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We have several student nurse organizations at our school which we are encouraged to join. I was wondering how many of you participate in these and what are the benefits to being a member. I know I will have very little extra time to spend on them ...

I sent this to another forum but I think actual students would be helpful. I will be starting Nursing in the Fall of 2006. I just read a post that said that around half of the married students divorced during nursing school. I had another lady say t...

I made all A's in my pre-req's. I used notecards for everything. I made a B in Fundamentals. I could not figure out how to make my notes into NCLEX style cards. Any advice on how to do this for next semester? I will be taking Med/Surg and Pharm...

I will be starting RN program at ICC in Fulton, MS in Fall 2006. Is there anyone else on here that goes to ICC. God Bless, Mary Ann

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?

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 kee...

I am a new pediatric nurse. I am almost totally dependant on seeing because I am not confident enough to know if I feel them or not. Any ideas on how to tell the difference especially on children and babies. God Bless, Mary Ann

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. T...

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 you...

I know not to expect to keep the same grades that I had in my pre-req's. What is the normal grades you get in nursing classes. We have to have at least a 78 to pass each class. My only problem is that I have to keep a 3.0 to keep my ACT scholarshi...

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...

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

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...

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 ne...

I know this is not scientific or anything but I read on here somewhere statistics of what percent passed at what number of questions. I have been searching and cant find the post. Does anyone know what the percent is? I am most interested in what ...

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 c...

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 goi...

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 Tues...

It is really sad to think that after 3 long hard years of school that one test and 60 questions (stopped at 75) will determine if I will be an RN. I am usually a good test taker and made "B's" all through school. I came out feeling dumb as a brick. ...

I can't wait to say it is official. Everyone thinks your an RN after you graduated from school but I have to tell them it all means nothing unless you pass the NCLEX.

Tupelo, MS New Grad hospital pay is $20.00 plus shift diff.