I'm sorry to hear what your grandniece and family are going through. I work on an oncology floor for adults and have noticed that a lot of them bring movies with them for while they are in the hospital. One lady was even given a subscription for Ne...
I was in the same position 2 years ago that you are in now. I was assigned to an oncology floor during my 3rd year of nursing school and was willing to do just about anything to get out of it because I had seen many family members go through cancer ...
1. I had 75 questions. 2. I did not take a review course but I used the Saunders book and the CD that came with it. 3. My school required us to take the ATI predictor exam. 4. I took the test on Saturday and knew that I had passed by Monday after...
I just started as an nurse on an oncology unit and work both days and pm's. I haven't experienced nights yet but I have noticed that towards the end of the shift on pm's things tend to quiet down a lot. The day shift can be pretty busy!
When I first started we had to wear white tapered pants with a red polo that had our school name embroidered on it. We also had the option to wear our lab coat with the school name on it. At the end of my junior year they changed the uniform to roy...
Like the others said, you will get to experience many of the different types of units while on clinicals during school. I just graduated on Saturday and accepted a job on an oncology floor. The funny part is that when I found out that I had to do a...
Bevy02 replied to summersbreeze's topic in New Nurse
I have my graduation and pinning tomorrow! I can't believe its happening. While I was going through school it felt like it was never going to end and now when I think back it feels like I just started!
I will be graduating this year from a private school with over $50,000 in student loans. All I can say is I'm glad that this is my last semester and I don't have to add to that amount!
Our school just changed its uniform last year. The old uniform consisted of white pants with tapered legs, a red polo with the school name embroidered on the left chest area, and a white lab coat with the school name over the left pocket, white shoe...
In my progran, we have clincals 7 out of the 8 semesters. We have one nursing course and our pre-reqs the first year and gradually take more nursing classes than pre-reqs. We started out doing clinicals one day a week for 4 hours at a nursing home ...