MadameFreckles

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  1. Why is LTC so hated

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I hope I am not offending anyone with this question. I have been on allnurses for a while now, trying to find out as much as I can about the nursing career before getting started. One thing I have...

  2. Can't lift patient- help!

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Hopefully someone can offer me some helpful advice. I am starting nursing school in a few weeks and just got a job as a PCA for a quadriplegic man who needs to be transferred from his wheelchair to...

  3. new job, bad anxiety

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    This is mostly a vent, I am just so frustrated right now. I am starting nursing school this semester, next week actually, and got a job as a PCA in home care. My position is nights, 2x a week. Even...

  4. new job, bad anxiety

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I worked the next night and got even less sleep than the first:eek: I was able to sleep the last night that I was home, but today I still feel terrible. I feel terrible anxious, shivering, very...

  5. what does it take to be a good psych nurse?

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Just wondering, what kind of special skills/abilities/personality does it take to be a good fit for psych nursing. I have worked various psych related non-nursing jobs such as respite foster care...

  6. Can't lift patient- help!

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Thank you guys. The situation is that I just work in their home, so it's just me and his wife is usually around. He is very much able to talk and very active and employed. He does have partial use of...

  7. Too young/ early in life to be in Nursing Program?

    MadameFreckles replied to futuresctRN's topic in General Students

    I think the reason many people in nursing school are older is that for many it's a second career and they attracted to it bc of the perceived flexibility and ease of getting a job.I am just in NS...

  8. Anyone currently enrolled in UMSL's BSN part-time evening program

    MadameFreckles replied to wink4clover's topic in General Nursing

    I am also interested to hear more about the program. I am finishing up my science prereqs this summer and will be applying to start in Spring of '13. How competitive is admissions to the program. I am...

  9. Chem Finals

    MadameFreckles replied to bigboi's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I just took mine this evening. My professor let us start earlier than the allotted time and it took me 3.5 hrs in all. My brain is completely fried . Oh man, I just hope I have kept my A, bc it was...

  10. psych tech to psych nurse?

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I am a pre-nursing student and just applied for a psych tech position at a children's psychiatric hospital. I don't have a psychology degree but have always been very interested in psych and was going...

  11. psych tech to psych nurse?

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Psychiatric

    I just wanted to update. I haven't heard back from the psych hospital, but I did get hired at another large hospital for a job working with kids. It's not exactly psych nursing related, more...

  12. Anyone here had any trouble finding a job after graduating from Chamberlain?

    MadameFreckles replied to Kuniklo's topic in General Nursing

    I am not a nurse yet but I just wanted to say that I volunteer on a floor where Chamberlain students do one of their clinicals, so I've met many of them. Any time I meet a nurse or nursing student I...

  13. Schools

    MadameFreckles replied to xxdday2009's topic in General Nursing

    I've heard from people who went to Maryville that you need to do your first two years there to get into the BSN program, they favor people who did their pre-reqs there. I am taking pre-reqs at STLCC...

  14. Using "connections" to get a job

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I'll start off by saying I am not a nurse yet, I am still doing my pre-nursing classes. I have a B.A. from 2007 but I have only worked part time, with a gap in my in my history due to being a stay-at...

  15. Volunteering in Maternity and PP-what do I need to know?

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am starting a volunteer "job" in a big hospital tommorrow. I will be doing it 3 hours a week. Baically, bc of my schedule I can't commit to a hospital job and I thought this would be a good way to...

  16. Volunteering in Maternity and PP-what do I need to know?

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Today was my second day of volunteering and it went much better. I was placed in triage where there were only two nurses and they were really busy. One of them showed me around and I followed her...

  17. Volunteering in Maternity and PP-what do I need to know?

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Ok, so I just got back from volunteering. Sadly, the nurse manager for the floor who had requested a volunteer was at a meeting the whole time, so I got put with the unit secretary. I mostly just...

  18. Volunteering in Maternity and PP-what do I need to know?

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes tommorrow. I am super

  19. CNA/PCT work schedules in hosp.

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I am volunteering at a hospital right now and after about 6 months of volunteering, I plan to get my CNA license and apply for PCT jobs there. My question is what kind of schedule can you work as a...

  20. when to take the dosage test

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am starting my prereqs for the nursing program this fall. i will be taking Chem and Bio, as these are the classes needed to get on the waiting list for the ADN program. I also need to take the DCT...

  21. when to take the dosage test

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Good to know it won't be too hard, I was kind of afraid of it! I think I'll take the review class offered at the CC, it's only $35 plus the cost of a

  22. The dreaded pregnancy test

    MadameFreckles replied to psu_213's topic in Emergency

    Yes to this. When you think you might be pregant, you want to know

  23. Why is LTC so hated

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You've raised a lot of issues that I haven't thought about. LTC patients are probably the least likely to make it out of a facility alive (that's the point of "long term care," right?), least likely...

  24. BSN over ADN preferences in STL area?

    MadameFreckles replied to MadameFreckles's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for replying to my post. I would be open to starting out in pretty much any setting after nursing school, as long as I got to use my nursing skills. I would actually not mind starting out in a...

  25. BSN over ADN preferences in STL area?

    MadameFreckles posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am trying to decide on which RN program to do, the ADN or the BSN. I'm leaning toward ADN, bc if I do that and then do the BSN completion track I'll have to take less classes overall (the BSN has...