more likely and comfortable when people are having UC (Unassisted Childbirth).

I was also a young single mom who wanted to be a midwife. I would suggest you go to a community college for a two-year ADN RN program and then a BSN completion program; this way you can work as a nurse after only two years of school, and if your plan...

I am a new grad RN with an ADN. I work in a Surgical ICU at a level I trauma center. (I've wanted to be a midwife my whole life, but wanted critical care experience right out of school.) I am enrolled in a BSN completion program, but am feeling disco...

Thanks for the quick reply (and the good news)! :)

Does the Bridge application also require the portfolio/paper?

Thank you! I feel the same way. And just talking to one of the counselors about this concern was delightful. Now my concern is getting in with so little nursing experience, even though I have the doula experience; they made very clear that the ADN-MS...

I agree with your feelings on this, but on the other hand, just as nursing schools have to prepare entry-level nurses to practice in any environment, so do nurse-midwifery schools have to prepare CNMs. Most babies in the US are born in hospitals, so ...

Well said. I have many years of OB self-education and work as a doula/childbirth educator in all settings, and my nursing experience will be in critical care. I am not sure I could work L/D nursing for long. :\ However, I would also value the experie...

I really appreciate this thread. I just graduated from my ADN program at 37; I've transferred to my BSN program, and want to fulfill the dream I've had since I was 16 and found Spiritual Midwifery in the dusty basement of a used bookstore where I wor...

Critical care experience, especially a very busy SICU or MICU, should be carte blanche for just about any program, but you may not like that kind of intensity. If you work L/D you can at least improve the experience for people, but you do need to be ...

I suggest you drive by the place *before* you're actually due to be there- like a day or two before, so you're sure you know how to get there. Good luck!

They don't even need to drink it; absorption through the skin of alcohol (aftershave, sanitizer, etc unwittingly used) can also be dangerous.

Even the online applications usually have the opportunity to upload a cover letter and resume. If not, then get the address of the brick and mortar HR department and drop it off, or find out the name of the manager of the unit and send it directly (t...

I am lucky to have seen this post today. I am a student in my last semester, and I'm completing an extra internship on a unit where I'd love to work- except yesterday I saw a lot of gossipy, depressing, manipulative, political behaviour among quite a...

Do you mean elementary and high school? All fifty states have some kind of exemption for school, and many private schools are more lenient even than that. But no, no one, anytime, anywhere, should be forced to take medicines they don't wish to. Their...

No one, anytime, anywhere, should be forced to accept any medicines against their will, not even- or especially not- at the risk of losing their job.

I'm interning in a 15-bed SICU. There are several PCAs every shift though RNs are generally supposed to supervise anything like baths. Some PCAs are certified to do blood draws, too.

i will be a new grad next year, and just for the record, i would gladly work every new year's (eve and day), thanksgiving (the whole darned weekend), mother's day, valentine's, easter, fourth of july, etc for the rest of my life! -as long as i have c...

We're taught in first semester of nursing school that "pain is whatever the patient says it is." This woman says that's how she feels (the original comparison to rape). End of story. It's not for us to say that someone is overreacting or not. That's ...

I can understand how your wife feels, but if she were a doctor, would she act like those MDAs and be such a pill? Probably not. So their comments are pushing her buttons, not indicating anything in reality. When my MD friends try to disparage my deci...

I lived in Miami for years and did not need Spanish, though I would think it would be especially helpful for a nurse to have Spanish. You can go a bit west of Coral Gables on Bird Road - when my husband was at UM we lived near the intersection of Bir...

Don't drop your classes without meeting with your adviser and department chair to discuss the situation. If you simply don't have the money someone should be able to help you come up with something.

It depends on the location. In my area there is no shortage of jobs, though salaries are not high compared to big cities (however, our living expenses are drastically lower as well); hospitals near me are, according to my doctor, recruiting nurses fr...

Albany Med has a part-time option for the first year, which stretches that out, but full-time is required for the remainder of the program.