missnurse01 MSN, RN

You are passing now with a decent grade. There is no indication that this will not progress. The only person that can make you fail is you.... and no one can make you feel like you can not do this unless you let them. You can def do this no doubt!...

ajsh...You absolutely need high acuity ICU experience. And your fiance can go with you!!! Good luck.

The most important things in looking for a first job: quality of the ICU, paying off your current student loans, pay everything else off and save crazy money for grad school. Where ever that may be, that's the right job. Obvi a decent pay rate and...

OP, do what you think will satisfy you for the next 40 years. Things can really change in that time frame! Also don't discount the idea of moving out of PA for work. Many of us do. It may sound difficult but people go home for visits. Everyone's...

CVICURN - flat out explain in your grades in your essay you send in. Address the old grades and highlight the new ones as well as the grad level class you took. As your years of experience increase, your attractiveness to adcoms should increase. ...

It's a fairly defined path for you. Get best grades in ADN you can. Get into a high intensity ICU ASAP after grad, move if you have to. Work a ton, pay off your student loans, SAVE SAVE SAVE. Take the sickest patients, when something is going dow...

When I did bedside nursing I appreciated that everything was electronic...no more manual blood pressures or shooting cardiac outputs. It made assessing changes more quick, as well as freeing up time for actual patient care. I also loved the electro...

It is up to you and the area you live. You will always find A job, maybe not the one you want. Maybe not locally, maybe it won't matter. The big thing is, how long will you work before you retire? Will you pay off your loans? Worried about retur...

2 very diff beasts. I was an LPN in an ER, then as an RN, did Level 1 ER too. Then moved to cardiac ICU. Sooo much to learn about patients and disease processes and drugs. I mean in like 5 years in the ER all we ever used was dopamine for BP contr...

It is all doable. I bought a packaged program before I knew better back then. I did workbooks then compared the info with the topics that EC gives for free to be sure I reviewed everything. I overstudied, but that's my personality lol. All classe...

I did LPN-RN via Excelsior and am now a CRNA. No issues.

wow there's a requirement for preceptorship now? None when I did it in 2004! Initially licensed in MN then applied for reciprocity to GA. Goof luck!

Yes everyone, absolutely worth it. I came out with 144,000 in loans. Yes absolutely pay everything off, save up. Interest is a killer on that amount of money. Seriously 1/2 of what I pay goes to interest. If I continue to pay at this rate will p...

Good luck guys! Yes spend a number of years in a high intensity ICU. I was told repeatedly by CRNA instructors that they could tell I had a lot of experience. It made clinical a little easier.

lasvegasnurs, each state is different. Where I went to school there was no social service monies for people in grad school. We were able to get food stamps but very little, even for a family of 5. After school fees we lived on 1800 bucks a month o...

I was 40 when I graduated CRNA school. If was very rough. There was I think 4 older than I when we started, only one left when we graduated. They didn't make it past the first few semesters....between the course load, family commitments at that ti...

I was 40 when I graduated, I think 1 person was older than I. All the other older students either dropped out or failed out. The amount of coursework is huge and older students often have family commitments. All of that has to be pushed aside.

I was the only income earner for my family. Work longer and save save before school. Yes you can do it on loans but you will pay probably at least 50 K on interest alone - or more.

I took the Gen Chem series (3 classes, 1 year), then o-chem. I started the year before I applied and was in process of finishing them when I interviewed. You could always apply when you think you will have them finished before entrance (apply for n...

Search cram dot com for anesthesia pharmacology. Tons of flashcards on there that others have made. I made a ton myself, it was a great way to study for me. You can do flashcards or make multiple choice tests or matching game out of every set. Lo...

I graduated last year and the loans are killing me. However, I waited a long time and was the single income earner for my family of 5...I didn't want to wait any longer. They will loan you up to cost of living that the school sets. I went in with ...

I agree with the above poster. We had an awesome simlab, however very little scheduled time in it - and not a lot of free time avail to spend time on your own. On your own meant for the most part unguided. For practicing things like induction over...

110K does not sound expensive to me! For the whole program that is. When I was looking at programs I felt that was a fair price - compared to the others out there, lol. I grad in Decemeber and have long been thinking and researching this. From m...

There were many reasons I did not choose NP for grad school. Many States that I've lived in did not have many jobs that I would want to do as in np. also many places that I lived I already made as much as or more than and np as a staff nurse. Whe...

Thinking of you! ! Good luck!