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Name: Channa Location: Warrensburg...45 min outside KC Married to an Air Force man :) 3 kids ages 15, 12 and 9 RN for 2 years Speciality: CVICU and now CCU I worked in an awesome university setting in St. Louis until the military uprooted us June ...

Marci, I live about 45-60 minutes from Kansas City, in a small college town Warrensburg Missouri, not sure if you have heard of it. Anyway I am considering a commute to the KC area and was wondering about St. Lukes. I am a RN and I have critical ca...

I took the NCLEX last year. Like you I was prepared, but what I wasnt prepared for was all 265 questions, that really threw my confidence. I waited the 2 weeks or whatever it was and called the 900 number. I passed!! Many of my classmates also took...

Hi everyone. I have a quick question and am needing some advice. I just moved and am in the process of unpacking, painting etc. I have been actively watching job openings online for 2 seperate hosptials in my new area. Yesterday I noticed an open...

Just a quick thank you before I go apply for the job!! Also thank you for the advice on keeping my resume up to date!! I'll share any news I hear :) ~Channa P.S. I put in misery because that is how my children and I have felt since moving...I hope...

I'm still a new nurse...been in the CVICU for 8 months now and am amazed at the stupidity of people. I also see the end results of thier actions more than I want to. For a couple months it seems all I did was bag bodies of people that used and abus...

I graduated last May and like you had the letters from my instructors etc. I also included a letter from a RN that I worked with while in college..its just a thought :) Congrats on being so close too! It was just a year for me so the emotion is sti...

I graduated in May and began an internship in June. The internship was a mix of OJT with a preceptor and classroom time. We had classes on equipment, codes, pharmacology, all the hospital policy and procedures, etc. We also had to attend an ethics c...

Hi Mel! I've been an Air Force wife for 12.5 years now. It is an adjustment but one I think wasn't hard to make! It did take me 2 bases and 2 colleges to get my college degree..the moving around thing was an issue:) You ask for websites...there are...

Being a new grad myself and also in the CCU I had a patient just last week that was vented and supposedly sedated...NOT! He was wide awake, fighting the vent and had to be restrained. He has hx of ETOH abuse also. I asked a senior nurse after consul...

Hi everyone! This board has been such a great place for support for me during nursing school, graduation, NCLEX anxiety and now as a new nurse. So here I am with yet another question. Here's the situation; My husband is in the Air Force, we have ...

Just thought I would post a reply too! I have been talking to my quite a few of my classmates lately and they either got 75 or 265....2 got 89 and one got 122, there was 4 of us that got 265...so far everyone has passed. I know this is no help, but b...

When I started the nursing program, my 2 biggest fears were giving injections and starting IVs. I knew if I failed it would be because of my inability to conquer those things. So when it came time to practice, we used a practice pad. For testing we ...

I cannot live without my Tabers!! We were required to have it during the nursing program and I am sure I will use it in my profession! I have a Davis Drug book. It was hard to decide which one to get as there are many good brands. It was between Davi...

Hi! My pinning ceremony was held last Tuesday at this HUGE cathedral. I wasnt sure I would enjoy it as the practice was total chaos. The ceremony was excellent though, much to my suprise! We did wear the traditional white uniform with the flying nu...

I must say that it isnt just your class or college!! First semester for me there were classmates that wanted to sponge off those of us that actually did the work, they truly believed we didnt mind. We had students try and cheat on care plans by c...

Graduating is important of course, passing NCLEX is way important, but GPA doesnt make the nurse! My classmates with high GPAs didnt stand out as stellar nurses nor were they without bedside manner, they were book smart. One specifically freaked out...

Thank you both for the insight!! I sent an email off to the point of contact regarding the government positions and am just awaiting a reply..I'll try and update soon :) ~Channa

I'm hoping to gain a little insight by posting this! My question is for those of you who have worked in a military hospital as a civilian. I know very little about the pay grade structure or even how it differs from a civilian hospital. What I do k...

I'm an ER fan but have to wonder what will happen next season, so many of the actors I liked have left the show. I didnt see the whole episode tonight, I was attending my college graduation and made it home in time for the final 15 minutes of both ER...

Congrats on your sucess!! I understand your stress! My class was the first to have to pass the NLNs with a score of better than 40% nationally, which just means we had to do better than others nationwide by that percent. Those who didnt, had to remed...

I knew the end was coming soon for you! I have tomorrow and then next week left! It seems so far away yet I know it isnt!! I cannot wait to be able to put the books away for awhile and just enjoy life!!! I'm starting at SLU on June 3rd...I hope you a...

I will be taking the NCLEX this summer also and have been studying from 3 books that came with CDs to use on the computer, they offer practice tests and comprehensive. I have Saunders w/CD which I like because it divides the book by subject and has a...

A big thanks to you for sharing this article/list, it was pretty interesting to see how they rank hospitals and I am very happy to see the hospital I have chosen to work in upon graduation is ranked #30!! ~Channa :) Graduating in 4 weeks...and cou...

Here are my answers: 1) graduation date: May 16th 2) pinning: May 14th 3) last day of finals: May 10th 4) I start my new job June 3rd, cardiovascular ICU. 5)days left: 30 and counting!! ~Channa :)