pcawiz replied to Starting Over...'s topic in Georgia
You can do it if that's what you want. I bombed ANP twice and passed on the 3rd try. Never failed another class again and never had much of a hard time in nursing school once I was in. IMO it was the institution that made the course exceedingly diff...
The drug calc is easy if you can follow a given formula for insulin sliding scale dosages. A guy that was recently hired on my floor said the tests weren't bad and they give you a retry on the math one if you don't pass the first time, but you have t...
pcawiz replied to Jammin' RN's topic in Orthopaedic
With ALIFs ice chips the whole first day because you don't want to risk a paralytic ileus with little to no bowel sounds. At temps of 99 I reinforce IBE use before giving them tylenol
I heard from a guy that finished his residency that he did 2 12's on the floor, an 8 on the floor and 1 day of classroom per week for 12 or 13 weeks. Hope that helps...
They are both probably about the same. The lag is with the paperwork/filing. I did my nclex in CA as well as GA and they took forever with the paperwork. Allow about 3 months.
pcawiz replied to HighNursingGoals's topic in Georgia
At the hospital I work at, we don't have to speak any spanish at all. We can call language services and they will bring up a phone that will automatically connect to a live translator (and the phone covers a wide variety of languages, it gets preprog...