LonghornChic BSN

Hello! I'll be starting Peds clinicals at a local high school soon and was just wanting some input into what should be expected from a nursing student in this type of setting. Is there anything that you especially dislike or like or would like nursin...

I had my first Peds clinical today at a high school and let me tell you, it was AMAZING. Whatever pre-convinced notions I had about school nursing (if I were being honest) were completely shut down by my preceptor. I never really realized the amount ...

"School nurses are so important! I looked at a few openings for school nursing when I first graduated but I never applied because I knew there was NO way I was ready for that. Those nurses work independently, see different conditions and rely on thei...

Definitely got the impression that my cohort felt the same way I did during post conference. Going to schools for clinicals is very beneficial to all students and I wish that they would do this for all nursing students.

My entire cohort in general had a blast at clinicals yesterday! The nurse I was with handled everything from feminine products to someone who was under the influence (he confessed to using cocaine/xanax) and seizures. It's a lot of work and a heck of...

Do you think you could get a job at the hospital as a clinical assistant? You would be getting great hospital experience (something you won't get as a clinic CMA) and pay off some of your loan. Additionally, there are many hospitals that do tuition r...

I was an MA for about 12 years. I'm now in my senior year of my BSN. There are many differences between MA and RN skills, mainly that as an MA you do very little to no basic nursing care (like you would as a CNA). MA jobs are very much non acute outp...

I was a certificate MA for about 12 years. Am currently in my senior year in a BSN degree and have been working as a CA (clinical assistant or CNA) at the hospital for the last 6 months. The MA cert was useful for me in the manner that I needed mone...

Yes, yes, yes!!! Thank you so much!! Greatly appreciated :)

Hi all! I started my peds rotation today and my professor was lecturing on how to assess pain in babies and young children. She mostly discussed using the FLACS scale, vitals, etc. She didn't really mention any new techniques or interventions. Last ...

I am currently a nursing student working as a CNA in an internal multi-hospital float agency. Occasionally, I am assigned to be a patient sitter rather than a CNA. I am always assigned 1 patient to sit for. Never 2. Furthermore, when I signed on to t...

I don't have a CNA license but I would assume that the rep of the school doesn't matter since you will ultimately gain a CNA license. In the grand scheme of things, where you go to school for CNA will not matter one bit in terms of your future nursin...

Update: I ended up resigning because the agency 1.) refused to remove the absence from my record even if I wasn't at fault and 2.) informed me that I would be required to sit for 2 patients due to staff shortage whether I liked it or not. I really go...

Yes, the nurse was already in the room with them but the patient had already made it to the door by the time she got there. I think that this could have been prevented if there was someone there with them to redirect as soon as they made an attempt t...

On the flip side: I've been called "my CA" by RN's multiple times before. Yes, sometimes it bothers me because I know I'm at the bottom of the totem pole but it is what it is and I have much bigger things to get my panties in a wad about. I'm a float...

Many hospitals will take nursing students that are in their sophomore/junior year without a CNA license although some might require at least one semester of clinicals. I picked up a job as a CA at a major hospital system PRN this summer. I pretty mu...

I answered this in another thread but I'm going to leave it here also in case anyone else is searching: As you might know by now, the rules have changed. You no longer have to do the upper division application at all, but rather almost everyone that'...

As you might know by now, the rules have changed. You no longer have to do the upper division application, but rather almost everyone that's admitted gets automatic admission to the nursing the program with admission to UT in general with the excepti...

I am shadowing a couple of units as a nursing student this summer, with one of them being the ICU. This was my third and last day in this particular unit. I was shadowing an RN who had just completed her ICU residency but had been in med-surge for 2 ...

Through out nursing school and clinicals, nursing core values have been drilled into my head. My clinical instructor has been at my school for 30 years and she's wonderful! She's really tried to impress the notion that nurses are more than just "task...

Thanks for all your advice and support. I've been talking to my school mental health professional and my professor has been very understanding and accommodating. I'm slowly learning to separate these feelings from my "other" life.

Hi all, During registration last semester, we received a few choices of psych clinical sites. All of the choices were known psych clinics or hospitals. I chose a state hospital. As we were doing orientation today, I find out that my choice for clinci...

Thank y'all for the advice. I'm going to consider making an appointment with someone at student health services. I'm really trying to sort this out before it becomes a much bigger issue.

Thanks for your advice! It's not that I do not want to work with this population, it's that I do not feel mentally or emotionally prepared enough to deal with children who have been through a certain type of child abuse. While I do agree that seeing ...

I'm from Austin Texas! Currently a second semester junior in the UT Austin BSN program.