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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<h3>Frank Kennedy answers:</h3>
<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<h3>Frank Kennedy answers:</h3>
<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<h3>Frank Kennedy answers:</h3>
<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<h3>Frank Kennedy answers:</h3>
<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<h3>Frank Kennedy answers:</h3>
<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<h3>Frank Kennedy answers:</h3>
<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
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<h2>I&#8217;m so confused about college. Help?</h2>
<p>I don&#8217;t need dumb responses, okay? I need someone to actually help.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a junior in high school, and as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a lawyer. And lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and I even took a <strong>quiz</strong> on collegeboard.com that tried to help me determine what <strong>career</strong> I wanted.</p>
<p><strong>Psychology</strong>, journalism, and social work came up as the top choices that match my personality.<br />
I want to be a psychologist. I want to help people with their problems.<br />
But I mainly want to help kids, juveniles, teenagers, or even marriage counseling.</p>
<p>If i want to do THAT, wouldn&#8217;t I have to goto college to study social work then do <strong>psychology</strong> in order to be a psychologist?</p>
<p>or what? i&#8217;m SO confused. it&#8217;s making my head hurt.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m pretty much giving up on the lawyer thing. i don&#8217;t really want to do that.<br />
i want to work with kids or marriage counseling.<br />
so i basically want to be a psychologist. </p>
<p>can someone help me?<br />
this collegeboard stuff is confusing me even more.<br />
:[</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">First of all, although it is good to be passionate about something before you go to college, you shouldn&#8217;t be too hell bent on taking that path from orientation to graduation. Take a variety of classes in your freshman year to get a better feel of what you&#8217;d like to do. The majority of people who start college either have no idea what they want to do, or they do have an idea in mind, but they change it later on.</p>
<p>That being said, there are a number of tracks you can take to becoming a family/marriage counselor. You can take a more clinical track of getting your bachelor&#8217;s in psychology and then going after your PsyD (Doctor of Psychology). These people often make a lot of money when they go into the workforce, but the competition to get into a good PsyD program is incredible. If you aren&#8217;t the best of the best of the best, you will be at a major disadvantage when it comes to admissions. I&#8217;m not trying to discourage you, but I will say right now that if you take this track, be prepared to put your shoulder to the wheel from the start.</p>
<p>Another track you can take would be to get a social work degree, either a BSW (Bachelor of Social Work) or an MSW (Master of Social Work). Obviously, these degrees will qualify you to work in the social work field, where you can also do a lot of counseling, although it won&#8217;t be as much of the clinical kind. You will only make a fraction of the money that a clinical psychiatrist generally makes, but you also won&#8217;t have to jump through nearly as many hoops to get qualified.</p>
<p>Moreover, there are people who work in various counseling fields who have degrees in a wide area of subjects. You can be a counselor in many places with any sort of a degree, as long as you have the qualifications that are required of a job posting. For example, for a class, I had a social worker help me with an interview who had a bachelor&#8217;s in English.</p>
<p>But, like I said at the start, take a wide range of classes, ones that will satisfy general education requirements, first. You may end up finding out that you want to do something completely different, once you hit the ground.</p>
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<h2>this is my explanation essay college. sorry it is so long. i need serious answers! feedback would be wonderful?</h2>
<p>Nurses have many important duties to their job, the three main ones are; dosage, reading orders, and charting. Nurses must be able to give the patients the right dosage to the right patient at the right time. They must be able to read the charts accurately so they will give the right medicine to the patients. Nurses have to chart every little thing that is wrong with their patients, even when they transport them to another hospital they must chart it. Hundred and thousands of Americans are looking toward some kind of medical field everyday. Nursing has been around for many centuries and is still continuing to grow. &#8220;According to OOH, since 2008 health care has held about 2.6 million of jobs economically and is expected to grow 22% from 2008 to 2018.&#8221; Everyone works at his or her own pace but for some people nursing just comes naturally to them, and for others they have to work extrememly hard to persue their dreams. RNs are expected to take care of the sick, injured, and give medicine on a daily basis; some nurses may also teach patients how to manage their nutrition and exercise programs on a daily basis. Nurses also teach patients and their families how to overcome their illnesses or injuries. The number one priority is giving the families your emotional support and to be there for them in their time of need. How would that make you look as a nurse and to the nursing board if you told someone that their loved ons is dead and walked away without providing the emotional support that they need? I know if that happened to me i would be stone stricken and would not come back to that facility ever again. </p>
<p>RNs usually go around with a doctor and try to figure out why these patients have what they have, record medical history, and help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results. Nurses also have to have some knowledge at recognizing problems and remembering deatails, running medical machinery, and treating patients with medicine or IVs. &#8220;Nikki explained to me that she had plenty of tight deadlines as a nurse, she had to make sure all of her patients were taking care of before she even considered leaving the hospital. She also mentioned that if she was with another patient and she got paged to help with a surgery, she had to use her best judgment that she could for her and her patient.&#8221; In order to become a nurse, you have to graduate for a nursing prgram. You can go for your (AND) which is a Associates degree in nursing, this usually takes about 2 years to complete, another one is a (BSN) this a Bachelor&#8217;s of science degree in nursing, this normally takes about 4 years to complete. &#8220;OOH explains that once you graduate from nursing school, you must take your NCLEX-RN in order to obtain a nursing license.&#8221; It also mentioned that NCLEX-RN is a difficult test to take. If you happen to faile the first time, you have to wait up to a year to take it again and it also depends on which state you like in, some states will only let you take it 3 times. In order to persue a <strong>career</strong> in the nursing field, you must complete a variety of course; there is anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, and nursing theory.</p>
<p>As I sat down with Nikki for the interview, she mentioned to me that anatomy and <strong>psychology</strong> helped her in so many ways. She could recall gathering up a group of friends during the wee-hours of the night and making up sons to remember all the body parts for anatomy. Nikki confessed to me that physchology ws pretty tuff for her to handly, she had to get a little extra help from her professor. My professor would sit with me all day and <strong>quiz</strong> me over every single chapter from my book, until I got it right. Since nursing is in high demand right now, you must be able to hold a steady GPA in all your classes, and you also have to be competitive in order to get a spot in the nursing program. &#8220;Statistics have shown that since nursing is in high demand right now, 581,500 jobs will be created in May 2008.&#8221; RNs have a heavy work schedule on a day to day basis, they could work up to 24 hours around the clock with little amount of sleep, they are also on calls on the weekends and the holidays. Nikki mentioned to me that when she was a nurse there would be times when she hd hectic work hours on a daily basis. &#8220;I recall working four twelve hour shifts and every other weekend, I didn&#8217;t work too much on holidays.&#8221; &#8220;OOH also states that nurses are on their feet quite a bit, and frequent bending and stretching.&#8221; After college I like to pursue a <strong>career</strong> at Riley&#8217;s Children Hospital as an RN. I hope to change the lives of others and to put smiles on my patient&#8217;s faces when I walk through the door.</p>
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<p class="dtm-content">You&#8217;re headed in the right direction, but I&#8217;m a little confused as to what this essay is for. Is this a personal statement for admission to nursing school? Or is it an essay for a class? If so, what kind of essay/paper is this supposed to be? </p>
<p>You have some issues with run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and misuse of punctuation (for example, your first sentence is a run-on and you should not be using a semi-colon in that manner) that could be fixed if you go to someone who is a skilled writer that can help you edit line-by-line. The entire essay is also a bit disjointed. Your paragraphs are far too long, and you don&#8217;t really seem to have a strong thesis. </p>
<p>I could help you more if I knew what exactly this was for and what its purpose is.</p>
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