tryharder

I don't know about all of you but I'm 29 years old and workout 6 days a week. I consider myself to be in the best shape of my life and that is saying a lot since I had a scholarship to play football, yes I'm a male. Some of you act like 30 is old or something. I bet I will run rings around the younger people on this board, Physically easily. Mentally, now I don't know about that I can be slow once in awhile, lol.

So, you are telling me that you made a minimum of $57,600 a yr bartending. I used your $300.00 dollar a night figure and not your $500.00 a night figure. I live in the capital of night clubs and let me tell you, your estimation does not seem very accurate.

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That is not right. There is 32 ounces in 1 quart, divide 32 ounces by 4 and you get 8 ounces.

easiest way to figure it out. You should already know this information and figure it out from there. This you should have memorized 1cup=240ml 1cup=8oz 2cups=1pint 2pints=1qt 4qts=1 gallon This is how you figure it out 1cup= 8oz 2cups=16oz 1/2cup=4oz 1/2cup=4oz 1/4qt=8oz ____________ 40 oz 1/2 a cup means a half of 8 which is 4oz. To think of a 1/4 how many quarters are in a dollar, 4 right. So if you know there are 4 cups in a quart you know that their is 32oz in a quart, you then divide by 4 because it takes 4 quarters to make a dollar. add everything up you get 40oz. Simple problem, think it through next time.

Go ahead and finish up your Bsn degree. As you have already stated you have the G.I. bill at your disposal, so make the most of it. I do not see the point of them criticizing you about your decision one bit. If you sit down and do a pro's vs. con's list you will easily see that the route you are going will probably be the most effecient way of doing things. First of all, when you graduate with your Bsn you will be more marketable than your counterparts with an Adn degree. Next, you have the GI bill and you don't have the same worry that everyone else has, How am i going to pay for school? So, why does it matter if you become a Adn nurse first? I am assuming your friends in whom you communicate with are lacking the funds and for that reason are trying to seek tuition reimbursement through employment at a hospital. You are not in the same position where you need tuition reimbursement. The only con, in this whole equation is that you will lose out on 2 years of real life experiences working as a nurse and two years of a nurse's salary. Do i believe you are going the wrong route absolutely not. I will ad my two cents to this thread though. I truly believe if you are not going for a masters degree at some point going for your bachelors is slightly over kill. I see education as a progression and the more education you acquire the more money you should make. As you may know a Adn nurse makes the same as a Bsn nurse, so my humble opinion is to go get your masters at some point and make the most out of your nursing career. Also, tell your Adn friends to **** mind their own business and do you. This message is approved by your soon to be Adn student.

Yes, it is true. I have about the same gpa as you do and I was going to be on the waiting list until next fall or just about. The reason why you aren't getting in isn't because your gpa is not good enough. You have average students that have been collecting points by waiting on the list for semesters at a time. They can have over a 4.0 gpa with their collected points. I decided to do the lvn program since it was only going to be a 3 months difference between me waiting and just going to the lvn program and completing that and bridging to the rn program. I of course got accepted in the lvn program immediately. Good luck in whatever you decide to do!

Temple texas is hiring new grads, it even says new grad position avaliable. I posted thread in the texas regional section above with all the info.

Your welcome. Most people get their bachelors in nursing through Texas tech online while they are working with their adn degree. You can do anything you put your mind to and put all your effort into. You are the only person that is going to stop yourself from what you want to do. I'm trying to become a crna and failure is not on the table as an option. Their is nothing to be scared of believe me.

would it be fair to assume that the nursing jobs are beginning to open up a bit more. I see more posts everyday of someone that just got a new job as a new grad.

You need to finish all of your prerequisites and co-requisites before entering lvn school. The reason being is that Acc only give you a year to bridge after you graduate from lvn school. The prereqs and coreqs to become a rn takes 2 years to finish. So, if you are not finished with all of your requisites you will not have enough time to bridge over within one year, hope I could help. If you go the lvn route and get directly in to the adn program through a bridge your schooling will only be 3 months longer if you were to go the "normal route". You might also take a look at doing an accelerated adn course with Acc since you already have your bachelors.

You are welcome it was just posted on the 1/9/2011, so it is a really new opening. Are you plan on filling out an application for this job. If so please let me know how it goes, thanks.

On my free time, I decided to make a list of every hospital that is within about 1 hour commuting distance away from Austin. On this list I plan on stating whether the hospital is new grad, or lvn friendly. Anyhow, I figured I would give someone the heads up that there is a new grad position available at Santa Fe Hospital in Temple Texas. I noticed this while scanning there website for job postings. I post on this site time to time with my positive outlook towards things, which don't seem to be taken to well on this site, lol. Anyhow, here is a link below that will guide you to the position that is open and needs to be filled. It is a fulltime 40 hour position for a new grad rn. I hope I could help someone land a job on this site. If you apply and get the job let me know how it goes, thanks. Link: https://swtep.mycmsc.com/psp/swtepprdext/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?FolderPath=PORTAL_ROOT_OBJECT.HC_HRS_CE_GBL2&IsFolder=false&IgnoreParamTempl=FolderPath%2cIsFolder

A stipend does not sound appealing for a couple of reasons. As stated by another poster above, people have paid in cash or by loans to become a RN. Why would one work for less than what is acceptable, also 3 years is a long time. What about nurses that need to work in the icu's for their one year or 2 years of experience to get to their master (crna). Doesn't sound like a good plan to me.

