hey everyone, i need a little advice from anybody who can provide a sound opinion. (post might be a little long) i have been in school for pre-reqs and this is my last semester, im 22 y/o. I just recently paid off my 2015 infiniti q50 in august. however, the car is no longer working, and it hasnt been since august, i have been ubering to work. i have to replace the valve body every 8 months or so, and i have had to replace it twice in the 2 years i had it. my LPN program is set to start january 7. as of right now, i am working a full time & seasonal part time job that will end january, i live at home, and i only pay my phone bill & the insurance for my car. however i will need a car as i cannot uber to work, school, clinicals & back home as it is very expensive.

during nursing school i will have to keep a full time job as we have to be covered with insurance the whole program and insurance through a job is cheaper than the marketplace. my job already said my schedule can be accomodated to work around my school schedule which would be 4-10 pm 2/3 days a week. so id have to get off at 2:30 or work on the days im out of school.

the question here is idk what to do about my car situation. i have like 4 options here. 1, i could lease a car as there are a lot of car lease deals available at the moment. 2, i could just finance a reliable car that at the end i will own, like acura, honda, toyota etc. 3, attempt to fix my car again would require me to either let infiniti replace the valve nody (no guaranteed fix and this will cost me about $4000) or replace the transmission and valve body completely from an updated model (also isnt a complete fix) or buy a beater car. i thought financing would be better as this time around school is paid for and i still have to be working anyways. i plan on going back to school after my lpn to bridge over and do bsn. so i think getting a beater car to turn around and get a car note when i graduate to then have to pay for school, and a car, and car maintenance and fees, but i have roughly 2 months to figure this out and this is all very daunting on me right now.

I hope it's okay to ask this here.

I'm a student nurse and I got to scrub in for surgery for the first time 4 days ago.

While cleaning the suction canister after the surgery, some blood (maybe a drop) splashed onto my forearm and I just noticed now, 4 days later, that I have what looks like a healed/scabbed scratch or burn near the site where the blood splashed.

I can't remember exactly how and when I got the wound and I am worried if I could possibly contract something from it (though I am unsure if the patient was positive for anything).

I did wash my hands and my forearm after cleaning and even used sanitizer afterwards, and I don't remember feeling a sting if I did happen to have the wound at the time.

I can't tell if the wound is a scratch or a burn but I think it may be a burn and I may have gotten it from ironing clothes after I got home from duty that day (which I hope is the case cause that would mean my skin was intact when the splash happened).

With my schedule, I won't be back for duty in the same hospital and area until December.

The uncertainty is currently making me overthink and I need help on what to do or if I should be worrying at all.

I'm learning about the ABCDE approach in class right now. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of it until I came across this question today. Now I'm getting nervous about these types of questions!

Patient 1: SpO2 86%, respiratory rate 32, heart rate 125, blood pressure okay.

Patient 2: SpO2 95% but BP 78/45 and is cool and clammy.

Whom do you see first, and why?

Patient 1 has a breathing problem, while Patient 2 has a circulation problem. I know breathing comes before circulation in the ABCDE approach, but I would still prioritize Patient 2 because their blood pressure is dangerously low and they're showing signs of poor perfusion.

What do you think? Also if you have any more practice questions like this, please share them with me.

Hey everyone!

I have just been accepted into my university's Nursing program and will begin this Spring. I was given 14 days to complete my background check with Complio and now I have 5 days left to submit. I have been trying to get past slides 4 and 5, which ask you to choose a race and sex and to verify what you chose. Every time I select a race and sex and move on to slide 5, everything resets and it's as if I'd never chosen a race or sex at all. I've called Complio/ADB and my university's nursing lines multiple times since Oct 7 (I've even sent them multiple emails), and at this point I don't know what to do. I would go in-person tomorrow, but they're not open on Fridays, and they actually haven't even posted their hours anywhere so go figure. Transportation is a bit complicated for me also, to make matters worse.

Has anyone else had this problem? What do you recommend I do? Any help or advice would be much appreciated!

Clarification to all 🕊️: I promise I do not think ALL NURSES ARE EVIL or something 😭 most nurses are doing their best, and most of them are doing a fantastic job, even with the challenges and bullshit. I love nurses and nursing—I wouldn’t be going into it otherwise.

