Mrs149

I am struggling with wearing my natural hair at work also...and in life! There were recently laws passed preventing discrimination against natural Afr. Amr. hair styles. I always try to balance out the youthful look my ponytail may give with knowledge and education to my patient's. It comforts them and gives them confidence in me as a nurse no matter what my hair looks like.

How do you do it? With a nurses schedule and a police officer husband schedule how do you do it? I have recently been offered an ICU job after years of no bites in the nursing world after nursing school and after working a year as a dialysis nurse. This is a dream, but now I have two children (age 2 and 1month) and I can not figure out how people do it. We have wonderful parents who help us with caring for them, but with my new schedule we will definitely burn them out. I will be working a lot of evenings as will my husband and I have no desire to have my children sleep away from home every night. Any suggestions or info. on how everyone is making this work is welcomed. I also have to say to the nurses not getting jobs, I was there and some how went from no job offers to this!

To everyone out there i`m looking forb a glimpse of positivity. In 2010 I finished my RN/ and A.D.N. Iam a second career nurse who wanted to get married and start a family so I did that instead of.getting a nursing job. Now in 2013 I have completed my BSN with the hope that it will make me a more attractive candidate for nursing jobs, and no bites. Is there anyone that has secured a job years after not having clinical experience. Now that I have spent money on a BSN I guess my next step will be to spend more money on nurse refresher courses. I just need someone to tell me i`m heading in the right direction. I am ready to make a career change Ihave the degrees what do Ido now???

GRading for 4600 sucks

Can I just say the fact that the discussion post questions require a 6page reply just to answer the question is a bit much. 6 pages that's a ding dang paper. Week 4 starts Sunday Get'r done!!!!

You must have had a different TA. Because the TA now is taking off points if you do not answer thoughtfully and completely.

I think **** is a tough professor but N4530 is nothing compared to N4600. If anyone reads this don't take them together with SAM 3250! I can't wait til this is over I can't believe I did this to myself, but I'll be done after this. I will say I'm doing better in N4530 than N4600. Good Luck to you

AGREED

Nope! Check out the posts about N4600 makes me feel better that other people feel the same way.

If you take 3250 don't buy the book Difficult Conversations get it from the library for free. And actually READ the book! And don't wait to the last minute if you hate reading books!

4600 has definitely not been a chill class. This is the hardest grading that I have experienced at OU and I am supposed to graduate in June. This is ridiculous I feel like if the grading was consistent throughout I would have been prepared for this type of scrutiny. At least there is feedback on how to better the content but in only 5-weeks you are already at risk if you did not do well on the first discussion. In the beginning I used to focus more on discussion posts but in the other classess I felt as if they did not matter...at least I did not feel the grading was this stringent. I spend so much time on researching for one discussion that I don't have time to complete the others. The Prof. is the same fro 4530 and that class has discussion posts that are 5-6 paragraphs who wants to read that? I have to research write my own 5-6 paragraphs then read critique research and comment aagain on someone elses. TOO MUCH

I am taking N4530, N4600, and junior SAM writing course all at once on line right now. These are my last courses to graduate and throughout this entire program the grading has not been this hard; it has caused me to slack in my writing skills and now I'm getting docked for it. This sucks. The professor is the same for N4530 and 4600 so I keep getting assignment instructions mixed up URG. I just need to slow down and only do one assignment at a time. This is the end I can't mess up now; this costs WAY too much.

As someone in this position who attempted to get a flu shot job. I even had on my resume that I gave volunteer flu shots at one of the biggest hospitals in the area. They still wanted someone with experience. I hope this works for someone else

My reply is late but I'm looking at nurse refresher courses, and the situation is different for those who have never had nursing experience beyond their clinicals compared to those who have actual hospital experience.

Hello, I received my RN in 2010, and did not look for a nursing position right away. When I did start looking I was so far removed from my clinical experience that job offers have been non-existent. What the nurse recruiters in the area said to me was "...your resume is great but my nurse managers want experience." (Understood in my current career I would not hire a chemist with no experience two years out of school, over those just graduating or with prior experience). Anyway, I have since returned to school to complete my BSN in hopes that it will help secure a nursing job...this time I think I'm really ready for a career change. But I do not feel that it will put me back where I was a few years ago. I have been reading up on nurse refresher courses and would like to know if anyone has attended any nurse refresher course in the Cleveland, OH area and how are they and any suggestions? Any help is welcomed, thank you.