Thoenix

The move will definitely materialize. It's just a matter of which of four locations and which of three different move dates. I haven't even started applying for jobs because of the fact that I am trying to figure out what's appropriate to even apply for as a 1st year nurse who knows that I will not be able to fulfill the requirements of a residency. The only advice being given to my classmates and I is to try and find a residency position.

I graduate in May with my ADN. I'm very near the top of my class and take advantage of every opportunity for more hands-on experience and to try and learn everything I can. I'm so excited to start nursing and I had intended to seek out a residency opportunity immediately after graduation. My ultimate goal is to work either NICU or high-risk L&D. Unfortunately, I just learned that sometime between May and December, I will have to move out of the state (within the compact) for my spouse's job. I'm now feeling very lost. I can't afford to just not work for all that time, but I'm not sure what to do. I have asked my professors for advice and they just kind of tell me that I shouldn't take a residency. They aren't giving me much advice on how to handle being a brand new nurse and having an uncertain move date. I don't want to risk burning any bridges as a brand new nurse, since many of the hospital systems in my area are major hospital systems with interstate presences. I also can't afford to just not work at all for up to 7 months while we wait to see when/where the move will be. I won't know when I'm moving until about one month before the move due to the nature of my spouse's work. One professor mentioned that I could just 'take a tech job' but when I asked for more information on what that would look like or if hospitals are actually hiring RNs to work as techs, the professor shrugged and went back to urging everyone to take residency positions if at all possible. How should I proceed with pursuing my career goals? Is taking a tech job temporarily a good idea or would that damage my later hireability? I thought I'd be staying in the area from which I'm graduating for at least a year or two after graduation and this has all thrown me sideways.

Hey I know it's been a little bit since you posted this but I'm in the fall 2019 class and we just had orientation. Classes are mostly in mornings. Clinicals depend on your sites and are two days a week. Clinicals can be any time Wednesday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. Hope that helps.

This is really helpful. I really hate the double scopes. Even the really cheap classroom single ones, I can hear fine. I'll watch for the bounce. I know I have the vitals down cold. I know my 'vitals dialogue' cold. I have this. Thanks for the good luck wish! This stupid scope is a thorn in my side!

I'm Canadian and Hep B is a vaccine we get at about 11-13 years old in the province I grew up in. I go to school in the US, but with different countries having different ages for the vaccine, I can see where people could miss one window or another and I think the Hep B vaccine was only added to the US schedule in 1994 (though it was first recommended in 1989). So there are still many US citizens who wouldn't have Hep B yet.

I have blood pressure down pat. I get accurate readings every time--as long as I'm using a single-person stethoscope. I cannot, for the life of me, hear anything on the two person stethoscopes. I'm being tested on this skill in a week with the two-person ones and there's just so much background noise getting in--even when I make someone use the other earpieces to block them--that I can't hear. I've got the earpieces facing forwards. I've settled and resettled the earpieces in. I've checked to make sure I've got the scope listening on the right side (diaphragm, not bell). I can hear on the cheap single-headed stethoscopes if I try really hard. I can hear on my Littman. I can hear on my classmate's MDF. I just can't hear anything through the double ones. My theory is that the shape of the hard plastic earpieces isn't settling right into my ear. I can't swap out the earpieces to softer ones. Does anyone have tips to overcome this? A way to somehow get a better 'seal' with a hard plastic tip? I know this skill, no problem. It's not nerves from being observed. I just can't hear anything through these scopes and I'm really worried that's going to send me for remediation even though I definitely know the skill.

Yeah, go ahead and email her. When she called me she said she was caught up on her student emails so I don't think it would annoy her.

If you have permission both to a) record and b) use a laptop or tablet in class, I highly recommend the program Sonocent audio notetaker. You can take notes in it that link directly to audio timecodes so that if your notes seem garbled or incorrect, you can just click on those notes, see what the prof was saying at the time and correct your notes. I have a learning disability and Sonocent is provided to me by my college. I started out with a handheld digital recorder and got Sonocent midway through the semester. The fact that the notes are timelinked makes the audio recordings actually useful. *No one* wants to go back through a full three hour class, but sometimes you need some of it.

I had those thoughts as well, but I'm sure that they're going to make sure we can go to class and to our clinicals, otherwise they're shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm an immigrant and Castlebranch was giving me troubles as a result so I had called awhile back to clarify what Castlebranch was meant to be doing because they clearly didn't know. I couldn't get a response in time so I had to do my best on my own, but she called me back a few days ago and was very apologetic that she hadn't been in the office to help me out with my issues and she told me then.

CEC students should probably be aware that we're running a little behind. The woman in charge of our cohort had to have emergency surgery a little while ago and she's been struggling to get us all caught back up. She's very nice and doing her best and she's recovering well, but all of our stuff is a little behind.

