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That sounds really overwhelming! I work on the psych floor of my local hospital and we have 5-8 patients a piece per night, plus one dedicated med nurse (so we don't have to give meds to those 5-8...

I work psych, which I think is a lot differently generally, but I am also bored for about 4 hours each night. That said, I'm typically taking about 3 patients by myself while I'm on orientation....my...

Well, I work 12s, and I am often bored to tears a few hours after the patients go to sleep. It stays pretty busy up until about 11pm, but third shift hours are booooorrrrriiiinnnnngggg.

About 3-7 days, but if there is a placement issue, I've seen people stay upwards of a month or longer

This isn't entirely true. Maybe in the less desirable parts of NC, but in my area only about a 1/3rd of my graduating class have jobs over two months out from graduation.... I feel incredibly lucky...

They sent mine off to the lab, and 3 days later everything was fine. They never did tell me why it had been flagged. It was agonizing! Even though I knew I had done nothing wrong, the whole process...

I'm in NC, I'm a new grad, and just got a job at a local not-for-profit hospital on their psych unit. I'll be making $22.60/hr. plus $4 shift differential for nights. I have my BSN, but your pay...

That, Sirius. I *know* I did nothing wrong, but it still really bothers me particularly because I've read about employers failing people for results being too dilute. I just don't want to lose this...

Hi Diane, I'm pretty sure this is what happened to me today as well, although I don't know for sure yet. I didn't actually drink that much, but my urine looked very light. Did they make you retest,...

I'm so, so scared. I went in for a pre-employment drug test today, and there was something wrong with the "instant results." They had to send my results to the lab, and they said this could...

The practice questions with the NCSBN program worked for me, but if you need a more intensive review, Kaplan might be the way to go.

I used the 3 week NCSBN course almost exclusively, and I really only did the practice questions. I took the Saunder's Comprehensive Test the night before the exam, but that's the only other thing I...

This is what our school told us as well...we graduated in December, and they highly recommended taking the exam before April if we could.

The trick worked for me. Took the test on Wednesday, shut off after 75 questions. Got the "good pop up" about an hour later when I checked. Today, my name is listed on the BON's website! Didn't even...

Thanks. However, I'm really not concerned about passing, and I can't sign up for NCLEX until my ATT is released. I appreciate your help, but I'm more interested in hearing from people how long the...

Hello all! I graduated about a week ago, and I'm very anxious to take NCLEX and start working! I have a conditional job offer, but of course I can't work until I'm "officially official." How long...

I'm glad to hear that it took everyone else a while to get things going after getting the official offer! I'm also a new grad, but received the "conditional offer" letter about a week before...

I will be a new grad RN as of December (yay! almost there!), and I was relatively certain I wanted to go into psych when I began nursing school. I have a prior BA in Psychology and several years of...

Thanks, Sun! Unfortunately, these particular questions didn't have an accompanying rationale. I was thinking in terms of airway, breathing, circulation, but I think I'm getting caught up in the red...

I took a practice exam that had a ton of patient prioritization questions which included several with COPD patients. I think I'm confused about what is an okay oxygentation saturation for a COPD...

Let's say you have a pregnant woman who come into the ED with vomiting, fever, etc., and reports she has been unable to keep anything down for 2 days. She has a hx of methadone use and possible...

I'm considering working on an ACT team as my first RN position. I would love to hear from people that work on ACT teams, what they like about their jobs, and what they feel makes someone a good fit...

I couldn't agree more! This is spot on!

I agree with you by and large, but seems very difficult to "demand" enough from a nursing school. Nursing instructors don't like it when you question their methodologies. It's sad though, really. I...

For our Community Health course, we're supposed to do a community service project to help the main clinical site where we'll be doing our Community Health clinicals. We are at one of our local health...