elliejayRN

Yes, I have an associate degree in legal secretarial science, many of my credits from this degree actually transferred to prereqs to help with my nursing degree. I've meet other nurses with degress, and they just did one year for a BSN. I made the switch years ago, as I don't like paperwork. I would type of worker's compensation cases wondering how the person was coping with the loss of whatever body part was accidentally cut off, etc. While in nursing school, though I could easily find work as an aide, but worked as a receptionist for the county, so keep that it mind too. My background is psych so didn't really have much medical experience and I did extremely well, you will too!

Sweetheart, excuse me, that's thick skin...Grin smile a lot and never tell anyone what you really think, if they don't have a suggestion box, mums the word!

If you asked before starting LVN school, I would have told you to go for RN!!! I remember taking the NCLEX with as a GN sitting in the room with GVN thinking how fortuante, I will never have to sit through this again and they will have to do it again even if they pass. I absolutely couldn't do it again. Yes, I bragging, 75 questions in two hours, I never ever want to go through that again in life! Life has been so much easier after the NCLEX for RN. I actually didn't read your verbage, but I'm here to tell you sweetheart develop a think skin, because you would think nursing would be about helping people, it isn't and will never be. It is a business! Get your thick skin on girlfiend shut up grin and take it! Just keep moving forward, your revenge, being an RN and never having to put up with anyone's crap if you don't want to, especially after you become experienced. There is always something better, more money and better benefits!!!

Medication for pain good, pain bad!!!-perhaps you could write this somewhere. Get the families involved and let them complain to management, customer service is key!!

I passed in 75 questions under two hours, I still had anxiety, because I thought I failed and the computer just got frustrated and kicked me out. Trust me though, nothing compares to anxiety you feel after you've passed the test and the tremendous responsibility you now share as a Registered Nurse. I thought Oh my god, what have I done!!!! better now though.

Yes, that sounds like your organization, as mine we all get a pretty heavy load. What gets me is certain nurses routinely get all there work done. They're surfing the net, reading the newspaper and I don't know how in the world they get it all done, until I follow one of them. Then I know, they aren't getting everything done evidenced by how you have to take up their slack and complete your work too. They all clock out on time too. The boss usually loves them.

StacieRN, you certainly put him in his place! With all that knowledge though, offering assistance if pt. is struggling or comforting anxiety perhaps could have squashed this incident all together! Caring profession?..... Anyway, what do I know, I'm an unemployed RN.

I just finished in May with my ASN/ADN and I'm still kicking myself. It's taken me a longtime too (2003-2007) and I had a previous degree. My suggesstion, do all you prereqs. on the com. college level and transfer over to the BSN. My BSN bound friends complained about the endless papers they had to write, while I was up to ears in clinicals. I thought I would be better prepared; apparently, with the BSN they will give you a chance to catch up without the clinical experience. BSN you've got way more opportunities. Everytime, I read BSN preferred I just want to scream, which is often. Goodluck to you!!!:cheers:

caring for people is a big part you didn't mention? what do you think? go for it if its in your heart to do. Depending on where you work, you might not sit down for 8-12 hours, except for breaks-that you must make yourself take! :thnkg:

My experience has been the more educated the quicker the stereotype where you're banished without a hope and prayer for being seen as a person. Institutional racism insure that utopia of multicultural society never exists. Unlike the small town poster, I've worked with so many different people of various cultures, and it simply didn't matter. Language barriers, we do the best we can do. Cared for a Cambodian refugee (Psych unit) who tried to commit suicide twice prior to admission, oh you would be absolutely ashamed if you heard all the negative connotation my well educated coworkers applied to her. Or the depressed pt. admitted wearing a Berka (Psych unit), my well educated RN MSW tried to get the woman to remove it, most of her hospital stay. These acts didn't have anything to do with their lack of knowledge related to culture, they simply had they're own agenda. There was more than a little hint to superiority in the manner they dealt with those pts. Thinking one can round up a bunch of folks with a tidy bow is in itself, superior thinking perhaps worse? Regarding your grandma stoicism, 20+ years ago, my mom had a CABG done, one day while I was a senior in high school. She went to see her doctor for pain in her chest, came home, did whatever, not telling us, and checked into the hospital the next day. When I saw her a day later, tubes everywhere, she was going on about needing to have her eyebrows tweezed. Once she got home she never complained of pain and quickly got about finding makeup to cover the scar, after it healed. She's an American Mut(European, African and Indigenous) or Heinz 57-one may call her black/African American, hence the problem. Often she's told she acts like a Jewish woman?, attracted to Catholicism, however doesn't believe in formal religion, believes in ancestors guiding her and the afterlife. Just like small town, I really do think it sets one up for stereotyping. :cheers: Besides good luck, I wish you continued greater insight.

Beck really seemed to be most unhappy with the 250-300 male nurse. I'm frankly as surprised as he that he was treated in that manner. He expressed concern about breathing and was anxious; he was ignored. He was angry about his mistreatment and used his resource to vent.

It's just that it pretty much lumped all black people as being poor as Koolaid is a matter of economics, not really actually being a preference over more nutrional drinks. Understand, basically a negative racial stereotype. Simply, the statement isn't as nice as Brits drinking milk in their tea, fish and chips or bangers and beans. Thats all.

Oh, that same chart is hanging prominently in the nutrition office in one of the major hospitals in northern va area. When I saw it for the first time, I just dismissed the entire chart. I figured if they couldn't get that right about a people who have been here since the 1620's then they surely couldn't get anything else right. The book with those false values was actually a recent book, nursing community health book copyright 2006. That is perhaps one of the greatest problems with the concept of multiculturalism-because its usually other people writing about what a culture values. One just can't help but to put their own cultural influence into what they are writing. One's own cultural background actually perceives what is important, not necessarily the other way around. In the end, its usually a tool perhaps to decrease the anxiety of the majority as they can then categorize. I really don't know how much good it actually does though. Just look over the posts so far that Bosnian situation, to me they sound no different than the 99% immigrants that have come here, but boy those Bosnians had it so tough and such hard workers, so then who are the lazy, had an easy life immigrants coming here? We are a nation of immigrants. Good Luck.

. multiculturalism-(http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=multiculturalism) there are countless people from different cultures arriving in this country all the time. my gosh, the many languages and then dialects of those languages. the moments you think you have the country down, then the various cultures within that country, forget it. i am poorly keeping up with my own culture let alone someone else's. i thought treating others with respect was good, apparently that could also be construed as objectifying others. i'm just going to have to go along with the human thing. i guess if they see that i care, perhaps the booboos related to their culture won't be so bad. for instance, all the german person said pretty much applies to a lot of folks who aren't of that culture. as humans, we have so much more in common. that has been my experience over the past 20 years in healthcare. anyway, goodluck with your project-if you come across a book stating that blacks value soul food, radios and are paranoid of whites, don't pay any attention. i've been trying to get the publishers of that little tale to rewrite it. oh, the paranoia part maybe true but that knife cuts both ways.:cheers:

Leaving I can't get in!!! I'm so addicted to the smiles, and the thrill of seeing people get better and I helped!! I could do without the political mumble jumble though. For those who will not get better, I enjoy being a bright portion of their day and just let them know I care. In some relationships I care too much and get burned, nursing I can care transiently, I love it. Acute care settings works best for me. I've heard rumors there were far too many opportunities in nursing to just leave it, ie., library vs Nursing Informatics. Good luck in whatever you decide.:w00t: