elljayo

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. First, some background. First - I am applying to...

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 that?

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 never occur to me (my nature is to be responsive and...

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 employable, especially as a new nurse, I would do we...

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 sure how to fix that yet. ANY SUGGESTIONS? Sounds t...

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 how tight your medical community is and whether b...

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 sense, especially if you plan to work your way thro...

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 another question. continuing education or qualifica...

"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 minor degree to try to leverage what education I alre...

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 do!

hip hip hooray for your professor :)

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 hospice care. i worked as an admin at a hospice for...

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 is going to make you happiest. Just dropping out...

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, testing for toxis, molds, food sensitivities, all...

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 record. i have to be very clear in what i need from th...

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 myself). I do know Florida and Orlando in particu...

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

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 degree you'd need, but it might be in IT - they ma...

how did this turn out?

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 different from other forms of intimacy, it's kind o...

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 going to come close to covering my clinicals. but...

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 for an RN back in 1992. i don't know if i was misin...

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 eventually a NP or PA if it seems practical. It's great ...

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 working while i go to school, most grad programs demand ...