knighton201

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1. 1 Year Experience required... but how do i get experience if you won't hire me?

   knighton201 replied to knighton201's topic in Job Hunt

   Hey I am not sure about your community colleges in your area, but for many nursing schools that I looked at in New mexico before i moved closer to family had competitive wait lists, where students who scored highest on entrance exams and had higher G...

2. 1 Year Experience required... but how do i get experience if you won't hire me?

   knighton201 replied to knighton201's topic in Job Hunt

   hey after about 3 months of searching I was able to get hired on PRN at a home health agency and about a month after that a hospital called me for a full time position on a med surg floor, after a couple weeks of orientation with an experienced RN I ...

3. How To Get a Job As a New Grad Nurse

   knighton201 replied to hakunamatata's topic in Job Hunt

   Thanks for the advice, I found it very useful, now to see how well it works :)

4. Very little orientation for new grad?

   knighton201 replied to Britt7's topic in Job Hunt

   I wouldn't turn them down quite yet, I graduated in December, and am having issues with hospitals who require 1 year or more experience, so I'd make sure you have somewhere to go before turning them down. Not sure about there, but where I did my stud...

5. Medical Dosaging

   knighton201 replied to JennaVeneziano's topic in Student Assist

   For that you'd have to talk to the instructor and/or whoever wrote the exam to see when they rounded as well as what answer the expect in the box, and if they will let you "challenge" it if they rounded early and got 86.5 where as you rounded to the ...

6. Medical Dosaging

   knighton201 replied to JennaVeneziano's topic in Student Assist

   i'd recommend do all your multiplication and division then round, early rounding within the problem or truncating can lead to a very different answer if you can save rounding to the very end, then thats the best, and 86.36 should be within a reasona...

7. 1 Year Experience required... but how do i get experience if you won't hire me?

   knighton201 replied to knighton201's topic in Job Hunt

   my headache is primarly in the area i'm trying to apply there are tons of jobs for experienced RN's, and I believe that they are even flying in traveling nurses, it seems to the point that they have many more experienced RN slots than they can possib...

8. It shouldn't have happened this way....

   knighton201 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice

   my prayers for both you and your patient

9. Why many new grads don't find jobs....

   knighton201 replied to MN-Nurse's topic in General Students

   well, not sure about all nursing schools, but mine had a 16 hour work limit restriction in place to remain in the program, though they didn't catch everyone who worked more than 16 hours a week in nursing school, the ones i knew who did work more did...

10. Are nurses blue or white collar workers?

    knighton201 replied to digitiminimi's topic in Professionalism

    I'd have to say nursing would be a "hybrid" of the two, our work at the nurses station documenting care, making care plans, assessment, would seem more white collar I would think, however when called upon to help with a code "brown" i would think tha...

11. Care plan shame

    knighton201 replied to Deepee's topic in Student Assist

    What i had to do for my first few assessments is take the sheet i had to turn in and do it at bedside, so if you miss anything, patient is right there for you to reassess so you don't forget anything, eventually (and hopefully your turn in sheet is w...

12. What should i do?

    knighton201 replied to tchao's topic in Pre-Nursing

    There are also LVN/LPN and RN programs at community colleges (the 4 year state schools also give you a RN title for job placement) and then you are able to go LVN > RN and RN > BSN (the 4 year degree) and BSN > MSN (graduate school degree) n...

13. Medical Dosaging

    knighton201 replied to JennaVeneziano's topic in Student Assist

    first one i got the same answer, though in your work you left out the 60 minute/hour conversion, but apparently remembered it when you used your calculator as you came to the same answer for the 2nd one, I also got a 86.36mg dose out of curiosity, ar...

14. RN vs BSN - help!

    knighton201 replied to hollybee47's topic in Student Assist

    I've been doing the frantic job search for my first job recently as well, and yes for new grads, not a lot of openings that I have been able to find... however seems there are a ton of openings for people with 1+ years experience at least in the area...

15. Difficult Conversation re need for bathing

    knighton201 replied to zoey3270's topic in Relations

    not sure if this is the best technique, but one i observed very early in my student clinicals at a nursing home in the alzheimer ward, is the cna would weekly (as it was the policy every resident showers at least once a week there), would trick this...