So, going forward with this post: if you wouldn’t leave food dripping down the face of the nonverbal, limited/weak stroke patient who cannot lift their arms, then I am not talking about you! If you wouldn’t leave your patient with poop smeared all over their hands and arms as a punishment for “digging for gold” (old+confused, dementia with a level 2 pressure sore with fungal infection left to sit in poop until it burned so they “went digging”) then I am not talking about you! If you take care of your patients and are just trying to survive—great news!! You are not who I am referring to!!
I am just venting because some of this shit is just wrong and it hurts my heart to see so much unnecessary suffering. I do everything I am allowed to do to help support the nurses and help the patients when I am there. But as a student, I sometimes feel so helpless and guilty.

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I’m currently in med/surg and I’m just so tired of some of these nurses refusing to do any basic nursing care. Yes, there are PCT’s, but you KNOW they are currently at a 1:18 ratio and YOUR patient is currently sitting right there in front of you with food dried on their face, their covers nasty and tangled, hands visibly dirty—it’s just so frustrating. I’m sick of the “but they have to chart 🥺🥺” bs. Chart WHAT?? They haven’t even touched a patient, let alone provided nursing care worth charting, besides passing meds 4 hours previously. I’m not saying nurses don’t have a hard job—my mom is a nurse of 30+ years and I know it is sometimes an impossible and brutal job.

What I don’t get is looking at this little old lady who can’t even lift her arms and just leaving her with food on her face and her arms tangled in the blankets in her who knows how old dirty hospital gown just for you to go sit down to chart. What I cannot understand is how you are willing to sit back and eat your lunch while you ignore the cancer riddled patient with diagnosed chronic pain syndrome who is begging for pain medication (which she HAS ORDERED PRN WITH NO ADMINISTRATIONS) because “if she’s okay enough to be talking and asking for meds, then she can tolerate it.” The woman is going to DIE—who gives a fuck? Why does she have to tolerate it and suffer?? she gonna do? Get addicted???

Nurses are responsible for meeting their patients’ needs. That includes treating them like a human being. Wipe their face, speak kindly and respectfully to them, wash their hands and face with soap and water. It only takes a few minutes to treat them with a fraction of the care that you would want to be treated with yourself, should you be the one who is hurt and confused and helpless. You may have to stay a little late to do that charting, but as a result this person gets to be clean, comfortable, and feel like maybe they do matter, even just a little bit.

Do not go into nursing if you do not want to take care of people—it’s that simple.

Edit: just to clarify—I am NOT blaming nurses for everything. I do NOT think nurses should be staying late and doing unpaid work!! I am pro nurses. I am just saying that the bare basic needs can’t be treated like they are optional. The PCT should do it. If not, then it falls to the nurse. If the nurse cannot, then they must delegate and ensure it happens. But it MUST be done, one way or another.
What I am frustrated about is the fact that basic care and human decency is being treated like it is OPTIONAL, or even a luxury. Like staying 20 minutes late to finish paperwork is far greater injustice than being left to sit on a pressure sore caked in your own piss and shit for who knows how long.

Literally all that I am saying is that patients deserve to be clean and treated with dignity and respect. If you are arguing and feel angry with what I am saying, then take some time to reflect on that. Administration sucks and it’s not fair, but at the end of the day I’d rather have to ask my boss for forgiveness than God.

I recently started an ADN program and unfortunately failed my final exam by 1.25 points, despite having an 87% average in the class. Due to the program’s grading policy, failing the final means failing the entire course, regardless of your overall grade.
I reached out to my professor and program director, but there’s no option for remediation, a retake, or an appeal. My only option is to reapply next fall, with no guarantee of being accepted again.
I’m 30, a single mom of three, and becoming a nurse has been my dream since childhood. I already have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, but unfortunately, those credits don’t transfer to other schools. Starting over somewhere else would mean taking additional prerequisites and delaying everything even further.
I understand nursing school is supposed to be difficult, but losing an entire year over 1.25 points is incredibly discouraging. I worked so hard to get here, and now I just feel completely at a loss.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? Did you wait to reapply or start fresh somewhere else? I’m not ready to give up on nursing, but I genuinely don’t know what to do next.

