Nurseinprocess

I had a classmate who delivered right at the end of a semester, which was the winter one, and that enabled her to take a lot of time off over the summer before hitting the books again in the fall. She had her baby and was back taking an exam 2 days later. It wasn't her first kid, though, it was her third. I think the longer time you take off after graduation, the harder it will be for you to get in gear and start a nursing job. I would definitely take the NCLEX within two months of graduating. Good luck!

My employers force their staff to get the flu vaccination. You can decline if you have a valid documented reaction or some religious reason, but you have to wear a mask October through March. You cannot just choose not to get it and wear a mask, that is not allowed. I am a little surprised at how many people here are commenting that they are fine with being forced to get a vaccination. I am not an anti-vaccination freak, but I do not believe I should be forced to get this one. Most of my coworkers agree with me. There were so many people who received the vaccination this past season and still got ill. I never have my kids or husband get the flu shots either and they have never caught the flu.

I didn't even realize that you could start BSN classes before you complete an Associate's program. That is quite a load! Are you just taking classes or are you actually in a Bachelor's program? I would wrap up the Associates and the NCLEX before you start something else. Keep your focus on getting that first degree and license before you get too overwhelmed. I agree with your advisor. I have really never heard of doing it the way you are trying to. The first few months of working as an RN can be rough so you may want to just slow your roll a little bit.

Are you a nurse assistant? Where I live techs are usually nursing students working as nurse assistants. I can't imagine working as a nurse assistant and having 20 pts on a med surge floor, that is nuts. When I was a nursing student I don't think we ever had more than 3 pts during our last med surge clinical rotation. It was not overwhelming. Then when I was hired as a RN on a surgical floor during orientation on days I never had more than 4 patients. When I went to nights and was handed 7 pts almost right out the gate it was a little overwhelming. It looks like you are being overworked, I have never seen that many pts be assigned on that type of floor, on a bad night nurse assistants would have 10 (usually have 7 or 8 to start shift).

I don't think you do any prereqs for a bridge program, you just pick one that suits your style (some have clinicals, some are all writing papers and taking tests). I think most people pick a program based on cost. My coworker is halfway done with her BSN and she did it through which cost her around $9500. Eastern Michigan is the school she is bridging with.

Not a pt comment, but the mother of one of my post partum pts asked me if it takes a few days for the baby to open its eyes . This lady had presumably given birth to the pt, lol.

We had a pregnant classmate in my nursing program. It was her third kid. She was due right at the end of our OB rotation, so she picked a clinical site that was the hospital she was planning to deliver at, just in case. She did fine, I don't remember her missing any of our classes. I guess you need to find out how much time you could miss, and what happens if you do miss too much. Where does your pregnancy fall into the class schedule? Right in the middle of a semester doesn't seem like great timing. I think physically you could do it, but how much time you need to birth and recover plays into the equation more.

Go to the least expensive one closest to where you want to work. Don't take on too much debt.

If you are being a nutty, unreasonable, horrible patient you may find me talking about you to my colleagues. I am not one to use foul or inappropriate language, though. I only work with maybe one or two people who use unprofessional language when discussing patients. We all talk about the crazy stuff our patients put us through, but most don't swear while doing it. And we don't do it at the nurses station we do it in our work room which has a closed door.

I've never done that, but whenever I have bad dreams about work I am not dressed right and have flip flops or some other bizarre thing going on with my wardrobe. I have shown up missing an earring a couple times. Ooops.

I don't wear mine. I am actually shocked at how many of my coworkers do wear their big fancy wedding sets to work.

Where I work you can clock in 12 minutes early, but you won't get any extra pay for that, it just ensures we all clock in on time. We can clock out 12 minutes early if have given report on all our pts. A few of my coworkers have their phone alarms set to go off 12 minutes early and we all head to the time clock and punch in on time (early, lol).

So you are working three twelve hr shifts in a position that isn't RN? I first read it thinking you were RN bridging to BSN. How long is your BSN program? Is it 4 years? Is it accelerated? There are too many factors to answer your question. Nursing school can be difficult so you need to know what support you are really going to get to help with the baby and other things that come up. Working night shift is hard in itself, I did work nights during my 3rd semester of an ADN program, mostly over the weekends. I am not sure how I did it but somehow it worked out. I probably worked 2 nights in a row but rarely 3.

I would not want to take on A&P with any other classes so my vote would be to take it over the summer so that is your only focus. It is a very tough class that I know many people struggle with and end up taking it more than once (I managed an A- but it was my only class, regular semester). In my situation I was accepted into my nursing program and could have started in August but elected to begin in January because I still had to take microbiology and didn't want to do that with my nursing program classes/load. Your summer class would be condensed but that may actually be a good thing. Look at professor ratings before you decide, that can make all the difference!

I guess I am confused, when I first read your post I thought you were asking about taking a RN job that wasn't patient care. If you mean getting a first job that isn't as a nurse at all, what was the point of getting a nursing degree? And how is this your "first job?" Have you never worked before?