[LJDT]

Hello everybody.

I am hoping to start nursing school again in May. Back in 1991 when I graduated from high school, I majored in Nursing, but I was doing really bad in A&P 2 (my professor was more of a scientist and was a really bad professor - it was his first year at the school I attended and they ended up asking him not to return the following year.) and I shadowed one of my mother's friends who was an SICU nurse and saw someone with an A line in her neck that was spurting blood and I had to go sit down cause I felt sick to my stomach. So, after I shadowed her, I went back to school, dropped A&P and changed my major. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology & Social Work but always kicked myself for not getting the degree in nursing. I was recently laid off and I decided to go back for that degree that I always wanted. I can't afford to go to a BSN program right now, so I have been taking classes at the local community college (they are making me repeat most of the science classes because they are over seven years old...) and hopefully I will get admitted into the accelerated program that starts this coming May. I am proud to say that I received A's in both of the A&P classes that I took over the summer. They were a lot more challenging than I thought. (I graduated from a private university, so I had this idea that community college classes were going to be a walk in the park!)

(I just found this site and I thought I would introduce myself. I looked and didn't see a thread where new folks said hi and gave their story, so I started my own. If there is a place that this is supposed to go, please feel free to move this.)

[1mg.epi]

Good for you for returning to nursing school. I think the best thing you did is go to a community college for your A&P classes were probly smaller and more informal.
Welcom to the siti.

[cassioo]

Congratulations on returning to school sometimes just a little time and life experience helps you do better in school, work and life situations in general...I majored in accounting and then worked in a factory before going back to nursing school (graduated when I was 29 1st in my class) ADN program then continued for the BSN while working. Even my worst day nursing is better then the factory.

[LJDT]

Thanks so much for welcoming me!!

I have some questions about which area of nursing to go into when I finally get the ADN and become an RN.

Since I have a background in Social Work and Psychology, I was thinking about Psych nursing. I used to do home visits with expecting and new mothers that were considered "at risk", I really enjoyed that, so I was also thinking either L&D or Postpartum or maybe a Peds clinic. Any advice on either of those fields? What about the all new grads should work Med/Surg first - how do you feel about that?

[cassioo]

I think it's a good idea to get some of the basics that M/S has to offer and working a larger unit teaches some time management/priority skills
Once you've done some clinicals you'll see more what nurses do in each area.
I do L&D now used to do other things including home health where I saw the newborns and mom's at risk and anyone else they wanted to throw at me that they didn't have someone to send that day. I worked through the hospital so I was paid by the hour not the visit so I had time to do what I needed and didn't feel the need to cram another visit in. Peds clinic can get hectic esp in winter months.

[WenRN]

Wow...way to go!!!

I could never go through A&P again!!!

[1mg.epi]

I loved A&P. It was on of my most fascinating subjects. Went through it at Kapiolonie Community Collage in Hawaii. Then when I moved to Arkansas. I had to take it again because I did not take the lab. Same with chemistry.
I hate MICRO. it they told me I had to go through that again I would have never become a Nurse.

[trier]

Hi
I am new too, doing my last year in nursing and hope to get through, although there are always some hiccups, I am going through one now. Go for that degree you want. I found Arts, welfare, sociology and journalism no help in getting a job, probably I was a bit old for the job market and had set values.I'd started nursing before arts and there's something about nursing that drew me back. all the best
trier