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Yes. They are okay but not what I was expecting. I thought they'd be soft and silky like Urbane scrubs but they are just like the plain Cherokee or something if you ask me.

I went to WGU and completed my MSN in Education in 11 months. I am in my first semester as a full time nurse faculty member in an ADN program and I LOVE it. I always liked orienting new hires and precepting new nurses but in a busy ER, I didn't alway...

I went to nursing school with several "second career" adult students. In fact, I was the youngest graduate at 26. They graduated and successfully went into practice.

I will say, though, that the actual educator/instructor portion of my job I ADORE. If I could just do that, I'd love my job.

I am at a SNF as an education coordinator... and employee health nurse and CNA class instructor and infection preventionist and on call for staff nurse shortages and on call to handle scheduling when there are call ins. Make sure you get a clear pict...

In English classes I was required to use MLA. In journalism/ PR/ advertising classes I was required to use AP (associated press) format. I was never introduced to APA until I became a nursing major.

I just finished my MSN Ed capstone with WGU. I had my dept director sign the organizational agreement and we both agreed that an affiliation agreement was not needed because I was not doing anything clinical. The organizational agreement is not the ...

I recently accepted a position in LTC as an education coordinator (inservices, new employee orientation, and CNA training program). I am also expected to rotate on the call schedule with the unit supervisors (one mon- thurs call and one fri-sun call ...

It's going to be hard to save money on a barista salary when you are used to nursing pay. Good luck!

In my first months as a nurse, I hung antibiotics that had to be snapped and mixed without doing the snapping and mixing. Essentially I just infused saline and left the powder in the bottle hanging there. The nurse following me noticed and wrote up a...

I work in the ER of a level 1. We don't have dedicated trauma nurses. We go to huddle in the morning and get our assignment (acute pods, fast track, triage, float, critical/trauma) and it changes each shift. Our critical pod gets all of the traumas. ...

I haven't read all the responses but the ones I did read through were negative and not my experience at all. I finished my ADN at 26 and was the second youngest person to graduate in my entire class. We had plenty of people in their 40s and 50s in ...

It's good money, much lower stress than nursing. I did some shadowing in radiation therapy prior to nursing school. Most of the patients came in as outpatients and weren't your sickly terminal patients you'd see in the hospital. The therapists sim...

My nurse manager has her BSN and we have tons of nurses with MSNs. However, our manager has the experience.

I have worked for almost 3 years in a small 14 bed ER. I applied to a position in the ER at a level 1 trauma center at the state's only public academic medical center . The interview was pretty laid back. We talked about similarities and differences ...

I worked ER pregnant until 39 weeks. Coworkers made sure I didn't so any heavy lifting or deal with shingles or coxsackie or aggressive psych patients. Other than that, it was work as normal! Don't turn down a wonderful opportunity!

I still have one class left. And it's taking me forever because I started and then took time off.

The company I just started working for uses HomeTrak and it seems to work well for them.

The actual nursing classes are 5 weeks but contain a semesters worth of work so if you work full time, don't take more than one or two during that 5 week period. The online format was easy enough. I had never taken classes online before and didn't ha...

You probably don't have to do anything at all. All jobs I've ever seen are either nights or days, not "start here and we automatically move you". You work whichever shift you were hired for, period.

I just left the ER for a Monday through Friday 8-5 (and no holidays, yay!) job as a marketer for home health. Staying PRN in the ER in case this isn't for me.

Like other posters, I don't order meds other than Tylenol or motrin. We do UAs, xrays, cardiac monitor, oxygen, ekgs, labs, IV placement. In an anaphylatic emergency, we go ahead and give epi.

For some reason, when a nurse goes into education at a nursing school, modern times are erased from their memories. They get obsessed with all this Florence Nightingale stuff and get all formal about it.

When a new clinical instructor was hired while I was in nursing school, this is how it was done. Another professor attended the instructors first day or two of clinical with us. Didn't make her look to us at all. [she did that on her own, later.]

I give injections in the ER all the time and like Hockeynursing stated, this stuff happens. Kids pull at needles. Sites bleed. The kid is fine! Don't beat yourself up about it. Totally normal for these things to happen sometimes.