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I come from a very educational family. My mother is a teacher, her father was a teacher, her sister is a principal and her brother a superintendent. So naturally, I became a teacher. The first time I ever had any inkling that I might have a future in nursing was when my son was born and I cried almost non-stop the entire time I was in the hospital. As those wonderful women helped me through a terrible bout of post-partum depression, I thought, "I wouldn't mind doing this." I enjoy teaching. That has never been the issue. But of course, I enjoyed waiting tables just as much. I just like working. So when it became obvious that my family needed a little something extra, I remembered that time in the hospital and my stirring for the nursing field. I mentioned it to my husband and he agreed. I took longer to agree, waring with myself. Was this really the right answer? Should I really just give up on one life to start another? Months later I realize that the answer is "yes!" So here I am with an acceptance letter in my hand and excitement for my future. I can't wait!

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  1. Wait staff and flight attendant c/o customers

    Honestly, I'm surprised you haven't witnessed this. I wish I was in your shoes. Seriously, my nursing class voted on a class shirt: nursing: gave up my life to save yours. Ick, really?! Sounds good, but like NO ONE in this room is "giving up their li...
  2. Does nursing really suck that badly?

    I worried, too. And worried and worried and worried. Like you, I'd read posts on here and think, "Have I made the biggest mistake of my life?!" But then I got into it and I really like it.
  3. Tips for doctors

    I'm a new nurse. I love when the doctors are open enough to allow questions. You guys got more school than I did, and residency is INTENSE! You know a lot. And I want to know any info you are willing to share with me. And you want me to know it too, ...
  4. What can you tolerate the least?

    Scraping, cutting, breaking, drilling into bones. It makes my skin crawl just thinking of it. Already broken? No problem. But I will not be around for us messing with that. So, no surgeries where bone is involved and no IOs.
  5. teacher to nurse transition

    I love that if you've got a little snot of a patient, you see that annoying face a few days instead of ALL YEAR! Haha. Seriously, though. I loved teaching and I also love nursing. What I like about nursing is the lack of planning/grading. You come in...
  6. Yahoo news stated something to the effect of, "She was keeping her identity private, but we have exclusively learned who she was through her home location and nurse's license." Um.... what?!
  7. Easy to get a job

    Haha. Mystery solved! I'm Okie to the core, but my goodness are we backwards on way too many things.
  8. Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    When this started I totally thought you were going to talk about poop.
  9. Easy to get a job

    I've seen plenty of posts about how hard it was for people on here to get a job out of school. I'm wondering if anyone lives in an area like where I am, where the jobs are many and the nurses are few. Seriously, one job a friend told me to about, I f...
  10. Well, I didn't expect THAT answer...

    A guy came up to the nurse's station on the med-surg unit. The charge nurse asked, "Can we help you?" "Yeah," He replied, "my back is really hurting and I think I need to be admitted. I need some of that Demerol." We all just stared at him for a coup...
  11. Nurse Staffing Costs

    I think it's awesome that you've come to get ideas from people you know probably have good ideas. I've been a nurse for about 2 seconds, so I have no good ideas for you. Just wanted you to know I appreciate your effort.
  12. Things you tell newbies

    I'm still the months new. Went to a patient's room with an experienced nurse to start her mediport IV, my first. She asked, "Are you learning, or do you know what you're doing?" I looked her in the eye and said, "I know what I'm doing... and I'm lear...
  13. So, I now have two jobs two months post grad: Med/Surg the local hospital and PRN home health. The first job interview went like this: "You've worked here as an aid so we saved you a spot as an RN. Just let us know when you're ready." Second intervie...
  14. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    My dad kept telling people he was getting colostrum on his wound instead of collagen. We finally convinced him that the first was breast milk, but then he couldn't remember the real word. He would say, "It's not colostrum, it's that other thing." The...
  15. teacher to nursing?

    You have to decide for yourself. But I do know that a background in teaching would be applicable to nursing. Good nurses ate teachers.