stnurse83

I have to say I switched to surgical technology and am getting my AAS degree. I have talked to many surg techs that are certified for personal goals. The one's I have talked with have worked their way up to surgical first Assisting. After they work their way up to that, they can get certified in the field. Surgical First Assistants who have great relationships with the surgeons can go independent. (more Money) You have to start somewhere. Surgical First assistants are proving how to save money by hiring them instead of PA's or RN's. Surgical First Assistants really have a good fight and save lots of time and money on surgery when it comes to billing purposes. Their has been many studies done lately on this topic and it is definitly turning into a speciality. From what I've already seen it takes someone special.

How is this position in a hospital? Do people get tired of it quick and what do they do on a normal day to day basis? I know you need a diploma or associates to work in this field. Thats all I Know about it.

Hi! I feel like I'm an angel from God sent to you. My mother is an RN of over 30 years who wished she would have been a history teacher. She has been a public health nurse for 20 something years. I'm her daughter and I have heard everything she has been through as a public health nurse my whole life. She is so ready to retire and never look back. I can't even explain to you all the crap she takes. I know other nurses do too, but these people she has to deal with all the time are the most rude, mean, ect... (can't say what I want to say). You say you have a love for educating people, well this is not the kind of educating you are thinking about. If you try to tell them how to do anything or even make a suggestion about what ever it is going on, (which will blow your mind and make you want to hug your children) they will tell you to shut-up and threaten you within an inch of your life. My mom is required to tell these people their options, and they think she is being nosy or not respecting them in someway. They are the ones coming their to get treatment and they just don't realize that its protocall. They are not the smartest and can really hurt her . She learned a long time ago not to "educate" them too much. If you want to teach people you will not get to teach very much in this field. She has been the boss at this health department for a very long time and gets paid very little. How little-30 something thousand a year. The kind of people that comes in is so rude to the office workers that they still wind up in tears, after all the years they have been there. She went through nursing school and I guess kind of wasted it because she didn't want to work weekends or holidays no more. She ended up starting a family and having three kids. I'm the youngest. She hated leaving us on christmas eve and christmas day so she put up with that place. You also don't want to go to the patients home either. My mom would end up driving so far in a very bad place. My dad would have to leave work and meet her to ensure her safety when she would get into trouble.

I had a cousin looking at concorde, but it wasn't for nursing though. It was for their respiratory therapy program. She came out of the whole process very disatisfied. She went through all the admissions mess and interviews. When she went to her last interview they told her the program was not accredited. The admissions rep. did not say one word about it to her. On the folder that the school gives you, it said all the programs was accredited member of something. I read the folder myself. Come to find out all the programs was accredited but this one. I think it said something like- Our programs are accredited by such and such. Not obvious that the respiratory therapy program wasn't. Very misleading!!! She had gave these people $100.00 admission fee and I have no idea how much gas money she spent going back and fourth to the school. she also ended up paying ton's of money for daycare for all these times they met with her during the day. They kind of made sure to tell people at the last interview so they can talk people into it like telling them they can still get a job. She said next time she talkes to a school she will know to ask very specificly about the accredidation. :angryfire She said people she talked with that were trying to get through all the admissions stuff and interviews believed the program was accredited. Nobody from the school had told anyone about it not being accredited. They also fed the students some bull about the program could get accredited while you are in school and they would retroactivate the accredidation back 3 years. I told my cousin not to be fooled that easy because I knew a student one time that got fooled into something similiar to this and all the students came out with nothing in the end.

I talked with the people at deaconess yesterday and she said that you did not have to have your LPN. She said you could get the RN from them with a PN component. That means do the lpn program with them and she said you sit for the LPN boards. You keep going until you finish the RN. She said it would take me two years in all to complete all of it. She said since they were the only school that offered this that it was hard to get in.

I am trying to get into a traditional LPN program at a local school. I talked with someone from deaconess nursing school and she told me that they had an ADN degree to be an RN. She said you do all your work online and that a RN at a local hospital will be teaching you everthing ontop of that. She said it was hard to get into because so many was trying. I want advice now because I don't won't to make a mistake. What would you do?

Deaconess shool of nursing is a good one. You don't have to be an LPN to start your RN. I just talked to them today. If you are under 25 you have to have a ACT score of 19 or above to get in. They ask you to come to the school one time for 3-4 days. The school is in St. Louis MO. and they are accepting applications for fall semester. :roll

I'm sure your making the right decision. The only reason co-workers have anything to say bad is because they have no idea how it works and how many people acually do the online programs. I have done many programs through distance school. When I finished, I got hired by five different employers who was all telling me they would do something better if I would go to work for them. Most of the time people do not agree or have negative remarks because of their own ignorance. People probably think NURSING! You can't do a distance nursing degree! IT'S NOT THAT DIFFERENT!!!!!! Whoever says otherwise just doesn't realize YOU ARE GOING TO SCHOOL AND YOU ARE GOING TO WORK VERY HARD FOR THIS DEGREE!!! You will feel much better about it once you get started. You will see how much dedication and hard work it takes to receive this. The people who say otherwise think you are going to read 1 chapter of a book and take 1 test and BOOM your a nurse. Your familiar with distance education so you probably know how demanding it is. It's not easy!!! You will feel very fulfilled in the end. :)