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I graduated from NVCC in Waterbury last May 2012 and I had to move to FL to get a job that was not in LTC. I applied to every hospital in CT multiple times with no responses at all, not even a...

Eh I wouldnt bother unless you need a job, I was never a CNA. I could see it helping you to learn to see things from their perspective so that you can delegate more appropriately etc but I feel that...

At least you didnt have to sit through 365 questions just to fail! What I did to prepare was I read a review book that had 20 questions at the end of each chapter and I learned a lot more from that...

The almost exact same thing happened to me. My aide reported a BS to me, but it was for A bed, not B Bed and I gave B Bed too much insulin. I rechecked his BS after and it was 89, he was asymptomatic...

I have a powerball ticket for tonight....and I would retire! or start my own business and charities/scholarships.

I am going to do PA because UF's NP program is a doctorate level (which I dont think is necessary to achieve and would not pay off in the long run) and they only accept BSNs. I am not going to waste...

I have a bachelors in psychology and an associates in nursing and I have a pipe dream of going to PA school because they take any bachelors degree as long as you took the pre-reqs, which i did in...

I have a ADN and I work in a magnet hospital. I dont think having BSN makes a person a better nurse. I work with BSNs fresh out of college who have never held a job before because they didn't have...

Thank you for your reply ,it makes me feel better knowing that it is difficult to handle and that I should have gotten help, but she does not see it that way and I will probably end up speaking to...

I am a new nurse who has been off of orientation on my own for about 4 or 5 weeks. At times we also have a charge nurse who was just trained and has also been on her own as CN for the exact same...

This sounds like my everyday lol.

Ugh I dont agree with doing that to people at all and I dont think it's amusing. If sacrificing pt safety to "test" a new nurse is what experienced nurses do for fun that is really twisted. And yes...

I think that the pt telling you you are a terrible nurse then telling you to get out of her room probably felt humiliating and made you feel like you were 3 inches tall, and I think that it was...

I work with EPIC too and I really like it, it is so much easier than Meditech which you have to tab through and it is not user friendly at all. I think Epic is quick and it takes me 5 minutes per pt...

At my hospital if a pt does not have a primary running we use a 250 ml NS bag and attach abx as secondary lines and back prime them with the NS. We set the NS at KVO so when the abx is done it...

How do you feel you are with your skills? Some hospitals offer refresher courses and you could make some contacts at the hospital to help you land a job.

I know some nurses that still live at home rent free! And I know many RNs that are young, not married yet, no kids, so lots of extra money. I am a new RN and I also feel like I am still living...

I wish I listened to other nurses that forewarned me about going into nursing! Shadow a nurse for a day, or maybe several nurses on different units in different hospitals just to see what you are...

I went to nursing school in CT and in my last semester I applied to every nurse residency program in CT I was allowed to starting in Jan 2012, and I applied weekly to new openings at every hospital...

Before I was a nurse I worked in the food service industry, and if we were caught on our cell phones on the clock we were sent home. I think it is very unprofessional to be on your phone at work, it...

Im a RN in Florida, and I make 21.50 an hour as a new RN. On the weekends I make 25/hr. It is true that the cost of living is somewhat lower, but I dont really think getting paid 2/3 of the US...

About 1/3 of the RNs on my floor are Filipino, and I think it is kind of rude actually when they are speaking loudly to each other in the hallways, sometimes yelling down the hallway to each other in...

I am a new RN just about to be off my 10 week orientation in a few days and I am really regretting going into nursing. I was a great student, I worked my butt off, I really had an interest in it, and...

My first degree is in psychology, and I had a professor Dr. Mary Crawford at UConn who actually discovered a statistical way back in the 1970s to measure wage differences between men and women,...

P.S. I also recently read in the NY Times that over 60 percent of new grads leave their first nursing job in less than 6 months because they were bullied by nurses they worked with. So "nurses eating...