HikingNurse8789

At one time my area had a shortage of jobs but now we are trending the other way. But the places really hurting for staff are LTC and home health. No one wants to bust their booties in LTC anymore for $20/hour so they are getting desperate and offeri...

Because I finally found people who share my somewhat twisted sense of humor. And ditto on not being able to sit behind a desk all day, yuck.

Recently my state allowed LPNs to flush PICC lines for the first time if your IV certified. I've read over the scope of practice for my state and what I'm reading is that it is strictly limited to flushes but my facility is insisting we can administe...

Ughhh, this scares me. I'm very much a supporter of the HPV vaccine, I got it as a teenager during the first few years it was even available. The last two years I've had abnormal pap smears but do not have HPV. Due to this, I did not have to undergo ...

If you have a good delivery and a fairly easy infant you should be fine to start. With baby being that young, you will have plenty of time to study. I had my third in the middle of pre reqs so i never took time off. Our son was born only 3 weeks earl...

I bought the Saunder's NCLEX book just to use them for tests in nursing school. I just had my first OB/Peds test, got a 90%, most people were in the low 80s and I owe my score to that book. I just do whatever questions that go with that particular te...

This isn't necessarily directed at you OP but I also find it crazy those in healthcare expect to not work weekends and holidays. I also fail to see why it is such a big deal if your doing every second/third weekend or holiday. I have three kids and s...

For me there is a difference between having a few extra pounds vs. Becoming so overweight that a person can no longer do their job. I have worked with a few nurses where others did have to pick up the slack for them but they were morbidly obese and u...

Is there a reason your an MA first? Just wondering because its usually an associates degree, a nursing program may only take a year longer than MA and you would save a lot of money! Plus you could get your STNA in less than 4 weeks and make as much a...

I was thinking about this other day and found my first thought of a nurse coming in to take care of me with purple hair would be "hell no!". Quite judgmental of me considering I have a half sleeve of tattoos and I'm 29 so its not like a grew up in th...

I say apply too. Your situation is exactly why I will encourage my kids to wait to go to college until they know what they want to do. Your situation is SO common and I have no idea why we encourage 18 year olds to make the biggest investment of thei...

I read really fast and when the content is long, I tend to not absorb the information. Now I just read bolded words, info boxes, and skim the paragraphs. I make a lot of concept maps and use the internet if I'm not completely grasping material. I use...

I'm wondering if your timid nature is coming off as snobby or disinterested to your group members. If your have a discussion, speak up, jump in there, let them see you do care and have an opinion. Be proactive and ask again to be added to the communi...

You seem like someone who "absorbs" other's emotions. Meaning your allowing your soul to be sucked little by little by taking a bit of each patients emotions around with you. I user to be like that with everyone, not just patients. It drained me. I h...

I never read my nursing book word for word. I read all boxes, bolded/italicized words, and the chapter summaries. Textbook reading does not work for me. If I'm confused after reading thru that way, I then go to internet resources like Khan academy fo...

My classmate is going through something similar and we are graduating in 9 months as well. Her husband out of the blue told her he was divorcing her and moving to another state. She is handling it well but pretty much is pushing off the emotional asp...

I am in my last year of school, 4 years total and I have three young kids. I do have a husband that helps out significantly. Your advantage is that your baby is 2. My older two notice my absence more and that I'm studying when they want to play. My 2...

I went to a vocational school for my LPN, nothing transferred into my current lpn to RN bridge program at a community college. I started from square one like a new freshmen would. I did have the advantage of seeing the material though and I tested ou...

It's a long haul for sure. It took me 3 years to do the pre reqs for my lpn to RN program because I worked full time and have three kids. I did a lot online but its been hard, dedicated work. I'm due to graduate in April so a total of 4 years to get ...

We do one clinical day a week. In our last semester we do the one day a week but then 80 hours one on one with a med surg nurse. I'm lpn to RN though so not sure if I have the same amount of clinical others as traditional students.

Just curious to hear other student's experiences. I recently started a PN-RN bridge program. It's a sister community college to a large university all under the same name and it's a prestigious nursing school in my area, one of the best you can atten...