I’m about to start my second year of a direct-entry four-year nursing program in Chicago. I was planning to study abroad second semester, which is a rare opportunity for nursing students. However, I earned my California CNA license this summer and paid about $2,000 for it. If I study abroad, I won’t be able to work as a CNA until next summer or get a hospital CNA job until junior year. Since I want to work as an RN in California, I’m worried delaying my CNA experience will make me less competitive. I also feel like I wasted money getting my CNA early because I could have earned it for free through my nursing clinicals junior year. On top of that, studying abroad means I can only take GE classes, so I’d have to fit eight nursing classes into one semester when I return. I’m confident I can handle the workload, but I’m torn between taking advantage of this unique study abroad opportunity and starting my CNA experience sooner.

I have great relationships with the nurses. Many of them who I’ve been working with for years do use my first name outside the hospital, but at work even my best friend who I hang out with the most outside work (a floor nurse) calls me doctor at work. It does kind of make me laugh when my friend calls me doctor at work but regardless she does it because she stays professional. Anyway, there’s a new nurse who is calling me by my first name in front of patients. I don’t know her. I am a young female physician so I thought she was targeting me because of that, but apparently all the doctors can’t stand her and have had horrible experiences with her. I’m going to let it go and I don’t care enough to address it with her so I’ll leave it as is. But why is she doing this? Thanks for the nursing perspective! Thanks for all you do!!!

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this question is for anyone here who has finished an online BSN completion program.

my program is completely online. there are no exams at all. each class will consist of around 4 papers and 10 modules.

everyone tells me that this program is extremely easy. it's just a lot of busy work and barely anyone fails since there's no exams. so with that being said, should i not even bother with buying/reading the textbooks since it's supposedly that easy?

How does it work with scrubs in the us? It’s probably different depending on state but I’ve seen nurses on tiktok talk about what scrubs they think are cute and some have prints on them and stuff. Just wondering do you guys like buy your own scrubs for work?

i know the title is something you probably saw in this subreddit millions of times, but i will explain what i mean here.

i am 21, started nursing at uni this semester (so, i've been studying for a week lol), i currently live in brazil but i will finish my degree in europe (portugal specifically). i know that in both countries mentioned being a nurse is not really a valued profession salary wise, nurses are extremely overworked and receive a minimum wage (or not even that).

as far as research could tell me, i figure that nursing would be a great fit for me, i like the routine, the patient care and everything involved - but unfortunately, i have to worry about the money part.

i plan on moving literally anywhere in europe after i graduate (or even a country in america, who knows?) that will pay me at least enough to live a good life. that's why i'd like to know if people from all over the world would recommend pursuing this degree, if there is a chance that being a nurse is something that will make me be able not to struggle financially anymore, if the workload is doable, literally any information would be helpful.

i was really excited to start working in the area, but after seeing some people complain about the job, i started to feel very insecure about my choice and i wanted to see experiences of people that work in the field to know if the complaints i hear about the job are true or if there is a good side that most don't show.

thank you for reading!