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"Your friends are planning a trip for spring break and you are planning on sleeping then getting a head start on next quarter's reading assignments." That's my plan LOL!!!!

This very thing was highlighted in Michael Moore's Sicko...they even denied insurance to someone in the movie they deemed too SKINNY. WHA??!?!!? Truly sad, I'm sorry for your plight.

Clinical rotation = 'Clitoral inaction.' LOLOLOL My clinical is all day on Saturdays and with full time work, full-time school and a 5 year old, this is quite accurate...:lol2:

My turn, my turn... Nursing Assistant in training = 'Stunning 'n' satirising artisan.' (I like this one) Certified Nursing Assistant = 'Sadistic, unerring fattiness.' ...ummm...:stone

I'm doing pre-recs for the RN program and the CNA course this semester.... 17 credits, I work full-time and have a 5 year old little girl. (DH helps tremendously) I'm quite proud to say I'm currently maintaining my 4.0. I'm not sure how it's working but it's working. As another poster said, everyone's different. To be honest though, this is my toughest semester and I'm thankful that I won't have to load up so much next semester. Also...2 words... SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!! I sure need one. Good luck on whatever you choose. :redpinkhe

Awesome to see others excited and ready like me. Good luck to you all.

OP -yeah I work full-time too so the Saturday clinical was the only way I could make it work. Good luck!!!!!

I am in the CNA program at my school and working pre-recs at the same time. (17 credits, woof, never again) So far all A's in all my classes but I find the best part of all is my clinical. I look forward to going every Saturday and love the residents. I have developed such a respect for CNAs. They are so much more than "buttwipers" as a lot of people think. They (and me too, soon) are the lucky ones, they get to be close to the patient. (okay, so sometimes, a little too close...LOL) CNAs are the eyes and ears of the RN and the relationships we develop with our patients helps them recieve the best care possible. I suppose I am in the honeymoon stage still but I truly feel honored that in just a few short months, I'll be a key member in making people well, or at least, more comfortable. I have been thinking a lot about the reponsibility I will have and I am so excited to be part of the healthcare system. I've been in Radio for 10 years and decided to stop ignoring the call to be a nurse. Becoming a CNA is a step toward that dream and I think it will make me a better RN in the future. CNAs rule!!!!! And I can't wait to be one.

SWEE 2000, Thank you!:urck:

Initially it wasn't a requirement at my school and won't be until Fall 08, but I opted to take it anyway, and I am so glad I did. I am learning so much and the butt wiping and cleaning doesn't phase me. I like having so much time with the patients and RN aren't always afforded that precious one on one time. Through my CNA course I am coming to realize how important CNAs are in patient care. It's not just butts and messes. CNAs are the "eyes and ears" of the often toobusy RN. We, as CNA have the potential to circumvent a wide variety of patient issues, just with keen observation and a caring heart. I am looking forward to becoming certified and I feel honored that I will be such an integral part of the healthcare profession. An added bonus is I think it will make be a better RN both to my patients and my co-workers. There is something noble about working your way up to the ranks and when you start at the "bottom" you're more compassionate toward others working thier way up. I say GO for it!!!! It's definitely worth it.

If I don't get in on time, I'm going into the Surg tech program. Since I eventually want to be an OR nurse, I figure that will be a good thing to do to pass time until I am excepted into NS. But positive thinking abounds...I will get in, I will get in. The little pre-nursing student that could.

This is probably the coolest find so far on allnurses.com. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!! I'm loving my CNA course by the way. Hope others are enjoying it as well. I just can't wait to start patient care in Clinical. This Saturday, we start. Wish me luck!!!!

I just got a Stafford loan that covered Fall retroactively, which means I get half of the loan in check form, since I paid all my expenses out of pocket for Fall...just waiting for the check. Spring gets dispersed soon and the balance after semester charges will come to me in check form. As long as you remain enrolled at least half time, you don't have to start paying back Staffords until 7 months post-graduation. I got the max amount for the 2007-2008 year and payments upon graduation will be a minimium of 100 dollars. Staffords are based on enrollment and financial need for subsidized, unsubsidized is based on enrollment only. Unless you're defaulted on a prior student loan, you're almost certain to get one. Worked for me and it feels good not to worry were tuition and fees will come from. In fact, there may be enough left over from this year to cover a few more semesters before I need another. Good Luck

As you may know the semester starts 1/22 which is a Tuesday. The lecture part of my CNA course begins on the 28th because that's the first Monday, however I have lab on Thursday and clinical on Saturday...Are they going to have me go to lab and clinical on that first week before the lecture class the following Monday? Seems odd that they would. Any thoughts from anyone? Thanks

