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yes :chuckle this board has been VERY helpful i heard that nurses first practice their injection skills on dolls. is this true? was your first human injection a patient?

so all registered nurses have to learn how to give injections eventually, but if you dont like doing it you can choose to do something that does not or require little of giving injections such as working in the surgery room. right? were you ever afraid that you might stick the needle into the wrong place? or is that impossible to happen?

Thnx! It's nice to hear that it is a great profession because I've read some posts with "we're so underpaid" and "im burnt out and it's only my first month" etc and it was starting to discourage me..it made me wonder if i should really go into nursing and i cant say that there are other careers that i also want to persue because i am only 19 yrs old :uhoh21: I've always been interested in diseases and their affects on people (im not morbid i promise =D and i dont want to work with infectious diseases at all) and although i dont do this anymore i used to watch surgeries on tv and i always find myself stopping the chanel whenever i see stories of people with disorders that make them age faster than normal, kids with bg, deformed faces or suffering from that mucus build up disease, etc. My dad used to freak out whenever I watched shows that took the viewers into the surgery room and when he saw a glimpse of blood he actually made me change the chanel even if he wasn't going to watch tv with me :rotfl: these are some of the things that brought me into choosing nursing as my career .. like ive said earlier in my posts .. im scared at the thought of having to give injections and seeing people die/suffer in pain, etc but i have so much interest in those topics .. also ive never seen people in critical conditions .. my life has been the opposite of what goes on in the hospital and that makes me hesitant to go in there .. so much responsiblies and death or life situations..also the bedside nursing worries me because believe it or not ive never done my own laundry before..maybe two times..but who knows, with some experience i might come to love it and with more experience ill become a pro at it

really...then im going to select those electives! :rotfl: (i LIKE this smily btw haha) oh and do all registered nurses have to learn how to give injections? i dont know if this is a bad thing but thinking about putting needles through people's arms, etc scares me also do you have to write papers or turn in research papers while youre in the bsn program?

I just want to say that I'm currently attending cerritos college right now and am considering their adn program so i can transfer to cal state fullerton then to long beach. how did you think of cerritos' nursing program? i heard that we have a good one but i didnt actually hear it from someone who has been there. It seems like you're struggling with grades, although I don't know what Kaplan is and what tests you're talking about because I'm still working on my GEDs..but whatever it is i wish you the best of luck and keep trying and your hard work will pay off eventually!!! :)

OHHHH so that's what I do or will do in my BSN program :rotfl: ok that cleared a LOT up! thanks! what was i thinking trying to figure out what my specialty should be when i haven't even had any hands on experience HAHA :chuckle

so med/surg experience is a must. and i will get the er experience only if i request for it?? also does the clinicals during your BSN program count as nursing experiences when applying for a MSN program? i dont think im going to jump right into the MSN program after i finish my BSN but just wondering..when they say that i need experiences that means jobs that i get outside of school on my own right?

yea..that's what a figured what im missing. nursing experiences! :rotfl: i havent even been to a hospital for years...i just wanted to get some info in nursing but one thing led to another and now im just full of info and none of them fit into places :uhoh21: but ill figure it out after i finish my BSN program =)

doesn't the school tuition increase if you go out of your state bcuz you're an out of state student?

so my clinicals will include meg/surg..will it also have ER and OR experiences?

why did you decide to go to a school that's out of state? if i may ask..

thanks to all the great inputs..i am now realizing that i have SO MANY questions bcuz i haven't had a single nurse experience yet! i cant wait to get in and find out what my area of interest is and specialize in it by furthering my eudcation :chuckle

so how does a PA's role differ from that of a NP?

is it possible to do everything as a midwife EXCEPT treat newborn babies that are ill? isn't it scary working with such small, fragil and not to mention ill and helpless beings? do all midwives have the same roles or are there different areas that they can specialize in? can you tell me what you do as a midwife? thanks in advance!

why would a person choose to be a PA over a NP and vice versa? ive often read that physicians are looking for a "physician assistant OR a nurse practitioner" to offer them jobs. this makes me think that they are very similar to each other. im not interested in setting my own practice at all so i wouldnt care if i dont have my own license. what's important to me is what differenciates them from each other in what they do and how they assist their physicians. i also want to know if both PAs and NPs work in the same settings. PAs are NOT NURSES right? and they have separate educational systems?