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I stopped working noc :) Never again unless it's an emergency cover for a different nurse and that's every blue moon but won't ever as a regular shift.

If you inflicted these scars then your mental health status should be checked out. How do they know you won't harm others. Also obviously uness you volunteer how you got your scars info how in the world would they find out. I'm just worried about your thinking process and how it may affect your critical thinking as a nurse.

There's some schools with horrible schedules, these schools are not made for the working student. Perhaps go to a school that will accommodate your schedule and or will make it possible to attend school and work. I was going to go to west coast university but they require saturdays, national does as well APU Azusa Pacific University has no evenings, no weekends so I'll be able to work in home health and work OT on weekends such as 12 hrs or double time for weekends and possibly one day out of the week. I don't know her location of course but she should choose a school to better accommodate working students

With all due respect although the NCLEX was hard, it wasn't that hard for me actually and I would have been surprised if I didn't pass. Actually I'm surprised many of my classmates passed. With that said, the bar is one of the most intense exams period. California administers what is widely considered one of the nation's most difficult bar examinations twice each year, in February and July. The California Bar Examination consists of 18 hours of examination time, spread out over three days. The only state with a longer exam is Louisiana, at 21 hours. California's exam is administered in the following manner: 1st day (Tuesday): 3 essay questions (9 am – 12 pm); 1 performance test (2 pm – 5 pm) 2nd day (Wednesday): 100 Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) questions (9 am – 12 pm); 100 MBE questions (2 pm – 5 pm) 3rd day (Thursday): 3 essay questions (9 am – 12 pm); 1 performance test (2 pm – 5 pm) The exam currently tests 17 different subject areas: Constitutional Law (Federal) Contracts (Common Law and Uniform Commercial Code) Criminal Law and Procedure Evidence (Federal Rules of Evidence and the California Evidence Code) Real Property Torts Wills (California law) Trusts Civil Procedure (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the California Code of Civil Procedure) Community Property (California law) Professional Responsibility (California law and the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct) Business Associations (Corporations, Agency, all forms of Partnerships, and Limited Liability Entities) Remedies The essay section of the exam accounts for 39 percent of the total score. Applicants sitting for the California Bar Examination do not know which of the 17 subjects will be tested on the essay portion of the examination. In recent years, it has become common for the exam to feature one or more "crossover" questions, which test applicants in multiple subjects. Examples of past-tested essays with sample answers are available on the California State Bar's website atPast Exams. California-specific legal knowledge is required only for Evidence, Civil Procedure, Wills, Community Property, and Professional Responsibility; for the other topics, either general common law ("bar exam law") or the federal laws apply. Beginning in July 2007, applicants may be tested on the California Evidence Code and the California Code of Civil Procedure in the essay portion of the exam in addition to the Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Applicants traditionally wrote essay responses with using pen and paper or typed them on a typewriter. However, since 2000, applicants have had the option of using SofTest software to type those portions on a laptop computers. The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) portion of the exam is a nationally-administered, 200-question multiple-choice exam. As of February 2007, only 190 questions are scored, and the other 10 are unscored experimental questions used to gauge their appropriateness for future exams. The MBE covers only the topics of contracts (including sales of goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code), real property, torts, constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, and the Federal Rules of Evidence. While the essay section of the exam may test one or more of these areas as well, the MBE section is dedicated to these subjects. The MBE counts for 35 percent of the total score in California. The performance test portion of the exam is designed to test practical lawyering skills by presenting applicants with simulations of actual legal tasks. This section counts for 26 percent of the total score. The performance exam is a "closed universe" setting, meaning that the only substantive information the applicant needs to know is provided during the exam. Even if cases and statutes are provided, they are often different from the real law in the area at issue, so that applicants who studied that area of law in law school will have no special advantage. Each performance test is worth as many points as two regular essays.

The hospital is in an area where we get a lot of Cuban and Haitian patients. Those aren't considered minorities or please use a better term which is people of color. What you're talking about are foreigners and common sense should tell you these people were mainly not born here so of course many may have a little more respect because they are super poor and not used to medical care. I think the cubans are though and some could be scared of receiving medical attention since many of them are not citizens. This post is very biased, we all have our own experiences depending where we work and I bet you if you were in certain cities where people of color who may happen to live in lower class neighborhoods since many people of color also live in (middle to upper class neighborhoods) you would not be singing the same tune. Remember you have encountered many foreigners not necessarily people of color born in the U.S. Remember there is good and bad in every race, culture, religion, citizen/non citizen please don't generalize like that especially because where you work is around many foreigners not in the lower income neighborhoods where you have to watch your back to make sure you are not a victim of a gun shot, gang activity etc.

