Nursing career questions?

well for RN’s that I know their pay differs, but I know it is good. On the subject of the scrubs it depends on the school whether or not you have to pay for them but in most cases you have to buy all your equipment. I’m a Firefighter paramedic so I cannot help much with the politics of the job but I work closely with a few. I will talk to them for you and answer back later.

For the two questions…answer them truthfully…answer why you want to be an RN for what you like about the occupation and if you cannot think of anything you do not like then answer, “Have not come across any dislikes”…to warn you though…you better not mind blood or body fluids to be in the medical field…

Hope this helps

You need to attend an accredited 2 or 4 year college, completing your prerequisites prior to entering the program(in most cases). In our school the nursing grading scale was higher than the rest of the schools grading system. You had to have a C or better to pass. Anything lower than a C and you were dropped from the program with the option of returning the following at the same time as you left to re take that quarter and hopefully move on. We lost a lot of people every 3rd quarter, 1st year when Pharmacology was taught Pay scales differed from facility to facility. I worked in a nursing home and started at $18 an hour. Pay at hospitals were probably $5-$7 more. Some facilities provided scrubs, mostly hospitals. Some gave uniform allowances yearly. When you are in school you pay for your uniforms with no allowance. Your pay is going to vary from facility to facility and state to state. I worked as a traveling nurse—3 mth assignments usually sent to where you wanted to go in the US (if anything was open). They provided you with an apartment, all you paid was phone and cable/dish—the company paid for everything else. One assignment I made $27 an hour, another I made $32/hr. If you did per-diem work (pulling shifts at other facilities on your days off) paid $38 to $50/hr. These pay rates were from 2006.

My specialty was long-term care (LTC) and rehabilitation. I worked in a facility that had both. In LTC I liked the fact that I was helping these people with things they wouldn’t be able to do on their own. Working with the elderly can be quite a learning experience—listening to their stories of the past, stories about WW1, they had stories from their day that were often enjoyable. I also liked the continuity of care. Always having the same patients, you really get to know them because you are always with them. The rehab part was for patients usually with recent surgeries—knees. Hips, neck/spine. It was wonderful to watch. Your patients came in,in pain from the surgery and usually over 6 weeks, progressing and to reaching the point of being able to go home.

The worst part about working in LTC is that you become so close to your patients and eventually they die. It was very hard to watch one of your “family” deterioate and die. I cried often, you become so close to a lot of them and they do come to feel like family.

Well, I hope this helps! You can fm me if you have more questions. Good luck!!