LauraLiz

So you guys are saying don't wait? lol I want to get a job ASAP but I also REALLY want to take my kids to Disneyland before I end up with a new job and not able to take time off! We'll see... Maybe I'll just take my son out of school in May and go then! lol

Wow, I'm so glad so many of you love your jobs! Some of those areas you work in aren't even available anywhere near where I live now! I just finished precepting on the surgical floor, and I really liked the work and the relationships the nurses have with each other is awesome. The next rotation is Maternal/Child and I can't wait because that is what I planned on going into from the time I decided to go back to school for nursing! I hope it doesn't disappoint.

Wow, I can't believe that when I joined this forum I had just decided to go back to school, and now, here I am 3 months away from graduating! So, just wondering...How long did you wait to take NCLEX after graduating and how long did it take you to find a job?

What kind of setting do you guys work in, in psych?

I am in my last semester of school and was wondering what you love most about the area of nursing you work in? If you can't stand where are you working then where do you want to work? Thanks! Laura

I don't like the whole doing stuff in front of a bunch of other people either. . . but I made it this far, and I've made it through semester 1! I am fine one on one with a client. I like to know that I know what I'm doing, and that helps me to feel more confident. Yes the nursing school presentations still suck. . . but no worse than the presentations we have done all through middle and high school and heck my first degree. I can't say I have ever "gotten over it" but ultimately it's not going to count that much towards whether you pass or fail or even if you will be a good nurse or not, just get through it and learn what you need to learn out of it. I know for me that once I am graduated and practicing (fingers crossed!) it will be like any other job that you have trained for and slowly but surely get more comfortable in.

Yep I start Monday afternoon!

I wish I had my books already cuz I want to start reading know when I have time! I am soooo scared I won't be able to find enough time to study without having any "break" time between work and kids and class!

I took out an actual loan for the first time for this Fall too. I qualified without a problem, some subsidized, some not. . I only accepted the subsidized part though. I did everything I needed to do like you did, counseling, MPN, ect. The only think I needed to do besides those things was actually tell the financial aid person that I wanted to be considered for a student loan because when I initially applied for aid (Pell Grant) I had selected that I didn't need a loan. It doesn't seem like many people get denied though so I'm sure you will be fine!

I start the first semester in 2 weeks too!! I'm soo excited and so scared!

I fainted in my anatomy lab last semester while the teacher was pointing out muscles on a cadaver leg. Mentally I was absolutely fine, there was nothing about the cadaver that bothered me! I can only assume the smell of the chemicals got into my head and that's what caused it. It was very embaressing and the first time (hopefully only....) that I have passed out. I was standing, leaning against a table, so when I passed out I just fell back onto the table...but when I "woke up" I was sitting in a chair a few feet away...how did they get me into the chair...I don't want to know, but I am embaressed thinking about it! I hope it's not a sign of things to come, that's for sure!

Do thorough placental pathology exams come at a cost to the parents?

That's good to hear the majority do them, from what I've read the autopsy rate has been declining.

I'm writng an argumentative research paper and this question came to mind in the midst of it... In the case of a fetal demise, at any gestation, is the placenta and cord taken to have a thorough examination done? or does the doctor give in a once over and that's it? Also, are fetal autopsies routinely done in your hospitals? Are they encouraged or discouraged? What information are the parents given on them? Thanks!!

Do you happen to know the names of those children's books?