ncnurse99

Dixie, hey. I know you were talking to babynurse but I am doing my nursing classes at home through Excelsior. After your GE classes are out of the way you only have 7 classes to take for nursing. It is simply self study and you test at testing center when you are comfortable with the material. There are MANY publishing companies out there that try to sell you their workbooks and study modules but they are very very pricey. You can get books else where, but that just takes research and it is a personal decision. Clinicals are a weekend long clinical at participating hospitals. Local for NC is Georgia. Everyone says clinical is a butt kicker, but there are workshops you can attend to help you better prepare. Good luck with your decisions. I have been an LPN for 9 yrs and am just now getting around to going back to school. WHEW lol! Best wishes from one North Carolinian to another!

ncbabynurse, i am in nebo as well. i tried to IM you but i think each person has to have 15 posts in order to IM. just wondering if we knew each other.:)

I work both days and nights. We are required to alternate our 12 hour shifts monthly. This is to keep the "well the othe shift does not do this/that" to a minimum. We experience first hand that each shift has its pros/cons. So to answer the question....night nurses work just as hard as day nurses...and if in doubt, join us and see for yourself! p.s. LTC is a different story...I used to do that...nights are a bit more laid back

I agree, do what you think will make you feel best, afterall you are the one who has to live with yourself. Everyone has different things that drive them. I guess my post made me sound hardened and jaded, but as terrible as it seems, after 12 yrs in healthcare a certain amt of that takes place, and you realize it is not your responsibility to save everyone because it is impopssible to do or they refuse to be saved. Then again maybe its just me, maybe I'm the cold hearted nurse no one will want to work with when I'm near retirement lol. You truely seem like a pt advocate...so, again do what makes YOU feel best. Best Wishes!

Awesome! Yeah I have looked at CLEP study guides and Ebay, WOW the money you can save! Thanks, its great to hear from others in NC and have support!

Hope my post was not offensive to some of u, but it seems it was. That was not the intent. That is simply something that aggrivates me. Having "sugar" not "sugar diabetes" is sweet alright but not in the context u are referring lol. Say them out loud, you have to admit, i have "sugar" sounds much worse than, i have "sugar diabetes".

May take a while to adjust, but it will happen. Many people have said to take care of stuff before you go to sleep and sleep until aprox an hour prior to going in to work. I am opposite. I have small children. One in school and one in daycare. So if I sleep in the evenings(working 12 hour shifts) I never get to see them. So, I go home in am, usually starved cause I only eat around 0100, i grab a bowl of cereal or something, shower, read a few minutes to relax me then crash and sleep like a log! Usually asleep by 0900 and sleep til about 1600, around same time kiddos and hubby get home. Thats what works best for me but to each their own. Just thought I'd give "non-popular" way of doing it lol. Best Wishes!

Ohhh soo many to choose from lol! I really should give those with no healthcare education some slack, but patients and family drive me crazy with mispronunciations!! Im sure after all the replys to this thread there is someone who is bound to have commented on these as well. Sorry I am being lazy and not looking at all 893 pages(sorry a bit of a stretch huh?) 1. nurse...i think i need my "os-ca-gen" thru the "can-noo-la" 2. im so sick i think i will "vomick" 3. i use a "c-pack" machine to help me sleep these are just a few that make me cringe! oh yeah and i HATE when they say : i have "sugar" referring to diabetes:banghead: i feel like saying, " wow, really? that must be hard on you.....and me....and everyone else in the world, cause we all have "sugar" too!!"

Little town 40 min east of asheville here. LPN for 9 yrs, taking classes for RN....FINALLY!!! lol Anyway, anyone else from around the area that is doing RN classes at home? Looking for some local support/study partners/book trading etc. And for the record, I just joined this site and am soooo addicted it is not even funny! :chuckle

YES YES YES a thousand times yes!!! I would NEVER have went for LPN first. I am an LPN and have been for 9 yrs and have said from the day I graduated I was going straight back for my RN...well life happens! 9 years later I am finally starting my RN classes! I could kick myself for not doing it to start with!

Here is a great study site for A&P. Made me feel pretty stupid!! http://www.getbodysmart.com/

Why the sudden urge to talk to them since starting nsg school? Would you tell someone who was drinking around their child they could be rotting their liver out...i mean eventually that would harm their child(emotionally) as well. Best to just shhhhh. I agree with you that it is a bad habit and TERRIBLE for kiddos to be around but will u help or make it worse?

Either those are some very low paid RN's or some really high paid MA's lol...I think if the later is the case, I'd sure like to be that MA!

I'm finding a little good in all that each of you are saying in regards to the question asked. I do agree that PCA/CNA is a thankless, physically demaning, extremely low paying job. I think that most often they are taken advantage of by the nurses who have never walked in their shoes. I was a nursing assistant for 3 yrs while in nursing school. Did I enjoy it? I can prob be safe to say...no not really. But do I now find it beneficial? I can mosy definatley say YES! I still perform many of the same duties I did then but with added responsibility. But with the added responsibility comes more satisfaction(and pay:up:) than I ever had as CNA(in my case we were CNA's). So, as mentioned earlier, if you want something now that requires less work...not so sure your gonna like nursing cause its what your doing now...then some! Best of luck!

We get only trauma pts. They are c us til they go to the floor. We are a 24 bed unit. Thanks for your response. Interesting to see differences between hospitals!