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I work as an ICU nurse and I am planning to give my job a two week notice this week. Just for context I've worked at this hospital for 1 year and have never spoken to the director of critical care in person. We don’t have a manager night now and haven’t for a few months so I am planning to send an email with a professional and concise “thank you for the opportunity, this is my official notice, my last day will be x” BUT I would like to stay on PRN and other people who have left recently have stayed PRN. As far as this post goes, should I ask to go PRN via email before sending the notice? Or just send the notice and see if the manager offers to keep me PRN? Do I just send an email with my notice as the body or do I need to attach a word doc? I’m just overthinking it because this is my first time giving notice as a nurse and I previously worked in office settings where it was more straightforward. Any advice is appreciated!!

Okay not bad! I wore ciel blue so I will happily wear any other shade of blue ?

Does anyone know what color scrubs Med City nurses wear? Is it the same at all locations? I will be at Lewisville if anyone has info

I'm Lewisville ICU and I'm in the same boat as you. Well, I accepted an offer with the recruiter via email. Haven't Docusigned anything as of yet. My recruiter said I should start getting onboarding and HR emails soon, I emailed her last night

I just received an offer for Medical City Lewisville ICU. Anyone here also starting in the ICU cohort in Feb? Nice to meet you!

Congratulations to you all. I am a 3rd semester student at El Centro right now. We have a combined FB page for NLC, ECC and Methodist students - you will take tests together at ECC campus and have things like med surg simulation, OB and Pedi boot camp together (once the COVID situation dies down) so it would be good to share a FB page to share information from lecture, test dates, etc. Current students are all wondering how this will all play out too, good luck!

Yes make sure to read from the book. It has helped me in nursing school when in lecture or on exams by being able to recall the info that I read... you won't learn anything if you just google all the answers so disregard that advice... I am an El Centro nursing student and pharmacology is not a part of the ADN program so you have to know/find a way to memorize the drugs on your own, so this class will give you a good foundation.

Did the BSN nurses you know go to an accredited university or a for-profit or private institution like Excelsior? That may be the difference here.

If you are a part of DCCCD you can take Pharm online at any of the campuses and Brookhaven will take the credit. El Centro offers it online and it is taught by the Dean of the Nursing students - just an idea if you don't want that professor!!

I didn't say it was less competitive - all paths will be competitive; that's just part of the admissions process. I only mentioned it because if they want to increase the odds of them getting accepted to a program, they should apply to more programs; the odds will be in their favor.

Try applying for an ADN program; slower than an ABSN but not as expensive either! Most RN-BSN bridges are online and can be obtained in 8 months to -1 year, so still less than an entire 4-year BSN route. If I were in your situation, I would apply to ADN and ABSN tracks to increase my chances of getting accepted by the next cycle with a small gap. You can do it. Good luck!

Perfect! No, you don't get any practice question for lecture from faculty. You will need to use supplemental materials and the books to get questions. Since the test is written by faculty I'd rather not share any of my notes to avoid any academic issues. The HESI book is called HESI comprehensive for review or something similar. If you google "red HESI book" it'll pop right up

Hey! Sure thing! Learn time management! If you're already good with using your time wisely, you're in a good place. It's a lot easier said than done though. Try to stay ahead with your assignments - complete quizzes, and practice skills ASAP (you will get access to a skills sheet for skills check offs). Stay organized - use a planner weekly or monthly to stay on track with assignments as get as ahead as possible. Study the topics you hate/don't understand FIRST and in depth - if you avoid it, you will never understand it and then subsequently miss any test questions about it. Use supplemental resources like Youtube, Saunders (NCLEX/HESI) prep booked and Elsevier HESI/NCLEX prep books - these will be helpful for the end of semester HESI a lot of my classmates used the red HESI book and said it helped. Most of these books come with online access that has practice questions. Also, if you have some extra cash - I recommend using yourbestgrade.com - they are HESI style questions that you can take and you can select the subjects like fundamentals, med/surg, the nursing process, pharmacology etc. Hope that helps!

Hey there, it's part of the human condition to have fear about the unknown and moving from a job that has provided you and your family with security for the last 23 years. Your feelings are normal, but I think you would be doing yourself a disservice in not trying to pursue a career pathway that you've dreamed about for so long. My advice is to take your pre-application course work one class at a time and focus on doing well - focus on all the little pieces that make up the big picture. Give yourself time for studying, going to tutoring, understanding the material. Those habits will prepare you for being ready for creating a study plan in nursing school. I can't speak about the BSN pathway, as I am an ADN student, but I know the BSN is exponentially more expensive and realistically, you will have less time in the nursing work force to pay back a $30,000+ loan. If you get your ADN and decide you don't like nursing it would be less of a burden to pay back or less of a loss if you pay out of pocket. You are not alone in your feelings but I found that facing your fears is the best way to overcome them!

Honestly, it will be here before you know it! I;m a third semester nursing student at El Centro - let me know if you have any questions and I will help out the best I can!

Good luck everyone! What is the date you guys are supposed to get letters of acceptance?

No problem. Good luck!

Right, it can be very simple if you understand how to do the conversion and what the question is asking for. Because most math problems are in word format you have to pull relevant information from the question. You cannot use a conversion chart or formula chart on tests and there will not be one provided to you during testing

Correct!

For first semester you will have a 30 question math exam in the middle of the semester. you have 3 chances to make a 100 and if you don't, you will have an exit interview. For 2nd, 3rd and 4th semester the math test is on the first day of orientation and you have 3 chances to make a 100 or you will have an exit interview. Yes it's doable. Study math and rounding rules.

I fyou buy from the bookstore you should be able to get a rebate - not sure how much money you get back - from Lippincott. We all bought from thepoint website, the direct retailer so we didn't have to go through the extra step of waiting for the rebate. Not sure if they're still offering to pay you the difference but they did when I was in j1

Unfortunately the quizzes, modules, videos, readings, case studies and Vsims are all done online so they are included in the $3,000 book package, there are no alternate retailers. I'm currently in the program and the one girl I know who has brought the hard copies of the books says she doesn't use them, but it's up to you if you think that's your learning style

Check out the FB pages for El Centro/Northlake current nursing students. The class that is 4th semester and graduating soon sometimes post there and offer to sell their books. The paper copy of the books (unbound) are available for $50 after you make your initial purchase, so sometimes they are willing to part for them for less than $50. So for dosage & calc we use the Henke Nursing Math book. If you can find one of those used, I would buy it. Just make sure you un-select it from your book package through Lippincott if you buy it in advance

Yeah idk what happened, my first semester the book package was a little over $2,000. Then the skills kit is all the supplies you need like needles, saline bags, sterlie water, syringes, foley cath kits, trach kits, etc. is apparently close to $350. We paid a little under $300 for it my first semester

Yes I am a student in the El Centro Nursing program. Yes that sounds about right, I think current freshman class paid about $2,500 for the books. It is 8 books you use throughout the 4 semesters you pay for upfront. Did you have a specific questions about the books? You have to purchase the package through Lippincott - the book company - all books are online. We have assignments like quizzes, case studies, documentation and virtual simulations through the online portal that the professors check and grade through there as well.