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I am 22 as well and will be graduating from vocational nursing school in 3 WEEKS!!! I am so excited and YES, I do see it as an accomplishment. I have worked my butt off for the past year to get my 4.0 gpa and to learn the skills and knowledge to be a nurse. I have many RNs at work as insultingly "why didn't you just get your RN?" and my reply is that "I needed a job now, not 3-4 years from now, and I enjoy the work LVNs to." Its just annoying to be put down for a career choice that we made and made for a reason. Getting any sort of degree/diploma is an accomplishment. Be proud of yourself!!!

she did not just ask the instructor if you could live without LUNGS!!!!!! or if you could be a blood donor/organ donor if you have HIV/AIDS same girl asked both, unbelievable, i swear

One thing that is always in demand are teachers. Childbirth instructors at hospitals around Dallas anyway are usually RNs, there are also RNs that work in county health departments and do case work for high risk and teen pregnancies and do "home health" type of work to make sure the mother has everything they need to make it through pregnancy and delivery safely. Hope this helps :)

The first two weeks seemed to fly by. So far its going good. I have met some nice classmates, however, the girl I sit next to has tried to steal my calculator twice now and tried stealing a set of flashcards I spent 2 hours making, but hopefully my plan has solved that little problem. One person has already quit, and there are a few others I don't foresee staying around too much longer. At our school, they don't really give that many homework assignments, but we have reading and frequent quizzes. However, I like the quizzes because they let me know if I am reading the right stuff or not. I start fundamentals on Monday!!! Good luck to everyone else beginning nursing school or thinking about it!!

Hello everyone! I start nursing school in an hour and I am so excited. Honestly, I have not been able to sleep for the last week. Last night I kept waking up and thinking that I was going to be late! lol. I have put this off for way too long! I am 21, however, I graduated highschool when I was 17 and got married when I was 19 and I have been wasting my time taking miscellaneous college classes since then! My husband is so supportive and has told me that he will be happy to take over the brunt of the housework so I can go to school and excel. My mom is also and LPN, and she graduated second in her class by .25 points so, we are having a contest to see who can graduate with a higher gpa. She is my inspiration. I have met alot of nurses while working and volunteering at various healthcare organizations and I have yet to find a nurse that has more compassion and better rapport with their patients. I'm getting all sappy now so I will go finish getting ready for school. To all of those prospective LPN/LVN students: you can do it! Make your mind up and just go for it, it is a lot of hard work; but nothing will feel better than the feeling you get the morning before your first class! I already feel as if I have acheived something! Take care everyone!

I've worked at presbydallas for the last 2.5 years and I must say it is a pretty nice place to work. The nurse to patient ratios are lower than at other area hospitals (usually no more that 6:1), and they just started a new career advancement ladder for nurses where you can add on an additional 1.50 differential for completing simple tasks such as community service, precepting, education, inservices, etc. I'm a tech right now, but they are paying for my school, and will pay in full the expenses for asn-bsn and bsn-msn. I've got no complaints so far. hope this helps

I just wanted to mention that Concorde is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools, and approved by the TX BON, if it wasn't they would not have a 91% employment rate of their students after graduation.

While I'm not over 24, I am 21 and married and fully independent from my parents. It is definetly a lot different. In my opinion, when you are older and "wiser" per say, you are generally paying for your own school, hence you will really try harder because it would really suck to waste that much money. When my mom was in LPN school, she had an 79 year old class mate that made it through to the end with the young ones!!!

FUTUREARMYNURSE: I am on the Concorde waitlist for June too, basically, the waitlist is just a way to make sure that everyone has payment plans in order and all documentation ready, I'm guessing you had the same counselor that I did, and I must say he made everything sound dramatic to me. However, I'm pretty sure that when you are on the waitlist, you will get in.

That no matter how rough it gets, I can always put a smile on someone's face and make what may be the hardest part of their life yet a look a little brighter!

I have never been so scared working in a hospital as I was tonight. We had a patient in neuro ICU that was etoh withdrawl. He had been pretty mellow all night and the dr had started to wean him off of his sedatives. About 5 am all hell broke loose, a nurse saw from the desk that he was trying to get up and called for help. By the time we got there, he was out of bed, jabbing the iv pole at us and swinging and kicking us. We called security, the coordinator, and the supervisor and nobody came, finally, one of the nurses went to another icu to get some male nurses to help out. The male nurses were there before any security bothered to show up. I was honestly scared out of my mind. This man was really trying to attack us and didn't want to just run away, he wanted to hurt us.

When I ( a pct) tell a nurse about a patient's declining status and they ignore what I say and later we have to code the patient or send them to the unit

There is one room in the post partum unit of the hospital that always smells like men's cologne! When you enter the room, the door shuts without being touched, and the lights appear to be off from outside the building, when they are on on the inside!!! Creeepy! We have to warn the newbies from mentioning anything around patients!

Most hospitals all over Texas are still hiring! Especially in the Dallas area, there are hundreds of openings!!! Hope this helps

In the hospital I work at the mds typically order both teds and scds. In fact, while a patient in this hospital, I was given both, and told to put them on with a bp of 210/110