Calling all nurses! (Or nurses-to-be)

[Beka]

Seems like there's quite a few of us on the board!

How 'bout us nursing sisters (and brothers) come gather here in this happy place?


I'll start.

I'm in my 3rd semester of 5 in nursing school. Monday I'll be starting the summer session - Chronic Health Problems & Mental Health Nursing. I'm also the newsletter writer for our chapter of the SNA! I plan to go into bariatrics one day, but will probably start as a med-surg nurse at a local hospital.

 

[Disney Doll]

Nurse for 26 years...mostly med/surg with little forays into insurance utilization review, home health care and informatics.

It's a good job...you get to see th ebest and worst of people and you have the privelege of helping people live or die well.

Good luck...we need good nurses.

 

[katiedid36]

I am on the wait list to get into my Nursing program. I am crossing my fingers I get in for the Fall!

 

[PrincessKitty1]

RN for 24 years, about 2/3 outpatient (clinics, research, public health, etc.) and 1/3 inpatient.

 

[jordansmomma]

I am on the wait list for fall.

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

RN for 20 years. I presently work in an outpatient surgery center.

Good Luck!

 

[nrsldy]

RN for 20+ years. Vast majority in the ED. I am currently an ED educator and working on the stroke program. I have worked in L&D and Hospice. I am working on my masters in nursing education.

 

[Beka]

I am on the wait list to get into my Nursing program. I am crossing my fingers I get in for the Fall!

I am on the wait list for fall.

Good luck ladies!

If you want some good study guides, look for:
Reviews & Rationales (they get broken down into pharmacology, med-surg, fundamentals, etc.)
Med-Surg Success
You can find these on Amazon.

The trick to nursing school is understanding what the question is asking, so practice taking tests is what I have found to be really helpful. Really, the concepts are pretty simple, and they will build upon them as you get further into the program. Also, group study is good too! Answer those practice test questions in a group, then discuss why you picked the answer you did.

 

[lsyorke]

Nurse for 25 years(part lpn, part rn). Worked med surg (with some small periods of time in subacute) for 23 of those years....two years in wound care(outpatient) and I love it!

 

[Beka]

Ok, now that some of us are here... let's come up with a discussion topic...


What made you want to go into nursing?

 

[Mandychelle79]

Starting Nursing classes in the fall... have everything else done ( other than Micro, which I start tomorrow) so I will be taking 1 class, eight credits a semester

 

[Mandychelle79]

Ok, now that some of us are here... let's come up with a discussion topic...


What made you want to go into nursing?

Working in a SNF for the past 6 yrs. Mom is nurse. Wanted to go to be a medic, but can do RN in the same amount of time and more demand/better pay for nurses than medics.

 

[rbuzzotta]

RN working with Alzheimer patients in an Adult Day Center.........wish I could get more hours but not available until the census rises. Lots of paperwork but I just love the job. I am thinking of going to a long term care facility that has a dementia speciality unit come the fall.

 

[RN4Babies]

Nursing is a second career for me; I graduated from nursing school in 1997 when I was 36 years old. I started out in adult inpatient oncology on a 44 bed unit. I loved the patients and my coworkers, but I burned out after three years; I get close to patients and their families, and it was really hard losing patients that were like family.

I've been a NICU nurse since 2000: I work in a large 43 bed NICU. Our average daily census for the last 18 months has been 42. We get babies from all over the midwest; preemies as little as 350 grams, babies with heart defects, birth defects, surgical needs and medical anomolies. We're the #5 NICU in the country, as determined by Parents' Magazine; I'm so lucky to work there, and I LOVE what I do!

 

[house of the mouse]

Been an LPN for 4yrs, hope to continue for my RN soon. I have been in healthcare for 16 years, started out as a CNA. I love my job. There are so many different aspects of nursing. When someone asks me why I became a nurse the answer is complicated but simply put I want to help people in any way I can.

 

[Disneylover79]

I am a RN and have been for 4 years... I work in the Surgical/Neuro ICU, I LOVE IT!!!..

I have to say thank you for starting this thread...

I wanted to be in the medical field since I was young....my mom was a CNA when I was younger, so then when I was in high school I decided I wanted to be a nurse, so my mom told me I should go to CNA school to be sure I could handle it, so then I went to nursing school got my AA, then went on and got my BSN and now in 2months 3 weeks and 1 day (see ticker below) I will graduate with my Masters degree for my Acute Care Nurse Practitioner... sorry I am kind of excited about it...

I love when I do and I enjoy taking care of sick people and watching them get better....

I have to say to all of those who are going to school.... if you do not understand something ASK... you can ask us here you can PM me if you want, you can ask your instructor... but please do not be afraid to ASK why...

OK I have said enough for a bit... I look forward to getting to know all of you....

 

[nicolita3]

I am an LPN, have been for a year now. I work in a sub accute/long term care facility.

 

[minkydog]

I guess I'm the lone ranger here. I went into nursing primarily because I knew I could always support myself. Back in the early 70s there weren't as many fields open to girls. Most of us became teachers, secretaries or nurses.

I was never that little girl who plays nurse with her dolls and dreams of the day she can wear a real cap. Hardly! My mother was an LPN and I saw daily how hard nursing was. No Thanks! When I went to college I majored in Biology with no definite career in mind. My roommate was in nursing and I would help her study at night. Pretty soon I was learning more than she was and i could kinda see myself doing this. I was smart enough, I was interested, I needed some way of making a living. Nursing! Didn't need to know how to type, didn't have to work with kids. Perfect job for me.

I've been an RN for 32years. Most of those years have been in mother/baby, NICU, PICU, and pediatrics. so much for not working with kids. I love nursing, but I feel I've paid my dues. My back, knees and feet are ruined. I can't work shifts anymore due to severe sleep disorder. I can't take the fast pace in the ICUs or ER. Even school nursing is too much these days.

I'll always be a nurse no matter what job I do. But I think my days of traditional nursing are limited.

 

[xCourxCorex]

I just finished my first year of a 4-year program.
Can't wait to start clinicals in the fall!

 

[firstmickey]

I've been a nurse for 21 years. I've worked med-surg, telemetry and Open heart ICU. Currently, I work in a busy city hospital as an ICU/ED float nurse (casual) and at a small community hospital as an Inpatient unit supervisor of the only 31 bed unit and 2 bed mini ICU in the hospital. Totally different ends of the spectrum.

I'm starting in the fall on my MSN in Nursing Education after being out of school for a long long time! (I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up)


As for why I became a nurse....

for the glamour, the prestige, the incredible hours and high pay.

and oh yeah...the ability to wear pj's to work every day.


Or it could be I just like to help people when they are at their worst.

One of those.