Cranmans

5 days off...gross. I would go crazy. Find more work, a hobby, or volunteer. Heck, have intercourse a couple times a day...that makes me fill better. :)

We got this new charge nurse, last week. She has been in nursing for 3 months. She is "friendly" (if you know what I mean), to the director. She got this job because she has a B.S. in nursing and minor in *******s. Yesterday, 4 PRN nurses turned in their resignations, effective today. My advise to you is deal with it or move on.

I totally know hiw you feel. I am in my senior year and do not know what to do when I graduate. I have totally stressed myself out, to the point of having to go to ER because I was having shortness of breath and my B/P jumped to 200/88. Note, that my B/P is normally 103/50...and has been my whole life. My whole family is driving me nuts, they cannot back off and give me some spacel they have to check in on me and everything. That resulted in a sheruff duputy come to my apt, because my family. I am seeking legal advice at this time and about ready to call it quites. I have never been so lost in this big world.

I know someone, she is in my family, as a associates degree in early education or something like that...went to school years ago to be a RN...ADN...Now, just been hired to run a Rehab Unit (IN, OUT, CARDIAC) and makes 101,*** (is salaried) DOes not have a Bachleors...One thing that I can tell you is that its ALL about the connections. This family member has gotten a job through a peep knowing a peep, and that peep called her up and handed over a job. Yes, she worked home health, LTC, and Rehabs her whole like as either a nurse or a CNA, but face it..experience is the KEY!

Sounds like you need to take a long vacation...or get the hell out of there. Nursing is a challenging...hard...and demanding field. It has a BIG turn over rate. Have you thought about going to work as a school nurse...health department...clinic, instead. Take some time for yourself...find something that makes you tingle inside...and you feel overjoyed to go to work daily. Life is already a stress ball...but you just discribed it has hell.

[color=#1822cd] [color=#1822cd] *study pictures and/or drawings and figure out what the picture is trying to show you. [color=#1822cd] *study with someone else, thereby forcing yourself to talk about the info. you will find that your own ego will make you get the information down correct when you talk about it. [color=#1822cd] *recopy your notes (preferably prior to the next class)...recopying them gets them into your brain better than simply reading them. [color=#1822cd] [color=#1822cd] *rearrange your notes. for example: flash cards, or create sheets with columns labeled what-where-how-why- etc. the act of creating these study resources will help almost as much as ever using them. [color=#1822cd] *read the summaries at each chapter's end, or the related chapter in your lab book, or heck try reading the textbook. there is a study guide you can buy or there are two on reserve in the library....working these exercises helps. [color=#1822cd] *try reading your notes into a tape recorder and then listening while you drive, or do laundry or jog. [color=#1822cd] *play--surf--the web [color=#1822cd] [color=#1822cd] *most of all --- just do it, there are no short cuts, there is no silver platter(s).

calm down....i'm smelling neg.

7k....50k.... that is so much money (lol). Make you maxed out your grants....how about scholarships....there is so much money out there....you may have to research and find some....but taking out loans....especially in this market, no thanks, for me.

This is getting as bad as Mike Row, from Dirty Jobs, and all the poop!

This thread is: sick, twisted, gross, sad, and laugh out loud funny; but I cannot stop scrolling down and reading y'alls post.

Do you have a story to share...a story that made you tingle, laugh, fall on the floor...please share...enlighten me and the rest of us that are nurses or soon to be nurses.

These stories are utterly gross...disturbing...buy laugh out loud funny. Thanks.

Ron White

CPS all the way. Many case workers are over worked, but try to get one there. You can sometimes get a police officer to call it in--then it might jump start it. Depending on the words--it could be abuse, too, towards you.

From the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "It is unlawful to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of his/her sex in regard to hiring, termination, promotion, compensation, job training, or any other term, condition, or privilege of employment. Title VII also prohibits employment decisions based on stereotypes and assumptions about abilities, traits, or the performance of individuals on the basis of sex. Title VII prohibits both intentional discrimination and neutral job policies that disproportionately exclude individuals on the basis of sex and that are not job related". Employers CANNOT ask/judge any of the above in a interview. Frankly, its none of their business anyways.

I'm with you bro. I am so burned out. I am 21 years old, went to college right after high school and changed my major so many times. From biology, nursing, psychology. I just need to take a break...and do something else....but I don't even know what that is. I am at 90 hours right now with my prereqs done for nursing, on bio track and even psychology. But, i don't know where to go... I NEED A BREAK! Sorry, I had to get that out. Have you thought respiratory therapist (assoc or bachelors, ems---some larger districts make well money, and you can move up/advance with exp etc, radiology like you said). The health field has soooooo many options. Pick something and go for it, do what you want to do...(i know that is easier said then done. You are young you can go back and do something else later. Good Luck.

