ibmaryann

Well, I have been on 7 on 7 off 12 hour shifts for a couple of months now. This is also my first time working nights. I will say that on my 7 on I have only about 3 hours a day to get everything done that needs done. Bath, eat, visit family and keep household running. That can be real tough and stressful BUT i can't imagine having to work 3/2/2/3 or whatever it is shift. The nights pass pretty fast. It is slower on nights so usually it is not as stressful working. I say that but my last night which was my 7th night on Thanksgiving eve we admitted 5 new ones and I really could not have taken another day. We couldnt seem to get any of the babies IV's that night. It is working better than I had expected.

I will start this night shift in 2 weeks and then It will take a few weeks before I know how it really goes!!!! I will keep you all posted.

The workers are not being made to work that. They choose that. If there was another nurse on the other 7 day shift that would change with me we would do the 2 on 2off 3 on 3 off (or something like that)but all of the other workers like they hours. They say they would no be able to have a normal life if they worked that schedule. I only have to work it because everyone else wants those hours. 3 days are on one weeks pay and then 4 on the other weeks pay making it 8 hours of overtime. I havent worked the shift yet but i have been told that they like the hours.

This is the schedule that all the night nurses on Pediatrics do at my hospital. They say that the night nurses like the schedule, therefore I have no choice if I want to work this department. Is their no one that works these kind of rotation at your hospital.

I will be starting night shift in 3 weeks they do 7 on 7 off 12 hour shifts. It is in the department I love and have no other choice about hours or days. Anyone else do this schedule and how do you cope?

As a student our instructor told the nursing staff what part of the care we were responsible for. She would say we are doing total care, or not doing the FSB, or doing PO meds. As a student we were never in the position to delegate. I was not told to not do it but we were never in a position to. I have relayed messages of delegation from the patients "real" RN. Even during my preceptoring days I was not the "real" RN. Now that I am the "real" RN I am faced with having to delegate. I am having a problem telling CLPN's to do things that have been nurses for 30 years and worked on that floor for almost that long. I still don't feel I have the authority. On all floors that I worked as a student the tasks that you are trying to delegate to the LPN were CNA jobs. The LPN and RN helped as needed but that was not their main jobs.

At my hospital we are not allowed to give it IV only IM.

No I didnt work for NMMC prior to getting my RN. I worked for home health years ago as an aid but I have been a stay at home mom for about 15 years. Mary Ann

Congrats!!!!!! I graduated from ICC RN in May. I am in orientation at NMMC with women's/childrens line. Good luck. God Bless, Mary Ann

What my plans were was to go strictly by suzannes4 plan which I think would have been wonderful but I was hired by a hospital that required me to take my test by a certain date early and I wasn't able to complete the plan. They paid for all their new grads to take the Hurst review. The review was wonderful in reinforcing concepts that I had not gotten down pat, and test taking stratages. I really could not tell you what else besides just studying and doing tons of questions. Like I said I left feeling dumb as a brick. I could narrow most of the down to 2 answers from what I knew and then it was just an educated guess. Mary Ann, RN

Praise the Lord I passed!!!!!!! I passes with 75 questions and left the testing center feeling dumb as a brick!!! There is hope for everyone who left there feeling like they failed. I can finally sit back and relish in the glory of 3 hard years of work. I have a job and life is GOOD!!!! Mary Ann Posey, RN:heartbeat:redpinkhe:clown:

We were told we could not work on the floor till after we passed boards so I would suppose Mississippi doesnt recognize GN's. As we pass our boards they are giving out RN overlays for our badges to cover the GN one. Does any one know if Infection control questions are low level questions.

The hospital I am going to work for said that all graduate nurses had to have results from NCLEX by June 23 in order to start clinicals for nurse residnecy so I had to hurry up and take my exam. Any one elses hospital set a deadline? I am still going to check starting tonight around 11:00. I am so excited and scared.

OK, they didnt post last night like I expected. I stayed up till 1:30 and nothing. I will try it again tonight. I can't handle much more. I want to be an RN!!!!

My state doesnt support the rapid test results so we have to check to see if we have a license number on our state board of nursing website. Those people who took their test Monday found their license Tuesday night arount 11:30 pm. I took mine Tuesday so I will look tonight at 11:30 and hope to see a license number. I am starting to feel sick right now. I didnt even feel this bad while I was taking my test.