New Grads: What are your plans?

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Hey New Grads;

Your time in school is almost completed. How many of you have jobs? Where are these jobs? Did you find yourselves welcomed at most of the facilities? Who plans to move out of state? Or out of the home area for better opportunities? Give us some info. By the way, I want to wish each and every new grad good luck on their boards and in their new jobs. Blessing to all.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Hey Barefoot, me and my wife will be graduating with our BSN from Marshall University may 8th. We will be working out of state at Three Rivers Medical Center in Louisa, KY. It's only 5 minutes from our home (Fort Gay, WV) while cabell and St. Mary's is 45 mins away. Not worth the gas and travel for us to work in state. It has been a long haul for us married folk but hopefully it will be worth it:) We are both planning to work critical care. One of us ER the other ICU. Three Rivers payed our last two years of tution so we will work for them for two years. $19/hr with upto $4000 bonuses the first year. $2500 yearly for continued education if we want it. Not a bad deal for only 5 minute drive:)

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Hello gospel,

Congrats to you and the wife for a job well done. Sounds like you both are usig your head about staying close to home. Good luck at the new jobs. Let us know what is happening from time to time. Good luck with the boards.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
Hello gospel,

Congrats to you and the wife for a job well done. Sounds like you both are usig your head about staying close to home. Good luck at the new jobs. Let us know what is happening from time to time. Good luck with the boards.

Thanks Barefootlady, we plan to start Suzannes plan following graduation. It seems that everyone that follows her plan does good on boards and we plan to use the plan. Might as well use something that has been proven to work:) Do you have any other suggestions for boards?

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Just buy a good review book and study an hour a day. I took my boards over 20 years ago, so it has changed a lot. It was a 2 day process, the test was given in sections, proctors paced the aisle, and you were "brain dead" when it was over.

What is Suzannes plan? One thing for sure, get plenty of rest the night before the test. I wish you and the wife good luck on the boards. I am sure you will do great.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
Just buy a good review book and study an hour a day. I took my boards over 20 years ago, so it has changed a lot. It was a 2 day process, the test was given in sections, proctors paced the aisle, and you were "brain dead" when it was over.

What is Suzannes plan? One thing for sure, get plenty of rest the night before the test. I wish you and the wife good luck on the boards. I am sure you will do great.

Suzannes plan deals with using the newest addition of the saunders book. It is in two parts....the first part you do the book questions and if you do not have a 75% average on the chapter questions then you remediate the questions you have missed for that chapter. If you score 75 and above you move to the next chapter. It lets you see you weaknesses. She emails the second part to you. I think it deals more with the CD questions. I am excited about trying it and I got the book from an instructor a couple of days ago.

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Well, that is how we did it too. Looked over the outline, took the tests, got our score, moved on if we passed that section, studied more if we failed it. At the time we took a review from a college professor, she was so good. I swear every word that came out of her mouth was on our boards. Not the exact words but we could translate the situations and knew the answer the board was looking for. When I took the test there was an actual score, everyone who took her review made over national score(over 2000). That was a big deal then, states like NY, Ca, Tx, and several others would not allow a nurse to get a license by endorsement if they did not make "nationals." Or, that was the story we were given.

I am sure you and the wife will do well on the test. Marshall is a very good school, you have had some good clinical areas to practice, and the NCLEX does not seem to want to see potential nurses fail.

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Specializes in Pediatric Intensive Care, ER.

This may sound stupid, but seriously, go to Borders and get the "NCLEX-RN Made Incredibly Easy" Review. Get the one with the 3000+ questions, not the one that is a how-to of how to take the test. The question/test book is a wonderful review, with tests/chapters for each subject, then several NCLEX style tests. All tests have the question on the left, justification on the right. I wish I had used this book all the way through school.

I took a test night for the couple months before my boards, and sailed through...

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