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Nice advice! Well done.

Wow!!! Thank YOU for your honesty!!! Honey, most of us feel that way-even me after nearly 20 years in this business. I do have some advise for you. #1-just be honest with everyone around you and even yourself. Don't go acting like a freekin' looney, but it's ok to tell a patient that you are new and you really don't know how his bed works. ASK FOR HELP!! #2-Ask for as much hands on as you can get! Cut to the chase and get the pain overwith. You know-face the devil so you can chase him away. The more bandage changes, feeds, pump set-ups, baths you give, the better you'll feel about your position. #3-Remember that you are a NURSE and not a doctor! Some patients even docs think you should be able to interpret labs and tests like a doc, but that is not our job. You don't have that kind of knowledge, so don't try to do things outside of the scope of nursing. You know what? It will come and you will be fine. Give yourself time and forgiveness. You're about to have the ride of your life. Oh one more thing. Take lots of time to help the people you work with. Value and praise them and you will learn that they will take care of you.

Go for it! Good for you. You have a degree already, so most of your gen-ed classes will be out of the way. You can probably get the program completeed in 18-24 months. Do NOT get your LPN licence! You must be an RN. It takes such little extra effort and the pay is so much better. LPNs get a bad rap. The LPNs I work with are certainly as good or better nurses than I am but they get less respect, benefits, and money. What the heck is an IP number?

Sweet Pea, Don't quit! Nursing school is REALLY HARD! But when you've made it through, your belief in yourself will become a important part of your foundation. Everyone feels the stress that you are feeling in nursing school. -please trust me! Some are just better at appearing more relaxed. You will find as the weeks go on that you will get really tight with the other nursing students and they will be there to pull you up when you are struggling just as you will pull them up when you are strong. Please don't do the CNA thing. You will find it harder to return to the RN program. Just forge ahead one day at a time. Understand that you are entering a different world where every bit of respect given to you has been hard earned. But the satisfaction that comes with being the best nurse you can be is beyond fullfilling. I have been at this for many years and I have never regretted my decision to keep on keeping on when I wanted to quit time and time again as a nursing student. YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!!

Well, I feel your pain. We all feel like we are not good nurses from time to time. In fact, you'll learn some of those times can be lenghty. You are so new in this field! Give yourself time. My greatest concern for you is your reaction to yourself manifested in anger that is very visible to others. Your concerns prove to be so inwardly directed at a time when your energies should be directed toward the care of others. Technical skills will come in time with practice-that's a given. Your skill of self-control, self-respect, and self-forgiveness must come within yourself. Good luck.

No, It's just not a good idea. When I was younger in my teens and into my early thirties, I didn't have a problem with a mother's right to choose. As I have matured (and please believe me when I say this, because we all change and think differently as we grow and mature), I find I believe differently. I still want to repect the rights of women to choose to do as they wish with their own bodies, but I find myself wishing more and more often that that choice would be made before conception of life. I think that if I would have helped with and abortion when I was 25, I would be regretting that decision today. Mothers who have to face pregnancy do to rape, incest, or congenital anomalies certainly have my sympathies, but even then I believe that ending a life is fundamentally wrong.