Hi everyone! I'm a first-semester student in an accelerated nursing program, and I'm really struggling with pathophysiology. I feel like I'm having a hard time understanding and retaining the information. I've tried YouTube, NotebookLM, Claude, and ChatGPT, but nothing seems to be helping much. Does anyone have any study tips or methods that actually worked for them? I'd really appreciate any advice!

I had to do a head to toe assessment on Monday at clinical, and during the assessment, my resident grabbed my waist and pulled me to him and told me to “give him some sugar.” I pulled back and said no, that it wasn’t appropriate to act that way. I continued my assessment and when I looked down at his hand, he was trying to touch me inappropriately. I stepped back, almost didn’t finish the assessment because I was uncomfortable but I took a deep breath and told him to stop. and told the nurse and she said “Yeah, he’s just like that.” So I finished up the assessment. Which I’ve been in healthcare for years, I know how residents can be, I know they say and do things that’s aren’t appropriate, but really? That’s all? Because clinical can be stressful and tiring, I’m already there for 12 hours, not being able to just do what I’m there to do is even more stressful. I know it’s a “get used to it” kind of thing, it’s just annoying. How do you guys deal with your inappropriate residents/patients?

[edit] This is a geriatric patient, NOT a resident physician. Resident is just the term for people live in LTC facility.

I truly think I’d enjoy working in OT so much more because of less stress but when I look into the OT masters programs in my area it’s SO expensive.

COTA is offered at my local CC but it doesn’t seem like I’d make enough money in my area so now I’m considering RN..

I know there’s more opportunities in nursing but the math and high stress scare me!

I just got my notice today that I didn’t get into my nursing program that I wanted :( im feeling so disappointed and embarrassed and like im losing time. I’m 22 about to be 23 and i really wanted to get into this program because it’ll be another 2 years I just want to be done with school already. Now im set back even more and it sucks so bad i feel so behind and im worried if i reapply for the next cohort i still might not get in and ill just keep wasting time. I stopped working too to focus on my classes but i still didnt get in it’s so sad what do i do now

Edit: omg everyone is so nice thank you guys so much for all the advice and motivation! I feel a lot better im not going to give up!

Has anyone heard of a community-based nursing program? Where clinicals are community-based and not in a hospital? I heard they exist but it's hard to find because all that comes up is community college or community health or something else.

I’m in Louisiana and the LSBN has required me to be evaluated for substance abuse and psychological evaluation because of a DUI and possession charge I got years ago just before starting clinicals. Ive since cleaned up my act and am prepared for hair follicle and testing. Ive been trying to research the best board approved facilities to have my evaluation done and a lot of the reviews say they were given unfounded diagnoses.

So my main question is does anyone know about these facilities and which one is my best shot of giving me a fair evaluation without costing me an arm and leg.

Any advice is welcome I am determined to finish my degree and get my license. Also if for some reason a diagnosis is unavoidable how is that going to affect my reentry of school. And what are some possibilities of their recommendations?

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I've been in college since Fall 2024 working toward nursing school. Unfortunately, my TEAS score was lower than expected, and even though I applied for Spring 2027, I was told I couldn't move forward because of my score. Now I have to wait until January to apply again for Fall 2027.

The problem is that I've basically finished all my prerequisites. I really only need Biology II, but I have to remain a full-time student (12+ credit hours) to keep my scholarship. Financial aid is telling me they won't cover random classes because they aren't part of my course of study. I even asked about taking a psychology course about drugs and medical terminology, but neither would be covered, which is frustrating because I feel like both could be useful in nursing.

I've also tried reaching out to multiple academic advisors through email to figure out what classes I can take and what my options are, but I haven't received a response from any of them. I live over an hour away from campus, so it's not exactly convenient to drive there just to ask questions that could easily be answered through email. It's frustrating because I'm trying to plan ahead and make responsible decisions, but I feel like I'm getting nowhere.

I'm also worried that because I've already been in college for over two years, I might run out of financial aid before I even finish nursing school. I feel like I'm spending more money just trying to remain eligible for my scholarship while waiting to get accepted.

What makes it even harder is that everyone in my classes keeps talking about how they got accepted into the spring nursing program. I'm genuinely happy for them, but it's hard constantly hearing about everyone moving forward when I was hoping to be starting alongside them. It honestly makes me feel like I'm falling behind, even though I've been working toward the same goal.

