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Thanks for the input it helps. I think I might want to change though. I just feel if I do I will really regret it. I guess I will not know until I make that choice.

I know this is probably not what you are wanting to hear but it might make you feel a little better. As a nurse that does hiring for the company I am employed for I want to make sure when I hire a new grad that I don’t have too many orientating already I want it to be a good experience for both the employee & the employer. We don’t want it to be a bad experience and when you take on new grads it a commitment to be able to show them everything thoroughly & accurately

Well I was really hoping for a little insight.

Ok a little back ground. I was an LPN worked in LTC (nursing home) went back for my RN. Out of school as an RN I went to a really big hospital in my area and took a FT day shift position on an ICU step down unit. I really did love my job, but I got pregnant and the 30-45 min drive was really exhausting after a 12hr shift. I did get some anxiety about the traumatic injuries I saw but I dont know if it was b/c I was pregnant and over emotional. I had to work so I went back to the LTC I have advanced very quickly and am now the ADON. I love my job and coworkers dearly where I am at and it is a really good position it is a job that I could stay at for a very long time maybe even retire from (not for a long time im in my 20s). I just feel like I will lose the skills I worked so hard to achieve. I by all means dont want pts coding on me but I love being able to help people like that I want to know that I made a difference and this person is alive b/c I played a part in that. My job now i do audits, scheduling, meetings nothing that feels like I make a difference. I could go into so many pros and cons about each job does any one have any other input to help me out? I thought about going PRN at a more local hospital but with being M-F I could only do the weekends and I have to have time for my family also.

2 of my friends and I went to Rets for our RN (we did our LPN somewhere else) there where many bumps in the road but it was managable. We all passed our NCLEX the first time around and got really good jobs at hospitals in Dayton, but what I hear from current students that I know it sounds like things have really went down hill. Alot of the problems every school has and as a student you dont realize it until your finished with school and talk with other recent grads they had problems also. I got hired on at MVH and when i was interviewing the lady told me I have been doing this for a long time, Rets is a new school and there are some kinks that need to be work out but so did the other older schools when they first started. Whatever school you go to good luck.

When you get your interview as for a job shadow, alot of places like to hear you ask for this instead of getting to a unit and not liking it. You would really benifit from that and the nurses would probably be really willing to answer questions.

I went for my LPN first then My RN, I did this so I could make more money working less hours while in school for my RN. I figured make 9 bucks an hour for 12 months then make 16-18 while I'm in school for my RN, vs making 9 for 4 years. Whatever is best for you n your family. Good luck

A lot of the times if you tell your manager of these situations they can help. Really her making you say please before she helps you could interfere with pt care. That really sucks she is treating you that way. Have you ever said any thing to her? You could simply say This is how I chart and I am giving the same info you would just in different wording. Who cares if it say mom or mother really? Any one would know who you were talking about.

I also heard the pass rate decreases the longer you wait. Just out of curiosity why would you want to wait a year anyways?

I was an LPN before I became an RN, I worked my tail off as an LPN! I haven't started working on the floor in the hospital as an RN yet, But some LPN as well as RN's have big time management problems. RN can do so much more than LPN's can, but there are many LPN's that are smarted and have more sense than RN's. Take the time and learn from you peers RN, LPN, or APN.

I would love to be a school teacher! I wanted to be a lawyer the entire time I was in nursing school. I do like nursing, I just love to learn.

I had a simple D&E done after a miscarriage, I had never had surgery where I was put under general anesthesia before and was nervous. As a nursing student observing in the OR I heard some pretty bizzare things being said. So in my room before surgery I told the Nurse anesthesist to tell everyone not to make fun of me or say bad things about me while I was "out". She told me awe sweety you are beautiful, they won't have anything to say about you. Thanks for the compliment but mean while in surgery in the lithotomy postion, wonder if anything was said. I was just uncomfortable knowing that things are said and how I was postioned while have a proceedure. I can simpothize.

I thought that you could only work 16 hours in one day. I work 12 hour shifts and a nurse came on at the same time I did, then at 7pm they came to relieve me from my cart and count. I said are you working all night? They said yeah until 7am! That is 24 hours! I don't know when they would be able to clock out for 4 hours because nights are really busy because there are only 2 nurses. I have only been at this place a couple weeks and have told the DON that I think staff/patient ratios are bad, she said "we are well below state ratios" well I have been around long enough to know that they work STNA's and nurses when they are short. I also know that they get around the aid shortage by having the receptionist, schedulers, human resource people state tested in case state comes in they can pull those people and be above guidelines. So if you know of the hours and patient to nurse and pt to aid ratios or a good site will you post it. this is for LTC. Thanks.

I would pay for a good one now. I used the cheap double tubed one in LPN school the ones that the uniform company had, I heard fine out of it but they weighed a ton! My mom n law bought me a littman lightweight for grad and I love it. When you have to listen with an instructor and hear what they hear its good to have the best stethoscope to keep up with those experienced ears! As an RN now I still see nurses with the stethoscopes they got in nursing school that feel like they are 10 pounds, my neck cant handle that.

I think you have to take in her maximal potential and how far she is able to push herself. Nursing school is hard but that doesn't mean she cannot do it. There are lots of different health care area's she could go into. LPN programs are really hands on and that may be very good for her but you still need to know the book stuff too. But C students pass boards and make excellent nurses also. Maybe she could job shadow an LPN or a medical assistant or phlebotomist. Good luck to your student!