soontobe_RN

i registered for my 1st clinical yesterday!!!. :yelclap: i had to take the evening clinical and they only offer that as a telecourse. at first i was a little nervous about taking a telecourse for clinicals but everyone i talked to said that it was ...

Congrats!!!:balloons: Work hard, don't give up no matter what, and always remember there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

i don't know how christiana is to work for, however it is a great teaching hospital!!!! the thing is b/c it is so big i felt a bit overwelmed. which is one of the reasons why i went to union. the other reason is b/c union payed their student nurse ex...

CCHS pays more then Union Hospital in Elkton and at Union we start out at 24$/hour (RN). GN gets 22$/hour. I'm not sure about LPN, but I know it is a little less. Benefits used to be great at Union but they recently changed and now, if you don't live...

well, i finally finished nursing school. now, i need to take nclex. i am preparing for the exam by doing kaplan complete online. my problem is that every pre-exam i have taken to see how i will do on nclex i have done really bad on. i am very discour...

congrats on the up coming graduation!!!!:balloons: my graduation in next wens (5/16). i am so excited that i have finished dtcc nursing program. my 1st two semesters were a breeze compared to the last two. i took the hesi exam today and didn't do to...

Sometimes the things we want are not the things we should have, (or do in this matter). I am glad that you are refusing to give up, and I never meant for you to take what I wrote in that way. If I had I given up close to 10 years ago, I would not hav...

First of all, let me say that I strongly feel you should find a new career, as well as get involved in some sort of mental health counseling. I know that this is not what you want to hear, however it is what you NEED to hear. I am sorry that you are ...

Hello. I am a student nurse however, my question is more personal. I am 16 weeks pregnant. today I had a prenatal appointment and my Dr. did an ultrasound just to make sure everything is developing like it should be. It was a level one ultrasound. Th...

well, it is april 2007, and i am hopefully graduating in may. i just want to let those of you who are just starting or will be starting the clinical program at dtcc stanton campus, the 1st two semesters are a breeze compared to the last 2 semesters. ...

I am getting ready to start my 3rd semester of clinical in a week, and will be graduating this spring(2007) from an ADN program, hopefully!!! I have recently got a job at a hospital as a Student Nurse II / Advanced CNA. I will be on the PCU floor (Pr...

Thank you for the advice. Tomorrow is going to be my 1st day on the floor working for 12 hours. I am nervous and excited. I will take your advice and be sure to put myself out there to the nurses. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks again.

where are you attending nursing school?

i live in newark which is not far from bear at all. bear is a decent area. i'd say one of the better areas in new castle county. depending on where you are moving to in bear, glassgow medical (not hospital, but is an emergancy care unit) is very clos...

I am a nursing student getting ready to start my first semester of clinical. I need to get professional Liability Insurance for Students. My shcool gave us an application for MARSH Affinity Group Services. The quote I received is $1,000,000 each inci...

Ever since I started on this path to nursing, my dream has been to be a pediatric Nurse. In fact, it was a pediatric nurse who gave me the courage to start nursing in the first place. This was after I had my 1st child. He had pyloromyotomy for pylori...

Thank you! That was so beautifully put. I give you all the credit in the world to work on that unit. Today in clinical we toured the Special Care Nursery. Next Tuesday, I am scheduled to spend the day in there with one other student. After the tour t...

Thanks for the feedback. I hope it does get better. I don't want to have to put my children in a plastic bubble. :chuckle I been thinking that since I will have all the education when I graduate, going or not going into Peds really won't make that mu...

I agree! It is the policy of the hospital, as well as, our instructors preferance that we do not get any children where abuse is suspected.Our instructors choose our patients ahead of time according to what they want us to experiance. We learn in the...

Actually, it's at least a 50 in the overall composite score and if you are to score lower than 50 in that, you still have a chance if you score a 60 or above in Reading. That is how it was when I took it Feb of 2004. They say you are competing agains...

I diagree with what one of the other members said about needing insurance if practicing as a CMA. The reason I say that is because I am also a CMA and we do not need to have insurance. Of course that is in the state which I live. All states can be di...

Hello, everyone! :wink2: My name is Jennifer (26y/o). I am going to be starting clinical at Stanton Campus this Aug. (05). I have finally finished all the prerequisites. I even took a few courses for BSN, while I waited one semester to get a sea...

As far as how many points you need, I don't know. What it is, the school will give you so many points if you pass the NLN(pre-entrance exam), no points if you don't, then for certain prereqs. they will give so many points for an A, so many for a B, a...

They changed the admisson process b/c DTCC was losing students left and right. It is one of the only schools in the area that requires you to take the NLN, and their waiting list was causing people to re-consider going there, even if they are the bes...

I am in my 1st semester of an ADN program. I should graduate spring of 2007, hopefully!!! In one of my 2 nursing classes for this semester we focus mostly on community-based nursing care. With that, we have learned a lot about where nursing will be i...