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please don't buy into your union/hospitals' bullcrap. nurses are vastly underpaid as it is. hospitals are crying economy, and nurses are going to sit back and accept that. THAT'S NOT OK. The hospital/union I work for guarantees its' workers an annual...

it's a very convoluted process. you have to take several prereqs, which are hard classes (among the hardest one can take), do VERY well in those and shine, get your bachelor's (high GPAs only), take the MCAT and once again, do well and shine on that....

i don't know of anyone that uses gloves for vitals.

you should make every effort to attend every clinical meeting. there is usually a very small cap on how many days you can miss, and you certainly don't want to max that out and fail clinical. the only time you should miss clinical is when absolutley ...

i really disliked the screaming, crying babies/toddlers. uggggggh

In my NS program, if we had more than 2 absent days, whether they were excused, unexcused, a Dr's note, whatever, we failed clinical. BE ABSOLUTLEY CERTAIN WHAT YOUR POLICY IS. FAILURE FOR CLINICAL CAN RESULT IF YOU MISS TOO MANY DAYS OF SCHOOL. I al...

The night nurse RN that let me look at my own chart did not embellish her charting at all.

It's beyond tough!! I feel like crying after every lecture.

Make sure that the school is accredited and legit! Also, even though it says it's online, your clinical courses will be hospital based and therefore, you will need to make time for that. For basic nursing school that's about 2-3 days per week. Have f...

Flying vomit and poopy sheets. I don't really know, what you learn and when is program specific.

I know what it feels like, ghillbert. CRNA (anesthesia) exams are no better! Ahhhh, the stress!

Yes... practice on your grammar. This is a HUGE turn off on any resume. Please have someone well versed in the English language scrutinize and edit your resume appropriately. I am astonished that you typed all of that with only one formal period. Thi...

Sure... but you'll suffer a blow income wise. If I had my NP, I would pick up extra hours as an NP and not an RN.

I decided to go into nursing by chance. A few of my classmates were taking A&P and said they were going to nursing school and so I thought to myself, "what the hell! I'll give it a shot." I'm not anywhere near smart enough to get into medical sch...

Well, the truth of the matter is, this probably is going to destroy her home life. She'll lose her job, probably her license, her income, and she won't be able to afford a place to live. But she is the one that got caught, and she now has to face the...

#1... are you allowed to do internet-based interviews? My NS specifically stated that these types of interviews were not allowed. Please me absolutely certain before you put any work into it. My NS was a bit crazy... they wanted full names, RN licens...

Right around when I started nursing school I started having heart palpitations.... real life heart palpitations! PVCs to be exact. I still have them to this day and they keep me awake a night. Totally sucks! I know how you feel. The side effects of m...

I'm bit a confused... are you in nursing student already or doing the prerequisites? If you're still in the prereqs phase, don't let your transcript get you down. You don't need straight As to get into nursing school. It may take you longer to get in...

i think that if you provide them with a few answers that it helps them learn. i think it really behooves them to see the complete picture first, and then break it a part and learn from it that way. This is how I learn/got through nursing school, mayb...

I think some programs offer a weekend program. That means that clinical meets on the weekend, and lecture meets during the week. It'll probably be impossible for you to work full time, 8-5, every weekday. You'll probably have to find a job that is ...

Type in NANDA nursing diagnoses in yahoo or google. Poke aroung through what you find for the infamous list... then one by one, go through and select which apply to your patient. Some are broken down into sections (neuro, GI, CARDIO, etc). I hope th...

Type in NANDA nursing Dx on yahoo or google. Go through them one by one, and just pick the ones that apply to you and then state why for the related to part. This is what I did, and I never had to spend the money on a careplan book - I winged it all ...

My friend from NS was an extern in the ER. They asked her general questions like why do you want to be a nurse, why the ER, why this hospital, etc. ER is a fantastic way to gain experience because they are very "relaxed" and let you do a lot of diffe...

Take the RN course. Takes longer/a little harder, but the difference in income will be worth it for you and your kidlets in the end.

I'm sorry Being in a big city without anyone close to you is a total bummer. It'll be May before you know it!