ripsky4501

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1. Overtime pay over 8 hrs?

   ripsky4501 posted a topic in California

   Do nurses working in California get overtime pay for hours worked over 8 in a day? For example, say you are scheduled to work three 12 hour days in a week: do you get paid for 12 of those hours (4+4+4 extra hours worked each day) at time-and-a-half? ...

2. Berry & Kohn's or Alexander's

   ripsky4501 posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hi all, I'm a new grad and will be starting my first RN job in the OR in a little over a month. I want to start learning and to have a good reference on hand. I've heard good recommendations for both of these textbooks. I'm sure I wouldn't go wrong w...

3. What specialties best prepare you to work in the OR?

   ripsky4501 posted a topic in Operating Room

   As a new grad, if I wanted to work in the OR after getting a few years of experience, what specialties would be best to work in to prepare for it, i.e. in terms of learning the most roughly applicable and transferable soft and hard skills? Thanks in ...

4. How many hours do you study for?

   ripsky4501 replied to LubbDubb77's topic in General Students

   I just graduated from an accelerated BSN program. I studied maybe on average 2 hours a day. It really depends on lots of factors like how efficient you are with studying, how tough and fast your program is, what GPA you are aiming for, how hard the s...

5. States w/ lots of acute care new grad openings?

   ripsky4501 replied to ripsky4501's topic in New Nurse

   Thanks for sharing your experience. Yeah, come out here! There are many job openings for RNs with at least a year of acute care experience on almost every hospital job board I've looked at.

6. States w/ lots of acute care new grad openings?

   ripsky4501 replied to ripsky4501's topic in New Nurse

   Thank you for the reply. Does anyone else have any suggestions? A few more questions to spur some ideas... In your state, if you were a new grad and got a job, was it particularly difficult? How long did it take? How many applications did you send o...

7. States w/ lots of acute care new grad openings?

   ripsky4501 posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi all, I'm a licensed new grad in California and it is very hard and competitive to find an acute care hospital job here. I'm hopeful to find one here in the near future, but just in case I don't I want to endorse my license to another state as a ba...

8. NCLEX July Test Takers

   ripsky4501 replied to HarleyGrandma's topic in NCLEX

   Took it July 2, test shut off at 75, was pretty confident I passed. Very happy to see just now that my license has been posted! I'm in California. Used Kaplan and my own Anki flashcards. Questions felt a bit easier than Kaplan overall. They prepare y...

9. Forced to Flex Off

   ripsky4501 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Are there any nursing specialties/units in the hospital where this flexing is less common?

10. Should I join the ANA or other pro nursing association?

    ripsky4501 posted a topic in Job Hunt

    I'm a BSN student graduating in June. One of my instructors suggested I join a professional nursing association in what I may be interested in, e.g. AACN, and attending a conference or two. I haven't done so because I'm not exactly sure what specialt...

11. Getting EKG certification a good idea?

    ripsky4501 posted a topic in Job Hunt

    Hi all, I'll be graduating my BSN program in a few months. I will definitely get ACLS and PALS certification before graduating. Is it worth it to do an online EKG course like this one from AACN, https://www.aacn.org/education/online-courses/basic-ecg...

12. Most important to study?

    ripsky4501 posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

    Hello all, I will be starting my ABSN program in a few months. I'd like to start studying so I'm well prepared. Can you recommend any good resources to get started? What subjects are most important to really get down pat that will be of great aid to...

13. ABSN programs: a few questions

    ripsky4501 replied to ripsky4501's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Interesting, I expected all of them to require at least one letter of recommendation. That's not the case for the ABSN programs you know of in Indiana?

14. ABSN programs: a few questions

    ripsky4501 posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

    Hello, I'm curious if the admissions staff at ABSN programs generally put any weight on what university their applicants got their undergraduate from and if they do, how much. I'm going to get my undergraduate at a fairly good school—UC Davis—and...