torchwood1

If you are getting ready to apply, I would recommend that you consider applying at several schools. I am currently at LaGrange College and absolutely love it. I ended up there after applying at several other public schools and getting turned down. Any how I couldn't be happier so I thought I would share. Good luck on your journey.

This is my 2nd semester. I am taking Pre-Pharm (Jan term) Mother/Baby Peds Med Surg I Pharmacology

I have to listen to music while studying. Typically it is something that I know really well so that I don't focus too much on the lyrics. My study music of late has been Florence + the Machine which I absolutely love!

I just finished my 1st semester of nursing school, and I can relate to some of your experiences. Our first clinical sites were at local LTC facilities, and while some of the nurses were great most just wanted us out of their way. We had minimal supplies, and were given minimal information regarding patients. I understand that we needed to learn to make our own assessments, however there were times that critical need to know info was kept from us and our instructor. Another experience was in a hospital where the CNA's (one who is trying to get into our program no less) left "sick" when we showed up. All that being said.... I was reminded by a mentor that you can learn just as much from a good nurse as a bad one. I will take that a step further and say I learned from my bad experiences as well as the good ones. I have learned to always carry my own equipment (which is a requirement for us any way), and to hit the ground running. I made it a habit to always find a way to be busy (feeding, changing, baths, etc.) without being prompted to do so. I found that I was met with a lot less resistance from the nursing staff than some of my classmates who waited to be given instructions. I just remind myself that I am there as an outsider. I am not going to try and change them in a day. I will report any relevant findings to the nurse and my instructor, and leave it at that. As long as I do my due diligence then I have done the right thing, and as horrible as it is to say.... it's not my license.