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  1. OMMMGG!

    Justanotherday replied to vccorscc's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Congratulations! I hope your mother will come around when she sees how happy and fulfilled you are with your career

  2. How Much Spanish Can You Learn Taking College Courses?

    Justanotherday replied to Justanotherday's topic in General Students

    Sounds like a good way to justify a vacation to Mexico Thank you very much for the replies...so true about if you don't use it, you lose

  3. Curious to know

    Justanotherday replied to kb514's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have not taken the TEAS yet. At my college, we have to complete all our prereqs and then apply to the nursing program. I am in Algebra 2 this semester, and am 42. We homeschool, so I have done...

  4. What would you do if you were me?

    Justanotherday replied to Britt7's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Do you have any idea why you did not get accepted at a school closer to home? If it was due to an average/low GPA, have you considered retaking a class or two this summer or fall to increase your...

  5. Volunteer in the ER

    Justanotherday replied to guest042302019's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thank you, Andrew! That is just the kind of post I have been wanting to read on here. I will be volunteering in the ER beginning next month. I am very excited and nervous to start. They did blood...

  6. How do I get over this?

    Justanotherday replied to nohika's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Spin the situation around and be thankful!! Your friend did not succeed. My closest friend was suicidal a few years back and today she is pretty much back to her old self and leads a happy,...

  7. Volunteering?

    Justanotherday replied to lil pixi's topic in General Students

    I go tonight for orientation to volunteer at my local hospital. I will be in the Emergency Room, because I was told that is where I will have the most patient contact. I will be there from 6-9 pm...

  8. MIC gastrostomy tube question

    Justanotherday replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, the hole in the center of the "button" (g-tube) is where you can insert the syringe that comes with the kit if you just need to give a dose of medicine. This is the same hole where you attach...

  9. MIC gastrostomy tube question

    Justanotherday replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    My son had a MIC-key button for 4 years. The kit comes with a syringe that is a perfect fit for the hole in the g-tube (where you would insert the feeding tube). So you can put the medicine directly...

  10. How Do You Feel About Hospital Volunteers?

    Justanotherday posted a topic in General Nursing

    I recently applied to volunteer in the ER at our local hospital. This is where I was told by the coordinator that I would have the most patient contact. I want to become more familiar and...

  11. How Do You Feel About Hospital Volunteers?

    Justanotherday replied to Justanotherday's topic in General Nursing

    I really appreciate the replies, thank

  12. Surgical Tech? Anyone have info on this?

    Justanotherday replied to ctmed's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    If you go under "Specialty Nursing" there is a section for OR. I wanted to pursue that myself, but the college near me does not offer evening and weekend classes, only day time which I can not do...

  13. Anyone volunteering at a hospital?

    Justanotherday replied to mangopeach's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I just interviewed to volunteer at our local hospital a few days ago and will go to orientation next week. The most direct patient contact they offer is for volunteers who work in the Emergency Room,...

  14. Best Job to Work While Getting my RN?

    Justanotherday replied to skl3783's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    An entry level part-time job I applied for last fall (I didn't get it) was a Patient Transporter at our local hospital. I don't know how much it would have paid, but they had 3-11 pm shifts that...

  15. Characteristics of a Nursing Student

    Justanotherday replied to cupcake231's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I had several students in my first prereq class that were going in to nursing. We were all fanatical about our grades! The teacher laughed at us because we were always asking what we could do for...

  16. If you had a choice between 2 year community, or a university....

    Justanotherday replied to Lala27poodles's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Well, if you look at the "big picture", you could look down the road in say, 5-10 years. At the end of one road you have your dream job as an RN with 12k in student loans. At the other you have your...

  17. New to Nursing...need thoughts on how to juggle work and school

    Justanotherday replied to aquiroz's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am home with young children during the day, work part-time in the evenings and weekends, and go to school for prereqs. Adding school to my life would be overwhelming if I took more than two classes...

  18. Biology Spring 2010

    Justanotherday replied to KyGreen13's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We just started those same chapters, and my brain is still spinning from my class this morning (we had no school for almost two weeks because of 2.5' of snow). I will definitely be making some flash...

  19. Telling your employer that you're going to nursing school

    Justanotherday replied to sherilyn321's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am only in prereqs, but I do believe the nursing program at my college is not every day. Perhaps if you know that, say, you never have classes on Fridays, your employer could make sure to schedule...

  20. CNA Tuition?

    Justanotherday replied to LikesToWander's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    My school charges about $1,800 for a semester long CNA program. But I decided against enrolling, because after my first semester in nursing school there I will be eligible to take the CNA exam. But...

  21. Anybody else out there feel like a failure???

    Justanotherday replied to sherriberry1's topic in General Students

    Hmmmm...why are your children up so late that you only get 3-4 hours of sleep? And what time are you getting up? If the three younger ones are up past 8:30 or so, I would work on that if you can....

  22. Psychology tips

    Justanotherday replied to nursingstudent221's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Too late for you, but a student at my school is taking Human Growth & Development and Psychology this semester and she said a lot of the same things are covered in both classes. So I am going to...

  23. Advice on CNA 30 Years Later

    Justanotherday replied to boomerlady's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    The hospital near me has a CNA opening in the nursery. Wouldn't that be a fun job? I could handle "lifting" babies all

  24. which hospital to volunteer at?

    Justanotherday replied to scwater22's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was just thinking, would you like to eventually work at one of these hospitals? I would make what you would do the first criteria, and the one you would like to work in someday priority number 2....

  25. issue with leaving newborn to return to nursing school

    Justanotherday replied to marineswife0809's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Staying home with babies is NOT being a slacker! Oh my goodness, can there be ANYTHING more important?! You have the rest of your life to go to school and become a nurse. I am 42 and my youngest is...