I live in Austin Texas and I would tell you that there is no other place I would ever want to live. It is a little more expensive to live in Austin than other areas because it is in high demand for housing. It really is a world of it's own like the poster commented. The good thing about Austin is that there are surrounding areas that you can live in that are considered out of Austin but are still considered in the same county, which causes your housing to be as cheap as just about anywhere in Texas and is only minutes away from austin.

This is what I would do and I am excellent at getting jobs. I would go see the hiring manager in person, with your application in hand. I would also let the hiring manager know that you will also be posting your application online if that is ok with her/him. I would also then follow up with the charge nurse to let her know not only did you meet with the hiring manager in person but also put your resume up online. That way the hiring manager might feel a little more obligated to hire you, possibly, since the charge nurse gave her a heads up to begin with. I like your personality: I can tell you are a go getter with your statement "losing this opportunity is not an option". Go get them!

vtach1: You are doing everything you should be doing and also following up as you should. At the end of the day you will end up in a good position. Please, for your health and your sanity don't worry to much about things. I understand you need employment but it will happen as long as your striving to make the right steps. Your post seems as your going well beyond the norm, so your doing great. Hope is the only thing you should have. You can't allow other people incompetence to diminish your hope. Otherwise, no one would ever be hopeful. Some people don't like other people for no reason at all. Others don't like others because of jealousy. There are a million reason why sometimes people don't get hired. Don't worry about it, do you. At the end of the day you keep being an honorable person and things will work out for the best. Let us know, what happens with your situation. So, please update the thread, thanks.

Good post! I think the answer is for the most part people tend to be selfish.

No, I don't have a crystal ball but why stress out about things you obviously don't have any control over. Stress only causes one to become ill and does nothing to change someone's situation. If anything stress will cause one's situation just to become worst. Everything in your life won't go your way this is obvious. Just take life as it comes and when life throws lemons at you make lemonade, when able. In all honesty, I am apart of more than one forum and I find nurses to be emotional based, which sometimes causes them to be irrational. Anyhow, this has been my experience the short time I have been on these boards. You can't even have a positive outlook on this board without being attacked or someone making a sarcastic comment. Anyhow, I think she will end up with the job since she seems as if she is being, so proactive in gaining this employment. If she does not, she will gain full filling employment somewhere else and life will go on. Some of you crack up me up with the way you view life. I will end this post mulan with this question! Do you have a crystal ball, since you seem to know the outcome of this situation, lol. Otherwise, why would you ask if I had a crystal ball.

You will get the job, relax.

You are reading to far into my statement. I don't believe that everyone is out of a job because of their own negligence or because they are not hard working individuals. My statement was directed towards the individuals that went to nursing school that assumed that they were going to have a job when they got out by, hear say, after the job market was saturated already. I'm not talking to the individuals that went to school and the job market suddenly changed for the worst. All i'm saying, is that in this economy you really need to network and get out there and be noticed, "The squeaky wheel gets the oil". Coming from my own business where networking was everything I should know. My business dealings dealt with word of mouth and getting out there and being known, otherwise I wouldn't have any income coming in. So, you can qoute this because this pretty sums up what I'm trying to express. In this economy you have to exhaust all options. When I say exhaust all options I mean the following. If your having problems paying your mortgage, get a roommate. If you don't have a job in your related field get a job in another field while still applying to jobs in your related field until the mess gets cleared up. Take a pay cut if needed it is only temporary. Network, network, and then network some more. Most jobs are landed because of networking not because of credentials. Call me what you would like a optimist, a realist, or just an *******, " I call it how i see it". I was just trying to inspire and give hope to people that are having a hard time finding a job in the slugggish economy. I understand that you might not land your dream job or even maybe in your related field temporarily but at the end of the day you have to do what you got to do. Some of you are very sensitive, don't take it to heart. To you not so optimistic people I guess you will never get a nursing job the rest of your life, things won't work themselves out, life is horrible. There ya go! What happens to any living organism when It seizes to adapt, it goes extinct. I hope some of you see my point! Well I hope the economy gets back on track, so that my fellow nurses will be employed and have lucrative careers. After all, that is why you went to get your education.

