Ed1897

Hello. I would really say not to push your test date back, all my friends that scheduled theirs late get more anxious by the day. My experience with Uworld- I only bought the 30 day package with no assessment. I did around 1200 questions in a week (I know, I procrastinate) and my scores were 49-68%. I felt unprepared but forced myself to keep my test date. My test shut off at 75 questions and I found out the next day that I passed. Ton of SATA but I felt ok about them bc of how many I did with Uworld. You will never feel ‘ready’ you just have to believe in yourself!

How did your interview go?? I ended up rescheduling for the next interview date because it worked better for me.

I was just curious about the critical care fellowship, I’m also betting on the intermediate one. I didn’t get much info about the interview, I know that there were 3 slots for each time frame so I’m wondering if it’s a group interview? Guess I will find out when I get there ?

I have an interview next week for the intermediate fellowship! I am also trying to find more information about it, along with the critical care fellowship.

Have you considered working in a nursing home? It may not be exactly what you're looking for but from my experience it is less stressful than a hospital and more willing to work with your schedule (maybe days on weekends?) that's what I did before I switched to a hospital. *edit* I just want to add that I have been at my hospital for 6-7 months and it still scares me sometimes but after a couple months it got better and I am more confident in myself!

1. My hospital's age requirement for a nursing assistant is 18. Not sure if it's the law or just the hospitals rule. Nursing homes will hire anyone 16 or over with a certificate. 2. My job is mainly changing patients, taking vitals, answering call lights, charting, etc. I don't do baths and I rarely feed patients because I work nights not days. sometimes I float to other units and I can also do a 1:1 (suicide watch) 3. My hospital does not even require a cna certificate so no they did not reimburse. I know of nursing homes that do though. My hospital does do tuition reimbursement for college. 4. I can only handle 24 hours (2 12 hour shifts) a week while going to school full time. I am not even in the nursing program yet so I'll see how that goes next semester. It just depends on the person and how hard you are willing to work.

Where I live you have to become certified within a certain amount of days if you work in a nursing home. Some nursing homes will pay for your education to get your cna/ stna. For hospitals it depends although the majority that I've seen (and where I work) don't require any certificate for a nursing assistant. It is just preferred. It is required for phlebotomy everywhere here. I live in Ohio

I work at a hospital as a nursing assistant. We do the most physical work with the patients as far as turning, changing, repositioning atleast on my floor. I am 5'4 and my BMI is 18. The employee health nurse warned me that I was very little (like I don't know) and acted as if I'd have trouble doing my job. I can say that I do my job as well as any of the other aids and if someone is a two assist I obviously wouldn't be doing them on my own anyways. Don't worry about it