msmarshun

lol.....i know right? wouldn't that just be the most ...hell i don't ...the most AWESOME thing????!!!!! I was kinda nervous about even asking such a thing but you never know

Has anyone heard of some facilities that train you to be a nurse on the job? this was just told to me and I couldn't believe it considering that I have tried just about everything except sell my soul to the devil to get in anyones school. that would be great if any one knows anything?

Hey I moved from chicago about 6yrs ago and let me tell you when I first got here I was in such awe of everything I thought this was beautiful and that was beautiful and to be honewst with you it still is how ever... there is nothing to do as far as culture wise or just to be able and go out and walk and look.... I am trying to say there are more attractions that are more or less free than there is here in Florida. I know when first moved here I said of the bat Florida is lacking in "flavor" if you know what I mean. dont get me wrong if I could have things kinda calm like they are now on the south side trust me I would be there in a heart beat. however you cant run from the drugs or the crime so I am here in Clermont where things are trying to build up which is great for me and my kids... I just get frustrated because you have to have transportation, there isn't much for schooling for myself, however my kids are older so I cant say what it would be like if we were in the Chi but they were at a scholl that taught spanish which I thought was great! so to me florida has no real flavor but then again the Chi is my where my heart is sooo its no doubt that people would favor the states up north a lil bit more. but I do like half way decently where I am. good luck!!

I forgot to mention to you depends on how far yo are willing to travel it seems that where I am {the four corner area } I am smack dab in the middle of everything I have Ridge south of me, Lake tech north of me, teco to the east and orlando tech if I want to travel and a couple of private ones here and there. me personally I am going for whoever will take me Lake sumter is right here for the rn program plus in kissimmee is valencia as well the schools are just so far apart and coming from up north I was used to public transportation.. not happening here in florida..(maybe one day thou) good luck to you keep me posted please on how and where you wind up going!!!!!

to be straight up with you if that is where your heart is anything anyone says is not goning to steer you away.... sounds like you have your mind made up... I have been a cna for 15 years and I love it if it weren't for me changing my life style and kids I would continue with it but I am persuing my nursing as well the are,like with any other job, crap you have to put up with but hey its what makes you happy I say go for it and do the damn thang!!!....lol....good luck!!!!

:uhoh3:When I first heard this statement I was quite p****d off. This is the scenerio.... a GN fresh outta school , hasn't been a nurse 6 months good and she tells a tech that she could do her job and the techs job too, there is just a little difference in what they do and she could do it all.... now when this tech told me this I couldn't believe it. for one I thought it was extremely rude and she had a lot of nerve to say somthing so cocky. Now let me explain my point of view to this true I am not a nurse but I feel that any assistant be it a cna, pct, or whatever diserve more respect than that lord knows I love my job, true I want more pay and I choose the field I am in however to come off and say that I felt that that particular nurse needs to be put in her place. The tech didn't want to stir up any trouble so she let it go... then one day I meet a GN and we seem to hit it off pretty good she gets very truthful and honest with me and I do the same with her if you know what I mean, so my lucky self get to hear this new GN,the one who hasn't been a nurse for 3 months good, make the same comment to me as we are riding home from work one night. Her comment was that the nurses could do the work a tech does it would just take them a little longer to do but it could be done. she goes on to say that if she were running a hospital she would get rid of all the techs and only hire LPNs and RNs to do the work.....:angryfire I had to hold myself because I was so livid:angryfire:madface::angryfire... and the girl was a tech for a short while:uhoh3: I just didn't get it you have worked as a tech so you should understand both points of view at least this is what I would have thought... well needless to say I didn't say anything all I replied was "oh really." I remember thinking to my self that if I work with her I am not gonna do a damn thing for her she can handle it.. seeing how she can do it all... as it turned out I didnt have her as a nurse she got a tech that was not a very strong tech... she had to do everything alomost double because the tech kept calling her for everything...lol.... and I didn't tell any one what she had said....I am sure you could imagine the look on my face when I went over there to throw it back in her face about doin it all:lol2::lol2: I told to go ahead and let that AS work it on out since you can do everything... lol... now I am never one to throw somthing back at a person for fear of carma but i couldn't let that pass me by... and needless to say she would call on me to come all the way over where she was at to help her ... when she already had a tech... I did it because it isn't in my nature to be that way but I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced a situation like mine? and how did you handle it? thanks was i wrong for saying that to her? now i realize a lot is on the line for new nurses, but to be so cocky and disrespectful is just not right.

