Madigan

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1. I work as a firefighter but seriously considering nursing

   Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Career Support

   It's not letting me send you a pm. Can you send me one and tell me what you liked and didnt like?

2. I work as a firefighter but seriously considering nursing

   Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Career Support

   So another major question, how can you tell 'nursing is for you' or its not for you? I'd hate to leave a job I dislike, go to school, then find out I don't cut it here.

3. I work as a firefighter but seriously considering nursing

   Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Career Support

   If I do the ADN program would my previous college count for anything?

4. I work as a firefighter but seriously considering nursing

   Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Career Support

   Thanks for all the tips. Yeah my college chemistry has expired - Ironic given I taught highschool chem a while.

5. I work as a firefighter but seriously considering nursing

   Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Career Support

   What I meant by accelerated is I already have a science degree, so would go for my BSN in two years (ideally). How do cops, emts, paramedics etc fit into nursing? What has been your experience?

6. I work as a firefighter but seriously considering nursing

   Madigan posted a topic in Career Support

   Hi everyone. I work as a fire fighter and long story short I hate it. I hate the hours, the chemical exposure, the endless 'macho/alpha' attitudes. Etc etc. I hate every day I go to work, but largely feel trapped. I have a few friends working as n...

7. Really interested in being an er nurse but some of these topics scare me

   Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Emergency

   I dont really get it, can you just leave for long periods of time and not have any ill effects? Or just full on move to new city? Was it easy to get into the ER? I have heard its hard, that new nurses end up in less desirably locations. As far as t...

8. Really interested in being an er nurse but some of these topics scare me

   Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Emergency

   Would my 10 years of EMT (mostly volunteer some clinical) help get into ER/ED?

9. Really interested in being an er nurse but some of these topics scare me

   Madigan posted a topic in Emergency

   I worked pre-hospital for many years as an EMT and been doing some serious consideration of going back to school for a BSN (I have a bachelors in science for a different degree) and really want to work ER. Reading some of these topics like https://a...

10. Ask a CRNA any question you want

    Madigan replied to PaSSiNGaS's topic in Critical

    What is the difference between critical care and ER? I am considering swapping to nursing and love emergencies, thanks!

11. ER nurses a different 'type' than others?

    Madigan replied to Madigan's topic in Emergency

    What is the difference between ICU, CCU and ER, loosely? ICU is kind of a super by-the-book kind of job right? I am way way more of the adapt on the fly, thats why I like street emt so much.

12. ER nurses a different 'type' than others?

    Madigan posted a topic in Emergency

    Could you imagine yourself being a floor nurse, or a bedside nurse etc? I ask because the ER seems really interesting to me and about one of the only places I would want to be a nurse, not sure if that means the career isnt for me, of it legitimatel...

13. Just a fantasy, or something I should persue?

    Madigan posted a topic in Flight

    Hi, just joined this site because I wanted to talk to some people about getting info about a career decision and nursing specifically flight nurse. I did volunteer EMS/rescue/fire (EMT-B IV cert) for about 7 years while trying to find a job in my c...