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I love Ventura college in Ventura. Cheaper cost of living. Applied in March 2009 and was accepted Jan.10. ADN

Math has changed a lot since you last took it. I went back for math after a similar absence. First thing to change is your attitude, "I am a math moron and didn't even make it through algerba in high school (almost 20 yrs ago, no less!). I am one of those people that just don't get it and can't think math." DITCH THE CANT ATTITUDE! Replace with can do and as many "I'm nearly 20 years older and my brain has matured to the point where I can do this!!!" Find a developmental or pre algebra program @ a jr college and get it done. Start at the bottom and work your way up! I did it and ended up completing Finite math and Inferential statistics, upper division university level math classes.I have my BA in Psychology-Marketing and started Nursing School yesterday, dont tell anyone, I turned 53 on Monday.

John20, They're BREASTS. Calling them MERCHANDISE means you objectify her and dont really consider her as a person. Is she DAMAGED GOODS if she gets stretch marks? Loses a breast due to cancer?

Be glad to have a profession that supports your family. I thank God every morning that I have work ! "I can do all things through he who strengthens me. " -Phil-4:13 I have been sole support for my 2 kids for 10 years. One I put through Catholic HS & UCLA, paying as he went...no student loans or debts. The other has learning disabilities- but still goes to college and gets a small stipend from the state. Both kids know that I work out of the home and their jobs are to pitch in so I can rest and study when I do come home. They clean house, grocery shop, and do laundry ... and have been doing so from the time they were in 5th and 7th grade. It's not all a grind, we plan for small trips and have no debt other than a small house mortgage.

Hey, anyone who has seen how you work & can say something nice about you should be considered as a reference. I don't get your reluctance to use additional references.

The practice tests were so dead on for the "real deal."

An LVN sounds like a great idea. Think of how it would be a little easier to already have skills AND THEN go into an RN.

It does get easier with experience, just look @ it as learning a new language...that you'll use for the rest of your life! Plenty of online pronunciation help online too.

I've had 2 dirty sticks in 20 years. One pt was chronic hep... Got the Gama globulin. The other, HIV, took the protocol prophylaxis... Weird vivid dreams @ night but didn't seroconvert. 8 years later , I'm still fine. Have respect for sharps, but those "catchers mitts" are for industrial use and you'd be laughed out of the work place. You cant palpate for a vein or feel a pulse with something like that! Consider spending some time in a lab and watch a very experienced CPT(Phlebotomist) or RN until you get more confidence. You need to get over it, unless you want to be ruled by fear.

I learn something new every time I visit this site. Best wishes for the happiest of new years !!!

GO 4 B/ ...a very good Cardiac program; large teaching hospital, affiliated with a university, wonderful benefits -100% tuition reimbursement for a masters/doctorate, additional educational courses regarding use of the equipment, cardiac classes, and other professional development classes, environment seemed very welcoming -Better pay than Hospital A A "competitive"...do you really want the snarky backstabbing that occurs in a competitive environment?

I am licensed as a Dental Hygienist and will start nursing school in 2 weeks. Fortunately, most of my DH prerequisites were accepted for my RN program. If you want a job that is 'medical lite" you'll love DH. Your patients are basically well ambulatory persons. Good luck getting a full time job, the DDS will hire 2-5 part timers to keep from paying benefits to 1 full timer. The per diem is good because thats all you get other than discounted dentistry for yourself. The emphasis in the majority of offices is to "sell" additional procedures like tooth bleaching, gum treatments, and electric tooth brushes. When you're young, pretty, and hang on the DDS every word... there are jobs. When you're older, experienced and have neck, back, and hand problems not so much. Also, if the scheduled day "falls apart" you will be told to go home or not to come in (unpaid of course). I pretty much used it to complete my BA and move on. I did love the 2-3 times a year contact with my patients, seeing small kids grow up into young adults, etc, but that human contact didn't pay for my health insurance purchased on the open market. Next time you go see your DDS, ask him/her if she provides benefits to employees and see the deer in the headlights look and a stammering, "well everyone here is part timer so they dont get benefits"... I decided to change occupations when I developed an interest in Diabetes (there are many oral manifestations) and metabolic diseases in my patients. I couldn't become a Diabetes Educator with my RDH back ground. There arent many jobs out there right now for DH and unlike nursing there is no collective bargaining or much in the way of an organization except for providing continuing educational units. If you take off time to have a baby, take a vacation, etc. most DDS has no compunction about firing you and hiring someone else (who may have undercut your $ you to get her foot in the door). There are a few offices who are ethical, pay benefits, and are less production oriented here in so California, but they have no staff turnover. I realize that nursing is hard work and the hours are on a 24 hr clock but I do look forward to variety... of treating the "whole person." Receiving a consistent salary, paid overtime, a variety of work places and work hours, and a more independent organized profession that advocates for the patient and mandatory staffing ratios.

I've worked private duty through registries and they take out taxes. NSO Nurses service Organization has liability insurance. $ depends on the state. The couple of cases I've done by word of mouth pay me $15/hr, but I'm in so. California.

phdeha777456 has great advice for you deewee, For a female, you could apply scented hand cream up past her elbows and then paint her fingernails. Look and see if there are any cosmetics in her br. Ask her, "would you like a little face powder, a little lipstick, blush (older women may call it "rouge") make her up! Ask her about her life when she was you age, what she did for fun, what she wore for clothes, how she wore her hair etc... Find a picture album and ask her about the persons in the photos, read her her favorite bible passages, look up recipes in a cookbook, or read the the newspaper. If theres a sun porch and she is ambulatory, get her up and change the scenery. "Mrs. Jones its beautiful outside today, lets go out on the porch"...make sure she has a wrap or a blanket to keep warm... read to her out there....or "Mrs. Jones, come keep me company while I sweep the porch, tidy the living room"...or whatever task needs to be done. She can sit there and watch you while you work...Great conversation starter talking about home decorating. I seem to get a lot of great l interactions with clients (Male and female) reading the newspaper, the Bible, whatever history type books (Time /Life type books, readers digest, history from WWII on...Ask family members for large print books or to bring a bunch of flowers you can arrange with her and put @ her bedside. Heck, I've even read seed catalogs and mail order catalogs to one client and had a great afternoon talking about gardening! As for your first case, the daughter sounds like an inexperienced twit. Sometimes one must tactfully "prepare a room" as I once had to call it and ask where/which chair to use. "I dont think it's professional to have me sitting on your fathers bed while we do cognitive activities" -She couldn't find a chair fast enough...Our cognitive activity? Reading the paper and drinking coffee. Enjoy the fun cases and grit your teeth with the not so good...

I dont work work in Barstow but it is a unique place. More than a few of us in southern California consider Barstow the "br break" driving to Las Vegas. As a kid I my family camped there a couple of times a year and found incredible fossils and rocks, spring wildflowers etc. and enjoyed its high desert beauty. Expect to drive there. Reeeeeal far. It's called the "high desert" and has loads of retirees in the Apple Valley area of Victorville. Lots of desert horse country. On base jobs are likely to be the best option. If you can live off base and have HIM do a little commuting, you may be happier. If you live in Victorville you can commute to the San Bernardino area. If he'll commute farther, Rancho Cucamonga and Fontana may remind you of Texas. Rosamund, Mojave and Edwards AFB ... Palmdale/ Lancaster may have something for you, giving you the option of Santa Clarita. If you have kids, Santa Clarita has the better schools. Best of Luck to you.