from what I am gathering all or most of the hospitals take pct. I am a pct at the hospital I work at but I am not certified or registered as one I am a certified cna and have been for 15 years now.but i do have a lot of other little titles under my belt as well.

have you tried TECO its right by the jail I believe that is simpson road.

thank you so much... good luck to you as well God bless you!

Thank you guys so much for all of your words of encouragement you all don't know how much it means to have someone, anyone, just give those kind words... you know I always thought when you reached a certain age wisdom and a lot of childish ways would leave a person especially if you have kids of your own, however some of the nurse that I work with at the hospital here love to throw things in your face as if to say they are smarter than a person, or they "always have money".... wow... its something else... but any way.... they have to answer to that maybe some day.. but I have taken the TEAS, and my boys are in 7th and 5th grade so I am going to pick their little brains and see what I can find out... I pray i will live through all of this but again thank you soooo much lets me know people do care for one another even complete strangers!!!!

thank you so much for those words of encouragement as I sit here and write this to you I am a lil emotional yes I have taken pre req's and of coure like usual math and my science classes are all thats left.... so I will and I am going to push on... God bless you so much for taking time to read my blog

I am not a very good writer but I am just so blah blah and over this whole dog-on situation until I could literally cry:cry:. so please bare with me while I attempt to express my feelings a lil bit....... I am a single mother of two teenage boys, I am 37 y/o, I have been in the "medical field" all of my working life.... so to say the leat I have been a c.n.a,for about 13-14 years. when I finished my training as a cna I let some of those older nurses discourage me about being an RN, I just got out of high school I am done with school I am ready to have fun and they had me scared to death talkin about " kiss your life good bye, no more fun for you for at least 2 years" things like that and like a dummy I didn't try to go to school to finish, but thats not their fault I know I should't have let them do me like that so any ways there is no need in crying over spilled milk.... as they say if I could of ,would of, should of,.... so no big deal..well to say the least my life begins I go to school for a lil bit, take a couple of classes, have a couple of kids, have a couple of boyfriends, fast forward a few years and by now I have teenage boys and still single and trying to make it happpen..... again.... so my trouble is now that I am trying to go back to school to further my education, get some skills under my belt because I truly do love this work.....I am hitting so many brick walls :banghead:tryin to get started, I really don't have the money to keep taking the NET, or the TEAS ...or what ever it is they are calling the test now adays,..... where i know I am not good at math so I will fail that part of the test..... I come up with this idea that I can have one of the workforce institutions help me out with the test.... however they want you to leep so high and go so far.... which I will do if the end results are them helping me because I have no problem with doing what have to do to make it or get the help that I need... I just want to take this test, do well, and get into somebodies school this year if at all possible. I guess I am just so frustrated that I don't know what to do at this point. I have tried going to the local college but I cant receive anymore pell grants to cover the cost of my classes.... what can I say other than I am older and wiser now and I have learned form my past mistakes.....:selfbonk:any way...I have decided to go for l.p.n. just do get somthing accomplished and I figure I can do the bridge over to RN when the dust has settled. I guess I just need some spiritual words of encouragement or something that I havent thought of. I just feel a bit overwhelmed is all and I want so desperately to go to school, set a good example for my boys of how a good education can take you far in life... I dont know..... can some one please help me????!!!!!!