hi everyone! i'm holli. i took boards on june 13th and passed with 75 questions. i am starting work on july 18th at the only hospital i ever wanted to work for. it is a great pediatric facility! i will be on the (post-op) surgical floor, and we also have all of the endocrine kids. also, they just added an epilepsy monitoring unit, for overnight monitoring and for the brain mapping they are doing. i expressed an interest in that, so they will cross-train me in that unit as well. i can't wait to get started!
Hi fellow newbies and everyone else. Graduated in Dec., took boards a couple weeks ago, passed pheww, and have been in my preceptorship on a medsurg unit since Jan. It's great to be able to come here and see that alot of the things that I am going through you all are going through too. Nice to meet everyone and thanks to all who post with advise it really does help.
greetings. i just took my boards on feb.8th and thankfully passed. i now work in a cardiac step down unit, today was my third day. wasn't horid just a lil awkward, but im getting more nervous and i feel like a third day nursing student again....my worst fear is that i will forget the majority of what i learned or look like an idiot on the floor. i just dont know what the expectattions are for new grads ya know? and y are other nurses so darn intimidating..they weren't born with their degrees were they???
hi fellow nurses! I am on my second week of working as a RN. I am on a new grad program and im on the Cardiovascular Definite Observation Unit. ive been on the floor once and it was such a nightmare! i was confused, i felt disoriented, i was having a headache, i felt so incompetent and felt like i knew nothing and didnt even go to nursing school! may God help me in this transition and may we all be empowered by God who gives us strength.
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." -philippians 4:13
Hello everyone!, I graduated on Dec 12 of 2007, and just took my boards on Feb 21, 2008. I found out 24 hours later that I had passed and I am now an LPN. Pretty excited about that! I guess I was lucky in that I only had to answer 85 questions. But let me tell you when the computer shut off at 85, I about had a heart-attack! Talk about insomnia! I didn't sleep the night before or the night after the test, my first real rest was last night, after I discovered I passed! I start working tonight (on my own with no real supervision), it will probably be like any other night I have worked, except somehow it seems different,and I am pretty excited!
Hi everyone! I graduated in December as an ADN, took the boards on 1/31 and passed after 75 questions. I was sure I failed it and was thankful my results were posted 24 hrs after I took the test. I was a basket case!!! I start my first RN position as a Float on March 3rd. I have been passing the time by getting lots of good info from allnurses to prepare me for my first year!
hi everyone, my name is jill. i recently graduated from an adn program in december:yeah: and finally took the boards yesterday(feb 16th). i got about 170 questions and until i get the results i'll have to suffer from insomnia:yawn:. i started the new grad program at a local hospital here in the east bay, and will be working 12hr days in the icu. i am so excited and extremely nervous to start on the floor. as soon as i get the results you all will definitely be hearing from me.:typing
i passed. found out last wednesday morning. what a great feeling:yeah:but i have a hard time signing off my charting as rn instead of sn. it's so surreal.
hello everyone! my name is stephanie. i graduated from nursing school in december 2007 and i took and passed boards with 75 questions on feb. 29th. i am currently working in a pediatric hospital on a med-surg floor. i am looking forward to using this website and to getting know people. thank you!
Hey everyone! My name is Christina Illiano, I'm 20 years old and I'm VERY VERY new to nursing. I took Allied Heath in High School and I let it expire so I refreshed at a community college and I start my very first nursing job as a CNA tomorrow at 8am... I'm scared to death lol.
Any advice? I really admire everyone whose graduating the nursing programs, I have a long way to go before I even begin the journey. I want to go back to school and work on my degree. I'm starting at a assisted living home, I've done clinical work at them before so I understand the basic tasks to be completed but im still scared... what if i have to perform cpr?? haha I know its not like working in the hospital..but still.
what if i have to perform cpr?? haha I know its not like working in the hospital..but still
Are you a nurse? or a CNA's? I do not think in any state the CNA's routinely perform cpr......Welcome to allnurses. And welcome to the healthcare field
Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
When we're running a code in our unit, anyone who is capable may be pressed into doing compressions. All of the staff who work in our hospital are required to keep their BCLS current. There could be a facilities management worker walking through who gets tapped to do compressions... I don't think it's ever happened because usually we have more than enough nurse, RTs, residents, fellows and physicians present, but it could.
When we're running a code in our unit, anyone who is capable may be pressed into doing compressions. All of the staff who work in our hospital are required to keep their BCLS current. There could be a facilities management worker walking through who gets tapped to do compressions... I don't think it's ever happened because usually we have more than enough nurse, RTs, residents, fellows and physicians present, but it could.
That is good to know.I never thought if it that way.
thanks janfrn, I dont feel like such a dumbass now. :)
Tracylvn, like I said I JUST JUST got into nursing, we get certified in first aid and CPR with the Allied Heath Program. I was just using that as an example. but your right im not a nurse so I guess i shouldn't be on this forum?
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Hi fellow newbies and everyone else. Graduated in Dec., took boards a couple weeks ago, passed pheww, and have been in my preceptorship on a medsurg unit since Jan. It's great to be able to come here and see that alot of the things that I am going through you all are going through too. Nice to meet everyone and thanks to all who post with advise it really does help.