MadameFreckles

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 noticed is that LTC seems to be thought of as the las...

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 bed and back, plus the shower chair. When I was hire...

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 though it's nights I only work for abot 3 hours at n...

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 naseous. The first time I worked 3 nights in a row, I ...

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 (lots of kids with mental health issues) home for auti...

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 his arms, only the tricepts and (so I guess maybe...

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 and bit older (in my mid twenties) and have a fami...

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 so nervous I won't get in! Also, what days are yo...

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 really hard, and it's 25% of our grade. I'm pretty p...

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 to go for an MSW before deciding on nursing. My ...

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 community health, but I decided to take it since the job...

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 hound them for information lol. Most of them seem v...

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 right now, and plan to apply to Barnes and UMSL. I...

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 -home parent and having 2 kids in two years. The l...

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 get my foot in the door while I am doing prerequisi...

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 around for a while seeing what she does. By the end of...

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 helped do some paperwork and ran back and forth from L...

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

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 newly certified CNA with no exp.? I stay home with m...

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 before I can get on it. I was wondering, when would...

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 book.

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

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 to be able to speak up for themselves, and least li...

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 clinic, and I would be very interested in working ...

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 several more prereqs I would have take than the STLC...