I would like to first start my 2nd post in my own thread to mention that I am a male, not a female. I realize that most nurses are females, so I completely understand the assumption. I see a good amount of the posters on this thread assume quite a bit. Correct, I am not a new grad but I have been in the medical field nearly all of my life, literally. I have been in the industry for years, so I am aware what I am getting myself into and I realize what the job market looks like. I'm not to worried about getting a job when I graduate. I have a good amount of connections with doctors, nurses, and surgical techs working in the hospitals. I also, presently work for a owner of a homehealth agency, which is a rn. Yes, I am a optimist but my views towards life has treated me well, thus far. It seems as if there is alot of hard feelings on this website, so let me give you a little bit of background about myself, then make your own judgements. I had my own business for a couple of years and at this time I was making near six figures. I decided for my 21st birthday to buy myself a house, which I did. A couple of years down the road the economy hit rock bottom, guess what happened to my business. I had money saved up but that was it. I had no real income coming in at this time, all while I had a 700.00 dollar a month car payment and a mortgage. So, I went out everday for about 8 hours a day until I could find a job consisting of shift work. Do I make as much money as I did before, No. I make an average rn salary though, as of right now. Eventhough I was hit by hard times I was still able to manage to pay off my car, save up enough money to pay for all of my schooling before I decided to even enter nursing school, for the exception of my master crna degree in cash. So, in conclusion I know the economy has hit some of you hard, it has hit me. I'm sorry, my optimism has disappointed some of you. I am in no way trying to brag. I just figured some of you should know where I'm coming from before you shoot me down. Forgot to mention, I'm doing all of this while I've only attained my highschool diploma. Call me lucky, call me knowledgable. As for the posters that weren't aware of the job market before they decided to get in to this career, I can only be so sympathetic. Your complaining about not being able to find a job but it seems as if you started out not doing the proper research before getting into this field. So, may I ask, are you doing the proper things to acquire a job since you seemed to lack the ability to do proper research in the first place. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. As for all of the other optimistic posters I'm sure you will be first in line when the job market opens up, keep your heads up. Thanks, for all of the positive and negative posts. I will agree to disagree with some of you. I am an optimist to a point but I am also a realist. In this economy, if you haven't networked and exhausted all of your options you are not ahead of the curve, I digress. Adios!

I figured I would just like to post to keep hope alive for some of you. I'm not a nurse yet, Though I'm attempting to become a crna. I see alot of individuals posting about how they are having a hard time finding a job. What you must realize is that you will eventually get a job, nothing stays the same for ever, I can assure you that. As long as you are a hardworking individual and are doing the things that you need to be doing to stay ahead of the curve, you will be just fine. I will tell you that I have never had a problem getting a job and I believe because it is my outlook and that I'm hardworking. Ask yourself these questions and you will see that you shouldn't be that concerned. 1. Do you really think that you will go forever without a job in a nursing career after graduation? HIGHLY UNLIKELY 2. have you ever been in a situation and thought you would never get out of a tough situation? EVERYTHING ALWAYS WORKS ITSELF OUT IN TIME 3. If everything has always worked it's way out in the past why would this be the exception? It IS NOT.

(SOMEHOW THIS THREAD GOT MISDIRECTED..MODERATORS CAN YOU PLEASE PUT IT IN THE RIGHT LOCATION, THANKS.) Hi, how is everyone? I would just like to introduce myself. My name is Mark and I reside in Austin, Texas. I have been on this site for awhile now, as you can see this is my first post. I mainly, read through threads and gather useful information to assist me in reaching my future endeavors of becoming a nurse. This site has been very informative and helpful in my decision making. I have set out to become a CRNA and will not take failure as an option. I currently hold a position in the home health industry better known, as a home health aide. I am not licensed in my related field. Thus far, I have been EXTREMELY fortunate to make a great living without being licensed or hold a degree in any related fields. The last 10 years, I have worked for some very prestigious wealthy individuals, which allowed me to make a great living in a field that is known for such low wages. My position held, has allowed me to meet presidents and the like. If I was to tell you, what I have earned in my position for the last 10 years, some of you may quit being nurses and become a home health aide or thought I was being misleading. Though I would not advise it unless you are as lucky as me, ha. I was constantly told by individuals of whom I was employed by that I was a very bright individual and that I needed to look further into my future goals. I always thought, I was half bright and half remedial but I chose to agree to disagree, lol. I came to a realization, through self-reflection, that I was being enabled of reaching my future goals through incentives, which was completely true. I am aware that as "cushy" of a job that I had, nothing last forever. So, I proceed on to my next destination. Here I am, presently at the age of 28, doing things completely different than the norm (backwards). Maintaning a mortgage that I have had since the age of 21, while I go to school. The pros, being that I am fortunate enough to have all my nursing school paid in full before I even enter. The con, is that I am giving up a "cushy" job to work my ass off in a very demanding field. I can't lie, I have been very apprehensive of going to school for nursing because of the job outlook and new grads having such a hard time getting a job right out of school. I know things will turn around for nursing though, as nothing always stays the same. I have been accepted into the fall 2011 nursing program, I have completed all of my prerequisite and co-requisite course work and did exceptionally well. I have realized that I need to move on because I feel the need to full fill some self-gratification motives. I am sure, I will reach moments where I feel overwhelmed and will need this site to vent, lol. Anyhow, I am looking forward to discussing nursing on this great forum. Here I come nursing!