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congradulations on being in school at UTM..i lack Spanish 222 and will finish it this summer and then i am through with UTM. It's been a good school and has been user friendly to non-traditional students like me...good luck on your education there.. i start over this fall at U of M and i hate change lol... enjoy your day...dave

would love to work there and attend their law school....dont care about graduate Nsg program..wonder if i could work there and they help pay for law.. ...probably just a fantasy...will have to stay with Ole Miss law school..enjoy your day...dave

I enjoyed reading your posts.......so I can readily assume you both have made it past philosophy 101. I needed those takes on your positions...I am playing online and came to these posts...its been such a day from heck and a brief respite from mundane subjects all day....lol ..i am so brain dead but that statement in itself would be admitting to I even have a brain and thats debateable......thanks again and have a great day...dave

what i hate most at work is the continual flow of the regulars into the ER. I have worked same ER for years and it seems I know them all and am sympathetic with most but the number is increasing and it seems like the few breaks we get from the real ER stuff is filled in with migraines, toothaches, and backaches. They also are catching on and finding out which er mds are working and they know the ones that are user-freindly. I dread my shift falling on the one when our "Lortab special Doc" is working. Our ER visits increase dramatically. I do have to admit to also falling into the trap myself. I have on few times suggested to new er docs, "I know that patient well, please give them a few lortabs or stadol and get them OTD, I need bed space." Sorry i am just on a rant today dave :balloons:

You are going to do great. It's not the material alone you are being tested on; it's your test taking ability. The test taking ability is all about you. The test is memorization and turning short-term memory items into long-term memory.Stress is the enemy of memory. It destroys memory when stress is used in excess. your quote; [Anyways that teacher ended up telling me after I told her that, she said I knew this was going to happen, I knew it since the first day.] your set yourself up to fail, you left yourself an out,[i knew it was going to happen]. Why? Your not a failure...No one that reads these posts in here are failures. Your a new mom and school is heck. I am also a single dad in school and work full-time....Trust me .. im no rocket scientest. If I can anyone can. Im a nurse but i am a senior in history and philosophy and i stress bad too some days. keep the stress in perspective. None of us are measured by our intellect but who we are as people. Tricks that have helped me on tests. Get the busy work done first day assigned. Try to study for the test (3) days prior. Day before the test read, review and dont cram, it dosent work. Have fun ..go work out at the gym, jog, whatever physical you prefer. Try Yoga, Tai Chi, Meditation, Prayer..(whatever works) use this short time for you...helps get you right for the test or anything else. I am very strong on the mental aspects of test taking..lots of studies out there on stress and outside interference wrecking our memory. Take control and be a winner. try doing this, "go look in the mirror and tell yourself, your a good looking mom and one heckuva parent and you will soon be one fantastic nurse". if you really did that exercise..bet you see a smile in the reflection. Anyway, If you and I both fail a test before the end of this semester ( It aint gonna happen) we are still winners..dont believe me ask your kid! Have fun.....enjoy....dave

well......im close, I am the older student that attends UTM and if i am a guessing right, i may even work with you. I know a Holly that is super with the patients and user-freindly to work with. I work the weekends while i go to UTM.... Even if you aint the one, I live at the university, in that little ole' town of martinenjoy your day...dave

congrads on going to nursing school. I am a senior at UT martin although my BS degree isnt in nursing. Ironically! at first thought , I didnt want to be a nurse..I farmed and was one of Ms's first EMT's in 1972 lol (I'm old). Another EMT said he was going to start nursing school and did i want to join him. I replied, "No way in heck would i be a male nurse, I was a farmer" but times as they were i went to an ADN program. I went untill the last semester and had to quit due to bad spring weather and my farming operation. Still had no idea i would become a nurse. I found out i could take a challenge exam for LPN and passed. i started nursing at a small hospital ER. I ended up working ERs for the next 25 years ( and the farm went downhill in 1983) i honestly enjoy the field of nursing. I love people and those years in the ER helped me develop good people skills. I afirm all those wishing to go to school for nursingNursing has been a great field for me. I have no real complaints. I have decided to change career fields after 25 years of nursing and EMT. Nursing allowed me the flexibility ro return to school while being a single father...I have got some tips on surviving school that have helped me....If you will go to one of my previous posts, you will find an article that includes these tips *********If i can do it..Theres a future for everyone********** enjoy your day!....dave

