BatonRougeNurse09

i really want to get a nurse pinup girl. I think that would be so cute.

to respond to the original post where the girl said she gets offended if a patient says her "lip gloss is poppin"....my question to you is, why? I don't think if a white person says that to you then they are assuming that you like that song or that style of music. Maybe the white person speaks like that and they like that song. I know I have said to some of my friends before when that song was popular that their "lip gloss was poppin" and my friend wasn't black and neither am I. And so I guess if I had a black friend and I say it to her, she should be offended because I am white? If you quote that song you have to be black?? or if you speak like that you have to be black?? Either of these assumptions are stereotypical in itself, and that's the only way you can find that patient saying that insulting. While some of the examples listed above describe horrific accounts of racism, I also think people sometimes want to take things to another level and be too sensitive. I am white and went to a large majority african american nursing school and wow did I have a LOT of experiences with racism being white. When I was accepted as well as about 8 other white people at the beginning of the program, I heard girls who didnt get in that semester and their mothers outside the BSN office complaining that we (being the white people) were taking "their spots" and this is "their school" and also saying we couldn't get in the white schools. Granted they weren't saying this to us but were saying it LOUD where they didn't care who heard. Honestly I can't even imagine if I was at a majority white school EVER EVER thinking that the black people accepted were taking a white persons seat. That would never cross my mind. Racism definitely goes both ways and I can give so many examples from experiences I had while in nursing school.

I think it's a great way to great practice for the kind of studying you have to do in nursing school!!! I don't know if you are already in nursing school yet, but at the university where i went to school you had to take those classes prior to entry. A&P was the hardest prereq class I had to take prior to nursing school and required the most studying I ever had to do prior to nursing school. I think you will do fine in those classes but A's will be difficult. My teacher for A&P was sooooo hard though, I don't think that anyone had an A in her class. I ended up with a B and I felt lucky because we had people dropping out mid-semester because there was no way they could pass the class. Best of luck to you!!!

Thanks, I have really been wondering about this. I might do the ER thing afterall. I can read vfib vtach normal sinus and sinus brady and afib but as long as I will get some more training on that I should be fine. I have a very short period of time to decide because I would like to begin working somewhere not too long after I get out. God knows I have been poor for the last 5 years! Im sure all you students out there can appreciate where I am coming from. I have a tech job that I can only work a couple times a month with how school runs me. thanks for the info guys!

i do know how to splint so yeah that's a plus...but ekg's scare the crap out of me. In order for me to figure out what's going on in an ekg it takes me a few minutes. Unless its vtach vfib or something like that. If it was some other random ekg i would be trying to figure out what it is meanwhile, my patient is about to go into a critical rhythm. Do you get further training on EKGs once you get hired for ER?

I like emergency nursing also, but I have only worked as an emergency room tech. I am about to graduate from nursing school May 15! and I would like to work in the emergency room but it seems like a scary place to start out as a nurse!! what do you all think? I do love the fact that you see so many different patients in one shift with so many different acute situations but I just don't have the guts to start there. I think I will probably start at a med-surg unit, just to get comfortable in my own new nurse skin.

Ms. Kay for some reason I cannot reply to ur post message but I will say this... thanks

i am graduating this semester may 09

also i forgot the minimum gpa they accept is a 2.6. which i think is very easy to obtain. They do random selection so if you have a 4.0 you have just as good of a chance as the 2.6 person has of getting in. It's a lottery basically. There is no interview. You just fill out a paper application by the deadline and have all of your prereqs completed that are required otherwise they will send you a letter in the mail saying you are rejected because you did not meet all your prereqs. I did not get in the first time because of the number of people applying but I got in the second time I applied.

I go to southern university school of nursing and the final deadline to apply is april 8 i believe. So its not too late! is saw that posted in the elevator the other day. You do need that organic chemistry if you haven't taken it and like the other person posted you need nurs 200 which is a prereq to nursing school. Other classes if you want to get them out of the way, but that you don't have to have before you get into nursing school is an african american studies course which i recommend an african american literature course because this will count for an english course as well as an african american studies course. Also, you have to complete freshman orientation...I think they actually are requiring you take this before you get in now. You also have to complete a writing proficiency exam.....this is not a class but just an exam you sit for. The writing proficiency exam is also required before admittance now I believe. That's just some information on what you will need to get in. hope that helps.