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Hardly anything was given to us. We had access to everything on "Blackboard" if we needed to turn it in we usually had to print it ourselves. If you wanted to write on your syllabus you had to print it yourself. I think I would have rather purchased ...

I heard of a PCT who had some 1100 to 2300 shifts - sounds like the perfect rotation to me!

I hate working 12 hours and not being able to do anything else on those days, but mostly I just hate working nights. I would put myself on the list to switch to days, but I need the extra money. All that said, I would hate working 5 days a week even...

Whether or not you can work while in nursing school all depends upon you. I have friends that worked practically full time. I worked in a nursing home through out nursing school. I worked 2 -3 days a week my first year, and a lot less the last year. ...

I just took my final exit exam for nursing school at 38. I earned a Bachelor's degree in four years right after high school but I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. Nor was I that good of a student. I was smart but I did not know how to st...

I am a Christian and I served in Christian outreach for 10 years before deciding to go back to school and study nursing. The only fast Bach program in my area was at a Baptist university that required religion or Bible courses as a pre-req. I decided...

There may be no grounds for refusing to place the PICC line. But I think that you are going to far to say that as a nurse you have no right to refuse the order. We couple of months ago I attended a mock trial presented for the Texas Nurse's Associati...

I graduate in less than a month and probably will not get to take NCLEX before the end of January. I will study but not like in nursing school. I will not be opening up my MedSurge or Peds book. We have a mandatory NCLEX review the week after thanksg...

I have had good experiences and bad in clinical. This my last semester and I was really scared about getting my preceptor for this semester. My preceptor had never precepted before but rose to the challenge. The first night was rough because of compu...

I am not sure about assisted living, unless it is one of those Assisted living plus kind of places. I am a CNA in a nursing home/skilled nursing facility (also about to graduate from nursing school) and there someone should stay in the dining room un...

I am not an LVN but I work in a nursing home. In my state, most LVN jobs are in nursing homes (not all). In most nursing home the shifts are 8 hours, not 12. You should look into before and after school care in case you need it, but it is better than...

Ideally I sleep from midnight to 8. However, that does not work out if I pick up a 7 - 3 shift, or Monday nights when I have to volunteer on Tuesday mornings at 8, or even on Sunday if I am going to go to church. ALSO, I am starting my last semester ...

Look for a PRN job, possibly hospice? That way you can work more hours now, and work occasionally when you go back to school.

Like the first respondent said: brown bag it as much as possible. Ordering out is ridiculous, hospital food will get expensive, and your lunch break is not long enough to warrant spending half of it going to get food. Buy a bunch of Lean Cuisines for...

Pt does not sound AOX4 to me. There is a lot missing in this scenario. As others have stated, if pt was really AOX4 then call the MD and get an order for different treatment that pt agrees to, or get them discharged. That seems to be the 2 options: c...

Oh yea, RN - BSN programs are easily online only because they expect you to be working as a nurse, and thus do not need clinical. From what I have seen of the classes I will have to take to get my BSN they are mostly "BS." I am only doing because hos...

I am in an ADN program in the DFW area, and I was worried about finding a job, but as I am in my last semester I am more hopeful. Also, it helps that I am not limited to staying in the DFW area. Also, there are just a few hospitals here that will not...

I guess the question is: what is the difference between a professional organization and a union? Does National Nurses United provide collective bargaining and representation for nurses at individual hospitals? Or do are they a professional lobby grou...

I have worked as a CNA for three years in a nursing home with dementia patients and I have neither heard these medical terms not witnessed this behavior. I have heard of scatolia as fecal smearing, a behavior most often performed by mentally ill or a...

Were the questions related to how you work with others; teamwork; and ethics? One hospital I have applied at has a "test" that you have to take once (a year I think), no matter how many times you apply. I am not sure how they use it, but have heard t...

I graduate in December, and I expect to have to sign a contract for at least a year. We were told by instructors first semester that it cost a hospital around $75,000 to train a new grad RN. If you leave after 6 months, they have spent all of their m...

In some facilities you can get fired for talking about how much you are paid.

A CNA is a certified nursing assistant. This is a licensed career. You can call yourself a CNA without this license. CNAs who work in hopsitals are usually called PCT (patient care tech) or PCA (personal care attendant). The hospitals that I have not...

I will graduate from an ADN program in December, and I have been hearing over and over that most of the hospitals in the market I live in will only hire BSN grads. They do not even care if you are already enrolled in a BSN program (which I will be). ...

retarded: Occurring or developing later than desired or expected; delayed. With all of this talk about fat nurses and socially retarded [sic] doctors, what about doctors and nurses that smoke? Registered dietitians that know exactly what is health...