I also don't have many nursing schools to choose from. There are only about three schools within an hour of my house, and those are already the closest options. One requires a CNA certification, which I can't realistically get right now while attending college, especially since the program costs around $1,500. Another school doesn't accept the TEAS and requires the Kaplan entrance exam instead, meaning I'd have to pay for and prepare for two different nursing entrance exams just to have more than one option.

I really wanted to start nursing school this spring, and knowing I have to wait until next fall is honestly upsetting. I've considered LPN programs, but the spring application deadlines have already passed, and I don't necessarily want to go the LPN route if I have a chance of getting into an RN program.

My biggest fear is not getting accepted for Fall 2027 either. At that point, I genuinely don't know what I'd do. I love nursing and want to become an RN, but I don't want to keep spending time and money taking classes that aren't getting me any closer to my goal. Part of me feels like giving up if I don't get accepted next fall because I can't keep putting my life on hold indefinitely.

Has anyone else been in this situation? What did you do while waiting to get into nursing school? Did you take extra classes, transfer schools, pursue an LPN program, or take a semester off? I'm especially interested in hearing from anyone who dealt with financial aid issues, limited nursing school options, unresponsive academic advisors, or having to take multiple entrance exams. I just feel really lost right now and could use some advice.

My program just assigned us practicum placements that are well over 100 miles each way for my classmates and I, over a 2.5 hour drive. Not to mention, hardly any of us got the area we wanted. The administration missed the deadline to get our placements at local hospitals, and now we’re suffering from their mistake. Personally, I will have to wake up at 3 am and probably won’t be getting home until 10 pm, leaving only 5 hours to shower, eat dinner, prepare breakfast/lunch/bookbags for my kids for school, and go to sleep, only to wake up again at 3 am and go through it all again. Some of my classmates have already discussed their worries, and my school sent out a passive aggressive email this morning telling us to basically suck it up. Has anyone dealt with something like this with their program?

I’ll be starting nursing school soon, and I’m wondering if having a LinkedIn profile is necessary for building a career in healthcare. I’m interested in networking and connecting with potential employers, but I’m not particularly comfortable with sharing publicly where I go to school or work.
At the same time, I don’t want to miss out on opportunities to connect with people in the industry or potentially get my foot in the door with good employers. I know you can adjust your privacy settings on LinkedIn, but I’m still not super comfortable with putting that kind of information out there. I just don’t want to miss out on potential opportunities because I chose not to make one.

I applied to the nuring program in may and got accepted, i start the actual program in january. i still have to finish up some pre reqs hut i have been struggling tremendously with microbiology and was wondering how other schools/programs/ ect had their microbiology classes set up.

for my microbiology class, the main materials we are provided for each chapter are the lecture “outline” and the textbook. we dont have any softchalk like some of my other classes do or lecture videos, powerpoints, ect available to us.

the said “outline” that we are provided is more like a vauge fill in the blank. for my other class outlines, we are provided a full outline of all the information that we need to know for the chapter. the teacher recomments filling out the outline before class but i had tried this previously and asked her to check my outline and she told me that i always put more information than ill even need to know.

recently i stopped filling out the outline before class so i can just write down what we do need to know as she talked about it in lecture and goes through the powerpoint. the power point doesnt follow the outline very well and is rephrased in certain sections so i find it hard to follow. in addition, sometimes out ourline will ask a question like “1) what is a phagocyte”and the. the powerpoint will show the same unanswered blank questions.

also, my class section had a very low in-class participation rate. today she kinda went off after answering a question and no one answered. she goes “you guys need to be resourceful and fill the outline before class. i feel like i should stop talking and just go through the power point for you guys.”

i previously visited office hours because i really wanted to understand why we are given the outline where we have to fill it in ourselves instead of how the other biology classes are set up. she essnetially replied that “this isnt your other bio classes” in a “get over it” and bothered tone.

i honestly just want to “think like the professor” and understand why the curriculum is set up like this. i feel like a class as challenging as mucrobiology would be so much easier to navigate id students were provided an upfront outline of the chapters to be able to follow along with and annotate/ add additional information to.

do any if yall have simailer microbiology curriculums? im considering visiting the department head for answers. i just want to know and understand why it is set up this way it is, im not looking to change the entire curriculum.

