Roberta88

Hello everyone! I have been a night-time ortho nurse for a little over a year now (my first nursing job) and am switching to day-time peds next week. While ortho has been good to me, I felt like it was time to move on to something I was really passionate about. I have been trying to review from my old text book but it is huge and I'm really not sure where to start. I know I can't learn everything in a week but I'd like to at least have the basics down to make my transition a little smoother. So far I've made flashcards of vital signs and maintenance IV fluid... other than that I've just been reading through my 2,000 page textbook incredibly slowly. Any suggestions on what to review? I've looked through this forum quite a bit and have found a lot of suggestions for how to act but nothing specifically to review. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone. I'm pretty conflicted and looking for some guidance. I'm in my maternity rotation and my clinical teacher has suggested that I apply for an L&D preceptorship. I looooove L&D. But I also love other specialties (specifically ER). I'd love to be an L&D nurse one day but I feel like it would be hard to go from L&D to ER, rather than tge other way around. Also, many people try to get jobs at the site where they preceptorship since the boss may already know their work ethic. On the other hand though, if this is the last chance I get to help birth babies, I want to do it! Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

I usually do the pre-lecture reading because I feel like it helps sink the information in. However, there is nothing I hate more than reading material for the following test when there is a test right in front of me. So if I have a test I give up pre-lecture reading until the test is over and then try to work it in. It hasn't hurt me to miss one lecture of pre-reading so long as I pay attention in class.

I jumped up and down then went to the zoo.

I agree with most of the people on here. It's an emotional rollercoaster and it beat the everything out of me too. But it's what I want to do and there are days that are horrible that I try to remember why I want to even be a nurse:banghead: and then there days that are so awesome where you succeed at something that you never even thought you had in you and it all makes sense again. :yelclap: Anyways, I'm about to finish my first year in a BSN program. They started us off really slowly. So slowly, in fact, that we were pretty confused. Especially since people were always telling us how hard it was. Crazy enough, I remember being a little disappointed about that. But then in our second quarter clinical started and it hit us full blast. Looking back on my first quarter though, I realize they were really just trying to prepare us for clinicals. We learned pathophysiology and ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) like changing beds and taking vitals. Our theory class seemed to be a lot of common sense broken down into really confusing question formats. 2nd quarter we had pharmacology, a health assessment class, theory, and clinicals. Now our odd class out is nursing history. Anyways, I remember a year ago wanting to know how to prepare myself and rolling my eyes at all the people who said to do relaxing things. But truthfully, nursing school is something you need to take one day at a time. But if you absolutely must do something, I'd say get a head start on the reading.

hm.... I don't think I spoke to him but I think I know who you are talking about.

I noticed today that they said they were going to go over malpractice insurance and those three modules (on the website where we turned in our immunization records) at the orientation. I don't know about the concord campus, but no one mentioned it at the hayward campus. Anyone know anything about this?

Congratulations! Does anyone know if we can accept financial aid awards yet? Because they show on my page and it has a button that says "accept/decline awards" but when I click on it it doesn't let me accept any. I tried emailing the financial aid office but they never get back to me.

Wow you guys made me feel so much better. I am going to call tomorrow morning and see if I can talk to someone though. I sent three copies of my transcripts so I should be fine. And I am going to the Hayward campus (even if my little old car can barely make it up the hill.)

I'm so confused!!! I am still waiting for it to say I was accepted into the school. It said provisional admission a few days ago and it still doesn't say they received my transcripts. Now it says "AL Data Verification Needed" in my application status. I figured they were just waiting for my transcripts but I sent three copies and I don't know what this means. I don't want to find out I got into the nursing program but not the school. Any ideas?

Whew! They are giving me a year to get the right shot. I just have to have it before my pediatrics class. I think it was about two days short of 4 weeks in between the two shots. I was kind of annoyed at the mistake but I can see how it can get lost in translation. I'm almost certain the girl who gave me it was new. She looked nervous and every time she takes my BP she takes it waaay too fast. I don't mean to judge but I'm always right at 120/80 and she told me I was 100/62. I know I wouldn't be able to get an accurate reading that fast. Anyway, to get back on track, I know the one with pertusis is usually only given to babies so I figure they just said I need a tetorifice and the person who gave me it assumed Td instead of Tdap. If that makes any sense. I think I just talked in a circle. But I feel soooo much better knowing they will give me another year to get it corrected so I don't have it too soon. Thanks for everyones responses!

Argh! So I got into the Nursing Program for fall 2010 and I got all the usual vaccinations and titers. I got the Td shot because that was what was listed. Then my school sent me an email they changed it to Tdap. That's fine, and I went to my doctor, explained the situation and was given the shot. But today I went to the doctor and found out they accidently gave me a second Td shot instead of a first Tdap. Ugh! Not only that but I had some sort of allergic rxn to it the second time and even though its been two weeks I still have a bump on my arm. So now my doctor says that it would be unsafe for me to have another one and she says they don't have ones that only carry pertussis. So I'm pretty worried right now. I emailed my school but what if they say I need it no matter what? Urgh..

YAY! Fall schedule is up. I know, I know, I'm a nerd.

HAHA! I laughed so hard when I read the beginning. It kind of reminds me of myself except with greys anatomy. I do realize that it won't be the same but I can't lie that that was my inspiration. I'm kind of scared of the question "Why do you want to be a nurse" because I know it's not the heart-wrenching story so many nurses seem to have and it wasn't one of those things where I knew my whole life either. I didn't even like science in high school. But now I'm pretty obsessed with it.

Paganoid- I was considering keeping my part time job during at least the beginning of school. Only thing is that my employer needs to know my schedule two weeks ahead of time. I noticed you said that we will be doing just a few days of clinical our first quarter. Will they give us the times in advance? School is way more important to me so if they don't let us know then I figure I should probably just quit my job and try to live on my loans and my mom. What do you think?