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It's all bad in California still. I'm in the Sacramento area to be more specific. I graduated in December 2012 and am just now getting offered a position on the surgical floor I work as a float CNA...

LOVE those Nexiva catheters! I did my preceptorship in an ER and they stocked those. I never missed a vein! Found it very easy to thread using finger flick method. Poke, flash, drop angle, advance...

Thank you, someone shares my sentiments! I wish more people could feel my enthusiasm for weight lifting! I used to hate going to the gym, thinking I needed to spend hours on boring cardio equipment...

Touching on the flight nurse stuff, I, too, wish to one day become a flight nurse but I know that most companies want about 2-3+ years of experience in ER and ICU setting before being considered. In...

Ladies, don't be afraid of weight lifting! You will not end up looking like a man or too bulky unless you start taking anabolic steroids :no: We just don't produce the amount of testosterone to build...

I just turned 29 in March and will start working on our surgical floor within the next month or so after being licensed yet jobless (as an RN) since late January this year. The nervousness is...

Great thread! I'm almost 5'8" and started out nursing school already overweight at about 180 lbs (at the most, I should be 145). I gained about 17 lbs in the two years I was in the program. What can...

I think they send out a general email saying that the position "has been filled or is no longer available." I have got two of these emails for the CVIU and Tele CVIU limited term positions. I'm...

So very sorry to hear about the passing of a fellow soldier. I look up to you tremendously as I have aspirations to become an Air Force nurse in the future. Stay safe and we'll be thinking of you!

As others have pointed out, it is inevitable that you will make friends or be close to someone. It wasn't my sole purpose or first thought when I started nursing school but I eventually made really...

This is what I wish they did years ago! It never made sense to me that they all have different pre-reqs for the same licensure in the end. I think the schools that have way more pre-reqs than others...

Congratulations! Not gonna lie, I'm super jealous over here! ER is my dream job and need that experience to get into flight nursing. Good luck, I'd be just as psyched!

Wow, meetings start with prayer?! I would definitely be fighting that if it were me. I would ask to come into the meeting after prayer was over. I think that is completely asinine since not everybody...

Don't give up before you've started! I didn't have the best GPA either; before I was able to "erase" some of my old F's and W's from my transcript, I think I recall my GPA being around 2.5 or 2.7....

When all was said and done, I actually found nursing school to be exciting, life changing and dare I say, fun! Yes, it was horridly time consuming and yes, there were times I wanted to tear my hair...

Fantastic article, a topic that I think needs to be addressed more often! Good points well made and definitely puts me at ease as I hopefully start my first year as an RN!

Of course! I did a little searching on AN and found this gem. One of the links no longer works but the others are extremely helpful:

Thanks for the encouragement! I had a chance to re-interview with the oncology manager and a clinical nurse specialist yesterday morning. I had done research on how to answer tough behavior...

That is exactly what I do! Helps retain it so much better :up:

I bought a Sony digital recorder and I used it quite a lot. Found it very helpful to refer back to what the instructor was talking about EXACTLY especially when our study group heard 10 different...

I greatly appreciate bringing this topic to light. I shouldn't have been so naive that I wouldn't get such bizarro questions like I did. All of the questions you asked above, those are the questions...

I'll be honest and say I was caught off guard and was unprepared for my first interview. I am still mortified with my performance. I came in with hair pulled in a bun, conservative top, no flashy...

These are some great suggestions! Of course I have my pokerface on but this infuriates me to no end! I always get the men who are perfectly capable of holding the urinal to their penis but want me to...

I'm an atheist. I try not to talk about it at work but the subject has come up in breakrooms and whatnot. I'll be honest and my co-workers are pretty nonchalant about it which is awesome. I think I...

I had my interview today and I did horrible. I had less than a day's notice and I had to work right after the interview. It was with the managers from tele, oncology, med/surg and surgical. No...