I wasn’t quite sure what flair to put this under but I’m hoping some people might relate. I’m in my first semester of an ABSN and so far I’m doing really well I think. My only problem is that during any validations or skill checks off immediately after I finish and my professor tells me how I did I can’t seem to stop myself from getting overwhelmed and crying or something. I’ve always been my own worst critic but no one else in my cohort has this problem and I don’t want my professors to think that I’m too emotional or anxious to actually succeed in the nursing world after school. Obviously I know this isn’t a “quick fix” kind of problem but I really want to be better.

Just need to vent. Had clinicals Monday. Was at a rehab/skilled nursing facility. Not a particularly nice one, but not a particularly non-nice one either. End of the day, I went into a patient's room with 2 of my cohort, J and C and our instructor (who was there to observe, but also is the sort who isn't afraid to get her hands dirty). Pt. was under enhanced contact precautions, gloves, gowns, masks. We were there to change the patient's brief, change the linens, clean him up, get him dressed, etc. Pt. was more comfortable in Spanish than English and J was translating and doing communication with him. He tells us he's in pain, 10/10. We start to examine him. We take the covers down and find that he's got compression hose on which he is not supposed to be wearing in bed. One of them has a hole in it and there's an edema the size of a goose egg sticking out of it. Teach looks _pissed_. She tells us to get started on making him comfortable and goes to talk to the CNA and RN. I start checking the patient more closely. The top of one compression hose is rolled down below his knee. I palpate his calves. The one with the rolled down top feels like an overinflated balloon, its purple. Teach comes back, still looks pissed. I show her the top, and tell her I'm going to take the hose off. She does not look less pissed. I roll the top up, then slide them off. There's a 1x0.5cm groove around his leg. There's a stage 2 pressure ulcer where the roll was lying. I was angry already. Now I'm at least as pissed as Teach. Pt. tells J he's already feeling better, pain is receding. I check the cap refill in his toes. Sluggish, but manageable. And we get to work, change the brief, change the bed, clean him up, get clean clothes on him.

I felt like I had done something good. I felt angry as hell. This afternoon, driving home from my lab classes, all of that kind of fell on me like a load of bricks. I started crying in the car. I got it under control. I'm ok. It was just pent up stress, but I feel better sharing it. On the one hand, I'm proud of myself and my colleagues. We walked out of that room drenched in sweat, emotionally drained, etc. But we left a patient in there who was no longer in pain, was clean, was in a clean bed, comfortable. We found a real problem and we fixed it. But I know there's every chance in the world when I'm back there next week I'm going to find the same thing either there or somewhere else. We did our job, and we took care of our patient and I'm still just kind of numb. It was rough. And the patient was the nicest, gentlest person you could imagine. He never complained, never snapped at us, despite hurting and, from what I saw, undoubtedly hurting bad. He was grateful. And that's almost the worst part of it. As much as I like being appreciated he shouldn't _have_ to be grateful for this. He wasn't owed 3 students and an RN late in the afternoon on a Monday. He was owed decent care in the first place.

I'm not having a crisis. I'm not questioning my choice to enter the profession. I am questioning at what point I tell somebody at that rehab that if I find that patient mistreated again I will call the fucking cops on them. I know there's no point at which I can do that without wrecking my potential career. I am not sure I care enough about that compared to how I feel about my patient.

Im in my 3rd semester of nursing and only need to pass this semester and one more to graduate. I bombed my 2nd exam (66) way worse than my first exam (78). I need an average of 80 to pass. As much as I’m learning from my approach and setting more time to study, change learning styles, and shifting mentality’s to think more like a nurse, I’m still scared I’m not able to make it. I would need to aim for 88s on my 3rd and 4th exam. I only have about 2 weeks to review for my 3rd exam and set 1-3 days to catch up on topics I bombed. This doesnt include the Cummulative Final with only 4 days of review after Exam 4. I’m going left and right scheduling tutors with a friend to catch up on the topic I bombed in the exam, and a graduate friend of mine to review topics before Exam 3.

I used scopenursing, notability, and notebook lm for my 2nd exam. Even used Ninja Nerd to comprehend the pathophysiology. Maybe its because I wasn’t writing concepts down and making concept maps that I wasn’t actively recalling information and relied on nursing practice questions. Do I still have a chance to bring my average back up and pass?

