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!
I am 35 year old mother of three and worked full time and maintained the deans list all through school I just finished on june 30th , just have to send in the BLING BLING to await the news of the nclex exam...yikes ... but in the mean time I read , surf the internet ,watch all discovery health shows related to nursing , and you know what ....it is the coolest feeling to KNOW what they are talking about, I am so proud of myself I could burst some days but hey it is a long hard road and we all deserve to be PROUD of ourselves .congrats to all of you new nurses!
i found out i passed my boards today with 75 questions. i start work on july 25 in the cardiovascular intesive care unit. i'm very excited. nervous too, but not overwhelmed......yet:chuckle
I graduated in May, and I take my nclex in January. Congratulations to those who have passed. I wish were you.
I am in NYC, and I plan to become a CNM and maybe a FNP. Meanwhile, I have an offer start in an ICU, where I am working as an extern. I am still deciding if I want to take this job. I am not going to rush into it. Good to meet you all.
unexpectedly, I need to move to Boston very soon, I'm now lost.
I don't know if there is similar preceptor program in Boston and Boston's hospitals willing to take a new grad w/o yet having license.
Some of my friends from nursing school started out in boston, I think that there are some programs that will let you start as a new grad for orientation while you're waiting to take your nclex. I have friends at children's and mass general I could ask. I know for sure if you wanted to commute an hour north you could have no problems in southern NH working under a new grad license while you're waiting, as that is how I got started. Good luck finding a position in boston :) there are some of the best hospitals around there!
I graduated with my ADN June 11, and passed NCLEX with 75 on June 30.
I am admitted to a full time RN/BSN program that I will start in Sept and will graduate in May 06.
Hence why I am searching high and low for a PT RN job. But I'm not getting very far. sigh. I am also impatient, as it has only been about a week since I started expanding my job search from the "one" hosptial that I am hoping to work for.
Any advice is totally welcome. I know that most employers do NOT want a new grad at PT status, but there is no possible way that I can juggle full time with full time BSN completion.
There is a reason to my madness. I have a scholarship for my BSN, with the stipulation that I remain a full-time student. Due to location, I chose to complete my ADN and then transfer for the last year only vs. all four years at the school an hour away for the BSN. After gaining experience as an RN, I will be attending a FNP program (hence the need for the BSN).
One year from now, I will be free game for any shift, anywhere.. But until then what the heck am I to do? Has anyone been in this situation?
unexpectedly, I need to move to Boston very soon, I'm now lost.
I don't know if there is similar preceptor program in Boston and Boston's hospitals willing to take a new grad w/o yet having license.
I know for sure if you wanted to commute an hour north you could have no problems in southern NH working under a new grad license while you're waiting, as that is how I got started. Good luck finding a position in boston :) there are some of the best hospitals around there!
Thanks NHnightRn, for the info.
too bad that I don't know where the north, south, east or west of Boston yet - brand new to Boston.
You mention about children's and mass general hospitals, do you mean Massahusetts General Hospital?
I will sent my resume to those hospitals you gave me and give it a try.
my name is sandy and i've been a nurse for over 30 years, i am just trying to find any one that may know if st. vincents hospital school of nursing on staten island still has a program
I just passed boards June 11th and will be working in our CVU/ICU. I have not done any kind of nursing before and am really nervous but I am looking forward to working critical care. I am praying for a wonderful preceptor.
I really appreciated your post and took note especially the advice to remember that you won't hurt your patients but to really be careful about meds. I am starting out in a critical care unit having just graduated and have had my confidence banged up by some of my nursing school instructors. I am therefore very nervous about starting my nursing career caring for the sickest of the sick. I hope I feel as positive as you about my job as you do yours. Thanks for your post! Nan
My name is Lauren. I graduated this past December and just completed my ICU internship this month. We were precepted for 16 weeks, and were on our own for the last weeks with a preceptor or resource nurse close at hand.
Going into it (way back in January, lol) was exciting and scary and...well mostly just scary. I hated my nursing clinicals in school!! They were so awkward, and I was afraid it was always going to be that way, wondered if nursing was what I really wanted. For those of you who actually enjoyed that torture, you're going to love what's to come. I do.
The facility I work at had a great internship program in my opinion. While it was a scheduled 16 weeks with the preceptor, if you felt you weren't ready to be on your own, they let you continue at your own pace. All 3 of us ICU interns felt ready at 16 weeks, and none of us have had nervous breakdowns or killed / injured / maimed anyone yet. We were warned in the beginning about the days and weeks that we would feel inadequate, afraid to go to work, etc. That period happened for me at about week 19 (the 3rd week on my own) and I started questioning my choice of units to work in. I was convinced that working at a dr's office might be the best place, lol. At least a little less stressful than the ICU. My biggest fear was having my pt code on me and not knowing what to do. We have been taught what to do, many times. But until I've seen it, done it, and done a few more times, I will not be ready. I have yet to have a patient code on me and have only participated in 3 codes of other RN's pts.
Anywho, I'm on an "I feel really good about ICU" kick right now. Even signed up for overtime these past couple of weeks. Check out http://www.icufaqs.org Look at it now, and go back to it after a few months worth of pt experiences. I didn't know about this site until a week ago, but I have spent hours reading through it and relating it to pts I have had and currently have (a 36 y/o woman with seriously advanced TB / sepsis, necrotic bowel, and sick sinus syndrome! Argh!)
Anyway...I just wanted to share some of my feelings about being the newbie - from a newbie with recent newbie experience, although... The new nurse interns just started this week and now I am not the newest nurse anymore. It feels kinda good. Heh.
2) Nothing you do to your pt is going to hurt him/her...except MEDICATIONS. No matter how much you give it or how unscary it seems (ie Pepcid = unscary and heart meds = scary), always double check your dosing/routes/infusion rates/compatibilities/allergies. Seriously, even the nurses who have been there years get this wrong, so I always just use my drug book or CALL the PHARMACIST. And check your MARS!!
Hi, I'm Linda. I graduated in August 2004, started working in ICU in October and took NCLEX in December 2004. I'm loving ICU - couldn't say that for the first several months though. It's definetely exciting, but my nerves were on high alert constantly... I've since settled down my nerves... a little.
Thanks Lauren for that website - I'm going to check it out.
Good luck to all of you just starting out... stick with it, it's worth it.
Hi Lauren,
stick with it, it's worth it.
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I am 35 year old mother of three and worked full time and maintained the deans list all through school I just finished on june 30th , just have to send in the BLING BLING to await the news of the nclex exam...yikes ... but in the mean time I read , surf the internet ,watch all discovery health shows related to nursing , and you know what ....it is the coolest feeling to KNOW what they are talking about, I am so proud of myself I could burst some days but hey it is a long hard road and we all deserve to be PROUD of ourselves .congrats to all of you new nurses!