Soon-to-be-NurseJess

I've actually had the pleasure or working on days in orientation for my first twelve weeks as an RN and then on nights in orientation for 6 weeks. Two different hospitals in two different states. I have to say after my experience, I have enjoyed nig...

Another great system in the area is Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro (about a half hour from Winston-Salem). I worked there as soon as I got my ADN and their New Grad program is awesome. You get 12 weeks of preceptorship, sometimes a little m...

I've just relocated to the Ventura area of California and began working at an awesome hospital in the area. They offered great sign-on, relocation reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, the whole nine yards....but I just received my relocation reimbu...

I was talking to a nurse who recently moved here (southern Virginia) from California. She mentioned to me that even though there is only supposed be up to 5 patients per nurse, that usually there weren't any CNA's and the nurse had total patient car...

http://www.bvnpt.ca.gov/ I'm assuming

I too am moving to California in June of this year. I just now (like 5 minutes ago) got a bunch of answers from several people on this board, and from the actual CA Board of Registered Nursing. You can check their website and there is a lot of info...

I'm planning a move to Southern California from Virginia in June of this year. I am trying to start the process to obtain licensure by endorsement. My question is, has anyone had to go through this process? If so, how long does it take? I'm sure i...

Thanks for your response...I just really don't want to have to drive to Sacramento. I want to know how long of a process it was without having to go up there. If we change our cross country itinerary to include sacramento, it adds like 15 hours to ...

HESI scoring is based on the difficulty of the questions you get correct. The questions considered easy by HESI are worth fewer points than the more difficult ones, thus you gain or lose points based on the difficulty. You may only miss 3 question...

I would just like to post a comment about the HESI test. If you don't pass on your first attempt, don't let it time get you down. 16 of 26 in my class failed the first time...but we all passed with flying colors the first time when we took a professi...

I actually just started on a surgical floor this week after graduating in Dec. As of now, starting IVs is what scares me most. I didn't get a lot of chances to practice in clinicals (only 2) and neither of those 2 were successful (after 1 lady's ve...

at my hospital the RN's have to wear either all ceil blue or all white

WOW!!! Thats awesome. It's rare that you will see a doctor's demeanor handled in this way (I've witnessed my fair share of screamfests). and I'm very surprised the doctor actually apologized!!! I hope you told her what a great job she did and how m...

I had 75 questions....it was the worst feeling ever when the computer screen just went blank I used the Kaplan review book (which I recommend over the classes...they pretty much cover the same thing...as stated by multiple classmates who did the clas...

Get on the Va Board of Nursing website http://www.dhp.state.va.us/nursing/ and then look on the right hand side of the screen and there is a phone number that says Automated LIcense Verification. You can call that number and put in your SSN and it w...

I'm a new graduate and I interviewed at several places. Southern VA I've found the avg base for new grads to be approx $17. Northern NC, where I've accepted a position, it is approx $19-20. With experience I know it would be more...my CNA experien...

At my facility we are allowed to trim all nails (as a matter of fact it was part of our job description), but if it seemed too risky to try to trim the toenails we were to inform our nurse and she would call the podiatrist to make an appt. However, ...

I'm not making fun...but this reminds me of a situation I had at clinicals one time. My patient needed a suppository, so of course my clinical instructor wanted me to give it. I'd never given one before, so I wasn't sure how far in I had to put it....

I have an elderly pt at the LTC facility I work at call her breasts 'skins'...has anyone else heard that one, cause i hadn't

We added the black ribbon to our caps right before our ceremony and wore the cap for the ceremony. The 2 guys in our class just didn't wear caps. We all got pinned during the ceremony. It still looked just as good and was just as meaningful.

I actually just finished my ADN program, and this is the highlight of my entire clinical career. I had a 65 yr old pt in on the medsurg unit (can't remember his diagnosis for this particular hospitalization) but he had had a stroke in 1989 and had ...

I just finished all of my classes on the 16th and I'm going into a Surgical unit. I plan on getting more floor experience and time management experience working on a floor and then moving into the Operating room in a residency program for nurses tha...

There was a thread on this not too long ago...just a hint, the randylarson.com website is awesome....and many other allnurse users thought the same in the other thread.

We have the dummies at my school too. And yes, the hole is way too big to give any kind of realistic idea of whats its going to be like. I got my first female pt in ER that needed a foley and my preceptor said 'ok, you get to do this one.' and i'm...

At my school (ADN program) we have to take HESI after each section of nursing, each one being all inclusive of what you've learned that semester and the previous ones...Fundamentals, OB/PEDS, and then MedSurg. We didn't have to pass the first one, w...