Thanks so much for the info - We'll find out soon if we're moving. Many thanks Julie

I am planning on getting my CNA next semester and everyone I talk to says Don't Do it, it's miserable work, you have to wipe butts and so on...To which I say, I'm not afraid of a dirty butt!!!! I feel that the bad rap CNA jobs get are propagated by many ( not all)of those same CNAs who complain about their jobs and aren't willing to really work. I may be naive yet, but if you just jump in, do what you're told and keep your eye on the bigger prize (RN in my case) the job isn't bad. CNAs are needed like RNs are needed, like MDs are needed. We decide to do this type of work, at least in my opinion, to help others feel better and if not better, more comfortable. And you have to work your way up to what you want. RNs still clean dirty bums and deal with snippy MDs. I think being a CNA is going to be great training for the life of an RN....CNAs wipe em and deal with crabby RNs...RNs wipe em and deal with crabby MDs...I think there is more to it than Heirachy (sp?) Don't forget, there is a patient in need at the root of it all and that's the most important thing to me. Bring on the dirty butts!!!!!!! I'm ready for the challenge and I think that's what will make me a great CNA and an even better RN when the time comes...(I hope) Perhaps, again, I am looking through rose-colored glasses but I also believe perception is reality and I welcome the chance to potentially change the lives of others with all it's ebbs and flows. See you on the Floor!!! Jules

I'm only in my first semester of re-recs for Nursing. Was planning on getting my CNA next semester, but we may move before then. Do the Junior colleges there offer CNA classes for certification. What's the nursing school acceptance like. Pre-recs needed? That kind of stuff. Please, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Julie

Pulled from Webster's onlline... ....relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts That help?

Hi there, I'm currently taking pre-recs for nursing and am considering taking the CNA course at CSN next semester. After I'm certified, I want to find some part-time weekend CNA work to suppliment my current job in another field. Does anyone know: A. If I should take medical terminology class along with the CNA course and B. HOw easy is it to get a CNA job just on the weekends? and C. HOw soon after certification can you start working? Thanks in advance.... Julie

I am but a pre-nursing student in my first semester and I agree that "poop happens" I have no delusions that I won't have to clean poop and that, like many here said, is just a small part of the job. I wipe my little one's butt everyday and she can be really stinky sometimes but if I don't do it, her butt will be dirty and no one deserves a dirty butt. I guess that's the way I feel about patients. It will be my job to care for them and the key word is "care." Why wouldn't you want to help them out of a yucky situation? You're supposed to care for them and that's part of it. Again "poop happens" - and I will gladly clean it up if it makes my patients comfortable. Of course, having not yet wiped a stranger's butt, it's easy for me to say that, but I am well aware it will happen. I still want to be a nurse, poop or no.

I have just started my first semester of pre-recs for nursing. I want to evenually be an OR nurse, and I was wondering if I should try for the surgical tech program instead. My only thought about that is that under an RN I am not limited to what I can do...As a Surgical tech, that's it, right? What's the difference between an OR nurse and a Surg tech? Any insight into this is appreciated.

I second that - I bought it right after I registered for my first pre-recs and it is great. I have taken all the practice tests and think I'm ready.

Or have you taken it before? What should I expect? I'm pretty excited about starting Tuesday, Math 100B is my first class, PSY 101 is on Saturdays.

Just a pre-nursing student, first semester, but I have taken my daughter to ER before only to feel pretty stupid later... My little one was unable to poo for 2 and a half days and she kept saying her tummy hurt and that she "couldn't get her butt to service" LOL. So we gave her a child's enema and NOTHING HAPPENED. So we took her to the ER and they did an xray - said she had some kind of obstruction and amb us to another hospital with a Peds dept. Once there, IV in place, waiting for CT scan to determine what the obstruction was...she was miserable. After being in the two hospitals for about 8 hours collectively, I went out for some fresh air. When I came back, they were already in CT. My husband comes around the corner with my DD in his arms and she is smiling and sparkly eyed and perfect. Turns out 5 minutes before they came to get her for CT, she finally went potty and went and went and went, according to my husband. OBSTRUCTION gone... Apparently after some investigation, we discovered my 4 year old daughter had helped herself to 6 packages of string cheese when no one was looking. Felt pretty silly when the doc came in and said "Wow she looks better" to which my daughter replied " I just took a BIG POOP!!!" Out of the mouths (and other ends) of babes! We never would have taken her but her belly was distended and the enema did nothing...:uhoh21:

Verbal 46 out of 60 Math 28 out of 40 Science 34 out of 60. Although I took a second math and it was 32 out of 40.