So I was dismissed from my ABSN program following an academic misconduct allegation involving an Exam in Med Surg 1. Literally 2 weeks before the end of the semester. I shared exam-related material received from a classmate who had already taken the exam, but it wasn’t specific exam questions or answers. It was “make sure you know x, y, and z.” My intention was to help my classmates prepare, not to gain an unfair advantage. This was my first disciplinary matter, and I formally appealed the dismissal so I’m waiting on that.
Has anyone ever won an appeal and been reinstated? If so, what was that process like?

Has anyone tried to get into a different nursing program with that kind of information listed on your transcript?

Just trying to figure out next steps.

what are some specialties that are not the main ones? i’m thinking like oncology, post transplant… what else? just wanting to daydream and research about what kind of nurse i might become! or where i might want to do my preceptorship.

background:

first semester of nursing school :) i feel that i am pretty open to becoming any kind of nurse. i am open to med surg

but after clinical on med surg i am so overwhelmed by the amount of information a med surg nurse has to have on hand! i am sure that’s true for all nurses.

but i feel like id rather be more specialized and feel super confident about a more specific amount of info.

i’m not really called to critical care or mother/baby. i’d be open to them but i know they’re so hard to get anyways. i am probably most interested in being a wound care nurse, but ive also heard those positions are not easy to get.

edit: to clarify, when i think “main ones” i think ER, ICU, L&D, NICU

I decided that medic & fire aren’t my cup of tea. I’m almost 30, female, not dedicated enough to get strong, and didn’t want to be gone for 48 hour shifts. So I said screw it, let’s apply and see what happens. I got waitlisted! Which is better than being denied I guess? lol

My school is stupid hard to get accepted into, so this is good ish news? They can’t tell me where I’m at on the list nor how many people are on the list (which I get, but I want to know lol)

Anyone have this experience at their school? I’m praying and crossing my fingers I get in, I love medicine and learning new things!

I don’t have many people who really care about this success of mine so I thought I would share my abundant joy here. Nursing school you will not be missed! From one insane journey to the next.
It’s so weird to not have to worry about any homework or assignments anymore, I feel like I’m in a quiet shock right now. Such an odd feeling to just be done.
If I have any advice to give it would be to utilize the study rooms at your public libraries. Take advantage of the whiteboards if the rooms have them. Create a study plan and really just commit even tho it’ll be a lot of work and take a lot of time. I also made it through med surg 3 with the help of hundreds of handwritten flashcards. Also for more advanced classes (med surg 3 was the bane of my existence), I unfortunately gotta tell you that reading the book did actually deepen my understanding of the course material.
I wish the same successes for you all. I promise you will get there even if the road is anything but straight. Failing and retaking a class doesn’t define you. Whatever it is, it will be ok <3

UPDATE: I just want to thank everyone for their sweet words of congratulation. I deeply appreciate each and every comment, thank you for celebrating with me!!

I’m a 31 software engineer and I made a decision to pursue nursing so I’m currently taking pre reqs. I have a conditional seat in a nursing program for spring 2028 and I decided to start volunteering 4 hours a week with a 6 month commitment at the hospital where I’ll be doing clinicals. I was able to get a spot on the post critical care unit, I figured this would be a great way to see what being in a hospital is truly like, but for some reason I’m incredibly nervous! I did training last week, it was not on my regular shift day or time so everyone I was introduced to probably won’t be there. Plus the hospital only has 1 volunteer per shift, so I’ll basically be on my own and will have to rely on the notes I took. I’m so used to working from home that I’m starting to question my choice, but at the same time I think getting early exposure and an excuse to leave the house is good. I’m very much an introvert so I guess I’m not sure how to go about this solo, how best to introduce myself and network while avoiding getting in the way of the other staff. Any advice on how to make the most of this?

Hi everyone, Pre-reqs student here. I just learned that one of my Spring Semester classes is a Medical Terminology class and I just want to know if it’s worth taking it in person class or just take an online class with it? Right now I’m a full time college student, 5 days a week classes and full day schedule and now I’m thinking of getting an online classes next semester just so I can get a break. Any thoughts? (I’m taking A&P 1 class in person rn so I might know some terms now)