Pepsi_Girl

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1. Help With Hiring Interview At Coalinga State Hospital

   Pepsi_Girl posted a topic in General Nursing

   As you all know jobs for new grad RNs' are extremely tight right now. I have only had 2 face to face interviews and one phone interveiw since I started looking in March. My Q&P with CSH was way back in May, but due to the state budget and the hir...

2. Ca Furloughs

   Pepsi_Girl replied to Pepsi_Girl's topic in Correctional

   From what I understand 24/7 care/protection is still be provided, but the staff build up furlough days that have to be used up within two years after the furlough program ends. I was just looking for some detail re: exactly how that works as far as ...

3. Ca Furloughs

   Pepsi_Girl posted a topic in Correctional

   Can anyone explain to me how the California state furlough situation is be worked out in 24/7 facilities?

4. Desired Characteristics of Effective Nurse Educators - My Ideal Nursing Instructor

   Pepsi_Girl replied to VickyRN's topic in Educators

   Teach us with real life experiences and stories. We will remember that. Just reading us a powerpoint that we can read for our self doesn't work and it is boring. Engage us in conversations and debates and be willing to except another point of view...

5. Update!!!Amazing!!

   Pepsi_Girl replied to focuszx5's topic in NCLEX

   Totally awesome.

6. Confessions of a 30-Something RN Grad

   Pepsi_Girl replied to LuvofNursing's topic in New Nurse

   Wow......... you wrote exactly how I felt in March. Only difference was my hubby was waiting for me out in the car. He actually asked me if I was on a break. No honey, i'm done. It shut off at 75. I felt my whole world come crashing down, the last te...

7. 1st med pass did not go so well...

   Pepsi_Girl replied to borntobanurse3's topic in General Students

   Please don't feel to horrible and beat yourself. I can relate, I too messed up on one of my 1st med. passes. In my program 2 mess-ups and your out of the program. I felt horrible. My pt. was non-verbal, I had done everything right including chec...

8. Help, How can I prepare for med-surg I

   Pepsi_Girl replied to Rushell's topic in Med-Surg

   If you have your syllabus, start reading and taking notes. If not possibly talk to students who are a semester ahead of you and find out what was covered in the first few weeks. If you can get some of your reading done, you will be ahead of the gam...

9. First ATI Test Yesterday

   Pepsi_Girl replied to WeirdNurseKelly's topic in General Students

   ATI can be a bit scary at first. I read the books and then backed them up with what I had all ready learned in school. You know now that I think of it we didn't get our ATI Fundamentals in till the end of the 1st semester either. The following sem...

10. may be anyone had simular situation, please- help!!!!!

    Pepsi_Girl replied to gorsneg's topic in Criminal

    Have you checked the RN status list on the BON website. What does it say? Active? Inactive?......

11. Exam at Coalinga

    Pepsi_Girl replied to ERDawg's topic in Correctional

    Thanks for the information Jujube, I to am a new grad looking for work. I sent my app. of to Coalinga around the 5th of May hopefully I hear something soon. Any additional info. on the process would be helpful.

12. HUGE mistake in clinical....

    Pepsi_Girl replied to MattiesMama's topic in General Students

    Basically what I heard as a student was that we do not work under our instructors licences, we are in fact working under our own future licences. The school i'm sure has some liability to assume, which in turn would also suggest that any really bad m...

13. Giving Nursing Students a Taste of NICU

    Pepsi_Girl replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU

    I so agree with all the above statements. I am a recent graduate and new(unemployed) RN. During my Pediatric rotation I was allowed to spend two days in the NICU. The first day I wasn't allowed to do anything and was pretty much ignored. I busied mys...

14. To Psych or Not To Psych that is the question

    Pepsi_Girl posted a topic in New Nurse

    Need some advice here. I am a recent new grad, and newly licensed RN. I have not been employed for about the last five and a half years. I purposely left my job as a CNA on a Med/Surg unit so I could concentrate on school and raising my son. Now ...