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If it makes anyone feel any better, my GPA isn't getting me anywhere. A job as a CNA/PCA would have, though.

As an unemployed new grad, my advice is that you get into that hospital now and volunteer your butt off. A lot of hospitals will employ you as a CNA while you are in nursing school - I recommend taking advantage of this. I didn't work while in nurs...

If you heard from the nursing recruiter, you are doing better than me!

No, and it is causing me some serious anxiety. I miss the days when potential employers let you know that they DIDN'T want you, too. Then I wouldn't have to wonder...

So, I graduate from my ASN program in May. I'm attempting to write my first cover letter. So far I have gotten to: ...

I have wondered, though -- since exams themselves (taken in school) are not standardized, I would imagine that some schools are just harder than others - so it may be harder to pass a test at 74% at one school than to pass one at 80% at another schoo...

Hi, I am currently an ADN student; I will graduate in May. I am thinking of applying to an RN to BSN program for the fall, but I intend to go part-time as I need a paycheck! Are these programs as difficult as the initial RN program? thanks ...

So I started to fill out my first application for a graduate nurse position - I'll be graduating in May. The application wants me to account for my employment gaps - and there is a big fat one relating to my choosing to stay home while my kids were ...

Thankfully, I've pretty much covered all the liberal arts stuff in my prior life as an art history major, and the science stuff - chem, micro, etc. - were all prereqs for my ASN, too. So all that is left is the nursing stuff. Really, my motivation...

I've been doing 15 hours of clinical/week since I started nursing school. Now I'm about to finish my 3rd semester. I've done a zillion IVs, given innumerable heparin/lovenox/fragmin injections, done all kinds of dressing changes, given meds through...

Wow, yeah, the texting/internet thing in class is incredibly rude and childish. At least the people capping their highlighters came to class to learn.

Glad to hear it, 'cause I don't think I could do this again. Research sounds sort of relaxing in comparison!

I've wondered the same thing.

I gotta add - only the children of a nursing student would get their kicks from inflating, deinflating, inflating, deinflating... the practice foley I had for lab.

Hey, I would say go for the BSN. It is untrue that the only reason to do this is if you want to be a nurse manager or go on for your Masters. The pay difference really doesn't even exist. BUT, your chances of actually getting a job with the BSN ar...

Hi, I am a senior in the nursing program at Capital. It is difficult, but if you put in the time you can do it... The school has a preschool program, called The Laboratory School, for children who will be three by the end of December; the child must...

My daughter came home from school today and told us there were only 10 or eleven kids present from a class of 22!

If I'm not studying (and I need to be judging from my my last two test grades), then I feel guilty because I'm a bad student. If I am studying, then I feel like a bad mom because my 4 yr old and my 6 yr old are being ignored, and more often than not...

upper urinary tract infection?

Hi, my patient tomorrow is a 23-month old who came into the hospital for a shunt revision to treat hydrocephalus secondary to a neonatal meningitis infection. I have an educated mom who has been dealing with this issue for nearly two years - I need ...

Breastfeeding diagnoses are only for people who are breastfeeding, or attempting to do so. Risk for impaired parenting r/t young parental age is fine. Knowledge seeking behaviors would be a nice positive diagnosis, if appropriate.