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You'll probably be missing time if you go the ADN route now. It's not like you can apply over the summer for a program and get in the fall--probably the earliest would be spring semester, later if you have pre-reqs to take, and depending on the ADN p...

I would suggest getting your BSN after you're past your "fourth trimester", however long that ends up being for you. You could probably be able to do half-time for your pre-reqs while you're trying to get pregnant and during your pregnancy (if you do...

As I started to finish my first semester of nursing school I applied for probably at least a couple dozen patient tech/entry-level NA positions before finally was interviewed and offered a NA I position. I'm just started to get rejection letters from...

I wouldn't put my career on the line for cats. You called animal control, and that's where your responsibility ends--you don't have the training to walk into a stranger's house and deal with their animals. Cats are pretty resourceful and the chance ...

Your boyfriend sounds like an ass. Make it clear to him all the reasons why you want to be a NA, and then tell him he can support you or go somewhere else. I usually soften my responses with "You might want to consider" or "I'd suggest", but really,...

Um, WTH? For one "snake pit" isn't funny, and two, nothing HouTx said should have been taken the way you apparently did.

I find this thread completely unprofessional.

It does sound like McRoberts. How is this medical advice?

It says you have good grades--all that honor and integrity stuff, that's just what they say. There's no real vetting of that.

Including nine hours of pre-reqs, I'll be spending about a total of $8000 just for tuition for my ADN at a CC.

What school is requiring you to get a smart phone?

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I had mine 14 years before the titers, which came back too low, so I had to do the whole series again.

Not only is it too much, the degree you get is essentially worthless: those programs tend to be lacking in proper clinical areas so it's near impossible to get a job, and none of your classes will transfer should to you decide to do a RN to BSN/MSN p...

My school (CCAC-Allegheny) did a really odd thing in the spring semester: we were told we needed to buy the $170 books for first semester and they had to be from from school bookstore (though they said they'd make exceptions to people who had taken t...

No leader can force people to follow, however, you can incentive while CYA: what you can do is make it clear you're keeping track of everything (if you are, and if you're not, I would highly suggest it): that you keep attendance for each meeting, how...

I would say yes, that is too much to expect pretty much anyone to learn in six weeks. You _might_ pass all of them, but probably just barely--and probably be overstressed the whole time--so if your GPA is at all a concern, I'd definitely vote for dro...

I'll be graduating with an ADN in December 2013. I'm happy to say I finished my first nursing class with an A. Not sure I'll be able to repeat that in the future, but I'm glad I'm off to a good start GPA-wise since I plan on at least getting my maste...

True CPD almost always is a retro-diagnosis--it's extremely rare to be able to definitely say a mother cannot birth a baby before it happens. It's not medically sound to withhold nourishment and fluids by mouth on the basis one _might_ have a cesarea...

$20K is really not that much to walk away with after a master's. (Federal loan max with graduate courses is currently $138,500 if that gives you an idea.) It's up to you, of course, to decide whether or not it's worth it, but I'd suggest really think...

It looks like ECU is accredited by ACNM. There are distance-learning programs elsewhere so that might be another option for you. Best of luck! :)

Not everyone who eats/drink in labor is going to vomit, and even if they do, they still get nourishment/hydration from whatever they consume. Hospitals that follow the mother-friendly childbirth initiative allow freedom of eating/drinking as desired....

Considering you kept changing your story from you got the flu to you were allergic, my guess this is all in your head and/or you have an axe to grind.

There are plenty of professionals without a bachelor's degree--many technical programs are two years or less. A lot of professionals don't have degrees at all, especially in the tech realm. So that's not the greatest argument ever. Right now most uni...

A couple of good books for labor support are _The Birth Partner_ and _The Labor Progress Handbook_. The latter is more clinical. Both are by Penny Simkin. One thing a few people touched on that isn't in the books is the peanut ball--which is kind of...

This shows a lack of understanding regarding both vaccinations and viruses. And basic research, since you're convinced correlation equals causation. By the time you start to show symptoms of the flu, you've been infected for days, so the vaccine is d...