All the hints are great, its YOU that have to fiqure out what works and what does not. Soemtimes it takes a test, to figure out. If you did not do well on a quiz/test, then you may have to rethink and do something different. Reading your words in a tape recorder, typing/writing them over and over and posting them in every room of the house etc... can help too. Last, You can do it!

[color=#1822cd]chem 'a', a and p 1 and 2 'a'. hints sure you have to memorize some facts, but you also have to understand how things work (that is after all the definition of physiology). this involves going beyond memorization, therefore it involves different study techniques. [color=#1822cd] merely reading your notes repeatedly may help you memorize (although i contend that rewriting your notes accomplishes this goal faster and better), that, however, is only half the battle. [color=#1822cd] here are some techniques that will help your studying for comprehension: [color=#1822cd] *study pictures and/or drawings and figure out what the picture is trying to show you. [color=#1822cd] *study with someone else, thereby forcing yourself to talk about the info. you will find that your own ego will make you get the information down correct when you talk about it. [color=#1822cd] or the questions at the end of each chapter, or the exercises in the last 1/2 of your lab book. use these resources to test yourself and find areas where you need to concentrate. i did not say study these questions------ study your notes!-----then use the questions to check your understanding. [color=#1822cd] *recopy your notes (preferably prior to the next class)...recopying them gets them into your brain better than simply reading them. [color=#1822cd] *rearrange your notes. for example: flash cards, or create sheets with columns labeled what-where-how-why- etc. the act of creating these study resources will help almost as much as ever using them. [color=#1822cd] *read the summaries at each chapter's end, or the related chapter in your lab book, or heck try reading the textbook. there is a study guide you can buy or there are two on reserve in the library....working these exercises helps. [color=#1822cd] *try reading your notes into a tape recorder and then listening while you drive, or do laundry or jog. [color=#1822cd] *sit in the profs office and demand help, get the material straight [color=#1822cd] *play--surf--study the google pics [color=#1822cd] *do not try to cram it all in during the last days before a test, the volume will overwhelm you. (a good method is to rewrite your notes each day prior to coming to the next lecture--this takes discipline--but you can bet that it will help). [color=#1822cd] *most of all --- just do it, there are no short cuts, there is no silver platter.

Tell me how ACC is. I am looking into nursing school at Temple College or EMS at ACC. I already have all my prereqs taken care of. Well, my micro class I got a 'C' in, the rest I got a 'A' in. I'm thinking about retaking micro to do better, but I don't know. Well, welcome to Austin. I hope it is good to you and that you are able to fit right at home.

PARTY TIME.

Get a good nights sleep, at least 6 hours. Wake up eat oatmeal and OJ, at least that helps me. Arrive 35 mins early--try not to look at the material right before the test. You need to give yourself some distance. Doing this usually helps with the nervous(ness). Lastly, just do it--there are no silver platters and there are no shortcuts. You will do great!

Do what you are happy with, what you want to spend the rest of your life doing. That is what is impt.

Well written, and thanks to all you do. And, all the nurses out there. Makes me want to be one even sooner

There are so many options for nursing..CNA/LVN/ rn-bsn-msn--advanced etc. Pick one that you like and what you will do good in. The nursing home work is a small sample of nursing..there are hospital/home health/ call centers/travel Rn. PLay surf the web and type in Rn, just alone you will get so many hits that it will over welm you, but these are just ideas. Hope it helps. Lastly, THANKS for serving our county!

I graduated from high school in 2006 and had no idea what I wanted to do--and to this day I still don't. I managed to get through three years of college, working on a bachleors in biology, and to say the least i hate it. Throughout my high school career I was in health science technology 1, 2, and 3, band, swimming, and scouts. Well, know I have a sparked interest in nursing, primary because the pay is not bad, they are needed BADLY, and their is oppertunity for growth. Even with a associates in nursing you can get your bachlors later in life to teach/or go on for a masters etc. to be a practisionar. Yes, even with the market tanking any job is on the line, I like economics too but lets not get into that, so with that said I am looking into getting my adn shortly and going from there. Life is life, do what you enjoy and what makes you happy. Even if yo have to change your mind a 1000 times. Because, in the end ITS YOU that can make a difference in someones lifeor in yours--no tellin' what it maybe. Enjoy, and thanks to all those excellent nurses out there, leep on doin' what you are doin'