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Hi, I guess I just have a few questions. I am considering....just sort of thinking this out...but considering changing my major to nursing. Right now I am going to Mott, in my second year and am currently in the Medical Practice Management (billing/c...

Thats interesting. I have had four babies, only one of them I had a female physician for the birth. I don't think I really cared either way about my ob/gyns gender. Really, when "push comes to shove" (lol) what you want is the person who is going to ...

Im not sure how honest I should be. I should have my phlebotomy certification by May and hope to start looking for work at that time. My last job was more than 9 years ago, and at that time, I didnt have my current situation, so Im not quite sure wha...

I am considering taking the classes for CNA, while I finish my degree, so that I can get working now. I've done direct care before, and I liked it, but I wonder if my experience was typical, bc I wouldn't like to repeat that. Although I enjoyed the ...

How do you set up a resume when you've been a stay at home parent for a long while? I mean, I have worked in an office, with pregnant teen or single moms in crisis, I've done direct care for the elderly, I've volunteered in the past at foster care ho...

My son is very daydreamy, sometimes has trouble focusing. After he was retained in the first grade, his very well meaning teacher asked me if I would ask his Dr. about the possibility of ADD. So, we had an appt with a developmental behavior ped, who ...

I am going to be looking for work hopefully starting this summer, and often see job posting for dialysis center like Davita. I would be applying as phlebotomy/patient care tech type positions. Reading about dialysis centers sounds interesting. I wo...

when my son was 3, he could swallow a whole handful of pills at once...but he had to do it dry, couldn't coordinate swallow pills AND a liquid at once. But, he knew he had to take them. Now, he's nine, not only does he take his own meds, but he can a...

Oh, Goldsj, I was just reading and thinking, about what it is probably like from your point of view. It made me remember a rough week a couple years ago. My dad died very unexpectedly, and as we were very close, I was really just very shocked and stu...

Interesting thread. Im not on your side of the fence yet, but let me say from the other side of the fence, that having a sick kid is really scary. Having a sick kid who isnt going to get better (ever) is horrifying. Knowing that a nurse can kill yo...

My mother told her lawyer (and I was sitting there, mortified, bc she hadn't discussed this with me first) to put it in her legal papers/will that I am to be in charge of her when she is old and sick and cannot make decisions for herself. She wants i...

I am currently a student, and for me right now, school is basically my job. Im serious. My kids future is depending on me succeeding in this. I can't tell you how much it floors me when I hear classmates say things like, "You only have to show up onc...

Thank you. I really do want to learn to do this the right way. :) It can be hard to apply class learning to real life situations. In class, we are told, "Even looking for a vein or putting on a tourniquet w/o consent is battery. You will be sued. Yo...

Okay, thank you for explaining that. So, if this were a small child I would say something like this: "Okay, I understand what you are saying, but Nurse so and so can't come right now. If you need to use the bathroom, I can take you. If you aren't rea...

I would love to be in a situation where I am working and can pay for my own school. Unfortunately, in my area even the part time jobs at McDonalds are being fought for. The factories have closed. Businesses shut down. The nice neighborhood I moved in...

Im bummed. I saw an advisor yesterday at school, and the good news is that almost all the classes Ive taken so far for the business associates will go toward the nursing degree. My gpa is good (3.7). I could finish the prereqs throughout this summer ...

I have a serious mountain dew addiction. Its a problem. I keep trying to stop, but I am always tired and I can't get past the withdrawal migraines. A year or so ago, I took my son to an ER for a really serious asthma flare. Our room was right outsid...

This kind of thing confuses me, and might be more clear once I'm into the clinicals part....but, say for instance, right now Im in phlebotomy. We spent an entire chapter/quizzes/tests learning about assault and battery. assault: the threat or attem...

REALLY? Oh, I will start calling at 9 on the dot, when they open. :):) I wonder why the advisor didn't mention this possibility yesterday? Im sitting here looking at the business/computer classes I need to complete for the business degree and just HA...

When my husband started college two years ago, he considered going into prosthetics. His advisor told him there was no future in it, and suggested polysomnography (which he was not even remotely interested in, but did it, bc he wants to find work). A...

I am in college right now (medical practice management/business associates) and am considering switching to finish the needed prereqs for nursing. I've been reading and thinking, reading and thinking. I'm curious about some things and just not sure ...

thanks. I think, if at all possible, I'd like to stay at Mott. Initially, I'd like to do the RN and then maybe go further. I know so many people who are quitting, moving, or transferring to get away from the waitlist, maybe the waitlist will shorten:...