oldladychris

I will be 52 when I graduate in June. I am allready having job interviews. Go and show them that age is just a number. Good luck to you.

I started nursing school at age 50 and will graduate next June :thankya: at the age of 52 1/2. I know that I won't be able to put in 20 years but I have wanted to do this my whole life and I finally did. I don't think about my age, even though I am the oldest one in the class. I can't keep up with some of them. hahahahaha Anyways, good luck to you. It is not so bad when you get to the second level.

Being a traveling nurse is what I want to do. I will graduate in June and plan to look into doing what you do. Being a student nurse thrown into clinicals we get treated the same way you do. I have only run into one RN who was willing to help with the things that I did not know how to do or answer any questions that I might have had. With 8 students at a clinical site, the instructor was not always available at the time that something needed to be done. We all felt that they felt that we wanted their jobs. I just wanted to scream, do not not remember what it felt like to be a student? As far as wanting their jobs, I am pretty sure that I will be able to get my own not take theirs. Am I crazy? Aren't we all in this together? I am older and have worked many years in a different profession, but it seemed that people helped each other. I have really not seen too much of this when we are in clinicals. I always felt that we lessened their burden of at least one patient and that they might appreciate it rather than making us feel unwanted, or talk about us. I as well as my fellow students try to ignore but it does get hard. I am sure that I will keep trucking on to finish and will always remember what it felt like to be a student so that I will never treat any person who is not a full time employee wherever I work in a bad way. :wshgrt:

i love this one: in our second year, (there are almost 40 in the class,) a student announced at break that they are putting the smart ones with all of the lower scored students so that the smart ones can teach them. hello, if we were so dumb how did we make it to the second year? and are they going to pay you from all of the tuition that i have to give them? i am a c student. i am not the sharpest pencil in the class when it comes to taking their tests, but i will make a heck of a nurse. i work very hard at clinicals and get praises from instructors, patients and the rn's that i work with, so take your smartness and put it somewhere.