Returning from LOA

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Specializes in OBGYN, Neonatal.

Has anyone here returned from an LOA? How did you feel? How did you "remember" things?!

I finished semester 3 of 6 for my RN program in June 05 and took a break off this semester because we were surprised with a pregnancy one month post op of Gastric Bypass! I'm a type I diabetic too and having had a previous miscarriage in 1999 am considered high risk, so I took the semester off from school so as to not endanger our son (its a boy!) and so I could be fully able to participate in clinicals!

So, if all goes well I will be returning in January. The baby is due 10/31 but we are hoping he comes next week as I am Huge and it feels as though he is engaged in my pelvs - c'mon baby! But we don't want him to come too early because babies of diabetic moms take longer to mature their respiratory system.

Anywhoo - I'm feeling like I have forgotten everything! I do well in nursing school, A's and B's and do well in clinicals too - but I'm fearing that I will forget it all! I do have the reading for the first two tests of next semester as one of my former classmates gave me her reading list so I can start reading now if I want to but I'm almost afraid that I will either A. forget it all or B. not be able to return because of finances.

I do intend on returning though so I'm guessing I should just start reading.

Did anyone have problems with memory when they returned or did it all come back to you?

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I didn't take a leave of absence, but I did have to take a year off from school and start all over again. All the things I had learned in my first semesters came right back to me, I am relieved to say! I was a little rusty at my skills at first, but once I got back into clinic, it all came back. You will do fine! Congrats on the baby!

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Specializes in MICU for 4 years, now PICU for 3 years!.

I took a LOA a year and a half ago for 6 months. I thought when I returned to school last September that I had forgotten EVERYTHING! I really surprised myself though, I hadn't forgotten anything! I think nursing is like riding a bike... once you know how to do it, you don't ever forget. Good Luck with the baby, and congratulations!

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Specializes in OBGYN, Neonatal.

Thanks for the congrats and well wishes everyone! It would be nice to know that I won't forget everything!

:):):):)

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