robin29860

on dayshift we circulate or do baby. at night we always circulate and do baby. if needed on nights we will scrub. this goes for both of th hospitals I have worked at in my area. we have other hospitals, but I don't know how they work.

Take the job. I work in a closed unit l&d which means we dont do post partum or baby stuff. strictly antepartum and labor and deliver. unless of course they are sick---pressure or whatever issues after delivery, then we keep them pp. I LOVE what i do. in this economy you prob need to take what you can get. unfortunately, I have been looking for a prn job doing something else and have found that i am in that "box". no one wants to hire me except for l&d or ob. I would like to expand my skills. i agree with previous poster that i do use med-serg skills and or and psych. but they want experience to hire me. oh well. i have a job that i love and am very grateful. just my .02

That is about right for labor and delivery in Augusta, GA, and Atlanta. I currently work l&D in Augusta and my friend also. She interviewed in Atlanta last fall and pay were a lot less than she and I expected to compare the cost of living in the two cities. Pay in Augusta al varies greatly between hospitals. $3-4 an hour diff.

Thanks so much for all the encouragement!!! It will be the same teacher and she said that it will be different this time. With all those powerpoint pages and pop quizzes, sounds like my class. I have now signed up to retake that, pharmacology and nursing research. I cannot continue in clinicals til I pass. Im not too worried this time. After all, I do know 76% of the info now!!

By one point!! I am (was) in my first semester of a BSN program. I took fundamentals, Theoretical foundations, Health Assessment, and Pathophysiology. I am definitely not someone who has to have their "A", although I think they are nice to have and I have had my share, but I have never, NEVER had a D!! I made a B in all the other classes and they could have easily been A's had I not spent soooo much time on patho. At my school the lowest passing grade is a 77. The instructors do not curve, or round up. I am proof. I failed patho with a 76.something or other. I am pretty sick about the whole thing. It now puts me behind, and I can never fail another course in this program or else I am out. Talk about pressure. I am not excusing myself, but my dh travels and I have a 15yo cheerleader in highschool, a 5yo who plays soccer and a 2yo. I guess I am just having a little pity party here and we all know misery loves company. I just wanted to know did anyone else here fail anything and still graduate? I really would love to hear some success stories....I will NOT give up!! p.s. My instructor in patho, was very kind and encouraging too. the class average on the last test was like 74(failing) and the class average on the cumulative final was 76. No one out of 40+ students got an A, and 15 of us failed. Only myself and one other was really close with in a point. UUGGGHHH!! Robin-Who can now work as a student nurse b/c she can only take pharmacology and retake patho this spring-no clinicals!

trying to be paitient. I turned in my application three weeks ago and the deadline is March 1. They only take 40 students and said I should know by mid-March. I somehow feel pretty confident, but I sure will feel better when I get that letter. I have all my pre-reqs and after this semester only micro and speech. Sooo Ill have nothing but my nursing to concentrate on. Well, that and my three children 14yrs, 4yrs and 2yrs old. Am I the only one who is feeling spring fever and just plain tired of school? I cannot believe I have accrued 48hrs in 18mths!! I hear the actual nursing classes will be a fresh change of pace from the academics Ive been doing. Everyone here needs to keep this post updated as we all get our YES letters !! Robin

This only makes about my third post, but I feel led here. I will be 37years old this fall and will hopefully be Starting my clinicals. I have a 14yo a 4yr old and a 21mth old. My best friend and husband is working in Florida and we live in South Carolina. That means I am virtually on my own with three kids-two of which arent even in school yet soooo.....YES YOU CAN DO IT!!! AND NO YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD!! Just to add to my story, I had no college behind me at all when I started in 2003, and I wont finish my BSN until fall of 2007. GO FOR IT!!!! Time is marching on regardless... Robin

Thank you to the op and to all of you who wrote back encouragement. I have a few friends that are nurses and they are so positive about encouraging me that I will love it. BUT-I have one or two relatives and aquaintainces that totally discourage it and tell me how bad and hard it is. I think the relative that bothers me most is my younger cousin. Not that any of this matters but she is 34yr old, never married, no children and has been a critial care travel nurse in California for about 5yrs. I am 36yr old, been married umpteen years have a teenager, a toddler and a one year old. I have worked about three jobs at minimum of 5-6yrs a piece. I started working in HS and never went to college before ever. I have always wanted to to this, but not until now has it become a reality for me. I think nurses (or people of any other profession) that discourage people should be shot. It is my time, my money and if it is so bad, why do they continue. Thank you ALL for the positive thoughts!!!!!! Robin