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The previous posting were correct. Try to eat numerous small servings of something low in simple sugars during your shift. Try finding some kind of snack bars or something you can keep in your pocket or the nurses station that you can take a bite or two now and then. This will keep your metabolism going when their is no food to digest you will start burning lipids. It is counter intuitive but it works. No Sugar or White breads will definitely help you lose weight. You need to change your eating habits. If you are getting home and eating a large meal and then going to bed that will not help as your body is not using the glucose it creates but storing it as fat. Hope you succeed.

I just finished my first semester of nursing school. this made me eligable to get a job as a Patient care tech. I got a position as an Emergency care associate or Tech. Since you are getting your CNA and will be enrolled in nursing school, I would try and get a position as an emergency room tech. I saw more my first week than I learned in my first semester of clinical. I have performed chest compressions in a code, done wound care, drawn blood for lab work just to name a few skills I have really started to learn. It has been a good experience so far and I now know I can handle the bad with the good. Also by working in a hospital while you are in school you are getting your foot in the door. Take any type of tech job now, you can always transfer to the floor or specialty where you think you might want to work when you graduate. If you are a good worker and they can see you want to learn you will be at the head of the pack when they hire.

If you are an A student do not be surprised if you are now a B student. Test questions can be pretty general and the fact that there is usually one answer that is considered correct but an additional one or two that could be correct was the most frustrating part of my first semester. They ask you to use critical thinking but do not always give you enough info to make the "correct" decision. Good Luck! You will see what I mean.

I would accept as you will be an RN in two versus 4 years. You can continue on and get your BSN while you are working as an RN and probably have it paid for by the hospital you are working for. Start working at a local hospital while you are still in nursing school. This makes it alot easier to secure a position once you are finished. Many hospitals in the Midwest are actively hiring graduate nurses and it will only continue to get better as the economy approves. If finances are not an issue and you do not need to work while in school have some fun and go for the BSN.

I am a first semester RN student that just received an ER tech position. One of the reasons I wanted the ER was to be exposed to more than the average PCT. I too am new to the healthcare field. I figured if I could work in the ER then I should be able to handle what Nursing will throw my way. I hope you get thru this. I remember my first day of clinicals when we were starting patient care, everyone said I hope I do not have to wipe any rectums today. I said I hope I do as at least I will have done it and gotten thru it. Then it will be over and done with. Obviously your experience on your first day was much more traumatic but it happened and you will now know what that experience is like. I hope that does not sound cold but I think as Nursing students we will have to deal with it and we better find out sooner than later if we can deal with it. Let us know how you do and what day 2 was like.

I think you are on the right track, I was just hired as an ER tech pending my successful completion of Nursing 152. I am in my first semester of an ADN program. I wanted the ER because it will give me more experience than the average patient care tech position. I also figured as I am new to the healthcare field that if I can handle the ER as a tech than I can probably handle the blood, pain, stress, and grief that comes along with this profession. Better to find this out now than after I spend two years in school training for a career that I do not want or am incapable of handling. I hope this helps and good luck.