Nursing student here. I am fairly sure I want end up in hospice care. I still have a year and a half to go...so I'm still a "baby" nurse. (yeah, I'm one of the old students who is starting a second career).

yeah I wouldn't mind hospice. When do you graduate?

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Why don't you look at a transition to RN program and open the door for a few more options? You can be doing any prereq classes at your own pace and often online (though I think the in-person classes are often less time consuming).

The two men in my last rotation got to spend a day "shadowing" in ICU and absolutely loved the fast pace of that floor. I shadowed on the oncology floor and really like the mellower pace (many patients were more long term or repeat visitors so you got to know them and their families).

Our clinical instructor must have been a bit ADHD in that she had worked almost every unit in the hospital. When she gets bored, she just changes units. (She was absolutely awesome).

I now see you are looking at a BS program...good for you. However, you might be able to get into a spring program at a local community or junior college and just work on those additional non-nursing classes. Be checking out the deadlines for applying to the nursing programs...they can be extremely inconvenient and make you wait a while if you miss them. If you are serious, go visit a counselor as soon as possible and just find out what is the best plan. You don't have to register or anything to do this. Just make sure your bring any transcripts you have.

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I've been a nurse for almost three years. I'm trying to get out of home health though. Where are you working and how. did you get the job? Keep in mind I'm just an lpn so my options are limited...

this is ridiculous! I just tried Davidson community college because they have a local online lpn to adn option and they require one year of FACILITY experience. I've worked primarily clinic and home health. I've filled in on facility and group home. What's with the discrimination towards home health and clinic nursing? Is my license not good enough? Is it not the same?

I don't know about your clinicals but I am providing "real care" and have only made it through fundamentals. I spent 8 weeks on a step-down from ICU floor. I have assisted with placing a nasogastric tube, tube feeding, assisted with some pretty nasty wound care, turned very ill patients until I am an expert, managed two patients at the same time and emptied a colonoscopy bag. Learned how to keep a patient from vomiting by teaching relaxation techniques, cared for a patient actively dying, identified and started oxygen on a patient in distress, learned how to recognize a heart murmur, removed IV catheters (okay, not a big deal), and I'm one of the few on my floor who has not placed a foley catheter yet. I managed c.diff. on a schizophrenic/bipolar mentally deficit man. This was in addition to daily, head-to-toe assessments, VS, and AM care. I have been responsible for the managing the care for 12 different patients except for passing meds. (Which I am now qualified to do and will be able to manage IV bags and saline locks at the end of the week.) I am only 3 weeks into my second semester of nursing. I don't remember anything that looked anything remotely like babysitting. I sat down at lunch and that was it (and usually panicked about wasting time because I needed to be gathering information to complete my 20 some page careplans.)

I'm an lvn as well and I also do home health unfortunately in cali lvn's aren't wanted only RN's because they do everything so the goal is getting my RN BSN