SKRenee

I am so sorry for the loss of these children. The nurses in Louisiana will be praying for all of them and the community impacted by their loss.

Well if you can get into a CNA or Tech job in the ER the story is VERY different, but anywhere else is awful. My job was on a Telemetry floor and the workload is unbelievable. I took the job while I was in nursing school mainly because it was advertised as a great thing to have on a resume and very educational to see and help nurses working. Well it may be great to have on a resume, but once out of orientation you never see the nurses and the work is very rote: blood glucose checks, turn patients, change patients, etc. I ended up quitting after 4 months, and a friend with a similar job made it 6 months. In short, it just burns you out.

I had scholarships to help me allay the cost, but other than this I worked some part time seasonal jobs. I know a lot of my friends in nursing school worked as waitresses however and made a lot of money doing this. Also, nurse managers LOVE waitresses because it shows time managements skills. As far as being a CNA though, I and everyone I know went straight into a BSN program. Once you have completed a semester of nursing school you are automatically qualified as a CNA and can just contact the appropriate person in your nursing school to get the CNA license or find a job as a Nurse Tech, which takes the same qualifications. Some people say that it's better to be a CNA before school, however my experience as a nurse tech showed me that you mostly just end up doing the grunt work and it's not a good indicator of nursing. I am in my last semester of nursing school and love nursing. But if I had been a CNA first I don't think I would have ever gone into nursing. Hope this helps!

Congrats! I am only a student nurse but I know during our rotation for school nursing it was a circus. On the day we went, there were 5 kids trying to get out of class, 2 asthmas, 1 diabetes and 1 marijuana joint in a trashcan fire (both resulted in the asthmas visits). Did I mention this was a really good school too? But you sound like you're ready for it. Good luck and enjoy!

We usually have just me and my close family, no extended family for Thanksgiving. Our menu is mostly the same, only we add dirty rice made with Savoie's mix- cause it just ain't a southern family dinner without something cajun :) By the time we make everything we're tired enough to go to a restaurant. Any recommendations?