karen623

You can become a therapist by going to grad school which will accept your undergraduate nursing degree. Not a social worker therapist but maybe a lmft or lpc programs accept the nursing undergrad. If you become a psych NP you will mostly be doing medication management and most insurances will not cover psychotherapy from a psych NP. The program also does not provide anywhere near the same training to provide psychotherapy as licensed therapists get. I say go for your true interest because both routes require more schooling either way. As a nurse now you can start working in residential homes for people with SUD, eating disorders, or behavioral/mental health conditions. This involves documenting and administering medications but also allot of interpersonal communication with patients and emotional support so you can start getting into the field in that way.

Do they already have an order for PRN Tylenol? If not then you would have to wait until the doctor gives an order.

Any kind of debt carries risk and stress but student loans are particularly bad because they can not be discharged in bankruptcy, and they follow you for the rest of your life until you pay them off. Keep in mind the following factors: -The interest rate on the loans: it is very likely that you will be paying 500$ a month JUST on the interest alone. It is unlikely that you will get the full loan amount covered by federal loans and so you will have to resort to private loans. These private loans will have higher interest rates and do not qualify for federal income based repayment programs. -The 130k plus hypothetical income is the best case scenario and will have substantial taxes taken off. Keep in mind this is also not the typical income for a new grad nurse. -You may not be able to complete the program but yet you will still owe that huge loan regardless of whether you end up graduating and getting a RN license or not. Nursing school is an experience that is very much unlike the typical academic college experience. Even academically intelligent people find nursing school challenging. Some people find out in clinicals that this career is actually not for them. Inevitably some students end up dropping out by choice or failing out. It is something that you don't know until you experience it for yourself. If you need an 80% on a test and you get a 79%, it doesn't matter, you don't pass. Repeat the semester and get a 79% a second time? you are completely out of the program. You still made it halfway and also had to pay for an extra semester so you still owe 60k - Read all the posts on this forum of nurses burning out, having panic attacks the night before going into work, being depressed and anxious. This is not a rare experience, it is an extremely common experience especially the first year. Look at how many nurses leave the field every year not due to retirement but due to working in a different field. This is not a career that you want to go into debt for. You want to have the option to walk away if you have to. Now imagine this scenario: You took the time repeat some courses that you had low grades in. You get accepted into a community college of state school for nursing school. This might have taken you a year longer but you graduate with no loans. Lets say you absolutely love the career and you thrive in it, you find a specialty that you really like. You have no loans so you start working full time so that you can save up for a down payment on a home, or a car, or a savings account with 6 months of living expenses, or a vacation to travel the world. OR the opposite happens, you graduate and find that this field is emotionally draining and a bit traumatic. You have no loans so you can choose to work just two days a week and still have the ability to support yourself. You have no loans so you have the ability to take the lowest paid and more slow paced/enjoyable nursing job that still provides a living. You don't have loan payments so you get to start over in another field that you discovered is your true passion because later at 26yrs old you have learned more things about yourself. What you don't want to be is stuck, trapped, and regretting the life choices that the young version of yourself made. No debt (or low debt) gives you freedom of choice. .

I am an LPN dealing with an RN supervisor who is exactly like this. She is just abrasive, contrarian, just overall an unpleasant domineering person who thinks she knows best. Fortunately for me I work in a unit with several other LPNs so it gets spread around on everybody which gives us a break to keep her busy sometimes and makes things tolerable. We all try to avoid her as much as possible. If I had to be side by side with her in an office I could not deal with this. The problem with this is that the issue is so hard to articulate and put your finger on. There is this tension that you know is there but it is questionable whether the things she does would be a complaint worthy offense. It is a combination of a bunch of small things that add up and makes things very difficult. The challenge is that bringing up this issue to HR and working on it is going to require labor on the receiver's part and there is a chance there will be no change and now you will have to continue working with her with the hostility that she knows you reported her. In my case I don't have time for all that labor and report writing so I just live with it and let it roll off my back. In your case you might have a different situation and especially because you are pretty much trapped with her in an office all day. sorry I don't have any suggestions I just wanted to validate your experience, It's so frustrating!