Always check the reviews for anything you're planning spending money on, just google them. Plus I heard hospitals want acute care experience NOT necessarily training alone

Hello, I'm a new nurse but within a few weeks I'll have my year with my LVN license. I've been working in home health all this time with a few agencies. I was thinking of transitioning to either a long term (convalescent) or some type of facility that are still hiring LVN's because its stable work compared to home health. In home health sometimes the client or parents change hours which may not be so bad but some may change actual home health companies which is a problem because unless that home health hires you then you have to look for another job/client etc which may takes weeks for a case to open up etc. I'm with 4 agencies for this reason so I can take a case I feel comfortable with as they come in My question for LVN"s who has worked at long term and other facilities is what will I be expecting and what skills do you think I should brush up on for this new career? I know it's different than home health, my skills are limited to home health which are with trach patients, such as trach care, suctioning. I'm certified in mechanical ventilation. I also have experience with respiratory treatments, ostomy care, g-tube care and feedings. I don't have catheter experience which I need to look over the procedures again. [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] Thanks in advance

Yeah i forgot to mention the white noise, that celiing fan is perfect for that

Hi Sunny realize it takes time to get used to this. Your body has been sleeping nites for most of your life I'm assuming to your body will need time. I've been working nites for 3 months now and still struggling. I've tried the black out curtains, sleep mask, NyQuil, melatonin, Zzzquil, AC, extra fan, etc. I'm still struggling. Honestly it's not for everyone. My body simply prefers sleeping at nite, it's a nocturnal circadian rhythm thing I guess because my room can be pitch black and still be hard to sleep even though I was dead tired the nite before working lol. I tell people no matter how dark or comfortable I make my room, my BODY knows it's daytime and fights with me lol. I'm not married and don't have kids but do have two dogs, unfortunately I would love to just go home and go straight to sleep as I'm drowsy but I have to walk my dogs first and at times that alone wakes me up. I can't imagine having a family and sleeping during the day but it's possible. Just give it time. I honestly just avg 5 hrs of sleep which is bad, the only times I noticed I sleep a full 8 hrs is on Thursday. When you work nites even if you sleep 8hrs per nite you will still be tired during the night shift which is why I drink energy drinks or coffee. During the day time I'll drink a 10 mg of melatonin, I've also bought this new mattress foam 5 zone pad for my bed and it feels like i'm sleeping on a cloud, I rub that baby nite time lotion on my feet, chest and back and that has helped me relax, If I feel pain sick I'll drink NyQuil. Hope those suggestions help you. I also drive home with sunglasses to kinda fool me that it's nite time. I've told people if I was off at say 4 am instead of 6am, I would be able to fall asleep faster since it's still nite but since it's daytime it's hard for me. Good luck to you if this does not work, see if you can do a double on the weekends to supplement your income that way the rest of the week you can dedicate for school and studying. Best wishes to you.

OK but apparently some people did or at least that how it sounded, if you feel you didn't or didn't mean too I can understand. I'm done with this conversation especially since you are posting childish pictures very bratty behavior so at the end you proved us right. You are immature condescending individual, you made it a point to prove soso many times how the OP was wrong in your eyes and that's not cool. No one can communicate with an individual who keeps posting childish graphics. You obviously have a problem. Reply if you like, I'm not going to see it since you are a definitely perfect example of an individual who needs to be blocked along with the rest of your team where thank God I don't see anymore on here, plus I'm not going to get notifications for this particular thread anymore since it's going nowhere. CHAOS, your name suits you well

That's a good idea

Thank YOU, you hit the nail on the head.

A lot of people on this site I found have been really rude and argumentative. I don't remember this happening years ago but apparently it is quite common for a lot of the replies to be against you no matter what you're talking about which is why I block many of them so I don't bother seeing their foolishness. I mean if the OP ordered something to be delivered by a certain time they should have done that or at least refund her shipping fee

I agree oldandintheway. There's so many other things I see new nurses do which isn't cool. Unfortunately I've seen older seasoned nurses act in such an unprofessional manner especially in this forum so this is not limited to age. I think it has to do more with morals and as you said integrity.

true everyone is different. For the first month I work nites 7 days a week and I was so exhausted. I realize the weekends is my time to get sufficient sleep and catch up, because even when I worked those weekends I still found it hard to sleep during the day. I can't be up all nite 7 days week, I want to have my weekends normal but of course i'm probably paying the price for that. It's ok this job is not forever. Thanks for your input