lumberjack

From what I've seen at KRMC folks are mostly fairly happy, in terms of labor and managment, though as someone else said, nurse pay in MT is on the low side, no more at kalispell than elsewhere. The hospital has it's newer and older areas, but things...

nothing within 100 miles of missoula, that much I can say with certainty!

University of Nebraska Medical Center is 11 months. They have 3 campuses: Lincoln, Omaha, and Scottsbluff.

Sure, no problem. Scottsbluff is in the western part of the state, actually only half an hour from the wyoming border, about an hour north of colorado. This is not the stereotypical flat corn country most folks think of when they think nebraska, tho...

A few thoughts from someone nearly done with their accelerated BSN (11.5 months): Accelerated may not be any cheaper, as most schools charge based on credit hours rather than semesters, and since you are taking the same number of classes and credit h...

Regional West in Scottsbluff, NE hires new grads and is a pretty darn good hospital. Don't know much about CA except the situation varies incredibly by location all over the state. AZ is tough right now, a friend with 7 years experiance had a tough...

One more thing to consider...will the hospital you are a CNA at pay for you to become an LPN? Would ease some of the financial pressure... Maybe a hospital further afield than where you live? But is that worth it? (Compare cost of school... is it...

You mentioned that when you opened up with your preceptor that she would slow down and explain things... maybe letting her know what you told us will help. She may not get all soft and fluffy with you, but at least she'll understand how you're feeli...

Since you have to have the pre-reqs done before applying to community college (2-2.5 years) or university accelerated BSN (11-18 months), I gotta recomend the BSN accelerated. More likely to be with people of his same mind set and cohort and life ex...

I'd say you'll have a leg up in terms of anatomy/phys background and pt interaction. Adopting the nursing process will be differant, but totaly do-able. The only concern I'd have, echoing a previous post, is what you are "allowed" to do and under w...

Of course, one thing that may help me is that I don't see myself as taking orders from a physician, rather, I tell the physician what orders I need. Just a more collaborative, less hierachical way of practicing.

My fiance and I are both nurses... makes it easier to talk to someone and decompress after a rough day, and they understand the wierd schedules, etc.

In our program they have just started tieing progression to ATI...for the first two terms they were just for practice, now a level 2 is required for progression in some classes...but not all classes. Not thrilled about it, as ya'll know, a good test...

Had friends in nursing school in Flagstaff, AZ (NAU) that had to go over a hundred miles, sometimes 200 or more for clinicals all across the state. Sucked big time, made me glad I'm at UNMC and a 5 minute walk to 90% of my clinicals.

Agree with nanagose, I'm at UNMC in their BSN accelerated, it is intense, but doable with solid time managment skills. Personally would rather do this than the traditional track, I reckon I'm getting better grades because I'm always surrounded by it...

Yes, you got it right, if they book 40 people, they take 40 people, and while sometimes they send some home early if they are done with that particular scene, if you show up, you get paid.

forgot to mention, some of the gigs are short, only a few hours (but you still get paid for 8!) and some run really long (15.5 hours my longest, virtually never more than that cuz then they have to pay you double your daily wage.) The point is, you ...

Not sure about the first part of your question, if you mean when do you go to Central Casting to get started, check the website, you want to go on the Non-union days, and get there early, looking like what ever you want your "look" to be. As for whe...

I never had a call in service, and was fine, but that meant that I had to spend A LOT of time trying to call in and book work for myself. Lots of busy signals. I was told by others that having a call in service helped them work an average of 4 and ...

Well, from my limited experiance (anyone else want to answer this one is welomed), I'd say that resident needs to get checked out, see if there have been medication doses missed, if illness or stress or something else is causing the spike in blood su...

Yeesh, do they even make that in my size? I'm a dude with a size 34 waist and 6 feet tall, 200lbs :) I didn't think any place in the country still did skirts. I'm so very sorry they are doing this to you. And I thought the white scrubs we have to...

No audition to speak of, you fill out a form that lists your talents, ex dancing, musical instrument, etc. They take a picture of you, and that is it. But they only take new talent 2 or 3 days a week, so get there early or you'll be in line for hou...

Be an extra on tv shows. I did it for awhile when I was in LA, look up Central Casting online. You get registered with them and then call the work line looking for a gig, show up do the background actor thing, and have LOTS of down time for studyin...

I'd echo the importance of time managment. My program is 11 months, and is pretty full-on all the time, but is managable enough because I just decided ahead of time that for these 11 months, my job and hobby is nursing school, and I do virtually not...

At my school, chem is part of the required for admit and is included in the GPA but not considered as heavily as bio/A&P. In general the core pre-reqs count more than the others, but the others are still counted and might make the differance bet...