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  1. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo posted a topic in General Students

    Hi there. What a great, active board, informative!!! I feel lucky to have found you guys! I've done a lot of lurking and reading relevant posts and finally decided to ask my own specific questions....

  2. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    you read an awful lot into a lot less definite language than i actually used. i find that rather interesting. lot of fear-based negative people drawn to the internet, ever think about

  3. New Nurse...How to get Along?

    elljayo replied to RNAchot83's topic in First Year After Licensure

    it sounds to me like she knows she gets to you. you can kill her with kindness, as suggested, maybe even though it hasn't worked immediately it will over time. i'm learning to use techniques that...

  4. How valuable is speaking Spanish in health care?

    elljayo replied to edwindelahiggins's topic in General Nursing

    I'm seeing a lot of health care job ads that specify bilingual/spanish-speaking as a requirement these days, not even just a "plus." So i'm thinking the same thoughts - if I want to be be the most...

  5. Hopefully 2 job offers, how to decide

    elljayo replied to jitterbugg's topic in First Year After Licensure

  6. Ten things I learned the first month on the job.

    elljayo replied to ticklemenita's topic in First Year After Licensure

    fabulous post, thanks so much for sharing your experience. re your question in #6: I find that my mornings are great but something always happens around lunch that throws me off wack. I am still not...

  7. Hopefully 2 job offers, how to decide

    elljayo replied to jitterbugg's topic in First Year After Licensure

    yes, it will **** them off. but it will **** them off a lot less if you leave during orientation than if you leave after you've been assigned. i know burning bridges is bad and truth is i don't know...

  8. ASN at community college, then BSN?

    elljayo replied to JuLu1211's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    aside from all the negativity here on the board about finding work with an ASN (which is not what I'm hearing from my real-life colleagues by the way, and I work in a hospital), to me it makes total...

  9. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    i expect to get over my squeamishness, and am looking for helpful information on how other people have faced this issue, as i have no question others have. whether or not i'll be able to do it, is...

  10. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    "career" student... if working my way full-time through thirty years of education, two economic recessions, having two careers decimated by same, and going back to work my way back through another...

  11. best day at clinicals... worst day at clinicals

    elljayo posted a topic in General Students

    can you describe your best and worst days at clinical rounds (or at work period) and why? don't forget to include what type of nursing you

  12. best day at clinicals... worst day at clinicals

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    hip hip hooray for your professor

  13. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    i think if not psych nursing, where I'm really starting as the ASN is really a way to leverage my MA into something useful and employable in substance abuse treatment, i would really look hard into...

  14. Considering Midlife Career Change to Nursing, Seeking Advice from Current Nurses

    elljayo replied to dew8192's topic in General Nursing

    i strongly, strongly suggest you find a good career counselor - not just some life coach but an actual licensed counselor - who can properly administer and interpret assessments and help you find what...

  15. Non-clinical nursing - What is out there?

    elljayo replied to Sarah27's topic in General Nursing

    there are more and more "integrative medicine" medical clinics cropping up in my area - practices and agencies that try to integrate traditional western approaches with nutrition, nutritional testing,...

  16. How to explain how hard you have to work in nursing school

    elljayo replied to guest10's topic in General Students

    i get pretty angry with my family when i can't ask them for support when i need it, when i've always been there for them. so we communicate about it. a lot. repeatedly. i have to be a broken...

  17. Looking to move to a different state, but where?

    elljayo replied to JEP2011's topic in Nursing Career

    California unemployment rates are pretty awful and so is the expense of living. Texas is cheaper, but i don't know what the job market is like there (I'm thinking of Austin or around there eventually...

  18. BSN, RN and BA in psychology

    elljayo replied to trinhbui01's topic in Nursing Career

    oh and there's always the old M.D. :

  19. BSN, RN and BA in psychology

    elljayo replied to trinhbui01's topic in Nursing Career

    you could get an MA in psych (i don't recommend), an MSW, a PhD, a PsD, an NP or a PA, or you could try for something in public health (MPH) and do regulatory stuff, or bioinformatics (not sure what...

  20. now I am in trouble

    elljayo replied to lizbots's topic in Nursing Career

    how did this turn

  21. Emotionally attached to pts normal??

    elljayo replied to jdelgado21's topic in General Students

    i work in mental health treatment currently. i got into this line of work because i care about people. sometimes because of the nature of the work we get very close. but professional closeness is...

  22. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    some, only enough for about 4 credits a year (about 600 dollars - i work part-time - max would be 1500 if i worked full time, after 2 years). i definitely plan to take advantage of it, but it's not...

  23. Can You get a ASN if you have a B.A. in another field

    elljayo replied to Angela.RN2B's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    just FYI i was told i could not qualify for federal student loans for any degree less than a degree i already held. Since I had a BA at the time, that's the main thing that prevented me from going...

  24. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    i agree re. funding for the psych. i'm looking into grants scholarships etc. myself right now just for the ADN. I do figure once i'm in a position to make more money I can look into a BSN or...

  25. considering RN as career move, fears/concerns/questions

    elljayo replied to elljayo's topic in General Students

    i would, but it all boils down to cash flow. i just don't have any money. i can barely afford the community college classes. grad school is out of the question. plus, I really need to keep...