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I guess my best bet is to just go to the collage I want to attend and talk to the counsler...Thanks!

Im extremly interested in the nursing program and have been for a long time now. I have currently moved to Texas around the Dallas area and have been doing research on a few schools PJC and TVCC, I also came across Dallas Nursing Institute. Well my problem right now is I still have to do my pre reqs which Im wanting to do online. I just cant figure out how to go about getting started, do I apply online for general studies? I was just going to go to PJC and apply for the fall courses but they only offer their nursing program in Paris TX which is way to far of a drive for me but they do offer the pre preqs there. But if I do my pre reqs there then try to transfer them to another collage does that just make things more complicated? Should I just start my pre reqs at the collage Im going to attend the nursing program? Also I know it says I need to get my immunization records,if we dont have that how do we get it? along with the MMR, Hep B, and tetnus shots (correct me if Im wrong) And how do we get our high school transcripts? We also have the TSI that we have to complete.... There just seems to be way to much to do.... How did you all go about starting the nursing program when you had all this stuff to complete before you can apply to the program? Any advice would be great Thanx PS sorry for any spelling errors

SOOOO DISGUSTING! I dont let my son play in those. . .only once and that was when we where traveling on a long road trip just to let him get out and burn some energy. The only reason I actually let him is bc there was no ball pits or anything, mostly just like a jungle gym with slides

Thank you for all your input. . .after a rough nights sleep and reading all your replies I decided to do a little more research on it to understand it better, which I should have done before I jumped the gun. I guess its just my nature as a mother when a kid is involved. Although I still feel horrible, I have realized that she could have picked it up from ANYWHERE! I didn't realize that it was an epidemic, WOW! My question now is, once she is out of the hospital is my son safe to be around her?

I have been working as a CNA for the past couple months, and I want to go into nursing. Well that is until today. . My sister called me today and told me she had to take her 8 month old girl to the ER bc she spiked a fever of 106, was in a lot of pain and shaking from it, and how she has a huge boil on her leg and other places. The doc thinks its MRSA!!!! They had to give her a little bit of morphine to take some of the pain away bc she was in so much pain that she was shaking. I just dont understand, I take all the precautions at work (or at least I thought I did) and wash my hands countless times. . . . My sister babysits my son, my husband is the one who drops him off and picks him up the days I work, so I am never over there. Yesterday was my first time there in a couple months and it wasn't even on a work day. I come home every night take my clothes and shoes off by the door run upstairs to take a shower. I dont touch my son or anything until I have taken a shower. Is it possible that I could have brought it home and my son took it to my sisters? I feel just awful. . .I want nothing to do with nursing anymore, I just dont feel that its worth the risk of my family and loved ones. IDK what to do :crying2: They said the doc told them it could have came from anywhere, but whats the chances of that? I can't stand the feeling that maybe I gave my niece something that she can never get rid of, it breaks my heart.

All of my referenes know they are trying to be contacted, I let all my professional references that I used them, like I said they keep playing phone tag. I feel that HR isn't making theirselves available for my references when they do call back so if they never answer their phone they can't expect to get a hold of them, right? Im just worried that they wont hire me bc they can't get a hold of my references, does that happen? even if everything else comes back good?

So on Wednesday I went in for an interview for a CNA position, gave them my references, filled out paper work, got a tb test and a drug test done. In the interview she said as long as everything comes back good then I have the job.Today I went back up there to have my tb results read which was negative. I was talking with the lady in HR who done my interview and she said she still hasn't got my drug test results back and that she has been playing phone tag with my references. . . which I'm really annoyed by because it seems that NOBODY is making their selves available. All my references pretty much work during the day so when she calls they dont answer they call her back she dont answer, anytime I call up there she dont answer either. So she asked if I could give her another reference which I did and I also told her the best time to call one of the others was after 3. I have no more references to give her I gave her like 5!! Well my question is what happens if they never get a hold of my references? Will they just not hire me? Im really frustrated and stressed out right now bc of this situation

Thanks everyone for you input:up:

I even had to do a drug test and Im nervous about that and I have NEVER done any drugs. . .is that normal?

I live in Indiana and when I started my CNA course in Sept I had to have tb testing and a physical and I passed both. Well I went in for a job interview and I have to do another tb test, just one, and another physical. Why? I thought that you only had to do it once a yr. I dont understand why I have to do it again. The good news is I dont pay for any of it this time but what if my tb comes back negative this time or I dont pass my physical? Maybe Im just stressing for no reason bc I really need and want a job and I'm scared something is going to happen to keep me from getting a job, which if something does there is nothing I can do I guess. Am I stressing to much about this?

My husband used to work for Brown mackie, he was the Business Officer and in collections. His sister also worked in Financial Aid. Neither of them would not recommend that collage to anyone. They are not a credited collage, he has told me a lot of bad things about that collage and the way they have their classes set up. He said they are a rip off.

This past friday I went to the doctor bc I was having trouble hearing out of my left ear, come to find out I have an ear infection, which they gave me antibiotics for. Well after I went it starting getting worse with the pain and swelling and all that, not fun at all, it hurts like a mo fo Well last night I woke up to a sharp pain in my ear which my guess is my ear drum ruptured/perferated due to all the pressure behind it. Although it helped with the pain my ear is now draining not to mention I have a hole in my ear drum now. And I can hardly hear out of that ear due to all of this. Well I have my CNA state testing on thursday and IDK what to do? Its been hard for me to study, i can hardly concentrate bc of the pain, but I have managed to get half my studying done. I know I still have 3 days, but as of right now im still in pain and I know it takes a few weeks for ear drums to heal. I dont want to have to reschedule my test but what if I get pulled to do BP, I cant stick the stethescope ear pieces in my ear with an ear infection especially when Im in pain. But what if I call tomorrow and then by thursday everthing is fine, then I rescheduled for no reason. Would it be better to wait till Wednesday to call if its not better or would it be better to reschedule regaurdless? Any advice would be helpful, Thanx Thanx

if this is true then why do they put this stuff on their care plans? sounds to me like this facility goes against a lot of state regulation. how are we as students suppose to learn what is right and wrong when we are learning and watching everything that goes against this.

mrsa stands for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. the term is used to describe a number of strains of the bacteria, staphylococcus aureus, that are resistant to a number of antibiotics, including methicillin and if i'm correct it spreads through contact, unless its in the respritory system in that case it would become air born also it is completly up to you which one you wanna go for first. i chose to do cna first so i can make money while going to school, although its probably going to be hard. then hopefully by next fall i will be in school for lpn then after that for rn :) also different places offer cna classes just depends where you live, some hospitals will and some nursing homes will. i found my classes in the classified section in the paper, it was a a little place that was just for certificates. which ever one you go for you will have to have a tb test and a physical and whatever else your state requires. if i where you i would get online a search for cna classes in your area. my cna class was pretty compact but passed it with flying colors after i get done with my procedure book and clinicals i will schedule a time to take my state test when i pass that i will become certified. just remember that almost every state is different when it comes to this stuff :) good luck!

They do still have it, these residents are still in isolation, besides the one in the alzheimers unit. If they didn't have it they wouldn't be on isolation, right? Im guessing if they didn't still have it the nurse wouldn't have put on all her PPE , which should have been takin off before entering the hallway right?