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    Hiring experienced nurses vs hiring new graduates

    IMO, nursing theory is just padding used to help fabricate the units needed to award bachelor's degrees. We have nursing theory only because PhD candidates need to write dissertations. Same story in...
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    Any suggestions on getting a head start

    Particularly renal and cardiopulmonary physiology which are either primary or secondary problems in nearly every medical case in acute-care
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    RN or aBSN?

    Well, you probably wouldn't want to leave after you've started since your credits probably wouldn't transfer. However, once you've earned your license and hold your AS then you could always get your...
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    The start of a career in nursing!

    No, there's
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    The start of a career in nursing!

    Mike, the job market basically sucks right now... and has for quite some time. You were fed a line regarding the ease with which jobs can be obtained. I don't have any good answers for you but you...
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    Is HESI a good Judge for the N-Clex success?

    We were required to attain a 95% on the ATI predictor exam in order to graduate. Everybody did and our NCLEX pass rate was 100% (3 years running). Based on the experience at my program, I'd say that...
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    Any suggestions on getting a head start

    Another subject with which to become familiar is infection control, precautions, and isolation. If you go to the CDC website you can find descriptions of the various levels of precaution as well as...
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    Any suggestions on getting a head start

    To hit the ground running, I'd start by learning basic lab tests, normal values, and common causes of abnormal values. I'd also start getting familiar with some of the major medication classes....
  9. All she has to do is post a national ad and she'll have many more new-grad applicants than she could possibly stand... hundreds, certainly... perhaps even thousands, depending on the
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    Am I crazy?

    Location of undergraduate education is one element of the grad-school admissions process though, from all I've been able to glean, a very small part. Of much more significance are things such as...
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    LPN or ADN?? What should I do???

    Ditto. In these parts, very few LPNs find work in acute-care settings and there's not much turnover of the LVNs in the SNFs. I'd go straight for your RN (not that jobs are plentiful there,
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    Am I crazy?

    I hate to break it to you but outside of your immediate location, nobody cares where you went to school so long as it was an accredited program. Even locally, it's not that big a deal. Of more...
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    Old grad = no job = depression

    I shake my head when I hear the "go in person / call the manager" lines. While I can't argue that that can work on rare occasions, in most cases that I've experienced, you just get bounced back to the...
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    Taking Blood Pressure

    I have my 'scope in place and go to 140, listen to hear the pulse, if not, a couple more squeezes, listen, squeeze as
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    ENPC vs. PALS

    If you really want to be ready for any kiddo that comes through the ED then you should do both... and add STABLE to the
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    cuts

    Your hospital sounds very similar to mine... except that we're nearly 50 miles from the nearest one (and we only have 22 beds). Anyway, I don't see OT as something that can be "lost." If you're a FT...
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    Napa Valley College

    BS. As a student, I worked with one of the NVC instructors and she was just the opposite of what you describe. The biggest weakness of the school is that they'll admit anybody who meets the minimal...
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    calling the md at night when charge disagrees

    One comment: I have been regularly engaging the docs in conversation about when they'd like to be notified. After all, the relationship is between them and me and they are the ones who know what they...
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    Low census vs. on call????

    Either we get called off or we don't. Call time gets paid @
  20. I've been afraid that that is precisely what we'd be
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    New grads and Jobs

    I think it's completely fair and that the notion of REQUIRING them to hire new graduates is absurd... Encouraging, sure... requiring?
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    calling the md at night when charge disagrees

    If it's your patient then it's your responsibility to notify the physician whenever your clinical judgment determines that it's time. If something bad happens, it's your butt on the line... and you...
  23. Northern California: It took me about 3 months (and substantial compromise on my original plans) to find work. Nine months later, some folks from my class are still
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    4 Qs about A&P vs. Microbiology?

    you're
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    More than 7 working hrs a day = bad for your heart...

    12-hr days rock!! With all the other risk factors around, I'll keep the long shifts and accept the marginal increase in risk. I'm sure I can more than offset it by not lugging around the extra 30-100...