piercednurse

Well after reading some of these replys maybe my school wasn't that bad. I went to Central Georgia Technical College in Milledgeville, GA. To the person that said thank god about the body jewerly-- if you an't see it why should I take it out? Does it make me any less of a nurse? The reply about patients strangling you with a necklace or steth-- what about your scrub top. If they catch you from behind and pull. I guess I'm more laid back now, because where I work we can do what ever we want and where whatever we want...pretty much.. This includes flip flops, hair down, body jewerly, tattoos, blue jeans, tank tops. Whatever. It's pretty cool here. Nothing like nursing school.

Hi. I've been an LPN for just about a year now and I'm loving it! I just wanted to know what school was like in other areas. The one I went to was worse than military school. OK maybe not that bad but close to it. We had to be where ever at 6:45am not 6:46am. If you were one minute late you were sent home. (Never applied to me I was always about 30 min early.) Had to have a visible crease in your uniform to prove that you ironed it. You couldn't just take it out of the dryer before it wrinkled. White granny panties. White socks. WTF is that about. Who cares what color your socks were. I can't count the times I got in trouble for wearing socks that were not white. Only one pair of earrings and they had to be studs. Got in trouble for wearing a set in my scond hole. I also got in trouble for piercing my cartilage about a month before graduation. no body jewelry. Got caught with my tongue ring in a couple of times. Your hair had to be of a "natural" color. Makeup, if worn, had to be natural looking. Hair had to be up. It could not touch your collar. I had long hair so I always had to put it in a ponytail and not pull it all the way through. The only ring you could wear was a wedding band. No engagement rings. No necklaces or bracelets. Completely white shoes. I bought a pair of K-Swiss that had a little red shield (logo) on the rubber bottom of the shoe by the toe and one teacher told me I couldn't wear them again. We couldn't wear our stethoscopes around our neck. They had to go in our pocket. No visible tattoos. I have a guard (pt. was an inmate) who spotted my tattoo through my uniform and complained. He must have been looking mighty hard because its in the small of my back. No nail polish. Only 30 min for lunch. By the time we walked all the way to the cafeteria on the other side of the hospital and waited in line it had already been 20 min. We couldn't leave for anything. OH and my "favorite" We couldn't park in the hospital parking lot. We have to park across the street on a crappy gravel pot hole filled "lot" What ever that was about I'll never know. That's just a few off the top of my head. I'd love to hear you stories!

I was 18 when I got accepted in to the lpn program. I was 19 when I graduated. Never once did I spend 4 hours in one night doing home work. In fact I only studyed on test day 1 hour before the test. I graduated with a 3.07 GPA. Some other people who were in my class would study for hours. My thing is you either know it or don't. You will never know whats on the test. I did better on tests than the ones who studied for hours.