Re: - best wishes for your nursing school and working 40 hours

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,

I was going to Nursing school and had PSC but did not know it yet.

Best of luck to you are you going for LVN or RN? Most nursing schools

here do not allow you to work full time while going to school. But I

love being a nurse. I raised my family and then went to Nursing school,

my poor husband had two kids and a wife in college all at the same

time!!

[Guest guest]

,

I also commend you for working fulltime while going to nursing school.

I just started nursing school this week also, but I only work 24 hours a week. I am going for my BSN at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center here in Denver. But for me I work at University of Colorado Hospital, and was lucky to get into a worksite program, where they help to gear my class so that I can also work. Plus my manager understands my need for a very specific schedule.

So for the next 2 years my life will be scheduled including that my GI is going to do ERCPs every 6 months when I am in between semester, to keep the sludge that I build up from getting too far. Plus I do take URSO and cholestrymine to try to keep things as stable as I can.

Again good luck with your pursuit for your nursing degree,

Beth B Thornton,CO

[Guest guest]

,

I also commend you for working fulltime while going to nursing school.

I just started nursing school this week also, but I only work 24 hours a week. I am going for my BSN at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center here in Denver. But for me I work at University of Colorado Hospital, and was lucky to get into a worksite program, where they help to gear my class so that I can also work. Plus my manager understands my need for a very specific schedule.

So for the next 2 years my life will be scheduled including that my GI is going to do ERCPs every 6 months when I am in between semester, to keep the sludge that I build up from getting too far. Plus I do take URSO and cholestrymine to try to keep things as stable as I can.

Again good luck with your pursuit for your nursing degree,

Beth B Thornton,CO

[Guest guest]

,

I also commend you for working fulltime while going to nursing school.

I just started nursing school this week also, but I only work 24 hours a week. I am going for my BSN at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center here in Denver. But for me I work at University of Colorado Hospital, and was lucky to get into a worksite program, where they help to gear my class so that I can also work. Plus my manager understands my need for a very specific schedule.

So for the next 2 years my life will be scheduled including that my GI is going to do ERCPs every 6 months when I am in between semester, to keep the sludge that I build up from getting too far. Plus I do take URSO and cholestrymine to try to keep things as stable as I can.

Again good luck with your pursuit for your nursing degree,

Beth B Thornton,CO

[Guest guest]

Beth:

Good Luck to you also. I am only doing the A.D.N. program for now. I got

really excited when I started working toward this about 3 years ago and decided

that I was going to go the PA or NP route but now I have decided to just

concentrate on getting through each day.

I also work for a hospital. I have been here now going on 17 years but I have

always done the administrative end. This is a whole new world on the nursing

side but I love it. I had my first school nightmare last night. I

dreamed that I went to take my first test (which is Monday) and the test was in

a foreign language that I didn't speak. It was terrible. lol

How long have you known about PSC?? I am so lucky that mine really does not

affect my life. I did wake last night with RUQ pain that scared me a little but

I took a tramadol and it went away.

Keep me posted on how things are going. We can swap war stories.

>>> " W Brandel " solarcheek@...> 1/24/2009 8:39 AM >>>

,

I also commend you for working fulltime while going to nursing school.

I just started nursing school this week also, but I only work 24 hours a week. I

am going for my BSN at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center here in

Denver. But for me I work at University of Colorado Hospital, and was lucky to

get into a worksite program, where they help to gear my class so that I can also

work. Plus my manager understands my need for a very specific schedule.

So for the next 2 years my life will be scheduled including that my GI is going

to do ERCPs every 6 months when I am in between semester, to keep the sludge

that I build up from getting too far. Plus I do take URSO and cholestrymine to

try to keep things as stable as I can.

Again good luck with your pursuit for your nursing degree,

Beth B Thornton,CO

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[Guest guest]

Beth:

Good Luck to you also. I am only doing the A.D.N. program for now. I got

really excited when I started working toward this about 3 years ago and decided

that I was going to go the PA or NP route but now I have decided to just

concentrate on getting through each day.

I also work for a hospital. I have been here now going on 17 years but I have

always done the administrative end. This is a whole new world on the nursing

side but I love it. I had my first school nightmare last night. I

dreamed that I went to take my first test (which is Monday) and the test was in

a foreign language that I didn't speak. It was terrible. lol

How long have you known about PSC?? I am so lucky that mine really does not

affect my life. I did wake last night with RUQ pain that scared me a little but

I took a tramadol and it went away.

Keep me posted on how things are going. We can swap war stories.

>>> " W Brandel " solarcheek@...> 1/24/2009 8:39 AM >>>

,

I also commend you for working fulltime while going to nursing school.

I just started nursing school this week also, but I only work 24 hours a week. I

am going for my BSN at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center here in

Denver. But for me I work at University of Colorado Hospital, and was lucky to

get into a worksite program, where they help to gear my class so that I can also

work. Plus my manager understands my need for a very specific schedule.

So for the next 2 years my life will be scheduled including that my GI is going

to do ERCPs every 6 months when I am in between semester, to keep the sludge

that I build up from getting too far. Plus I do take URSO and cholestrymine to

try to keep things as stable as I can.

