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The doctors bought all the nurses a tin of butter cookies and our unit got a beautiful gift basket to split (which dayshift beat us to tearing apart, so night shift got nothing of that). And the nurses who have been here 5+ years all got paycuts...Ha...

It just depends on your situation. I lived in Philly, just me and my hubs, we both worked fulltime and it was reallllly hard to pay the bills. We now live a few hours away in a much cheaper area and are doing fine. I wouldn't go into nursing expectin...

I'd be a princess! That's a job, right? And I'd also like to open a pet grooming business.

I'd work per diem. I'd also do a ton more volunteer work (and maybe start my own charity) if I had the means. Those are some dreams of mine....maybe some day.....:)

If you had told me on my first day of nursing school that I'd be working child psych I would have given you a not so nice reply. I never really wanted to work with kids and I didn't think psych would be as hands on as I wanted...but I figured I'd gi...

I feel your pain. It's hard out there for nurses. Have you tried applying for homecare agencies? I know some (not many, but some) will consider hiring new grads. Whether or not that's something you'd be interested in, it IS nursing experience. Hold ...

No, clinicals are not very flexible. Most programs I've heard of will not give you a say in where you are placed/what times you are scheduled. You are expected to show up when and where. I lived around the corner from one of the hospitals my school d...

Didn't need to evacuate. Came into work and am pulling a 20 hour shift to help out! Glad to do it too since we are so short staffed due to road closures and such.

I'm in the CCP program right now. It's very tough but as long as you recognize that you'll need to work hard, and really commit to it, there's no reason you can't succeed. The instructors are really easy going and really go out of their way to help y...

I work at Target. I work Monday, Wednesdays, Friday and the weekend. I go to class all day Monday and Tuesday and have clinical Thursday and Friday. I'm lucky because I have Wednesday morning and afternoon to do homework (or sleep in!) but there's st...

Please help! I am 22 year old, first semester nursing student. I have been diagnosed with the neurological movement disorder dystonia for about 8 years. I have been receiving Botox injections in my neck and right arm to paralyze the muscles. I have b...

Pneumonia is fluid in the lungs. Atelectasis is the collapsing of the aveoli of the lungs. (at least that's my understanding).

I'm in my fifth week and I love it. I'm busier now than I've ever been in my entire life, and that includes when I was working a full time job. But I still love it. I'm sure a time will come when I question why I even came to nursing school, but I'm ...

Congrats on making it through the first week! I start on the 8th and like you I am a night person. I've been trying to get onto a normal sleep schedule but I'm so used to staying up past 2 in the morning it's been hard. We start our clinicals someti...

I wear ponytails. I'm not used to having my hair down though, aftermath of running cross country all four year of high school I guess. :-)

I applied to only one school and I got in. It's not always the the smartest idea for most people, but I was planning on moving to a different state if I did not get into this program, and would therefore apply to schools in my new area once I got set...

Congrats! My first day of NS is in a few weeks and I look forward to eventually being able to make a post like yours! Good luck!:yelclap:

- clean my room...again. - get my hair cut! - buy my nursing shoes. - get the brakes on my car replaced. And an oil change. And pray it lasts me through the next two years! - go out for one last crazy night with my friends, none of whom are in nursin...

I have the ugliest light blue smock-like shirt and blue scrub pants. So ugly, and the smocks run pretty big, I'm in a small and I still feel like I'm swimming! I think a lot of the uniforms in my area are ugly though, thank goodness we only have to w...

I am starting my first NS semester in the fall and so far this summer I've been going over the cranial nerves, looking at drug lists, and basically just reviewing every aspect of A&P. I don't want to get myself all worked up and panicked, but I'm...

I went to Holy Family university for my fingerprints. They use a scanner and you sort of roll your finger over it. It's a Cogent location, I'm not sure if that's what you need. You can go to the cogent website that the above responder posted and foll...

My parents were pretty disappointed that I waited so late into the game to decide to switch my major from broadcast journalism to nursing! As far as actually becoming a nurse, however, they don't really seem to mind. It seems like your parents have ...

Awww, I almost cried! Thanks for posting this!!!

Great job!!!! I finished my finals last week. Haven't gotten any results back but I'm pretty confident! I start nursing school in September. Good luck!!!

Wow, do we all go to the same school and have the same teacher?!?! haha!! My A&P1 teacher was terrible! He never explained anything, just said "this is this, that is that". Threw information at us like we had been nurses for years. He was a total...