It's so normal where I grew up. Very north, very rural, very poor. We don't think twice about it at all. I've probably eaten roadkill meat, though I didn't know it at the time. My family hunted in the fall for our winter meat and had deals with farmers for the summers, so we never needed to be on the call list.

Police where I grew up had a call list for deer and other largish animals--when people called in to say they'd been in an accident with a critter, or to report an injured/dead deer/bear/whatever, the police would call the next person on the call list to go to the site. This meant the meat was harvested in a time period about equal to that of a hunter dragging his or her kill out of the woods. I grew up in a very poor area. The meat collected in this way kept protein in the diets of many of my classmates.

Same. Now I have to coordinate the TB testing. I'm allergic to everything so I'm expecting to have to do the blood test because I have no doubt that I'll be allergic to a component of the skin test and welt up. I've got it scheduled but I am not looking forward to this rigamarole. I wish they'd tell us what we're actually paying for in the lab kits though. I hate paying for anything I can't see the contents list on!

Every single thing you've ever posted is anti-vax. Do you just sit and lurk and wait for years for opportunities to do anti-vax trolling? Is that your only interest? Fascinating.

I did consider it. You're coming from a place of fear and propaganda. What's 'lots of preservatives'? Do you know why they're there? Do you know the rate of allergic responses? Do you know which vaccines do and don't contain preservatives and why? You're making baseless claims, then asking people to prove you wrong. That's a rather large investment of time and frankly you don't seem to have enough devotion to truth behind evidence-based practice to bother using my time to teach you. Do your own research and stay away from anti-vaxx sites. I'm glad you got vaccinated--having had pertussis only protects you for a few years, just fyi--but if you're going to try to find alternatives for the rest of your career, you will end up being a liability. Take the time to educate yourself properly or there's no point in you spending all the money to become a nurse.

People panicking about autism being 'on the rise' never realize that the other issue is recognizing that autistic people can be highly intelligent. The vast majority of new diagnoses are in people who don't struggle academically so badly but who struggle socially.

@ukgirl7655I feel like you just managed to get me a bingo on 'antivaxxer who doesn't know what she's talking about' bingo. I think you literally hit every single easily disputed myth that I've ever seen an antivaxxer bring up. Congratulations. If you actually are a nurse--which I doubt because I'm pretty sure you're just a troll--you do not deserve to call yourself one. You're a danger to patient safety and to medical integrity with beliefs that far out into the weeds. Unfortunately, the levels of ridiculous belief are so far out into the weeds that it's not worth my time and energy to dispute what you've said. I highly recommend you take a course on statistics and another on reading scientific studies and then take some time to attempt to dispute your own arguments. It's the best way to learn how your own arguments hold up and it's always a good thing to challenge your own beliefs. I say that as someone who was on the fence, leaning antivax, for years and I went and learned to read studies and then read up on the points against my own arguments to try and strengthen my views that vaccines were not safe. Unfortunately, the science is very settled and I became provaxx. Good luck to you.

You complain about not having informed consent, well. Honey. If you think all those things are in vaccines in any kind of quantity to do any kind of damage, you're not informed. You're just a conspiracy theorist who knows nothing of chemistry, microbiology or genetic engineering.

@JanDoATX 1st time applying Prereq GPA 4.0 Coreq GPA 4.0, ethics and nursing skills 1 not completed at time of application HESI I got a mid to high 90 on everything. 40 points

My Nursing Skills I profs said that we could use that on our resumes and that most hospitals in the area will take an ACC NSI in place of a CNA license. Something about being able to challenge the CNA license but I'm going to be honest I was thinking about an exam and wasn't listening super carefully about the CNA info. And a lot of the Patient Care Tech positions at the hospitals don't require a CNA.

EVC, CEC, RRC for me. I think there are clinicals first semester but I'm not positive. I'm hoping to get a very part time job (a day or two a week) in a hospital while in the program.

Letters have started going out!

Thanks for the pricing tip! It's been out of stock locally (they have all the other colours of course) and my friend went to *her* local shop in another country and got me photos that she says are true-to-colour. Her photos are pretty close to the colour that you've got in that image. I was seriously seeing like three different colours on different websites. I'm pretty sure that some of the websites are badly photoshopping a black stethoscope rather than taking another photo.

https://www.6pm.com/p/alegria-debra-professional-morning-glory-white/product/9250775/color/736338 A little more expensive than you want, but any time you'll be on your feet a long time, paying slightly more is worth it. https://www.6pm.com/p/reebok-work-n-cushion-3-0-white-steel/product/8975542/color/31781 My stepfather wore a very similar reebok for decades on his feet all day.