EP, RN

iMovie, it doesn't matter. The company is not loyal to the employee, so there shouldn't be expectation of the opposite as long as you have an "interview reason"

Why are you running IVF through a central line without a pump...or any line save a RR or code? A pump should never allow that to happen.

You live in Dallas, so everyone is a 30k/yr millionaire...still, yes, we make very good money. I make more as a nurse than I did as an engineer. I make almost as much as my wife, who is a university professor (and I would easily make more if she didn't bust her ass teaching every extra class they asked her to). For our educational requirements, we are a well compensated bunch...and deservedly so.

IMO, both have a lot to offer, and neither is preferred over the other as a group. It just depends on the individual and how competent/good they are at their job. (Note: that is my opinion; I have absolutely no familiarity with what current research, or past for that matter, states.)

I'm not a hospice nurse, but I work with them a lot. IMO, once people experience hospice, they'll never ask that again.

I made it to the point of rescheduling and it wouldn't let me, that's how I knew I passed. Not sure how it works in your state, but MI updates their website daily, so that you can go to the LARA site and type in your name and if you passed the state will have already issued you a license number. I took my test on a Friday, so I had to wait until Monday to know. It sucked.

This is what I was going to point out...besides the year or two immediately after 9-11, nurses are consistently ranked the most trusted profession. People say things because we are with them when they are most vulnerable; don't take it personally.

Also in MI...it took about two months, but that's b/c I spent a month applying to nothing but hospital jobs and then didn't apply anywhere for a couple of weeks b/c we had company in from out of the country. Applied at an assisted living place and got a job in less than a week. Don't be afraid of LTC. I still work there b/c I have a good thing and it works for me, but I know plenty of people that worked in LTC for a few or six months and then went to a PCT gig.

Another engineer here...moved to Michigan in 2010 and good luck getting a CE job here then. Bounced around a couple of years doing anything I could before applying to nursing school. Wished I would have done it ten years ago.

Our lectures almost always start before noon and continue until early afternoon...that means I'm gonna eat, as is 75% of the rest of the class. We've yet to have an instructor or professor who cared.

I have an MDF that I paid about thirty bucks for. It's probably not the best stethoscope in the world, but it more than sufficient, especially for school.

I have just a plain ol' Eddie Bauer backpack. Like others have said, I don't actually carry my textbooks a lot - once or twice per week, probably. Several people I go to school with have rolling bags and they really like them, but for me it wasn't worth dropping the extra money when I already had a perfectly good backpack.

Solid white Asics walking shoes for this guy. So comfy; so ugly.

31 here. *waiving* I'll be 32 when I graduate in December. My cohort has 29 students and at least a quarter of us are in the 30+ club.

I don't know if it is universal, but the no. 1 rule at my school is do not pass a med without your clinical instructor in the room b/c you will be dropped from the program. For the OP, I think a lot of whether or not you get into the same program or a different one will have to do with how you handle the situation after the fact. But again, just my opinion. Edit to say: Good luck! I hope it works out for the best for you.

I agree with Soldier Nurse 22 that those things vary between students. I am a "big-picture, visual learner" (if that makes sense), so I am not going to get much out of just reading a chapter in a textbook. The teachers that I have learned the most from use/used a lot of case studies because it helps me to "see" a scenario and then break it apart and discover the details. I think that also feeds into the importance of our first year on the job...so much of it is just seeing different things and building a foundation of knowledge. As for skills vs. critical thinking, they are both equally important, imo, if for no other reason than to have confidence in your ability whenever it is time to perform a task.

FWIW, many of my fellow students work while going to school; however, most of us that work as CNAs or PCTs do so at facilities where we have been for some time and so we have flexibility. For example, I was an aide at my facility for nearly a year before starting school and was able to get moved to per diem. If you can land a per diem job, it makes working a whooooole lot easier. That being said, first semester is rough due to clinicals, skills labs, lectures, and just the shock of everything. Bottom line, I am in the end of my second semester and currently work about two 8 hr shifts per week with one on being on a Sat, but during med/surg I might have worked three shifts the entire six weeks.