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1. Overwhelmed!

   lencialoo replied to travel920's topic in NICU

   travel920... I'm so very sorry for your hard time in the NICU. I am also new in the NICU and almost 1/2 through my training (40 weeks). Our training is 1 day of class and 2 days in the unit. We have 20 weeks in level II/ 20 weeks in level III, whic...

2. Hazing, what to do about this...almost ready to quit.

   lencialoo replied to lencialoo's topic in New Nurse

   Thank you traumaRUs and Humbled_Nurse for your supportive replies !! I know that there are alot of nurses who do care and we have many of those on day shifts. I have heard of other NICUs that have the long orientations too and that is one of the rea...

3. Hazing, what to do about this...almost ready to quit.

   lencialoo posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi All, I thought I would ask this here since this seems to happen most often to new nurses. Sorry for the long post but I want to give some background. I am a new nurse still orienting in the NICU. We have 40 weeks of training which is separated int...

4. Has this happened to anyone before??

   lencialoo replied to Purdue_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Purdue Nurse...could it be that you have "benign paroxysmal positional vertigo" caused by tiny crystals (otoliths) that have formed in the inner ear and when they start floating around they cause symptoms of vertigo ? See this website or just do a...

5. Preceptors looking for someone to interview.

   lencialoo replied to travel920's topic in NICU

   travel920, Our Educational Coordinator meets with us regularly to see how things are going on with our learning and with preceptors and she believes that a mismatch puts learning way behind. I just honestly told her I was feeling really stupid with t...

6. Preceptors looking for someone to interview.

   lencialoo replied to travel920's topic in NICU

   hi travel920, i can answer some of your questions from the "preceptee" point of view, i'm a new grad in training for the nicu and am 1/2 way through my level 2 training. i have had 3 different preceptors (1 excellent, 1 good and 1 bad): 1. what do y...

7. Night shift naps

   lencialoo replied to NiteRocker's topic in NICU

   alb123 I am also a new grad. (one of 8 in our class too). I also have 40 weeks of orientation and am in my 7th week for the level II babies. I just started my rotation to night shift. After having a wonderful preceptor for days and starting to fee...

8. Poll for those who have already taken NCLEX..

   lencialoo replied to lpn2rnMay2005's topic in NCLEX

   1. how many questions did you take on nclex? 75 questions 2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course? saunders, ncsbn learning extension, lipincott (pda), kaplan 3. did your son offer any testing (eri, ati, hesi)? eri ...

9. Tell me about it.

   lencialoo replied to wheeze's topic in Colorado

   Wheeze, I'm a student nurse, graduating in May...this is some info I can give you about Colorado Springs.... Woodland Park is a very nice place, it is still small but growing fast. I have heard the hospital there will be very small but with your expe...

10. ERI Testing

    lencialoo replied to lencialoo's topic in Colorado

    Hope, Thanks for your reply....it does seem like nursing school is getting harder all the time. The ERI is a testing company that is supposed to help guide students in studying for the NCLEX. Originally we were only using them to help us to know what...

11. ERI Testing

    lencialoo posted a topic in Colorado

    Hi All Colorado Nursing Students ! This semester my school PPCC started making passing the ERI testing at 4% above the national average as part of our requirement to continue with school. Prior to this we had to take an ERI test at the end of each cl...

12. Failed the HESI exam again!!!

    lencialoo replied to blueiwahine's topic in General Students

    To Everyone !! Please dont give up on your Nursing Career dreams because of all these exit tests. My school (PPCC - Colorado Springs) started out by making us take ERI testing at the end of each course. Last year we only had to take the test to see h...

13. How are all of you paying for school?

    lencialoo replied to Paleobug's topic in General Students

    I will continue to work at my current job (IT) with approval of my manager (God bless her !!) and my companys' "flextime" policy which allows me to work the hours I need scheduled around my classes/clinicals. Using my own savings (for books and suppl...

14. yahoo group for sharing study files created

    lencialoo replied to mitchsmom's topic in General Students

    Hi MitchsMom !! Thank you so much for setting this site up and also for sharing your files and links !! :) :balloons: Diane

15. anyone else changing careers to go into nursing?

    lencialoo replied to amyrae76's topic in Career Support

    I too have been in the IT industry (technical writer) for 17 years. My 1st degree was Biology/Chemistry but when I couldnt find a job in my community in that field I went to work at a local computer company....17 years I'm still here but made the dec...