fourpeat

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1. Relocating to TX Houston/Katy area

   fourpeat replied to RNintraining17's topic in Texas

   Usually the time to jump on those things is at the beginning to middle of your 4th semester. The hospitals open up their applications at very different times so just pay attention to when they post their application openings. You can use this semeste...

2. Relocating to TX Houston/Katy area

   fourpeat replied to RNintraining17's topic in Texas

   I suggest you start applying for internships and residencies early, its very very competitive out in Houston. Even though a lot of hospitals say BSN preferred or required, just apply anyway. Try to get into their career meet and greets/tours/career f...

3. Scott and White Nurse Intern for Summer 2015

   fourpeat replied to centexnurse313's topic in Texas

   Turnover at temple is very high and its mostly filled with people who are there to work for 1-2 yrs to transfer elsewhere. Temple is very large, and filled to the brim with students, especially with A&M's med school attached. Just make sure you a...

4. Scott and White Nurse Intern for Summer 2015

   fourpeat replied to centexnurse313's topic in Texas

   As a current OR intern for Baylor Scott & White, I will say the hospital is great for teaching but you must be assertive. It's a huge teaching hospital and everyone is used to having students and interns everywhere so make your presence known and...

5. Repeat Test Takers Have Faith

   fourpeat replied to fourpeat's topic in NCLEX

   i really urge you to get your content down as it will help you to understand and answer what you're reading. Saunders is great, i really enjoyed reading it because it made everything very easy to understand. Good luck on everything, you can do it!

6. Repeat Test Takers Have Faith

   fourpeat replied to fourpeat's topic in NCLEX

   I think the Kaplan questions are tougher than nclex questions, actually. Out of my 75 Q's i had 35 select all that applies but admittedly, they were not that hard compared to Kaplans and the wording of the qustions was very similar. As for content, h...

7. Repeat Test Takers Have Faith

   fourpeat posted a topic in NCLEX

   I graduated Dec 2012 with a 3.4 GPA and took my first NCLEX around march. The test shut off at 75 Q's and I had failed miserably but that was my fault as I thought I could get away with minimal studying. After that I took Hurst and did fairly well on...