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Need info on Bismarck, please! I just graduated from Boise State's ADN-RN program. :balloons: My husband's family is from ND and we are considering a move back there from Idaho. We just scouted some property in Bismarck while we were visiting the i...

My daughter is named Aria (yes, like the opera song) so I am no one to judge unique names, but I wanted to tell you about the two sisters from Turkey that I met years ago. Younger's name is pronounced Cheatem and the older was prononced Whorish (can...

Thanks for asking. We did not move, much to my mother-in-law's dismay. We are still in Boise and I'm working on a women's health med/surg floor at a magnet hospital in the area. I am currently expecting a second child, so it would have been nice t...

I work on a women's health med/surg floor in a metropolitan hospital. Three quarters of my patients are hysterectomies. In my experience, all the posters are 100% correct when they say "take the 6 weeks". Many hysterectomy patients underestimate t...

1)What specialty do you work in? Women's Health/Med Surg (Gyn stuff other than OB like hysterectomies and such) 2)What is a typical day like for you? Report/handoff, assess and medicate, chart/call docs/take care of patient requests or issues, ambul...

I am a new R.N. and just interviewed with four units in the same hospital, three med/surg units (group interview) and one telemetry unit. I was told to "expect offers" from the med/surg managers and the same from the telemetry manager. My career go...

Well, just wanted to update: I took the job with the general med/surg unit after talking a little to HR and some friends from nursing school. The med/surg unit offered me evenings and 8 hour shifts, just what I wanted, and the tele unit requires 12...

The unit I interviewed with sounds a lot like yours. When you started working tele, did you feel overwhelmed with the high acuity patients? Had you considered going med/surg? If so, what were the deciding factors for you?

Nope...I am taking a little time for myself. I am also looking at the University of Wyoming's RN to MSN online (B.S., Social Science), but I really want to be a good, experienced nurse before I try to prove that I am a master in the field, so I plan ...

My class took the HESI a few weeks ago, just before graduation. Yeah, we had a lot of input to our faculty about their timing and implementation of the HESI! Anyway, I passed with a 983, which I thought was pretty good considering that we never had e...