I am an LVN I will be going into an RN program where they gave me advanced placement. It's an "lvn bridge program". I will be skipping the first two semesters of the RN program and going into their 3rd & 4th semesters to complete the program and get an associate degree/sit for the NCLEX-RN. So yes, if she starts a traditional RN program she will be repeating allot of the same material as her LPN. Another factor is that she already will have had experience with the specific test style of the NCLEX and in clinical skills. The CPA exam has a less than 50% pass rate and is known to be a particularly rigorous exam. The NCLEX has an above 90% pass rate in my state. Especially of the cpa material is not interesting to them it will be harder for THEM.

There is a high probability of getting charges dropped given that it has been so long, you were a teen, and your rehabilitation record. DA's normally want people to rehabilitate, and a good lawyer should be able to make a good case for you. Hopefully you have documentation of all the things you have accomplished and letters of recommendation/employment/schooling. The fact that you didn't committ another crime since looks pretty good too since part of the DAs job is keeping the public safe they take into account how likely the people are to reoffend if they get let off the hook. Staying out of trouble for 11yrs looks pretty good. If they do charge you, there is always a chance you can still get accepted into nursing school. You would have to explain the situation, be upfront , show documentation, same goes with the BON when you get your license. Yes ofcourse there is also the chance of getting the charge expunged. In that case your school will not be able to see your charge but the BON will. The BON does license people with criminal records, it is just a process of again showing proof that you are not a danger. They take it on a case by case basis and there is current no crime that automatically bars you from licensure. There are so many directions this can go. Do not give up on your dream, there is so much hope for you. We need more people in our field who understand addiction and recovery. Addicts in recovery are some of the most humble,non-judgemental, and compassionate people I've ever met. Good luck!

Ask them specifically what your job description entails, some places are assisted living where the patients are mostly independent & take their own meds or they have CNA's who are trained to administer medications. If you have to pass meds and do full nursing care on 84-120 pts, do not do it! Don't put yourself in that nightmare. Have you looked into home health shift care? When I was a new grad the nursing home was too stressful so I ended up working for a home health agency. I took care of a little toddler with a GT and trach in his home, they had so many parents on a waiting list because there weren't enough nurses. The parents are usually very controlling and micro managing but once you show them you are competent and trustworthy they will love you forever. They are so overwhelmed they appreciate the help. Drug rehab places, group homes for teens with eating disorders or behavioral issues also have low ratios usually 6 to 1 nurse. Look around and try different things out. You can always leave during orientation if it's awful. Good luck!

I know I posted this three times by accident, anyone know how to delete it?

I am 21 and a new lvn with about 5 months working now and I just want to know if all of this is normal. I am very unhappy with my job, I have on average 18-26 patients, I don't have a permanent assignment so they vary, I never get a chance to get used to my assignment and my patients. This is how it goes, first day: really behind second day:better third day:actually acceptable, then BAM new assignment and start over. I've been a treatment nurse just weekends, and in every single medication cart in my facility which is a half sub-acute half rehab. I always end up leaving late, ALWAYS. Yesterday everything was going great, I had good timing. Then a patient comes back from dyalisis and is shivering, the supervisor asks me to check the blood sugar and its fine, so she says just cover her with blankets probably just cold. Obviously she doesn't look right so I take full vitals and her bp is super high and 101.2 temp. so after that it is my job to take care of this very sick patient and monitor her, and also get a urine sample from her, when it is two hours away from the end of my shift and I still need to manage the other 25 patients and finish passing my meds. To say the least I finished very stressed and rushed and left feedings almost empty and even forgot to change the trash in my cart, how does that look??? I feel so bad about yesterday how I left everything so crappy, I still left one hour later trying to finish the paperwork though. I also got yelled (and I mean literally) at by a patients mother for not giving him his meds first because supposedly everyone knows he goes first. At this point my old minimum wage job is looking pretty good right now and I am even thinking of calling them up! AM I A QUITTER??? is this NORMAL? because I see other people who do it (my coworkers) so why can't I?

why waste a year going to school to be an MA when you will ultimately end up going to school for nursing? CNA is cheaper, shorter program.

Can you describe the "KPT" test?, is it a basic math and English test? getting into a private lvn program is not hard at all. As long as you have basic math and English, a high school diploma or GED, you can get in.