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I agree that there are good and bad docs in all specialties. In my experience though, I have found that Urologists can be difficult to work with, very particular and arrogant(?), but great doctors and wonderful with the patients.

Nursing school was busy and stressful, the school lschedule was not aweful, but it certainly doesn't end there. I spent at least 8 hrs/week studying and doing schoolwork and often it was more than that. If you have to work it adds that much more into your already full schedule. It was a tough couple years but totally worth it now that i am an RN.

I have come to realize in the last few years that i have a tendency to be co-dependent in my personal life, but I am not at all professionally. I am a strong, confident, capable nurse, I would love to be able to be as strong in my personal life.

Text Book-Nursing Care Plans by Gulanick/Myers. This book is great. It gives you lots of ideas on which diection you can take. Look up vis Nursing Diagnosis or Disease Process. In fact i just used it to work on my own case study today!

1. be prepared to work hard. Life seems like work, school, sleep, for a while but it WILL pay off. 2. Aim for A's but except C's. Don't let lower than desired grade get you down. 3. Learn the material. 4. Get an NCLEX book and do the questions in it from the chapter you are doing in school. (helps a lot on the tests and gets you nclex ready) 5. build good relationships with your classmates, you'll need them for help and support through all of school.

epogen, ace inhibitors or beta blockers, phos-lo, cholesterol meds, insulin, antibiotics such as vanco or gentamycin. I guess the possibilities are endlesss, kidney failure has two huge top causes, hypertension and diabetes so you would see meds for those. Kidney problems can also be from CKD, lupus, infection, trauma, etc. Good Luck, sounds like a job that i would love!

I agree. One thing MY clinical instructors insist on is taking our dinner breaks, she feels that we need to get into the habit now of learning how to take time to decompress. It is best for the nurse, the patient and the happiness of the unit if the nurses aren't starving and exhausted.

It is possible to do it in two years, but you first have to be accepted into a program, which can take a while. Then if you need all the courses, the credit load is quite large. I think the load is better split up into three years.

In Berlin Vt ant CVMC the going rate for an ADN right out of school is $22-24/hr. I am currently an LPN at a physicians office, (I graduate with my adn in May)so I can only speak about the conditions there which think are great. One nurse to one doctor, NP, or PA with great hours 8-5 M-F with an occasional 8-12 on sat.

I just graduated from an LPN program in VT and it was not easy. It is a full time job and then some. I had to study at least a little everynight and often I put in 15-20 hrs/week study time(lots of Sat mornings at the library or local coffee shop). Now that I am done I am so glad that i stuck it out and worked hard. I am now in the second year to become an RN and I have to keep telling myself that It will be all over May 16th!!! Stick with it and good luck!

There was a girl in my class last year that asked the most ridiculous questions ever. We were talking about calculating I&O and she spits out, "Well, what if a person eats like a whole case of clementines, would you count that?" Teacher: that's not very likely. student: yeah, but, what if? She was always asking what if questions like that...all year long. Sorry if you read this forum, but that was a really dumb question:rolleyes: