TheNewDino

has anyone or is anyone using help from the Parents as Scholars program or anything like that? i need some more info on it. i'd like to go back to school, i was gonna wait until my daughter was in school becuase i can't aford daycare, but if i can do it next year, by the time she's in 1st grade i could be a nurse by the time she's in 1st grade

I think large might be too big, i'm averaged sized (5'8" 140lbs) but thanks for all the advice

maybe i'm picky , but i'd like to be comfortable i'm used to wearing 34-35" lowrise bootcut jeans or pj pants, but i'll obviously have to switch to scrubs for nursing. for clinicals (sat & sundays) while in school i need white scrubs, i got so i got 2 basic pairs at walmart for almost $15 each. but once i start working i'll want colored scrubs with more pockets, they also need to have a longer inseam than most, but i don't want them draging on the floor either so 32 or 33" will do - 30-31 just doesn't cut it (i'm all legs acording to my bf lol). do they shrink after the first wash? i'd also like flair/bootcut or straight leg (can't stand pants sticking to my ankles or highwaters) with cargo pockets (cause you can never have enough), and are there any pants that sit on the hips rather than the waist - it's so uncomfortable for someone who's not used to it. anyone know where i can find these online? i'd hate to be picking and pulling my pants all day becuase i'm uncomfortable. i also like long shirts, that cover all (or most of) the butt - i usually wear guys t-shirts (girls tees are too short in the torso and arms and too tight for me to be comfortable... but i also like a shirts/tank tops, even though they're tight fitted... guess i'm just wierd), but i'm sure shirts are much easier to find, the two i got from walmart (colored, vnecks with 3 pokets) seem just fine and they were almost $15 each too. ~michelle

eh, i thought our alfredo sucked. i hardly ever did the sauce station, so i don't remember, plus it's been about 6 months since i worked there. all can tell you is lots and lots of butter and heavy cream

well my job isn't horrible but it makes you and your car smell - guess i'm not pimpin lol. i'm a line cook and have been working in kitchens for 3 years - i think it was worse when i worked at the olive garden (garlic), it's not so much from eating the food, but it just seeps into your skin and clothes and don't get me started about the shoes (nonslip shoes pick up everything off the floor). my new car definatly doesn't have a nice smell anymore. plus the sweating, greas, burns, cuts, and bad attidudes make the job that much more fun. can't wait 'till i graduate

i'm confused. i recently started a cna class and i was told if a resident refuses treatment (of any sort), legally you have to respect their wishes, and that missing one shower isn't gonna kill them cuase it's not like their rolling in dirt, lol. are your cna's doing this type of thing every day, did they at least go back and try asking again? i'm just worried now that if my residents don't want to wash up, that i'll get in trouble for it. ~michelle

i don't have insurance. i was off my fathers at 19 and didn't get any until this january but it took out nearly 40 a week and i quit my job, haven't had insurance since. won't until i start work after school as a cna. and i don't quilify for medicaid (apearently i make too much. i'm in that bracket that can't afford to help myself, and make to much to get any help) *rolls eyes* ~Michelle

probably becuase most of us - if not all, went to someplace clean and reputable. i've got 4 tattoos, none of them inapropriate, and i'm training to be a cna at a facility where you're aloud to show them - one of the cna's, i was told, as two full arm sleaves, and no one has a problem with it. ~michelle

I have the dell axim 50 and i guess you could call it a recording software. there isn't a specific program for it, but if you go into notepad you can make a recording that saves on it there. mine stoped recording when my memory ran out - which wasn't much. i'll definatly invest in the memory card. but for lectures i just baught a little mini recorder other than that the dell has treated me prety well (i also got the bigger batery, even though it sticks out, it's worth it - the regular batery (i've been told) will probably run out after about 3 hours of games or program use. mine has run out once, but i don't know how long i used it for). my cradle for it broke after only a week (probably my fault for having it in my bookbag), but they replaced it asap i'm still debating on wheather or not i'll get the keyboard for it...

every state is different for hourse and class time requirements. though i agree, the lpn is not a step above cna. if you look at it like a ladder. i don't know what it is called, but a year after being a cna (in maine) you can take the cna something-or-other class that alows you to give meds and do more nursing tasks (just like the cna class it's also 8 weeks, 150 or so hours long with clinicals starting halfway through); that would be a step up from cna. i would say lpn would probably be the next step, but that doesn't mean it's an easy one. ~michelle

i was worried they'd be mad becuase they were so short handded but they understood my needs and were nice about it. i'm not quiting just yet. i told them i can follow through with next weeks schedual but from now on i can only hand weekends (which would be fri and sat cause those are their busiest days) until somtime in october (i'd give them the 2 weeks as soon as i find out the date) when i start clinicals on weekends. i'll be fine money wise, just no more little gifts for me and my boy for a few months. i'll be too busy studing anyway ~michelle

anyone here taken (or plans on taking) the associate degree nursing program at southern maine community college? what was your experience? i'm enrolled right now in a cna course, but would like to take the nursing program next fall. ~michelle

should i stay or should i go now? if i go there will be trouble, if i stay there will be double... lol ok so call me crazy, but i'm strongly thinking of quitting my job. i don't know how the whole cna training process works though, and what if i fail! heck this is only cna classes, how am i going to do it when i start nursing school next fall (if i get in, i'll probably have a lot of prerequisite first)? so far my schedule will be as follows: monday: school 5p-10p tuesday: school 5p-10p wednesday: work 9am-close(around 12am) thursday: school 5p-10p friday: work 10-close (around 10pm) saturday: work 10-close (around 10pm) sunday: work 10-close (around 12am) (ps i get around 2 hour breaks for doubles at work) plus in mid october i start cliniclas every saturday and sunday 7am-3pm and then i'd work 5p-close(between 10p-12am) just looking at that schedule and knowing i won't have a day off until thanksgiving and then again until i graduate in december (if i graduate), all i can see is burnout. i don't know how people do this stuff with kids too. luckily, i save money, have been for years - until of course i got an apartment and had bills, suddenly my $11,000+ bank account depleted. dad let me move back in with him recently and is so happy i've decided to go to school. he's letting me live there free of charge. i still have the following bills to worry about: cell phone gas car payments car insurance and groceries i've figured out the money issue and how much money i have in the bank now, plus the cd that i will get on my 22nd bday in december, and the money my bf owes me (he just got a huge raise so he'll be able to get that to me soon). i have probably 14 weeks to go without income (but i don't know exactly, how long after finishing the cna class do we take the test, find out we passed and can start working???). if i stay on a strict budget using the money in my bank i can still come out with - ironically, more money than i have available to me now (because of the cd). not much, but enough. there won't be any christmas presents this year but everyone knows i'll be in school and don't care. so my plan can work. but what about next year? all the costs for prerequisite and books and classes... i'll hopefully be working as a cna then, and hopefully be making just a little more than what i'm making now ($10.50 an hour as a line cook). according to the website, the classes alone will add up to $6,700 (for 4 semesters) that is a lot for me, but doesn't seem like much at all for college classes (then again it is the cheapest community college in the state). room rates are $1,340 per semester, but i'd rather live for free at home than share a room and shower with strangers. i don't know how financial aide or loans or grants work, and i heard hospitals will sponsor you, like the ltc is sponsoring my class now. but do they pay for everything, or just the nursing classes? i'm feeling a little overwhelmed and it hasn't even started yet. should i give my 2 weeks notice? ~michelle

i'm doing the same thing as you. i just started a cna course and next year i'd like to get into the comunity college to become an lpn. ~michelle

first off, any advice on studying, especially vocabulary (i just started and already have 70 that i need to know and spell correctly - including some long achronyms, yikes i probably can't even spell that lol). seems we will have to do at least one section a night and the next day we have quizes - i need to pass this class with at the very least an 80. but i don't want to just memorize the stuff, i want to know it. as i'm sure anyone probably wants to do i have a pocket pc that just became my brain when it comes to getting organized and getting things actually done. i have a tendency to forget what i need to get done in my spare time and once school starts in a week i will have no days off until thanksgiving and i believe the class ends mid december - if i pass everythign i'll be a cna by christmas *crosses fingers* needless to say the calender w/reminders is invaluable to me are there any free flash card/quize programs for the pocket pc or study guides/homework help also abriviations for medical terms or school homework/class time organizers prety much anything free that would be helpful for a cna course i'm not going to nursing school until fall 2006 so i don't want to spend the money on things right away, but if there are any worthwhile cheapy ones to download that would help me now let me know send the link if you have it or know what site it could be found on i could always do a google search, but my break is over so i'll see what you suggest first. also i thought about reading aloud each unit and recording it to study when i'm driving or something but i don't think i could stand my voice that much, plus the batery life is crap and i haven't gotten my extra large battery (it's been at least a month now, i'm dying to go to the post office on my day off - i have 3 packages floating around somewhere and they better be there) thanks! ~michelle