Again good luck with your pursuit for your nursing degree,

Beth B Thornton,CO

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[Guest guest]

Beth:

Good Luck to you also. I am only doing the A.D.N. program for now. I got

really excited when I started working toward this about 3 years ago and decided

that I was going to go the PA or NP route but now I have decided to just

concentrate on getting through each day.

I also work for a hospital. I have been here now going on 17 years but I have

always done the administrative end. This is a whole new world on the nursing

side but I love it. I had my first school nightmare last night. I

dreamed that I went to take my first test (which is Monday) and the test was in

a foreign language that I didn't speak. It was terrible. lol

How long have you known about PSC?? I am so lucky that mine really does not

affect my life. I did wake last night with RUQ pain that scared me a little but

I took a tramadol and it went away.

Keep me posted on how things are going. We can swap war stories.

>>> " W Brandel " solarcheek@...> 1/24/2009 8:39 AM >>>

,

I also commend you for working fulltime while going to nursing school.

I just started nursing school this week also, but I only work 24 hours a week. I

am going for my BSN at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center here in

Denver. But for me I work at University of Colorado Hospital, and was lucky to

get into a worksite program, where they help to gear my class so that I can also

work. Plus my manager understands my need for a very specific schedule.

So for the next 2 years my life will be scheduled including that my GI is going

to do ERCPs every 6 months when I am in between semester, to keep the sludge

that I build up from getting too far. Plus I do take URSO and cholestrymine to

try to keep things as stable as I can.

Again good luck with your pursuit for your nursing degree,

Beth B Thornton,CO

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[Guest guest]

,

Don't say " just " and ADN program. That is what I did and it is plenty

of hardwork. I have thought about getting a BSN or Masters. But have

put that on hold for now. I would mainly get my Masters so that I

could teach someday. But between my present job and PSC, I am to worn

out to think about anything else. Good luck, your " nightmare " the

other night is probably the first of many when it comes to nursing test

LOL. Good Luck,

[Guest guest]

,

Don't say " just " and ADN program. That is what I did and it is plenty

of hardwork. I have thought about getting a BSN or Masters. But have

put that on hold for now. I would mainly get my Masters so that I

could teach someday. But between my present job and PSC, I am to worn

out to think about anything else. Good luck, your " nightmare " the

other night is probably the first of many when it comes to nursing test

LOL. Good Luck,

[Guest guest]

As an ancient nurse and old Family Nurse Practitioner - nursing is a wonderful career, with so many opportunities. Completing the ADN or BSN and working for a bit, then considering your next steps, be that additional school or a new focus in nursing is an On-going opportunity. My children tolerated my completion of a master's program and several years later a post-masters certificate - and if nothing else, they saw mom study alongside of them!

The choices in nursing are immense, the satisfaction of working with others is great, and the endless learning is good for all of us! Obviously, I love the field. As an NP, I always say that I am "an old nurse - always a nurse".

Congratulations and good luck to each of you with your studies. Yup, there are anxious moments, but you will get through them. For new graduates, my advice is to anticipate that you will not be comfortable going to work for about 4 to 6 months - now many feel confident prior to that, but it took me that long (as an anxious perfectionist!). When I was hired as a new NP in an internal medicine practice - my background as a nurse from neonatal ICU, adult ICU, clin specialist and administration helped - they said they thought I'd be "flexible"!)

Good luck!

Joanne H

(, Ca., mom of , 18, UC/PSC 2-06; JRA 98)

,Don't say "just" and ADN program. That is what I did and it is plenty of hardwork. I have thought about getting a BSN or Masters. But have put that on hold for now. I would mainly get my Masters so that I could teach someday. ...

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[Guest guest]

As an ancient nurse and old Family Nurse Practitioner - nursing is a wonderful career, with so many opportunities. Completing the ADN or BSN and working for a bit, then considering your next steps, be that additional school or a new focus in nursing is an On-going opportunity. My children tolerated my completion of a master's program and several years later a post-masters certificate - and if nothing else, they saw mom study alongside of them!

The choices in nursing are immense, the satisfaction of working with others is great, and the endless learning is good for all of us! Obviously, I love the field. As an NP, I always say that I am "an old nurse - always a nurse".

Congratulations and good luck to each of you with your studies. Yup, there are anxious moments, but you will get through them. For new graduates, my advice is to anticipate that you will not be comfortable going to work for about 4 to 6 months - now many feel confident prior to that, but it took me that long (as an anxious perfectionist!). When I was hired as a new NP in an internal medicine practice - my background as a nurse from neonatal ICU, adult ICU, clin specialist and administration helped - they said they thought I'd be "flexible"!)

Good luck!

Joanne H

(, Ca., mom of , 18, UC/PSC 2-06; JRA 98)

,Don't say "just" and ADN program. That is what I did and it is plenty of hardwork. I have thought about getting a BSN or Masters. But have put that on hold for now. I would mainly get my Masters so that I could teach someday. ...

..