cardiac_nurse321 BSN, RN

cardiac_nurse321 is a BSN, RN and specializes in Cardiothoracic ICU.

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1. Loma Linda Adults RN Residency Fall 2025

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to karina johanna's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   The only units that are critical care would be 7A, 8A, and 9A. They also group 10A and 13A into critical care during new grad residency (learn about gtts, a line, etc.) but these floors do not deal...

2. Loma Linda Adults RN Residency Fall 2025

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to karina johanna's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   I was just in your guys shoes so I know the anxiety. They provide you a paper on the website about each unit but to simplify it, each floor has a east and west side with 16 beds on each. Most...

3. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Fall 2024 (Loma Linda Location)

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to DxRN1's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   Yea your friend is correct. You still are contributing to your 401k but only after 3 years is the full 100% vested from what LLU contributes

4. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Fall 2024 (Loma Linda Location)

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to DxRN1's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   Echoing DxRN1, during the HR meeting, they provide you with a piece of paper that shows what they are investing in you to train/hire you into their new grad residency. However, it is not binding and...

5. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Fall 2024 (Loma Linda Location)

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to DxRN1's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   My timeline was this: I had my interview on a Thursday around the end of May. That next Monday I received an verbal offer. About 2-3 weeks later (2nd week of June) I received an email from my...

6. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Fall 2024 (Loma Linda Location)

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to DxRN1's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   The Monday of the 3rd week you have a basic arrythmia recognition & treatment (BART) class and the following Monday you have an exam. Really straight forward but you do have to take the time to...

7. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Fall 2024 (Loma Linda Location)

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to DxRN1's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   I mean if you were to leave right after you complete the yearlong new grad program, of course they're not going to want to hire you in the future. However, I've never heard of any hospital calling...

8. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Fall 2024 (Loma Linda Location)

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to DxRN1's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   Depends on the needs of the hospital but for my cohort they said they had about 500-600 applicants (I think) and accepted 64 people. For my cohort, most of the hires were assigned acute care...

9. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Program Summer 2024

   cardiac_nurse321 replied to sakura0123's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

   Not for your initial ACLS & BLS, you have to pay for it yourself. They also don't accept RQI Courses (learned that the hard way) so you must do a full classroom course for each. I believe once...

10. Loma Linda New Grad RN - Nov 2023

    cardiac_nurse321 replied to asommstar's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Everyone, For those who completed their year, how much of a raise do you get once you reach Clinical Nurse

11. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Program Summer 2024

    cardiac_nurse321 replied to sakura0123's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    Tell me about yourself and Why Loma Linda, Where do you see yourself in 5 years, What would your perfect preceptor look like, How do you handle stress. I surprisingly had no clinical questions.. they...

12. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Program Summer 2024

    cardiac_nurse321 replied to sakura0123's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    It was just personal questions, Tell me about yourself.. why loma linda.. didn't get any behavioral/scenario

13. Loma Linda Adult RN Residency Program Summer 2024

    cardiac_nurse321 replied to sakura0123's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    Got a call earlier today to schedule an interview for the Cardiac PCU 10A

14. UCLA New Grad Residency Summer 2024

    cardiac_nurse321 replied to ShootingForTheStars's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    Completely unrelated, but did anyone take their NCLEX yet? Ik it varies among testing locations, but how soon after you got your ATT were you able to schedule your actual test date (For

15. UCLA New Grad Residency Summer 2024

    cardiac_nurse321 replied to ShootingForTheStars's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    5 to 6 is what they usually hire is what I heard from a RN Preceptor from that unit. There were a few times I think they hired up to