studentgrl

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1. almost off orientation and crazy nasty day!

   studentgrl replied to erin01's topic in General Nursing

   im a lil over one year as a RN at a busy 40 bed tele/cv unit. at nights we get average 6 and lot of times 7 pts a piece, sometimes we dont have nursing aides, sometimes we dont have charge nurse and im the only senior nurse on the floor some nights. ...

2. Is this too much or am I crazy...what are your units like?

   studentgrl replied to emersushea's topic in Cardiac

   i also work on a 40 bed tele unit in the inner city. i understand what your going thru, most day are "bad" days meaning super busy, having no time to pee or eat, giving report to day nurse when my stomach is growling like crazy, eating my packed meal...

3. Telemetry Staffing Ratios

   studentgrl replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

   sorry double post --

4. Telemetry Staffing Ratios

   studentgrl replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

   Type of Hospital: community Type of Unit: medical tele which includes post cath and post surgerys Number of beds: 39 Number of patients each RN has: nomally 6-7 on my night shift but up to 8 i have had (im a new grad too!) Do you have a nurse's aides...

5. Nursing Experience

   studentgrl replied to Wooji13's topic in Illinois

   wooji what are you looking at? i work in chicago area and my hospital is hiring, and they hire really easily. from my experience, it was very hard finding a job in a well established chicago hospital such as uic, rush, northwestern, loyola, u of c, ...

6. Nursing Experience

   studentgrl replied to Wooji13's topic in Illinois

   seriously i heard the same thing when i was in nursing school. its gonna be so easy to find a job because there is a need for nurses everywhere. i went to school around champaign and i saw my classmates getting jobs quickly around that area. but once...

7. New grad hoping to move to Chicago

   studentgrl replied to AveryJane's topic in Illinois

   avery jane you should def check out loyola's new heart and vascular unit. they're hiring!!

8. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

   studentgrl replied to studentgrl's topic in NCLEX

   igmirnor what i meant was make sure you know the different types of precautions you have to take for each infectious diseases. make sure you know all the diseases, you never know which one will appear on the nclex. when i studied- i made sure i knew...

9. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

   studentgrl replied to studentgrl's topic in NCLEX

   igmirnor, wat i meant for the infectious diseases is make sure you know what type it is like is it contact/droplet/standared, etc. TB, HTN, STDs, hiv, diabetes are very common topics and likely to appear on nclex BUT other diseases do appear on ncle...

10. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

    studentgrl replied to studentgrl's topic in NCLEX

    My scores were pretty low also when i started out on kaplan like low 40s 50s but it got better and better .. i think the videos and book content are the same so as long as you review one of them your good. i didnt have the patience to watch all the v...

11. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

    studentgrl posted a topic in NCLEX

    i got 76 questions. i seriously thought i failed because i got ALOT of questions wrong. but it turned out i passed. i took the kaplan course also. like many other kaplan takers..i swear my the kaplan QBANK!! at first i was getting low scores on the ...

12. question about tuition reimbursement (northwest memorial)

    studentgrl posted a topic in Illinois

    i am a new grad who recently just passed the nclex. i want to get a masters later on after some hospital experience. i know rush, uic, uofc, loyola, or other university hosptials will pay 100% tuiton reimbursements. i want to work at northwest memori...

13. question about lithium tox

    studentgrl posted a topic in NCLEX

    hi guys. iv always been on this site, reading about tips on nclex cause im studying for mine 1st test on march. so i have several sources. unfortunately all of them are not 2007..some are even from 2002. i hate when one book says one thing and the o...