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Hello, I am a second degree RN student (I have an AS is liberal arts-science, and a BS is communications sciences and disorders (pre-professional speech language pathology/audiology). I have 1 semester left of an ADN program. I am a practicing LPN is urgent/emergent care. I already have 216 undergradaute credits are 4 schools, and 8 Public health grad credits are another school. I have 36 FEMA certifications, a public health nurse ceritfication, an EMT-B, certified phlebotomist, certified EKG technician, certifican pharmacy technician, certified patient care technician. My goal is to get my MSN/ACNP and DNP/genetics. Can anyone give me guidance of how to do this the fastest/most inexpensive path? I am not getting any younger.

I love my 13 dollar sprague. I use it in educational, personal, and professional life. Since I am a nursing student, EMT, and HCW I go through between 2 and 3 a year. Everyone has a different taste in scopes. One person in my class had a littman cardio 3 (a very expesnive scope) and they couldn't find an apical pulse with it. It is all the person, luckily I can go cheap and still do a great job.

They are just trying to keep us down. Florence Nightengale liked nurses in white. She also didn't like men in nursing. She beleived only woman should be nurses. yes this was routed in that in her time it was one of few jobs woman could have. Just when I think of white I think of oppression. I will not be oppressed, I will rise and overthrow the machine. But I do love NAVY. I look so good in it. It is so slimming and really makes my eyes pop.

or (and this is just me) WORK IN HEALTHCARE BEFORE GOING TO NURSING SCHOOL Every single nurse I have met who worked/volunteered in healthcare before they even started nursing school had a job w/i 3 months... some w/i 2 days, of getting their license. Few people even had gn/gpn jobs. I am a strong advocate of knowing your future before you dive in.

to quote an old instructor of mine "Are you crazy, nursing school takes up 75% of your time, sleep takes up 5% of your time, that only leave 20% for work" Would it be nice to have a full time job, yes. but realistically unless you are a masochist it isn't a good idea.

I've worked with patient with AIDS and cancer.... to tell you the truth the cancer scared me more, not because I would cartch it but becuase cancer scares me. I only care if a patient has AIDS or HIV if I come in unprotected contact with their body fluids. AIDS to me is no worse then any other life long disorder, people now live normal lives with a diagnosis. TB does scare me but I've treated patients w/ it w/o knowing. Heck one time I walked into a small streatment room in an urgent care area (room was 4 by 12) and started drawing a pts blood and as I was finishing the nurse ran in, pulled me out of the room and told me "leave the door open till we can find a negative pressure room, they came up positive for TB." and no I have never been positive.

Hug me and told me I am already a nurse and no school or person could change that. I've had this happen 3 times in my life. First was a pt in an ED who came in with a simple tib/fib fracture but the nurses would not talk to her or beleive a word she said because she had a history of being a pathologic lier and a manipulative person. I sat and talked ot her and made sure she was happy and comfortable the entire time she was in the ED. She told me no one had ever treated her like a human, not since she was a teenager on the streets. She actually hugged me in the ED and told me that in her eyes I am more of a nurse then anyone around her has ever been and that I would change the face of healthcare. Second was a teenage driver in a car accident in which her friend died. While,she felt, everyone else was deamonizing her for a simple mistake (driving fast on an icey road), I sought her out, and made sure she was okay and comforted her and listened to her. She had a broken collar bone (not a major injury) but she was in psychological and spiritual distress from the car accident and her friend dying next to her. She hugged me the best she could with a broken collar bone and told me I was her nurse no matter what anyone else ever said. Last was a man dying in a nursing home (I wasn't working at the nursing home, just a visiting ombudsman). I felt like no one was paying attention ot him (and so did he). I sat down and helt his hand and jsut listened to him. The lalst words he said were "I wish you were my nurse, you actually cared about me enough to listen." I found out he hadn't talked since his got diagnosed with whatever killed him. He spiritually hugged me, I felt an energy (a warmth) fill me that I still feel to this day. Just goes to show you sometimes we, as medical professionals, don't listen as much as we should. At none of these times was I a nurse. Heck I won't really be a nurse till I pass my NCLEX.

Only practice questiosn I have are the tests (proctored and unproctored) and ATI books the school gives us. I found the books written by Saunders and Kaplan (for other things I have taken) to be as worth while as an oil retention enema to a person with profound diahrrea (I know wonderful thoughts)

I haven't dealt with this from a nursing standpoint yet, but I had things similar happened when in AP positions. Sometimes it isn't even what is said but how it is said. Case in point; I left one job becuase a tech was trying to bring me down becuase I wouldn't kiss her feet. Well come to find out a DON, the nurse manager of the unit, and a few others had been going out to dinner and had become friends. She has used her personal friendship with these people to try and ruin my professional life. I foudn this out after I left and she still spreads nasty things about me (this appears common in my life). I wouldn't worry and jsut take a job to get the one that bothers you off your record. If I wrote all the places in health care I have worked it would be 3 pages covering 4 years. I had a time where I changed jobs frequently becuase it wasn't the right place for me. Just take it easy and enjoy life. People suck as a whole, but if you let them control you, you will only ruin your chances.

I would contact a lawyer. While I think you should be punished for your poor choice... I personally feel you are punishing yourself. We all make mistakes and I hope nothing severe happens to you. Just be open and honest. A lying nurse appears to be more likely to lose their license then an honest one (I live in NY). Lawyers are expesnive but I have seen cases change by the meer mention of a lawyer being involved.

My school uses ATI testing. I have scored level 2 or 3 on nearly every test. My lowest is a 70% in pharmacology (level 2), next is Mental health 84% (level 2), next is management 85% (level 3), next is med/surg 71.1% (level 3). On the newest (pre-use) comprehensive predictor I got an 80% (unleveled becuase it has not been used before. I have a 91.27 (approximately) overall in my LPN program. DO you think I will pass? My school is fully confident I will, but I am scared out of my mind.

Before I went into nursing I got a bachelors in speech pathology/audiology where I found out I liked the more invasive area... Then I got my emt-b and that made me love nursing even more.... Then I worked in a level 2 trauma center for 2 years and that made me fervent I wanted to go above and beyond. There is nothing in the world that will stop me from reaching my goals. ! School blocked me because when I was a computer programming major I didn't have a good grade, another place I ran out of money. So I dropped down to LPN and am doing decently. But no matter what I will get my RN, BS, MS, DNP, FNP-HEENT. If I need to tell others my stories from the er till I get there I will. I've done 2 geriatric rotations (doesn't excite me but I do well). 1 psych rotation (loved it) 1 ob rotation (was better with the neonates then with the woman) I hate all the paperwork in nursing and how restrictive it is (if someone is dying I don't want to wait for some tight shirt doctor, I want to be able to do whatever is needed to help that person) but till I get my fnp I will be restricted. I am not in nursing for the money (after I pay off my student loan debt I care little about money) I am not in nursing for some self righteous reason (I don't think I can heal the world) I am in nursing because I love nursing. I've been abused (kicked spat on, cursed at, flipped, beaten, had people try and break every part of me, had my life threatened. I love the abuse. I've dealt wit h the death (while working) of people from every age group.