saymo82

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1. What's up with all the Tele holds?

   saymo82 posted a topic in Missouri

   I work in a pretty busy ED in the STL area and it seems that lately (since January) we have a ton of tele holds everyday! Any other hospitals experiencing this? It's so bad that we're holding some tele patients for nearly 24 hours until a bed opens u...

2. Best St. Louis hospitals to work at?

   saymo82 replied to BSNgrad2010's topic in Missouri

   I did all of my clinicals for nursing school at Barnes and Children's and when looking for a job I really wasn't too interested in working for BJC. I felt like they had an arrogance about them because of their name, and the environment wasn't very we...

3. SLU vs. BJC Accelerated BSN Program

   saymo82 replied to Katie22's topic in Missouri

   I know this is a little long after your post, but I thought I would chime in just in case you hadn't made a decision yet... I graduated in May '10 from BJC's accelerated program and I would recommend going there since it's cheaper than SLU. I got a j...

4. Chief Complaints

   saymo82 posted a topic in Humor

   I just started working in the ER and have been thoroughly enjoying some of the "chief complaints" that I have been reading. One I remember from the other day is a female with UTI symptoms that states: "I have a lot of pressure down there when I go. I...

5. accelerated nursing grads

   saymo82 replied to laughoutloud8's topic in New Nurse

   I just graduated from a one year program, that was really more like 10 months when you take out winter break, spring break, holidays etc. My GPA in my program was 3.9, which is way higher than my first degree. I think maybe because I am a little bit ...

6. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   saymo82 replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   Don't refuse an ambulance transfer to the major hospital in your area when you're having a heart attack at the local rural emergency clinic, but if you do decide to leave AMA and have your wife drive you to the major hospital, don't make her stop at ...

7. Pearson Vue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 2

   saymo82 replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

   I just took the exam this morning at 8am and got cut off at 75 questions. I was sure that I was doing terrible on the test and was terrified to try the "trick". I went home and tried it and got the good pop up! Hoping to have confirmation of the good...

8. Barnes Jewish college question

   saymo82 replied to Marie97's topic in Missouri

   Almost every teacher I have had there has been friendly and supportive of students. Yes, not all of the instructors are great instructors, but there are some that are excellent, and overall with good or bad instructors I feel like I have gotten a pre...

9. Advice to accelerated students from a current student near graduation...

   saymo82 replied to saymo82's topic in Missouri

   Having any experience as a tech should be helpful, so if you don't end up working while in the program then you at least have that going for you. Having said that I would still recommend trying to get a tech job while in the program. Like I said befo...

10. Barnes Jewish college question

    saymo82 replied to Marie97's topic in Missouri

    With 4 kids I would definitely not recommend trying to work and do this program.... Are you going for the accelerated program or the upper division program? If you're doing accelerated I will warn you now that it is just about as intense as they say ...

11. Advice to accelerated students from a current student near graduation...

    saymo82 posted a topic in Missouri

    I am graduating from May from a 1 year accelerated program, and am scared I will be left behind when it comes to finding a job... get a tech job! Grades are important, but if you can manage to keep up decent grades and work as a tech (even if just 12...

12. Barnes Jewish college question

    saymo82 replied to Marie97's topic in Missouri

    Once I completed my application and sent it in I think it took about 2 weeks to get my acceptance. I had all but 3 of my pre-reqs completed at the time, but I know some people who got their acceptance with less classes completed than I had. In hindsi...

13. More challenging NCLEX book!

    saymo82 posted a topic in NCLEX

    I have the Saunder's NCLEX review book, and I feel like the questions are not challenging enough. I used these questions to review for my HESI exams at the end of last semester and figured it would be decent preparation for the questions on the exams...

14. Hawaii Pacific University

    saymo82 replied to LittleMissDingBat's topic in General Students

    I just moved back to the mainland from Oahu in August and was weighing my options for nursing school if we had stayed in Hawaii. Based on what I learned I would highly recommend not going to HPU. KCC and UH are way better options, you might have to w...

15. Dosage Test Prep Class

    saymo82 posted a topic in Missouri

    Just wanted to post on here and tell people that I just finished the dosage test prep class at STLCC (Forest Park), and it was totally worth taking. The class is called NRSG 704, it's 1 day a week for 4 weeks and the cost is $29. Book is optional- we...