TheBestMaxEver

It's all about the therapeutic communication man -- Whenever a patient turns the topic toward me, I slyly refocus it back toward them... IE: "So you must have a beautiful wife???" --- Nope still single. Very busy with school and all. So is your leg feeling any better now that we got you that shot??? I just think it sounds better than "Hospital policy prevents me from disclosing information about my personal life"

Jeeeeez man. You have time to wonder about dating?? Hell - I'm working on my BSN and work full time. I'm lucky if I can get a shower in some days, let alone ponde a social life --- But for the sake of keeping your life less complicated, I'd wait until diploma was in hand along with a passing NCLEX slip and a RN license in the state of your choice. At that point, it's all fair game. However -- I have found that dating within the profession can create for some boring dates -- Try to broaden the horizons, unless of course you're just after that one thing women are always accusing us of chasing....You know? .....Successful Women!

Before I became a cubicle office nurse who works on a computer all day I worked ER and Corrections Psych and I LOVED it!!!! It just depends on your personality. The work is definitley different than a regular floor, but that doesn't mean it is less work. You are dealing with all sorts of personalities. (Sometimes in just one person) You really need to know your meds and how to flush through the BS. Lots of pathological and manipulative behaviors. I've seen nurses fall in "love" with and marry psych patients because of that. If you can, try it out though a temp agency a few shifts before devoting your career to it. P.S. - It has been my experience that guys tend to a little better in this line of work. Not saying that females cannot handle it - Just seems to be a place that I and some of my friends have really soared in.

I agree with the above posters. Don't fret. I was out of LPN school 5 years before entering my LPN to BSN program. The schools don't want you to fail as much as you don't want to. I think if anything you will amaze yourself at how much comes flying back somedays when you are in class. Then there are those days that make you wonder how you ever got through the first time. Best advice I could give is to just enjoy yourself and take advantage of the learning process. The more you dread it or just want it to be over the longer it will seem like it is taking and you won't get the best out of it. And remember when you graduate -- All those companies that shut the door in your face for "just being an LPN" are going to be begging you for your time and attention. I won't graduate for 18 more months with my RN/BSN and I already have companies sniffing around. Stay focused on the prize and don't let anyone's strife or high school antics get in your way!!! Good luck! --

i am currently enrolled in the program at the phoenix, az based campus and graduate in about 18 months or so. the lpn to bsn is not online at all. there are multiple classes to attend that are broken up into 4 hour blocks every tuesday pm. there is a minimum work experience required for entrance (i believe it is at least one year). it is definitely expensive, but you pay for the convenience. we do have clinicals that correlate with med-surg, psych, peds, ob, and icu that happen for 10-12 hour shifts on saturdays during those classes. to be honest i haven't been super impressed, but the ends sometimes justify the means. how many other places give you credit (i mean professionally and intellectually) for having been an lpn? you go straight through to the bsn. there is no asn along the way so you can't test out and to the nclex-rn until after you graduate. once you get the pre-req's done and are in the actual program, it's about 22 months straight through with no breaks except for the week of christmas. if you have any questions, feel free to email or message me.

wow - ok - so you're obviously a judgmental witch of a nurse who eats their own huh? no, wait a minute - how could i make such a generalized assessment without knowing you? hmmmmmm i guess you've had the opportunity to work with every single male nurse to reach such a venomous conclusion. wait!!! that can't be right either. as i am not yet 30 and have been in nursing for ten years and i am pretty sure we've never worked together. granted, i always did work the night shift when i was a hospital nurse. but that was to avoid administration, not my patients. nursing will continue its arduous struggle to be defined as a legitimate profession as long as narrow minded and judgmental people (male and female) continue to spew their individualized and unfounded bias for the world to see. what's next? will watching a male nurse insert a catheter into a female patient make you feel "violated" or remind you of rape? (hopefully some of you have picked up on the sarcasm, as i don't think the original poster would be so adept) oh well - you can yell at a brick wall all day, but the bricks will still be red by the time you run out of voice.