Vicki17 BSN

Question: What does "Continuous pulse ox monitoring" mean to you? For me this means a pulse ox on the finger (or other usable area), continuously throughout the day and not just during vital signs. However, my preceptor says it doesn't mean a co...

I'm going to try not to rant/vent but no guarantees... I just had my first day on the floor with a preceptor with my first job and am already concerned. Not about how I cried in the bathroom, the car or at home (because I didn't). And not becau...

Thank you! You've made a lot of good points. I know things aren't always perfect and in fact I have a ton to learn. As a few mentioned, I will just keep trying to learn everything I can and not make too many judgments or conclusions at the start, whi...

Wonderful advice - thank you!

As a brand new grad, only speaking of what I think I would do. First consider how much of a pay difference it would be and if you can personally take the hit financially. Also consider that it sounds temporary. Secondly, do you think you WILL get the...

Hi. I'm starting my first position as a night tele nurse next week. Unfortunately, somehow in school I just didn't get a chance to practice several skills, at least not successfully, including folly catheter insertion or a successful IV. While my wor...

Thanks all of you! After my first day on the floor (mostly shadowing), I'm realizing this will be the least of my problems unfortunately. Most of the nurses seem quite friendly and I'm sure that between the policies and asking for help where needed, ...

I would advise you look up examples of cover letters and maybe check Youtube, etc as well. But essentially yes, it can be a place to expand on your skills (like customer service, leadership, etc.) that can't really be shown in your resume. It also te...

Thank you!! I guess I'm just nervous. Excited too ?

If I was you I would go but I have a kid and wouldn't have family anywhere else. I would love to move to a much smaller town. But I would say ask the place you are thinking about what the nurse ratio's are, maybe check the laws. Like in CA where I am...

I'm sort of in the same boat but my father does help watch my son. But he even has to take him to work with him sometimes. I'm wondering how you got through nursing school in this scenario? Wouldn't you have needed help, who helped you then? In my si...

Congrats on finishing and passing your NCLEX! I also made a career change with 15 years experience NOT in the medical field. Think about it, most new grads don't have experience either. At least you have experience dealing with difficult people so us...

Thank you! Perhaps I will check in after that if I haven't gotten more information from my classmates. Best of luck to all of you!

I'm a student so my response is based on that. But I'm about to go into my last semester and had only ONE chance to start an IV and unfortunately it popped out, so zero successful starts. In doing clinicals, I've run into more than one nurse who is f...

Hello future CSULB nursing students. CONGRATS to all of you that got in and will be attending this fall. I am going to be a 5th semester student and oddly am not here to offer advice (though can if asked). This will seem inappropriate but I don't car...

I can only speak for myself and hope I don't offend. I think a lot of this comes from age and experience. I used to be super annoyed when people made small mistakes or didn't do it the way I wanted. I think I've matured a lot and you realize that peo...

I have personally found it very difficult. But I also have a child. I had to reduce to part time. For first semester, we only had 1 clinical day but had care planning which was another full day before (and night in many cases). 2nd semester was two f...

Wouldn't that be anyone's duty? If you live or in a home with another and there is an emergency, to ignore and watch them suffer or die would be at the least immoral, at the most illegal I would imagine. Maybe I'm not understanding your question.

If the cost for that private school is 3500 a semester then it doesn't seem over the top. But I also don't see how that adds up to 40K as you mentioned in the title so I'm not sure if you are talking about the same school. My state school is about 5K...

steven.kim - to answer your question in case someone hasn't, the programs are the same in that they are 5 semesters. But the trimester has summers. So if you did trimester starting in fall you would graduate after spring 2020. Semester would be abou...

It's hard to say since we don't know what your current education is. Also what is ALI? My own suggestion is, if you haven't started yet at CSULB, then read up on what pre-requisites you need. If you already have some college or a degree, you will nee...

Haha not even close! I'm taking it online and maybe that makes a difference? There is a lot to learn but I don't find it any more difficult than most Biology type classes. Anatomy and Physio are MUCH harder. My suggestion, go to quizlet and find prac...

Really, the e-mails from SoN have not gone out yet. People are going by their acceptance into the university itself (which is a good sign). But until you get a firm yes or no I wouldn't assume you're an alternate yet. Do you think you did well on the...

From your post it's hard to tell what you are using as a criteria. I know from other postings that people who went to a CSU really loved it. It is very competitive and much cheaper than private schools. So, if money is an issue, if you get into CSU S...

First of all, it seems you addressed the questions asked of you and after reading your essay I certainly believed this was your goal and passion in life. That being said, I never had to write an essay to get into school so I'm just going to point out...