Im a senior at UT Martin ....my home is Milan. I have worked for several hospitals over the last 20 years in west tn. Most of the hospitals are very user freindly with a few exceptions.............dave

Autonomy, allows us to make decisions as individual persons; it is not (in this usage) a property of groups or peoples. So the autonomy that grounds basic rights and which connects to moral responsibility, as this concept is thought to do, is assigned to persons without essential reference to other people, institutions, traditions, or the like, in which they may live and act. We are real nurses and real people and we will continue to be respective of what others might assume our roles should be. And i am a less viscious nurse also...yikes.. already a long day in class. Thanks a bunch......and Yes i will take my Concerta before next post....dave Enjoy your day....

True.. i should have used better rhetoric..but i did get a reply and that beats "status quo"..thanks a bunch! enjoy your day...dave

It wasnt my intention to project we as LPN's werent "real nurses". The rhetoric of mine was strictly for sarcasm.....Reality is though the majority of hospitals and "professional nurses" dont consider us real nurses and there is little we can do to change that except to continue on in education.I have seen so many changes over the last 25 years and that is how i constitute my answer. *We have little say over being lower in the pay scale. *The career fields have changed in nursing and so has the LPN job description *The nursing lobbys in each state are overwhelmingly pro-RN, and those lobbies constitute large amounts of money for pro-RN legislatures. *I attend a university where there is a BSN program. There are already attempts underway to influence the state to decrease the status of ADN's. True compassion and caring for others is what we do, no matter what educational or experiance level we have obtain, whether we have a masters degree or a volunteer. I will go out on a limb and state, "Compassion and love for others isnt teachable, you either have it or you dont and i am afraid there are a lot of nurses that are finding out, they dont have it." So i am not picking on LPN's, I am one. I just want to be a stimulus for change. enjoy your day...dave

It wasnt my intention to project we as LPN's werent "real nurses". The rhetoric of mine was strictly for sarcasm.....Reality is though the majority of hospitals and "professional nurses" dont consider us real nurses and there is little we can do to change that except to continue on in education.I have seen so many changes over the last 25 years and that is how i constitute my answer. *We have little say over being lower in the pay scale. *The career fields have changed in nursing and so has the LPN job description *The nursing lobbys in each state are overwhelmingly pro-RN, and those lobbies constitute large amounts of money for pro-RN legislatures. *I attend a university where there is a BSN program. There are already attempts underway to influence the state to decrease the status of ADN's. True compassion and caring for others is what we do, no matter what educational or experiance level we have obtain, whether we have a masters degree or a volunteer. I will go out on a limb and state, "Compassion and love for others isnt teachable, you either have it or you dont and i am afraid there are a lot of nurses that are finding out, they dont have it." So i am not picking on LPN's, I am one. I just want to be a stimulus for change. enjoy your day...dave

look at my profile..been doing this since Genesis. Used to be proud of nursing as an LPN but i have seen the changes over the last (5) years. We are second class citizens now. The fault isnt the RN's or us; its the system. Supply and demand. I started (3) years ago at the Univ. of Tn to obtain a BSN and then while taking required courses, my grades were good and i soon realized, i no longer had to be a nurse. At my age of 50, i soon entered a pre-law cirriculum and soon to be in law school. I have no regrets as far as being a nurse for all these years. I recommend it for most all, but not as an LPN. You either are going to be content with being a second class citizen or realize you will always be at the mercy of a cruel job market. Go back to school and have your dream of becoming a real nurse. I know its hard going to school but you can do it. Heck if i can anyone can. enjoy your day dave